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The proliferation of e-waste in Africa (full length documentary)
Used – second hand- electronics arrive on the shores of Ghana to help bridge Africa’s digital divide. Much of what arrives from North America, Europe and Australia is beyond repair and ends up at an Accra slum known as “Sodom and Gomorrah.” This is where electronics are broken down and burned to retrieve valuable metals.…
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Rights Radio Report #7: Maasai market man
Adrian Anyona Oigara runs his family’s business at Maasai Market in Nairobi, Kenya. This 26-year-old sells his art work, which is made of stone from his home village. During the 2007-08 election violence, business stopped at the market, which takes place every weekend in front of the Supreme Court of Kenya. Since this year’s election…
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Rights Radio Report #6: Rape in the Western Cape
Five women have been killed in South Africa during the month of February, 2013. An increasing amount of violence against women in the Western Cape province has brought young men and women into the streets of Cape Town to call for change. They were gathered in front of the Western Cape legislature on Feb. 21…
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Rights Radio Report #5: Making rape history
In an Accra, Ghana fishing village known as Teshie, a local doctor has waged a public campaign to shame village men from raping young girls. The high incidence of reported rapes last year in Teshie gave Dr. Leticia Wiafe reason to believe many more were going unreported in the community. Health officials, under Dr. Wiafe’s…
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Rights Radio Report #4: Ghana
Farm Radio International works in Africa to help empower rural families and farmers, using radio. In Ghana, the organization launched a project to help improve farming techniques and is building local programming in the north to educate Ghanaians about the effects of climate change.
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Pravda World News Tonight – third edition #PWNT #Africa
The third edition of Pravda World News Tonight hears from former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. The international diplomat speaks about his career working to solve conflict around the world. Annan also launched his new book “Interventions: A Life in War and Peace.” This week’s international news update starts Africa, goes to Asia and the…
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Pravda World News Tonight – second edition
The second edition of Pravda World News Tonight on 93.5 in Accra, Ghana looks at Africa in a 2012 news review. This week’s feature is a documentary called “War & Peace games” about a peacebuilding class simulation at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. PWNT also looks at the #idlenomore social media campaign and protests rocking…
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Rights Radio Report #3: War & Peace games
Every year at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, political science students undergo an intensive peacebuilding exercise. This is all part of a class to train students how to overcome bureaucratic obstacles post-conflict. McGill professor Rex Brynen created a unique peacebuilding simulation game to give them a real-world experience. The fictional country is Brynania, named after…
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Pravda World News Tonight – first edition
The very first episode of Pravda World News Tonight aired Dec. 19, 2012 on Pravda Radio 93.5 in Accra, Ghana. This is Africa’s first independently produced world news program. Featuring an in-depth interview with Samia Nkrumah, daughter of Ghana’s independence leader, Kwame Nkrumah, the program also features Didier Awadi’s song “Amandla” which is dedicated to…
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