Some Muslim countries have tried to introduce the concept of Islamic Human Rights. The Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam, provides an overview on the Islamic perspective on human rights, and affirms Islamic law (Shari'ah) as its sole source. This episode looks at the abuses on both sides, including the conflict in Algeria that pits an authoritarian government against an insurgent Islamist movement. Independent producer Susan Mazur goes behind...

After World War I, Belgium took control of Rwanda from a defeated Germany and promoted the rule of the Tutsi tribe over the entire country. The 1959 Rwandan Revolution saw Hutu activists force more than 100,000 Tutsi into neighboring countries. Violence began again when the country gained its independence in 1962. The repression continued for decades, but economic growth lessened the violence. Over 100 days in 1994, the Rwandan Genocide killed 500,000...

Featuring American journalist and NPR and PBS foreign correspondent, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, this classic program examines human rights in the African nation of Somalia.

This episode of the Green Interview features lawyer Polly Higgins, who in 2010 proposed to the United Nations that a law of Ecocide to be classed as the 5th Crime Against Peace. She defines ecocide as the “extensive damage, destruction to or loss of ecosystems of a given territory, whether by human agency or by other causes, to such an extent that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of that territory has been severely diminished." The term inhabitants...