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Denied Citizenship
An estimated eleven million people throughout the world have been denied citizenship by their own governments. On today's Underreported, a look at what life is like without an official nationality, and why different ethnic and minority groups from Africa to Asia are being constrained to statelessness. Plus Eric Schlosser (who wrote Fast Food Nation), examines the effect fast food is having on today's children.
Underreported: Statelessness
The refugee and stateless crisis experienced in the wake of WWII led to the formal recognition of the right to nationality by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But now, nearly 50 years later, an estimated 11 million people are suffering from statelessness—without the right to participate in politics, move freely, find employment, or gain access to education. On this week’s Underreported, we’ll study the fundamental rights associated with citizenship, and find out why racial and ethnic minorities from Kenya to the Dominican Republic are being denied citizenship in their own countries. Julia Harrington, the Open Society Justice Initiative's Senior Legal Officer for Equality and Citizenship, joins us along with a man and a woman who have firsthand experience with the hardships of statelessness: Adam Hussein Adam from Kenya, and Naw Htoo Paw who fled from Burma to Thailand in 2001.
Children in a Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser's best-selling exposé Fast Food Nation investigated the impact that restaurants like McDonald's and Burger King have on the waistlines and wallets of Americans. Now, he's teamed up with reporter Charles Wilson for Chew on This, a look at how the fast food industry targets children--one out of every five public schools in the US, for example, serves brand name fast food. The book is written for kids, with an emphasis on teaching them what's really in the fries and burgers they eat.
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