The State We're In: Labor Day Special 2008
Series: The State We're In: 2008 Specials Series
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Length: 00:53:26
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The State We're In talks to people who are fighting for a fair deal at work: choice of employment, just conditions of work, protection against unemployment, and simply the right to hold a job?something many in the world cannot take for granted.
Transcript
THE STATE WE’RE IN
DATE: 30 August 2008
HOST: Jonathan Groubert
SEGMENT A: THE DAY OF THE DISAPPEARED (12:30)
PROGAM TAG: (:29)
AMINA’S STORY: Three years ago Amina Massood Janjua prepared breakfast for her husband, a well-liked businessman who ran a college in Rawalpindi in Pakistan. She kissed him goodbye….and she never saw him again. He became one of the many people who have disappeared in Pakistan. Amina tells Jonathan about her efforts to find her husband.
DISAPPEARED IN PAKISTAN: After the attacks on 9/11, the U.S. government recruited Pakistan as an ally in an efforts to round-up suspected terrorists. Since that time, Sohail Warraich of Amnesty International says hundreds, possibly thousands of people have been “disappeared”.
TEASER B: Jonathan tells us what’s coming up in the B segment
MUSIC BED (1:30)
SEGMENT B: 18:30 THIS WEEK’S THEME IS “THE RIGHT TO...
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