PRI: America Abroad
Summary: America Abroad is the only hour-long international affairs documentary on public radio today. Anchored by public radio hosts Katherine Lanpher and Ray Suarez, this monthly program covers global challenges ranging from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the European debt crisis, to the global fight against HIV/AIDS.
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Podcasts:
Audiences in Washington D.C. and Kabul discuss how women's lives have changed post-Taliban rule and ask if their rights and interests are now being sacrificed in the name of security.
Iran has solid footholds in Iraq, Lebanon, and Gaza. And it's eyeing potential openings across the Arab world. From Riyadh to Washington, alarms are sounding.
The growing role of Islamic aid groups in development and disaster relief.
With financial turmoil plunging European states into panic and dividing the continent, the European Union is in search of a new narrative.
NGOs, nations and international organizations have succeeded in treating millions already infected with HIV, but stemming the spread is a much tougher case.
The referendum in Southern Sudan on whether their homeland should remain part of greater Sudan or split-off and create Africa's newest nation.
Young Arab activists fight to express themselves as their governments find better ways to outflank them.
The explosion aboard the USS Cole on October 12, 2000 killed seventeen sailors and wounded dozens more. Sailors aboard the ship and their families tell their stories about surviving the attack.
At best, unemployment and flagging Arab economies lead to a generation of bored and frustrated youth. At worst, economic conditions create a breeding ground for extremism and instability.
The economic ties that bind the US and Mexico are not all above board escalating drug violence is fueled by the steady stream of narcotics, guns and money that crisscross the US-Mexican border every day.
Growing up is hard to do, and for young Arabs, it can be a nightmare. They live in a seething cauldron of tribal, national, religious, social, economic and political forces that simultaneously pull east and west.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, medical missionaries carry the cross of a country riddled with disease. They provide some of the best healthcare in Africa, but sometimes doctrine overrules doctor's orders leaving patients in limbo.
The question remains whether Iraq will be a stable, sovereign state that can stand on its own.
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