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AI Canada AGM

A couple of weeks ago a contingent of Amnesty International members from Regina travelled to Vancouver for Amnesty's Annual General Meeting.  Halena Seiferling and Gordon Barnes were part of that group and visited Human Rights Radio to tell us the highlights of that gathering.  Gordon is a Field Worker for Amnesty International in Saskatchewan and Halena is a Field Worker in Training.

Aboriginals, Colonists, and the Environment

Mona Hill has a very meaty discussion with Dr. Joyce Green about the issues surrounding historical and contemporary treatment of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada as well as the current tendency of government and corporations to embrace exploitation of natural resources heedless of consequences for ourselves and future generations.

Pride Week in Regina

This week the Human Rights Radio Show studio was full to overflowing with people.  Host Mona Hill spoke with Mikayla Schultz and Jett Brewer from the Board of Directors of TransSask Transgender Support Services, Kobie Spriggs, this year's Coordinator of Camp Fyrefly, summer camp for LGBT youth, and Harley Ringlein, this year's chairman of the Queen City Pride Committee.  There was a lively and informative discussion about all the events planned for upcoming Pride Week.

May 28, 1961

Jim and Gordon talk about May 28th, the anniversary of Peter Benenson's article "the Forgotten Prisoner" published in the London Observer in 1961, They also talk about Amnesty's 2012 Global Human Rights Review

Pro Bono Law Saskatchewan

Today, Nicole Sarauer, Program Manager and Staff Lawyer at Pro Bono Law Saskatchewan spoke with Gord Barnes, Field Worker with Amnesty International, Regina Group 91.  Nicole explained the role of Pro Bono Law Saskatchewan and how it helps people with legal problems who don't have the resources to hire a lawyer but don't fit the requirements to access Legal Aid.

Looking at the Health of First Nations and Metis People

Human Rights Radio discusses the state of First Nation Health Care with Dr. Carrie Bourassa, Associate Professor of Indigenous Health Studies in the Department of Interdisciplinary Programs at First Nations University of Canada.  She's also a nominated Principal Investigator of Indigenous Peoples Health Research Centre.  They discuss specific barriers to good health and also identify solutions to those barriers.  She also responds to the latest Federal cuts in the 2012 budget that affects Aboriginal and Metis health.

Children and the Sex Trade. A Horrific Combination

Think Slavery was eradicated over a hundred years ago?  Think again.  Poverty, avarice, and ignorance combine to make Slavery a sad fact of life in many parts of the world, including so-called "developed" nations.  Today's program focuses on the appalling business of buying or otherwise acquiring children for the sex trade in Cambodia.  Terri Murphy and Crystal Reddekopp talk about "Not4Sale", the Victory Churches International program which is rescuing children at risk and children who have been forced into the sex trade in Cambodia.

Edwin Black details corporate involvement with the Holocaust

On April 19, Edwin Black spoke at this years Evening of Remembrance at the Pearl and Max B. Herman Centre in Regina.  Mr. Black focuses on one corporation in particular, but notes that there were many that put money ahead of morals as Hitler's plans were implemented culminating in the murder of 6 million Jews and other minorities.

First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.

We Talk about Prisoners in Iran and the need for an Arms Trade Treaty

On Friday May 11, Gord Barnes and I discussed two of the many prisoners who are being imprisoned in Iran, Hamid Ghassemi-Shall and Sa'id Metinpour.  We also talked about the need for an Arms Trade Treaty.  "Bananas have more international trade regulations than weapons"

Regina Making Peace Vigil celebrates 5 years

Human Rights Radio talks with Florance Stratton and Stephen Moore, two of the original organizers of the Regina Making Peace Vigil about how they have gathered every Thursday Noon, rain or shine, in oppressively hot or freezing cold conditions to make the public aware of important Human Rights issues by passing out self published pamphlets to noon hour pedestrians in the FW Hill Mall. They have done this without fail for the past five years.