Lukashenko’s Role Aiding Putin’s War in Ukraine
Aug. 9 marks the third anniversary of the Belarus presidential elections, followed by nationwide protests and violence. Alexander Lukashenko has increasingly turned to Russia, which provided him with ...
1 Sep 20231h
The World's Most Fearless Skier -Kristen Ulmer
Kristen Ulmer is a high-performance facilitator and thought leader on fear and anxiety, drawing from her experience as the world’s most “fearless” female extreme skier for 12 years and studying Zen fo...
25 Aug 20236min
Surviving Venezuela’s Torture Chamber -Víctor Navarro (Spanish Language)
Note: This episode is recorded in Spanish. Víctor Navarro is a Venezuelan human rights activist who was arbitrarily detained in 2018 and held in El Helicoide, Venezuela’s largest and most notorious p...
18 Aug 202312min
Qatar's Whistleblowing Migrant Worker -Malcolm Bidali
Malcolm Bidali is a former Qatari migrant worker and the co-founder of Migrant Defenders, a Kenya-based civil society organization defending the rights of migrant workers in the Gulf. While in Qatar, ...
11 Aug 202313min
We Want To Live! The Voice of Ukrainian Women -Lisa Yasko
Lisa Yasko is a member of Ukrainian Parliament, the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Interparliamentary Cooperation, and the Ukrainian Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe...
4 Aug 202313min
Voices From China’s Concentration Camps (Recorded in Uyghur)
Note: This episode is recorded in Uyghur. An Uyghur survivor of China’s concentration camps, Gulbahar Haitiwaji, was tricked into returning to China in 2016 after seeking asylum; she vanished into t...
28 Jul 202316min
Democracy for Nicaragua -Félix Maradiaga
Félix Maradiaga is a Nicaraguan democracy advocate arrested in 2021 for leading a nonviolent movement against President Daniel Ortega. After being imprisoned for three years, he was forcibly exiled to...
21 Jul 202311min
Defying Authoritarianism with the Resilient Power of Democracy - Francis Fukuyama
In this episode, recorded at the 2023 Oslo Freedom Forum, American political scientist and author Francis Fukuyama discusses how democracy can be a resilient tool in denouncing authoritarianism and di...
14 Jul 202315min
