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Each week, experts go head to head with each other and with listeners from around the world, as Barry Thorne or Fiona Campbell puts your comments and questions to the panel.

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Below, you'll find the latest editions of the programme, with links to listen to each one.


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Times and frequencies

 

 

Another export

Attempting to assess the scale of the global trade in human beings is a tall order. Equally difficult is finding the right way to tackle it.

 

Justice or reparations?

In the ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, sexual violence is being used as a weapon of war. A panel grapples with the question of what can be done to stop the rapes and to provide justice to the victims.

 

Money makes the world go round?

Does giving aid to the poor end poverty? Not according to controversial American economist William Easterly. He argues that Western charity actually makes the problems of the world's poorest people worse.

 

Judging Justice

This week's discussion is inspired by the award-winning documentary 'Rule of Law'. One of the questions the film asks is: Can local cultures offer anything to international law?

 

Buy, buy happiness

Advertisers and economists tell us to keep shopping. Anti-consumerist groups tell us to shop less. Fair trade shops tell us to shop fair. Who's right? Amsterdam Forum investigates.

 

Growing pains

What are the pros and cons of migrant life in Europe versus the Gulf region?

 

Dreaming of forgiveness

What happens to child soldiers when they return to their communities after the war?

 

Fat chance

The World Health Organisation reckons 300 million people are obese, and within ten years that figure will more double. But is it so bad to be fat?

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