AUDIO LIBRARY

Elian Gonzalez Fiasco
Jacqueline Bhabha, director of the University of Chicago's Human Rights Program
Andrzej Wajda
Worldview film contributor Milos Stehlik examines the work of this filmmaker and contrasts him with the narcissistic Hollywood crowd that greeted Polish film-great Andrzej Wajda at the Oscars ceremony

International News of the Week
Russ Watson, senior editor for Newsweek Magazine
Human Rights Commentary
Doug Cassel of Northwestern University's Center for International Human Rights
Turkey's decision to build a nuclear plant on a fault line
Radio Netherlands' Dorian Jones
Defecting from the Nuclear Industry
Andreas Toupadakis, former employee of Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac, authors of Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia.

Politics in Northern Ireland
Ray O'Hanlon, senior editor of the Irish Echo
Labor Movement in Colombia
Louis Alfonso Velasquez
Outlook for International Monetary Fund Reform
Lawrence Summers, U.S. Treasury Secretary

Russia: Vladamir Putin Wins Presidential Election
Steve Solnick, professor of Political Science at Columbia University.
Pakistan: President Clinton Visit
Steven Cohen, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
Bangladesh and India: President Clinton's Visit
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky

Rwanda: Paul Kagame Takes Overt Control of Presidency
Allison Deforge, consultant for Human Rights Watch's Africa Division
Kosovo: Anniversary of Intervention
William Shawcross, journalist, author of Deliver Us From Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict
Film Review
Worldview film contributor Milos Stehlik looks at Jim Jarmusch's newest film, Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai

International News of the Week
Russ Watson, senior editor for Newsweek Magazine
El Salvador: 20th Anniversary of Archbishop Romero Assassination
Doug Cassel of Northwestern University's Center for International Human Rights
U.S. criticizes China's human rights in Geneva, Amnesty International releases report condemning China's crackdown on Falun Gong and other organizations

Jonathan Brent author of Annals of Communism

India: President Clinton's Trip
Lloyd Rudolph, professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago
Senegal: Elections End 40 years of socialist rule
Chris Fomunyoh, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
Madeline Albright's easing of sanctions against Iran

Taiwanese Presidential Elections
Shelly Rigger, associate professor of Political Science at Davidson College and author of Politics in Taiwan
Russian Presidential Election
Charles Maynes of Radio Deutsche Welle
Mexican Ambassador to the United States
Excerpted from a speech at the Commonwealth Club of California in San Jose in which Mr. Edwin Garcia, reporter for the San Jose Mercury News questions Jesus Reyes Herroas, ambassador of Mexico to the United States

Khavey Essani, lecturer in political science at UIC, and edited the fall issue of the Middle East Report, Pushing the Limits: Iran at 20.

International News of the Week
Russ Watson, senior editor for Newsweek Magazine
Censorship in Asia
Facets Multimedia's Milos Stehlik
India-Pakistan-United States Relations
Ambassador Teresita Schaffer, director of the South Asia Program at the Center for Strategic International Studies
Poland's flourishing Sex Industry
Radio Netherlands' Rafal Kiepuszewski

Kosovo: Strategy of the International Community
William Stuebner, U.S. Institute for Peace, advisor for the Bosnian Reconciliation Project
Israeli Supreme Court Decision on Land Sales
Doug Cassel, Northwestern University's Center for International Human Rights
Morrocco
DePaul University professor Ahmed Abbadi
Islam in Spain
Kyle James, Radio Netherlands

Assassination Attempt on Iranian Reformer
Ahmed Sadri, professor of Sociology at Lake Forest College
El Salvador's Elections
Jeff Thale, senior associate for Central America at the Washington Office on Latin America
Politics in the Mid East
Rasheid Khalidi, director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago

Women and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights
Eugenia Piza-Lopez, head of Policy and Advocacy at International Alertand director of Women Building Peace: From the Village Council to the Negotiating Table Campaign
Women and Political Participation Around the Globe
Pippa Norris, associate director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University

Violence Against Women in Sierra Leone: The Memories should be their Punishment
Radio Netherlands
The Stigma of Rape in Kosovo
Nicholas Wood, Radio Netherlands
The Role of Rwandan Women in Reconstructing Peace
Heather Hamilton, an activist and researcher on women in the aftermath of armed conflict

Varieties of Islamic Feminism
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, author of In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman's Global Journey
Culture Conflicts of Turkish Women in the Netherlands
Radio Netherlands' Helene Michaud
The Hijab on American University Campuses
Worldview's Andrea Wenzel
Gender Roles at Iranian University Campuses
Kavi Asani

Nonconsensual Sex in Marriage
Perna Sen of CHANGE
Women's Rights in Zimbabwe
Priscilla Mishihairabwi, advocate for women's health and reproductive issues in Zimbabwe
International Community and the Fight Against Trafficking of Women
Radio Netherlands' Dorian Jones

Homophobia in Africa
Neville Hoad, Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago
Machismo and Nicaraguan Society
Eric Beauchemin, Radio Netherlands

The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women
Kim Slote, co-director of the Women's Rights Network, Wellesley Centers for Women
Striking for Women's Economic Recognition: International Wages for Housework Campaign
Phoebe Jones Schellenberg, co-director of the International Wages for Housework Campaign in Philidelphia
The Role Men Should Play in Gender Equality
Jonah Gokova, National coordinator of Padare Men's Forum on Gender in Zimbabwe

The Effects of Globalization and Americanization on Sexual Norms and Human Rights
Dennis Altman, a professor of politics at LaTrobe University in Austrailia.
Iranian filmmaker Tamineh Milani's film Two Women
Milos Stehlik
New Perspectives on the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa, Part 2
BBC Historian Dennis Jard

Rights of Refugees vs. Displaced Persons and Refugee Women
Karen Koning Abuzayd, head of the Regional Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the United States and the Caribbean
New Perspectives on the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa, Part 1
BBC Historian Dennis Jard

South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Martin Meredith, author of Coming to Terms: South Africa's Search for Truth