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Exploring inequality, abuse and oppression around the world, we hear from those directly involved in an issue, examine the structural context to find why rights abuse exists, and look for possible solutions. Read articles related to these issues and episodes at the web site of The Upstream Journal - www.upstreamjournal.org. We are pleased to see that Human Rights Magazine is a top-rated human rights podcast at Feedspot. (https://blog.feedspot.com/human_rights_podcasts/)
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The next generation in oil and gas training. Oil and gas industry veteran and passionate educator Marty Stetzer weighs in on topics important to our learning community. He will also be sitting down with other oil and gas industry veterans to discuss current topics and trends affecting the oil and gas industry. Topics include Oil 101, Upstream, Midstream, Downstream, Supply and Trading, Refining, Petroleum Product Marketing, Natural Gas, Crude Oil, Oil and Gas Careers, Oil and Gas Industry Tr ...
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In this episode, we take a somewhat different approach to our focus on human rights, and look not at a social situation but rather look at technological possibilities. Artificial intelligence is rapidly emerging as a new tool, as computer technology accelerates in the ability of machines to learn and emulate human thinking. Listen as Charlotte Powe…
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In 2023, more than 650,000 people in America were identified as being without permanent shelters, and that’s a record number, the most since counts were started in 2007, and a 12 percent increase over 2022. Oregon has double what would be the national average of people without a permanent place to call home. In this episode, Tawnya Layne explores w…
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The use of children in combat roles is not new in Myanmar. Both the government and some resistance groups have child soldiers, with tragic results. Hundreds of children have been killed and tortured by the Myanmar army in recent years. In this episode of Human Rights Magazine, Yiwen Li speaks with several experts about the issue. Human Rights Magaz…
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President Museveni of Uganda has retained power since 1986, using violence, arrests and media suppression to maintain the military dictatorship. In this episode of Human Rights Magazine, Nkwesi Banage talks with experts about the dynamics of politics and elections in Uganda, and how Museveni has successfully kept power for decades. (Photo: A Uganda…
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The Fulani people are part of an ethnic group across the Sahara, Sahel and West Africa, comprising between 25 and 40 million people. About 10 million of them are pastoralists, and so they are part of the largest nomadic pastoral community in the world. Almost all are Muslims. In this episode of Human Rights Magazine, Pauline Goemans explores the di…
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Ce podcast cherche à capturer la complexité du combat féministe au Maroc dans une ère de réforme politique et juridique. Human Rights Magazine is produced by The Upstream Journal magazine. The host, Derek MacCuish, is editor of both. If you agree that informed reporting on human rights and social justice issues is important, your support would be w…
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The garment industry is Cambodia’s largest employer, with more than 850,000 workers. The three largest markets are the European Union, the destination of 40% of the production, followed by the United States at 30% and Canada at 9%. So, if we purchase clothing made in Cambodia, how concerned should we be about whether there were inadequate wages and…
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Many refugees are fleeing conflict or poverty, but many are also seeking to escape from a society in which, because of their sexual identity and/or preference, they face violence and possibly death every day. In this podcast episode and the related article (at upstreamjournal.org), Julia Israel speaks with several guests about what it means for the…
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Thanks for listening to the EKT Interactive Energy Podcast Network. In this 17 minute episode, Marty Stetzer (EKT Interactive in Houston) talks with Eleanor Cannon who designed a senior level history elective entitled the: History, Geopolitics and Economics of Energy. As she developed her course, Eleanor was looking for real-world operations conten…
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A look into the particular role of women in the resistance to the brutal military regime in Myanmar. Produced by Ruolan Ma, it follows on the podcast episode and article she did last year on the country and the role of journalists there. Human Rights Magazine is produced by The Upstream Journal magazine. The host, Derek MacCuish, is editor of both.…
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Thanks for listening to the EKT Interactive Energy Podcast Network. In this 18 minute episode, Marty Stetzer (EKT Interactive in Houston) talks with Diane Cherry. Prior to starting her own consulting firm, Diane worked for more than 20 years at senior levels in the energy and environmental fields. We met virtually through the Energy and Utilities N…
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Canada provides universal healthcare, but people with autism and their families struggle significantly against many barriers and a lack of service. Support is commonly offered following a diagnosis, but what happens when an individual either cannot get one, or is considered too old for one? Host Emma Nahmiach speaks with experts about the lack of s…
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The cost of tea for consumers is really low, given the volume of tea that is grown, half of it produced in China by some 80 million people. But it is workers in places like South Asia that have significant problems, where there is a long history of worker exploitation dating to colonial times. Tea workers throughout the region suffer from widesprea…
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In Canada, the last time housing was considered to be affordable, relative to income, was in 2004 The average price of a home in the Toronto area, the country’s most populated, is more than $1 million. In Quebec too, where the housing market has been historically affordable, there has been a significant decline in affordability over recent years. I…
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Esther Dingemans is an expert in programmes that respond to conflict-related sexual violence. She worked for several years in humanitarian programmes on sexual and gender-based violence in several countries in Africa and the Middle East. She is the executive director at the Global Survivors Fund and the Mukwege Foundation. In this episode, she was …
