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31/10/2018 GMT

The Great Unravelling: Human Rights

The Great Unravelling

BBC World Service - The Compass, The Great Unravelling, The Great Unravelling: Human Rights

Is the world order that was forged after WW2 unravelling?

In early August 1941 Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met on a US flagship off Newfoundland and drew up The Atlantic Charter. It laid the foundations of an international system that has been in place ever since. But is it now under unbearable strain? 

Has the international human rights machinery worked? What about the global human rights movement? Many believe we are now at a crisis point, with populism and the rise of China both challenging the project. Others think the human rights movement is itself partly to blame.


Journalist and former barrister Afua Hirsch talks to a wide range of international lawyers, historians and thinkers and asks if the world order forged after World War Two is coming apart.

Presenter: Afua Hirsch
Producer: Lucy Bailey

(Photo: Illustration of a knitted ball resembling Earth unravelling. Credit: Nadia Akingbule)

The Compass: The Great Unravelling

Is the world order that was forged after World War II unravelling?

Is the world order that was forged after World War II unravelling? The journalist and former barrister Afua Hirsch talks to a wide range of international lawyers, historians and thinkers and asks if the world order forged after WWII is coming apart.

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