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(James M Thorne/Flickr)Human Rights Around the World
How do other countries abide by the Geneva Conventions? As the United States debates what “degrading and humiliating treatment” means, we’ll see how other democracies with detainees set interrogation standards and why they haven’t passed the kind of law that President Bush wants, but that so troubles Colin Powell and John McCain. Also, who said what at the United Nations General Assembly; a look at the work of innovative filmmaker Shirley Clarke; and a call-in on arranged marriages.
The World Speaks, Who Is Listening?
Shashi Tharoor, United Nation's Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, and author of Bookless in Baghdad: And Other Writings About Readings (Arcade Publishing, 2005)
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David Bosco, senior editor at Foreign Policy Magazine
- talks about the United Nation's General Assembly meeting and the speeches made by other world leaders
» Foreign Policy Magazine
» Shashi Tharoor's website
Chelsea Girl
Amy Taubin, contributing editor to Film Comment and Sight and
Sound, writes for Artforum and teaches at the School for Visual Arts,
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Melissa Anderson, Time Out New York film editor
- on filmmaker Shirley Clarke who is to be posthumously honored with a commemorative plaque at the Chelsea Hotel
» Shirley Clarke at imdb
» Amy Taubin’s bio at SVA
» Time Out New York film
Event:
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street)
7:45 Thursday, September 21st
On the occasion of the unveiling of a commemorative plaque at the Hotel Chelsea, there will be a special screening of selected Shirley Clarke films.
Human Rights Around the World
Aryeh Neier, president of the Open Society Institute, also founder and former director of Human Rights Watch
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Aisling Reedie, senior legal advisor, Human Rights Watch
- on how the Geneva Conventions are interpreted around the world
» Open Society Institute
» Human Rights Watch
Un-Dating
Tova Mirvis, author of
The Outside World
(Knopf, 2006)
- discusses dating techniques among conservative religious groups
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