PRX - Pieces for Topic: News

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

173 results


Piece image
News and features on the conflicts in Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan

  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Piece image
News and features on the conflicts in Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan

  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 04:14
Piece image
As reports of Qaddafi soldiers raping women emerge from Libya, we talk to feminist Gloria Steinem about the root causes of sexual violence against ...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 08:01
Piece image
When Congolese journalist Chouchou Namegabe first started reporting on sexual abuse in her country, the language didn't even have a word for "rape."

  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:33
Caption: Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy in Pakistan.
Acclaimed Pakistani filmmaker and journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy ("Children of the Taliban") talks with us about the insidious tactics employed b...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 09:09
Piece image
Why would a woman join an armed group? Tufts Professor Dyan Mazurana talks to us about how a cycle of violence is much more to blame for women's pa...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 06:46
Piece image
Professor Joshua Goldstein debunks the idea that biology hardwires men for fighting wars and women for staying on the sidelines on this week's podc...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 07:30
Caption: Filmmaker Julia Bacha.
Documentary filmmaker Julia Bacha takes us to the Middle East to explore the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. She talks about her new fi...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 07:15
Caption: A meeting for rape victims near Walungu, South Kivu in DRC in 2001.
For our first podcast episode, we go to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has been called the "rape capital of the world." Jocelyn Ke...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 09:39
Piece image
News and features on the conflicts in Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2011
  • Length: 07:28
Caption: 1st Battalion, 8th Marines in Afghanistan's Helmand province, Credit: Balazs Gardi
News and features on the conflicts in Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Jun 20, 2011
  • Length: 10:42
Caption: The Pentagon is building a $12 million tent city at the site of a once proposed $125 million or more military compound for staging war crimes trials at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Credit: Department of Defense
News and features from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Chinese President Hu Jintao and Afghan President Hamit Karzai at a 2010 state visit., Credit: Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images AsiaPac
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Broadcasting Legend Richard C. Hottelet
Step back in time with legendary reporter and "Murrow Boy" Richard C. Hottelet as he takes listeners from high above the beaches of Normandy down t...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2010
  • Length: 53:32
Caption: Former service members discharged under Don’t Ask Don’t Tell protest in front of the White House., Credit: Photo courtesy of the AP
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Oct 22, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: PRX default Piece image
From Don't Ask, Don't Tell 10/08/2010: War News Radio reports on opponents of the US military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2010
  • Length: 05:55
Caption: Afghan soldiers chat in front of the main office of Kabul Bank in Kabul, Afghanistan, Credit: Associated Press
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Oct 01, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: PRX default Piece image
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: PRX default Piece image
From "Warrior Writers" 8/20/2010: War News Radio reports on the Warrior Writers program, which helps US veterans channel their feelings and experie...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 07:52
Caption: PRX default Piece image
From "Endless Summer" 8/13/2010: War News Radio reports on the problems associated with the unbearable heat of summer in Iraq, and how they cope wi...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 06:31
Caption: PRX default Piece image
From "Endless Summer" 8/13/2010: War News Radio reports on the status of women in Afghanistan, how they have come to be marginalized in most aspect...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 08:05
Caption: Iraqis protest against lack of electricity and high temperatures., Credit: Photo courtesy of Reuters.
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Piece image
A rare generational discussion on the Vietnam War

  • Added: Aug 08, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: A new member of the Iraqi Parliament in Baghdad on June 14th, 2010., Credit: Photo courtesy of AP.
From "Unfinished Business" 8/6/2010: War News Radio reports on why Iraq has still not been able to produce a government 5 months after the national...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 07:23
Caption: A new member of the Iraqi Parliament in Baghdad on June 14th, 2010., Credit: Phote courtesy of AP.
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 29:00