Laura Stek went to Haiti to focus on the work of a famous photographer. But going to Haiti quickly became about more than the person taking photographs, as she observed and experienced what is and isn’t going on in terms of the Haitian post earthquake recovery.
Presenting a new program from citizenreporter.org, The Citizen Reporter Weekly News Review, which aims to go over global news stories with the help of guests in different corners of the planet. This week being our first attempt at it, my guests are Bente Kalsnes in Norway and Atul Chitnis in Bangalore.
We cover:
The Earthquake in Haiti
Google and China
Laws against Homosexuality in Uganda
Ukrainian Elections
Fast Food tax in Romania
Copyright law changes in India
Public data portals online in Scandinavia, UK, US and beyond.
Please don’t bother commenting about the audio problems, I’ve listened many times and I know where its bad, Im working on this issue, but its a new program, so this will take time to get right.
Our returning champion of humanitarian work, Mr. Tarak, joins us to discuss what is happening on the ground in Haiti as the country struggles to deal with extreme weather and a humanitarian disaster.