News items from Accent of Women

On the 25th of January 2011, a popular uprising of civil resistance, numbering in the millions took place across the Egypt, eventually deposing President Hosni Mobarak who had been in power for more than 30 years. Almost 1 year later, what’s happening in Egypt? On this week’s program, Part 2 of a discussion with Reham Maklad Convenor of April 6 and member of Egyptian Change association. We pick up this discussion by examining the dynamic between the muslims and the Coptic Christians in Egypt.File Download (28:22 min / 26 MB)

After the death of Kim Jung-Il, his young and inexperienced son Kim Jung-Eun takes over as leader of North Korea. The world watches nervously at this unknown leader and wonders what he is like. Linda Jakobson, the East Asia Program Director from the Lowy Institute, discusses the possibility of what Kim Jung-Eun would be like and she also talks about North Korea’s bilateral relations with its neighbours.File Download (29:48 min / 14 MB)

On today’s program, Jiselle Hanna interviews Alexandria Liberie from PAME, a trade union all workers militant front organisation in Greece, about the protests against the austerity measures.File Download (27:55 min / 13 MB)