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Wednesday 7th October

Interview with James Galbraith

James Galbraith talks about Paul Krugman's NYT article, "How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?",  the academic discipline after the crash, the forgotten traditions in economics, the economics and law of fraud and much else over breakfast at the Goodenough Club
Monday 13th July

Podcast of the openDemocracy Russia evening, London, July 2009

Listen to a podcast of the openDemocracy Russia evening on 2 July 2009 in London. The editor of openDemocracy's Russia Section, Susan Richards discusses her new book Lost and Found in Russia with the scholar Anatol Lieven.

The evening was also part celebration of the first anniversary of openDemocracy's Russia site and openDemocracy's editor-in-chief Tony Curzon Price introduces the event with a reference to that...

Tuesday 30th September

Podcast: reform of family law in Egypt is prompting discussion about women's sexual rights within marriage

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Legal reform in Egypt establishing Family Courts with mandatory mediation ( see Mulki Al-Sharmani: Egypt's family courts: route to empowerment? )   and the introduction of no fault divorce proceedings known as ‘khola'  is prompting discussion about relations between men and women in marriage, including women's sexual rights. As the government and women's rights organisations talk about further legal reforms, the assumptions of the law makers are increasingly being called into question.

Mulki al Sharmani and Sawsan Sherif  are based at the Social Research Centre of the American University in Cairo and have been monitoring the work of two family courts, looking at how the reforms are working for women on the ground. They spoke to Jane Gabriel in Cairo about some surprising findings of their research. Listen now.

Friday 5th September

Sidney Blumenthal - part two

In part two, Blumenthal dissects the Iraq project - an "ideological dreamland" characterised by incompetence. "green zone of the mind" then on to torture and detention policy, the emergence of John McCain, unique challenge for the next president, and the end of an era

Sidney Blumenthal - part one

Sidney Blumenthal, author of The Strange Death of Republican America, talks to openDemocracy. Listen to parts one and two

Friday 4th July

G8 Action Aid Podcast 1

ActionAid G8 Coverage
Thursday 3rd July

Women and Memory: “I’m the Story”

Jane Gabriel meets the actors and writers of the Cairo-based Women and Memory forum. Listen now
Tuesday 24th June

Brazil: searching for a violence-free life

Meeting women's rights activists in Salvador, Brazil, Jane Gabriel finds there can be no talk of empowerment without first tackling endemic violence. Listen now

Monday 12th May

Ending violence against women

UN Special Rapporteur Dr Yakin Ertürk calls for action now to end violence against women. Listen now

Friday 14th March

Rebuilding civil society in Sierra Leone


Hussaina Abdullah spoke to Jane Gabriel about rebuilding civil society in Sierra Leone in the aftermath of civil war. Listen now

Thursday 13th March

Women and world poverty


The basic rights of women in the developing world are being ignored in the battle against poverty

Thursday 28th February

Making development work for women


What has happened to the argument for women's human rights in international policy? Rosalind Eyben of IDS, Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay of the Royal Tropical Insititute in the Netherlands and Helen O'Connell of One World Action spoke to Jane Gabriel. Listen now

Monday 10th December

Empowering women in the middle east


Hibaaq Osman on dignity and violence in the middle east. Plus: blogging 16 days

Thursday 6th December

Working for women's rights in Jordan


Afaf Jabiri talks about taking on the Jordanian government over women's rights. Plus: blogging 16 days

Monday 3rd December

A war that can be won


The UN's John Holmes on confronting sexual violence worldwide
Plus: blogging 16 days
Thursday 29th November

"To me, it is like oxygen"


Listen now to Takyiwaa Manuh on her work to empower women in Ghana
plus: tackling domestic violence in Africa
Monday 26th November

The preventable pandemic: one woman's story


Faustina Fynn Nyame talks about returning to her native Ghana to campaign for womens' right to safe abortion.  Plus: blogging 16 days
Friday 2nd November

The fight for safe abortion


openDemocracy speaks to those on the frontline of the fight to end a global scandal. Listen now
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