Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104.4 www.resonancefm.com Every Friday 3.30pm - 4.30pm London time (GMT) Repeated on Monday 7.00am to 8.00am Future human rights activists are taking courses on Human Rights Advocacy organised by Education Action International. They are from Yemen, Western Sahara, Tunisia, Iraq, Iran, 'Kurdistan', Palestine, The Sudan. Some of them are refugees in UK. This first part is featuring a meeting of the students with Mick Chatwin, a trainer and consultant, a solicitor who has worked for over 20 years in the area of asylum and immigration law. Formerly he is the Legal Director at the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI). And also a meeting with Lord Dubs of Battersea (Peer), House of Lords, held in Westminster.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51