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Finding Home: Displacement and Homelessness from Cape Town to California
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On this edition of Making Contact we go from Cape Town, South Africa to Los Angeles and Oakland, California— three cities grappling with evictions,...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Silent Epidemic - child drowning in SE Asia
From: Mike Hally
Caption: Learning to swim in Bangladesh, Credit: Mike Hally
Winner of a Silver Trophy at the New York Festival 'World's Best Radio Awards' 2014, this startling but ultimately uplifting documentary is about t...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2014
  • Length: 27:55
Learning to Live Together - Other Projects - Festivals, Language and Youth
From: Mike Hally
Series: Learning to Live Together - Conflict and Peace-building Northern Ireland
Caption: Community worker at the Skegoneill interface, Credit: Mike Hally 2014
Political journalist Peter Geoghegan looks at the state of reconciliation and peace-making in Northern Ireland over a series of five short reports ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2014
  • Length: 07:47
A Journey through Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
From: Gianluca Tramontana
Caption: A Favela in Rio
Journalist Gianluca Tramontana takes you through the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, introduces you to their people, examines their history and explores...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:13
  • Purchases: 1
Amnesty At 50
From: Neil Gardner
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Amnesty has recently attracted criticism, sometimes from those who have been its most committed activists.  John Tusa asks if it has lost its way a...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 36:34
Louisville & Kentucky & The Bantu
From: Anton Foek
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Or how the Bantu adapt in the U.S.A.

  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 30:00
Women in Argentina demand gender equality
From: Marie Trigona
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Women in Argentina demand gender equality

  • Added: Nov 12, 2007
  • Length: 21:06
RN Documentary: Driving out the Filth in Zimbabwe
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A year and a half ago, the Zimbabwean government destroyed the livelihoods of 2.5 million Zimbabweans and made 700,000 people homeless. Nothing has...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WBEZ


  • Added: Jan 08, 2007
  • Length: 31:00
  • Purchases: 2
Health workers reach remote villagers in Ethiopia with tetanus vaccine
From: UNICEF
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This story is free! UNICEF's Andrew Heavens reports on the delivery of tetanus vaccine to remote tribal villages in Ethiopia

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2006
  • Length: 08:40
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: A Deep Cancer - The Collapse of Zimbabwe
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus: Failed States
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Zimbabwe used to be one of the most prosperous countries in southern Africa. Today it is a state teetering on the brink of collapse.

Bought by WRPI and WFUV


  • Added: Dec 15, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
World AIDS Day: Kenyan Children
From: 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
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The lives of Kenyan Children not improving despite progress in fighting AIDS in Kenya

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX and WSCS-FM


  • Added: Nov 28, 2006
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Paradise Lost
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus: Failed States
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Haiti is often considered a classic example of a failed state. But what does that actually mean in practice?

Bought by WRPI and WFUV


  • Added: Oct 12, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: The Free Radio Complex
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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After supporting the war of ideas against communism, Radio Free Europe /Radio Liberty have been mobilized to support the war on terror.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 01, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: All But Gone - Last Chance to Save the Great Apes
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Anne Blair Gould asks why Chimpanzees, Gorillas and Orang Utans are expected to be extinct within the next 30 years.

Bought by KTNA, KVNF, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 26, 2005
  • Length: 29:33
  • Purchases: 3
RN Documentary: In Limbo - Holland's Traumatized Asylum-seekers
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Thousands of traumatized asylum-seekers in The Netherlands face expulsion.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
RN Documentary: The International Criminal Court and the United States
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Why is the United States battling against the international criminal court, an institution it helped create?

  • Added: Aug 30, 2005
  • Length: 29:29
RN Documentary: The International Criminal Court – in its own words
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The history and creation of the international criminal court by people who helped establish it or who work there.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Waiting to go home
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A portrait of a Karen Burmese refugee camp on the Thai/Burma border

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Misunderstanding Islam
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Islam and the West have been described as a Clash of Civilizations – but is it all just one big misunderstanding?

Bought by KALW, WGBH Radio Boston, and WUFT


  • Added: Dec 06, 2004
  • Length: 29:27
  • Purchases: 3
RN Documentary: Illegal in Israel - The Story of Juan and Josie
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus on Torn Lives - Stories from the Holy Land
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Israel is deporting all 200,000 of its illegal migrants, including Juan, Josie and their three children from the Philippines. (29:29)

  • Added: Sep 11, 2004
  • Length: 29:29
RN Documentary: On the Rampage - Zimbabwe's youth militia
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus on Zimbabwe in Crisis
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The Zimbabwean government is giving military training to children and young people to intimidate the country's opposition.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2004
  • Length: 29:30
RN Documentary: Innocent Targets: The Children of Northern Uganda
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus on Uganda
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Stories from northern Uganda about children who have been abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army or who live in fear of being captured by the rebels.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 05, 2004
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 1
The Brandon-Ukiriguru AIDS Awareness Project
From: David Kattenburg
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Two communities -- one in Canada, the other in Africa -- working together to fight the AIDS pandemic through awareness

Bought by WFUV and Public Interactive


  • Added: Nov 25, 2003
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 2
If Kids Must Work
From: David Kattenburg
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Canadian NGOs are helping youth for whom working is a necessity of life

Bought by WKSU


  • Added: Nov 03, 2003
  • Length: 28:32
  • Purchases: 1