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For this episode in the Pathways to Peace series, the focus is on the particular impact of violence and insecurity on women and girls. My guest is Reem Alsalem who, for 17 years until 2016, worked with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and then became an independent consultant in humanitarian action and refugee protection. She is now the UN Sp…
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The Kafala system is a form of worker sponsorship that allows private citizens and companies almost total control over the employment and immigration status of migrant workers. Lebanon has some 250,000 migrant domestic workers, most of them women from Africa and Asia. The labour laws do not provide them protections that other workers have, like a m…
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In February 2021, Myanmar military leaders removed the democratically elected party from power and took control of the government. In the year following, at least 1,700 civilians, including children, have been killed by the junta forces and some 10,000 arrested. Media outlets have been closed, and journalists arrested, beaten and tortured. Some hav…
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The world's largest rainforest is in trouble. Trees are being cut down at the fastest rate in years, for their wood and to clear the ground for crops supplying the global food industry. 75% of the forest is under stress with this level of deforestation, and with climate change impacts the trees take longer to recover from droughts and there are mor…
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People who come to Canada as refugees or migrants without legal status can be held indefinitely in detention centers or provincial jails. They may not have committed an offense and there is no trial, but they are treated as though they are criminals. Find out more in the new podcast episode by Serra Hasiloglu. Human Rights Magazine is produced by T…
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Dan Smith is the director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. With several years' experience with NGOs and international organizations he has written extensively on conflict and insecurity, and I encourage you to read his blog articles at dansmithsblog.com. Human Rights Magazine is produced by The Upstream Journal magazine. The…
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This episode is the third in a series on Syria by Emma Beilouny. In this one, she gets insights from several people about the brutality of the Assad regime, and the possibilities for holding it accountable for its crimes against humanity. Read the full article at upstreamjournal.org, with artwork by Doğa Atabay, Emma is now also the host of a new p…
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Established in 1957 as an accommodation for families who were expelled from their homes during the 1948 Nakba, al-Yarmouk camp is considered the capital of the Palestinian diaspora as well as a symbol of resistance to Israel and was home to most Palestinian political parties’ headquarters. Yarmouk’s population reached more than 200,000 Palestinians…
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The number of Indigenous prison inmates in Canada is increasing, while the number of non-Indigenous inmates is going down. Native people serve longer portions of their sentence and are less likely to be granted parole than other prisoners. In this episode of Human Rights Magazine, Charlotte Lalonde speaks with several experts about why this is, and…
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In this episode, Emma Beilouny explores the impact of the economic sanctions placed on Syria in June 2020, in particular the impact on women and girls. These sanctions are meant to punish the regime for its actions during the civil war, which began just over ten years ago, but they are having a devastating effect on the Syrian people. Human Rights …
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My guest in this episode is William Schabas, the internationally respected expert on human rights law, genocide and the death penalty. He is a professor of international law at Middlesex University in the United Kingdom and a professor of international law and human rights at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He has served on several human righ…
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In this episode of Human Rights Magazine, Amelia Coleman explores how simple, more efficient cookstoves are having an impact in Rwanda on women’s health as well as their rights and empowerment. Human Rights Magazine is produced by The Upstream Journal magazine. The host, Derek MacCuish, is editor of both. If you agree that informed reporting on hum…
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My guest in this episode of the Pathways to Peace series is Agnes Callamard, the well-known human rights expert who is now the Secretary General of Amnesty International. She has had many roles, including that of the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions from 2017 to 2021. Human Rights Magazine is produced by The U…
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The United Nations Commission on Human Rights estimates that there are more than 100 million people in the world who are homeless, people with no housing at all. In this episode of Human Rights Magazine, Florina Lupu examines the situation of homelessness here, in Montreal, the home city of the Upstream Journal and this podcast, in the context of t…
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In this episode of the Pathways to Peace series, Derek MacCuish speaks with Livingstone Sewanyana, the UN Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order. The founder and executive director of the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative in Uganda, he is a lawyer with an extensive scholarly background in human ri…
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Gender-based violence targets women and girls in the largest forced displacement crisis in the world with almost 14 million Syrians in need of humanitarian assistance, 5 million of them women and girls of reproductive age. A rise in gender-based and sexual violence affects vulnerable groups, particularly women and girls, tearing families apart and …
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The editor of The Upstream Journal and Human Rights Magazine, Derek MacCuish, speaks with Sharan Burrow, head of the world's largest trade union federation. The International Trade Union Confederation is acknowledged to be the global voice of working people. From her actions as a labour rights leader in Australia to her engagement at the global lev…
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The editor of The Upstream Journal and Human Rights Magazine, Derek MacCuish, speaks with Phil Bloomer, executive director of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, an organization that reports on rights abuse allegations of more than 10,000 companies worldwide. By providing the subsequent response by the companies, if any, the organization s…
