Dec 04 The Gray Area of Gay Refugees A gay Ugandan couple fled to a Kenyan refugee camp after being disowned by their families and threatened by their community. Continue reading
Oct 10 Watch News Wrap: Americans Win Nobel for Economic Growth, Inflation Research In other news Monday, two Americans won the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics. Christopher Sims and Thomas Sargent were honored for their work in the 1970s and '80s on how government policies can affect economic growth and inflation. Also, Syrian… Continue watching
Jun 17 Watch Could Saudi Women’s Driving Protest Usher in Social Reforms? Videos posted on YouTube Friday showed several Saudi Arabian women driving in Riyadh and other cities -- a direct violation of a religious ban that prohibits women to drive a car or obtain a drivers license. Judy Woodruff discusses the… Continue watching
Jun 17 Watch Saudi Women Take the Wheel to Protest Religious Ban on Driving Some Saudi Arabian women coordinated through social media to get behind the wheel Friday in protest of a religious ban on them driving legally. Judy Woodruff reports on the women who risked arrest to fight for new rights. Continue watching
Jun 15 Watch Sri Lankan Government Accused of Human Rights Abuses Near Civil War’s End It's been just two years since some resemblance of peace returned to the island nation of Sri Lanka, with its 25-year civil war drawing to a close. But now, Britain's Independent Television News charges that government forces herded thousands of… Continue watching
Jun 07 Watch To Combat Human Rights Abuses, California Company Looks to Computer Code A California company using high-tech tools to combat human rights abuses across the globe. Continue watching
May 10 Watch U.S. Steps Up Challenge to China on Human Rights The Obama administration has stepped up criticism of China's human rights record in recent days. Judy Woodruff discusses the issue with Human Rights Watch's Phelim Kine and former President of the U.S.-China Business Council Robert Kapp. Continue watching
Jan 19 Watch Will U.S.-China Talks Reset Tone in a Competitive Relationship? Jeffrey Brown examines the undertones of the meetings between Presidents Hu and Obama with Susan Shirk of the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, George Washington University's David Shambaugh and Minxin Pei of Claremont McKenna College. Continue watching
Jan 19 Watch Obama, Hu Talk Up Cooperation, But Big Differences Persist President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao vowed Wednesday to seek common ground while acknowledging that both nations are major competitors in the world market. Jeffrey Brown has more. Continue watching
Oct 08 Watch Nobel-Winner Xiaobo ‘Stuck to His Guns’ on China’s Political Reform Two weeks after Beijing warned the committee not to do so, it awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo. Margaret Warner talks to Orville Schell, director of the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations, for more. Continue watching