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How 9/11 has eroded our human rights

How 9/11 has eroded our human rights

FromInside Geneva


How 9/11 has eroded our human rights

FromInside Geneva

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Length:
31 minutes
Released:
Sep 7, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

How have our attitudes to human rights changed since 9/11? What about our laws?Imogen Foulkes is joined by Fionnuala Ni Aolain, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism, and Gerald Staberock, Secretary-General of the World Organisation Against Torture. Has it become harder to defend human rights?Fionnuala Ni Aolain: The criminalisation of lawful acts: speech, assembly, political participation, those are all defined, by multiple governments, as terrorism.Gerald Staberock: 9/11 was like an earthquake to human rights. The house and the façade still look good, legally speaking we still have an absolute prohibition on torture. The façade is there, but the cracks in the houses are there.Get in touch! Email us at insidegeneva@swissinfo.ch Twitter: @ImogenFoulkes and @swissinfo_en Thank you for listening! If you like what we do, please leave a review.
Released:
Sep 7, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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A podcast from SWI swissinfo.ch, a multilingual international public service media company from Switzerland, where Imogen Foulkes puts big questions facing the world to the experts working to tackle them in Switzerland’s international city.