US policies and the border crisis, politics of response to flight MH17, film 'The Prosecutors

US policies and the border crisis, politics of response to flight MH17, film 'The Prosecutors

vor 11 Jahren
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WBEZ's global affairs program. Featuring in-depth conversations about international issues and their local impact. Also, foreign film reviews and human rights commentaries. Hosted by Jerome McDonnell.

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vor 11 Jahren
Separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine are preventing Dutch forensic experts from taking the bodies of Malaysian Airlines 17 from the site of the crash, prompting international criticism of Russia and President Putin. We'll take a look at what sorts of policy options are open for the U.S. and the Europeans with Matthew Rojansky, the director of the Kennan Institute at the Wilson Center.
And, many of the migrants flooding the U.S. border are children coming from Honduras. Many, families say, are fleeing gang violence brought on by the narco-traffickers who rule entire neighborhoods and as such should be treated as refugees. Others argue that the main reason families and children are leaving Honduras is economic, a lack of jobs and opportunity. We’ll take a look at what is driving people from Honduras and examine the role U.S. policies have played with Alexander Main, a senior associate for international policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Then, crimes of rape and other forms of sexual violence in war are woefully under-prosecuted, according to Leslie Thomas of Artworks Projects for Human Rights. To bring awareness, she is creating a documentary called ‘The Prosecutors.’ The film follows lawyers and victims during sexual war crimes prosecutions. Thomas and co-collaborator, Galya Ruffer, of Northwestern University’s Center for Forced Migration Studies will tell us what they think it will take for sexual war crimes to become a major component of international law.

(photo: In this April 14, 2014 file photo, a police officer walks past graffiti depicting gang members that have died during a patrol in a neighborhood controlled by the Mara Salvatrucha gang in Ilopango, El Salvador. In El Salvador, the end of a truce between street gangs has led to a steep rise in homicides this year adding impetus to the migration of youths and children to the U.S. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File))

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