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Monday 13 February RNW - NEWS AND ANALYSIS FROM THE NETHERLANDS IN 10 LANGUAGES, WORLDWIDE 24/7 ON RADIO, TV AND ONLINE

The State We're In - The right to health care in a collapsed state

On air: 5 May 2009 22:00 (Photo: RNW)

In this edition of The State We're In: we report on women and girls in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The right to primary healthcare. A personal dilemma. World Press Photo and defining conflict zones. Plus, Facebook 'friends'.  
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Swat Valley, Pakistan
Educating girls

Naheed Mustafa is a Canadian journalist with family roots in northern Pakistan. She presents taped interviews she did with girls who are determined to stay in school (see photos) despite the threats, and their principal who stands behind them.

 
Peace or human rights
Yasmeen Hassan is a Pakistani lawyer with an international women's rights organization. She spent summer vacations as a girl in Swat and argues that the cost of maintaining an unjust peace with the Taliban is too great to bear, both for women and girls, as well as for international security.

 
Theme: The right to primary health care in a collapsed state

Saving Somaliland
Edna Adan Ismail (see photos below) is the daughter of a prominent doctor in Somaliland. It was always her dream to build a hospital. Seven years ago that dream was realised. She talks to Jonathan Groubert about the struggle to achieve that ambition and how keeping it going is a full time job in itself.

 
Journeying to dialysis
Jabulani Nyathi (pictured below) is doubly unfortunate. He's needed kidney dialysis for twenty years and lives in Bulaweyo in Zimbabwe where not one dialysis machine is available. He talks with Jonathan Groubert about his experience of having to make a long, gruelling journey every week to keep him alive.
 
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Dilemma
Jann McClary was a prop assistant on a film set. The big-time director wanted to film some women, not actors, doing crack. She felt it was wrong, but had a hard time building up the courage to speak her mind to him. Then one morning, she walked into work and told him. She tells Jonathan what happened afterwards.

 
Defining conflict zones
Jonathan speaks with the winner of this year's World Press Photo awards, Anthony Suau. Anthony's photo depicts an armed government official, gun drawn, going through a dishevelled room. Only he's not in a war zone. He's in America inside a house that's being repossessed. He talks to Jonathan about the nature of conflict now in the context of a shattered global economy.

 
Facebook friends
Hal Niedzviecki is based in Toronto, and now that he's in his early 40s, married with children, he's noticed that he's virtually friendless. So he cultivated virtual friendships on Facebook, and found out that they were, well, virtual.
   
 

  • Edna Adan Ismail<br>&copy; Photo: RNW - http://www.rnw.nl/english
  • Edna Adan Ismail and nurses<br>&copy; Photo: RNW - http://www.rnw.nl/english
  • Jabulani Nyathi<br>&copy; Photo: RNW - http://www.rnw.nl/english
  • Swat valley school - attendance register blackboard<br>&copy; Photo: RNW - http://www.rnw.nl/english
  • Swat valley - terrain<br>&copy; Photo: RNW - http://www.rnw.nl/english
  • Yasmeen Hassan<br>&copy; Photo: RNW - http://www.rnw.nl/english
  • Hal of Toronto - finding &#039;friends&#039; on Facebook <br>&copy; Photo: RNW - http://www.rnw.nl/english
  • American policeman inside a repossessed house<br>&copy; Photo: World Press Photo/Anthony Suau - http://www.worldpressphoto.org/

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