just.sound.stories

A radio documentary looking at the history of international human rights and reflections on how critiques of economic globalism spawned a new generation of human rights activists.

The 20th century was a time in which rhetorics of freedom dominated political discourse. How did these rhetorics of freedom mask first world global economic aspirations?

This program traces the emergence of a global concern for human rights from the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the UN, to the mass protests at the end of the century against the operation of global capital via the IMF and WTO.

Speakers include Dr. Pat Ranald (AFTINET), Lee Rhiannon (NSW Greens Senator) and Father Brian Gore (Australian priest and social activist) as well as archival material from Doc Evatt, Mary Robinson, Kofi Annan, Eddie Mabo, Martin Luther King and other civil rights activists.

First broadcast in September 2000 in Radio Eye, ABC RN, Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Written and presented by Cathy Peters
Produced by Cathy Peters and John Jacobs

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