Iain Dale & Zoe Anne Phillips quiz human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell.
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Somaliland - an African and Muslim success story
Somaliland is an African and Muslim nation that is embracing peace, democracy, human rights and economic development. Peter Tatchell interviews Dr Mohamed-Aar A Mohamed of the Somaliland Research Society UK and Lulu Farah of the Somaliland Forum UK. 25.06.07
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Baluchistan freedom struggle - Pakistan colludes with Taliban
Mehran Baluch, the Baluch representative at the UN Human Rights Council, discusses the Baluch struggle for liberation from Pakistani occupation and oppression. 03.07.07
Iain Dale and Zoe-Anne Phillips talk to human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell.
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Jamaica - homophobia, murder music and free speech
Is Jamaica is the most homophobic country in the world? Does reggae / dancehall "murder music" contribute to anti-gay violence? Stop Murder Music campaigners, Dennis Carney of the Black Gay Men’s Advisory Group, and Brett Lock of the gay human rights group OutRage!, discuss with Peter Tatchell. 09.08.07
Over the last year, Iran has seen rising levels of resistance to President Ahmadinejad's repressive regime. Strikes by bus workers and teachers, women's rights demonstrations, student occupations and protests by Iran 's suppressed national minorities, especially the Kurds, Baluchis and Ahwazi Arabs. Rejecting the neo-con agenda of US invasion or a preemptive strike against Tehran , human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell asks: What are the prospects for regime change from within – by and for the Iranian people? On his weekly TV programme, Talking With Tatchell, Peter Tatchell interviews Maryam Namazie - Iranian broadcaster, humanist, feminist and communist – on the value of solidarity with the Iranian people's struggle for democracy, socialism and human rights. 16.03.07
The Labour government is mounting one of the biggest ever peacetime assaults on civil liberties and the right to privacy. It is undermining the rights of the individual and strengthening the power of the state; creating a snooping, surveillance society, and eroding the right to protest and the presumption of innocence unless proven guilty. Peter Tatchell interviews political columnist and civil liberties advocate, Henry Porter. 12.10.07
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Do fascists have a right to free speech?
What limits, if any, should there be to freedom of expression? Peter Tatchell interviews Luke Tryl, President of the Oxford Union, and Brendan O'Neill, Editor of Spiked. Weyman Bennett of Unite Against Fascism agreed to participate but he was unable to attend at the last minute. 14.11.07
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Indonesia - democracy without justice
Indonesia has made the transition from dictatorship to democracy, but without justice for millions of victims of President Suharto's tyranny. Peter Tatchell interviews Indonesian human rights campaigners, Carmel Budiardjo and Adriana Siti Adhiati. 31.10.07
The prison system is not fit for purpose. Failing both prisoners and society, it neither deters nor rehabilitates. Overcrowding, poor welfare provision, victimisation and reoffending are rife. Juliet Lyon, Director of the Prison Reform Trust, discusses with Peter Tatchell what's wrong with the prison service and how to fix it. 26.07.07
Gordon Brown should not be welcoming the Saudi dictator, King Abdullah, to Britain. Peter Tatchell interviews protest organiser Owen Jones of the Socialist Youth Network and Simon Hill of the Campaign Against the Arms Trade. 20.10.07
War is child abuse. Millions of children are being killed, wounded, conscripted, orphaned, jailed and sexually abused in 30 conflict zones. Peter Tatchell interviews Mark Waddington of the charity War Child, which is reaching out to the child victims of war and transforming their lives. 11.09.07
Over one billion people have no clean, safe drinking water; 5,000 children die every day from water that is dirty and contaminated. Peter Tatchell interviews Nick Edmans of the charity WaterAid. 06.11.07
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Elect the Lords - extend democracy, end patronage
The unelected House of Lords is an affront to democracy. Peter Tatchell sets out the case for reform in this interview with Peter Facey of Unlock Democracy and Baroness Scott of Needham Market. 20.09.07
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Is Uganda fit to host the Commonwealth Summit?
In November this year (2007), the Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting (CHOGM) will take place in the Ugandan capital of Kampala. Some Ugandan opposition activists and human rights campaigners are questioning whether CHOGM should go head in Uganda , given the suppression of democracy and human rights by the government of President Yoweri Museveni. His regime stands accused of rigged elections, censorship of the media, repression of protests, crackdowns on universities and trade unions, homophobic witch-hunts, detention without trial and the use of torture. On his weekly TV programme, Talking With Tatchell, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell interviews three leading members of the UK chapter of the main Ugandan opposition movement, the Forum for Democratic Change: Desmond Nzaana, Michael Senyonjo and Rosemary Buzabalyawo.
The electoral system is rigged against democracy. It is corrupt, unrepresentative, anti-democratic and unfair. Peter Tatchell interviews Chris Huhne MP of Make Votes Count and Mary Southcott of the Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform. 31.07.07
Big brother is watching you. ID cards are ineffective, costly, an invasion of privacy and a threat to civil liberties. They will pave the way for a huge increase in state surveillance, with the government owing and controlling our identities. On his weekly TV programme, Talking With Tatchell, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell interviews Phil Booth, national coordinator of No2ID, the national campaign against ID cards and the data-base state. 10.03.07
A new law giving western companies the right to profit from Iraq’s oil wealth will deprive Iraq of funds vital for reconstruction and development. Peter Tatchell interviews, Iraqi trade unionist, Muayad Ahmad, co-founder of the Federation Of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq (FWCUI) and Ewa Jasiewicz of Hands off Iraqi Oil and Platform. 12.09.07
Iran is a racist, imperialist state, which is ethnically cleansing its Ahwazi Arab population. Tehran is using sham trials, torture, executions, cultural colonialism, forced re-locations and mass impoverishment to subjugate its Arab population. The south-west Arab region of Iran is the richest in oil, but has African levels of malnutrition, slums, illiteracy and unemployment. Dr Karim Abdian, Director of the Ahwaz Human Rights Organisation discusses the persecution of his people with Peter Tatchell. 20.08.07
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Gordon Brown's great nuclear con trick
Gordon Brown says expanded nuclear power is essential to cut carbon emissions and global warming. The Prime Minister is wrong. Roger Higman, Campaigns Coordinator of Friends of the Earth, discusses with Peter Tatchell the cheaper, greener and safer alternatives, such as energy conservation, wind, wave, tidal, hydro, geo-thermal and solar power. 12.07.07
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