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Mahima Kapur explores the issue of child marriage with a particular focus on the situation in the UK, and speaks with people experienced in the issue about what is needed to end the abusive practice. Human Rights Magazine is produced by The Upstream Journal magazine. The host, Derek MacCuish, is editor of both. If you agree that informed reporting …
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The editor of The Upstream Journal and Human Rights Magazine, Derek MacCuish, speaks with John Morrison, CEO of the Institute for Human Rights and Business. This episode is part of the series Pathways to Peace, in which we hear from people who have been deeply engaged in working for peace and human rights in their various aspects. Human Rights Maga…
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Derek MacCuish, the editor of The Upstream Journal and Human Rights Magazine, speaks with Mary Lawlor, the UN expert on the situation of human rights defenders. This episode is part of the series Pathways to Peace, in which we hear from people who have been deeply engaged in working for peace and human rights in their various aspects. Mary Lawlor w…
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The editor of The Upstream Journal and Human Rights Magazine, Derek MacCuish, speaks with Marie Dennis, who has worked for several years with Pax Christi International, the Catholic peace movement. She is the author of several books on peace and nonviolence. This episode is part of the series Pathways to Peace, in which we hear from people who have…
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New Upstream Journal article and podcast episode explores why current legislation does not prevent human rights abuse, what the European Union due diligence legislation will change, and what you can do at a personal level to protect human and environmental rights. Human Rights Magazine is produced by The Upstream Journal magazine. The host, Derek M…
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More than one million Muslim Uyghurs are in Chinese internment camps. Why? What has been happening, and what will be the outcomes? Rachel Ernest Cohen explores the situation with three experts: Darren Byler is a postdoctoral researcher with the China Made project at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research focuses on Uyghur dispossession, …
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Ten years have passed since UN Human Rights Council endorsed the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP). Corporate social responsibility has become a mainstream view that serves as a standard for the company to modernize its policies. However, without a legally binding agreement, major challenges remain as businesses in developin…
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The global LGBTQ+ community faces many complex and evolving challenges. While from an outside perspective it may seem as though the fight for equality has been won, there is still a long way to go. To understand these issues, Meera Raman, the producer of this episode, spoke with three experts: Victor Madrigal-Borloz, UN Independent Expert on violen…
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Improving Drilling Scheduling with Owen Plowman of Actenum In this episode our topic is How improving drilling scheduling can benefit operational performance – more importantly, how not to miss your targets. We’re really happy to learn more about improving operational performance at this time of unprecedented challenges in our industry – answering …
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Sexism and racism in the tattoo industry. The tattoo industry is being challenged by tattooists all over the world who want to fight the lack of regulation and the systemic power imbalances that lead to abusive behaviour within studios. The world of tattooing is having its own #MeToo movement Read the article by episode producer Meera Raman at The …
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Bolivia has a massive amount of lithium. What are the implications for a country with widespread, deep poverty? The Salar de Uyuni is a vast salt flat spanning almost 11,000 square kilometers in the department of Potosí, Bolivia. Here, high in the arid Bolivian Andes, lie the world’s largest brine deposits of lithium, a light metal used in batterie…
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Tips for Attending the 2018 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, TX. It’s that time of year again… In this episode of ‘The Drill Down’, Marty Stetzer sits down with Michael Deleon, long time media producer for EKT Interactive, to discuss ways in which listeners who may be attending the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) for the first time g…
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Thanks for listening to the EKT Interactive Oil and Gas Podcast Network. What is the 2018 World Oil Drilling Activity Outlook for the US and Internationally? This Drill Down episode gives a 21 minute executive summary of the annual World Oil breakfast. It was held in Houston on January 26th and covered their outlook for global drilling activity. We…
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Thanks for listening to the EKT Interactive Oil and Gas Podcast Network. What is the 2018 Outlook for Global Crude Supply Demand Balance and Crude Price? This Drill Down episode gives an executive summary of the February 2nd,2018 Oil & Gas Journal ( The Journal ) webcast discussing the global crude supply-demand outlook, and the impact on crude pri…
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Thanks for listening to the EKT Interactive Oil and Gas Podcast Network. Going boldly where others have already gone! In this episode in our series on the Internet of Things (IoT) in oil and gas, we speak with Jim Claunch, VP of Operational Excellence for Development and Production at Statoil. Jim will be on the keynote panel at the upcoming IoT in…
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Thanks for listening to the EKT Interactive Oil and Gas Podcast Network. What Does 2018 Hold for The Downstream? In this episode of Drill Down, we give you an executive summary of recent Hydrocarbon Processing (HPI) webcast for the downstream industry forecast. We welcome back Joe Perino to the podcast as we discuss the HPI outlook for downstream i…
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Thanks for listening to the EKT Interactive Oil and Gas Podcast Network. What is IoT in the context of Oil and Gas? In this episode of Drill Down, we speak with EKT Interactive Sr. Associate and host of the Sound Off podcast Joe Perino. Joe will be moderating the keynote panel at the upcoming IoT in Oil and Gas Conference in Houston. Joe offers som…
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