Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
'Period poverty' activists tackle menstrual taboos [rebroadcast]
By  • 6 September 2019
At this year’s Academy Awards a film called “Period. End of Sentence” won the Oscar for best short documentary. The movie focused on the subject of menstruation taboos in India and the story of a…
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Child soldiers: a persistent problem
By  • 4 July 2019
Thousands of children have been used as soldiers in at least 18 countries around the world in the past two years. For the children who survive, the trauma of war can have long-lasting impacts. On…
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The problem of child soldiers
By  • 29 November 2018
Thousands of children have been used as soldiers in at least 18 countries around the world in the past two years. For the children who survive, the trauma of war can have long-lasting impacts. On…
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Eritrea's opportunity
By  • 6 September 2018
The young nation of Eritrea is often referred to as the North Korea of Africa. The country has jailed thousands of political prisoners, eliminated the independent press and forces much of the population into indefinite…
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Ethiopia's new hope
By  • 28 June 2018
The East African nation of Ethiopia has spent much of the last three decades as an authoritarian one-party state. Political opponents of the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front were regularly jailed. Independent journalists could…
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Europe's immigration quagmire
By  • 14 September 2017
Back in 2015, the immigration crisis in Europe was in headlines worldwide. Since then the numbers of people crossing the by sea to the continent has declined from more than 1 million annually to just 126,000 through…
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Malaysia's 1MDB and Europe's migrants
By  • 2 June 2017
On this two-part edition of Global Journalist, a look at political corruption in Malaysia and a controversial new film about migration to Europe. In Malaysia, the country's politics have been in turmoil for two years…
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Project Exile: Ethiopia editor leaves after beatings
By  • 26 April 2017
"I received warnings before the second attack. They start to tell me that I'm still 'offending' them." Yetneberk Tadele almost left his home country of Ethiopia too late.  Until late 2013 Yetneberk had been working as a…
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Project Exile: Eritrean state media reporter turns critic
By  • 2 February 2017
"When prison became a synonym for Eritrea...you can only flee." In Eritrea, even being part of the East African nation's tame state media is no protection. That was the conclusion Abraham Zere reached after years…
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Project Exile: Eritrean broadcaster waited five years to escape
By  • 23 January 2017
"I felt like I was waking up from a nightmare." [caption id="attachment_8012" align="alignleft" width="241"] Temesghen Debesai[/caption] Temesghen Debesai decided to flee the East African nation of Eritrea in 2001. A prominent broadcaster on state television,…
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