Human Rights Around the World

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
How do other countries abide by the Geneva Conventions? As the United States debates what “degrading and humiliating treatment” means, we’ll see how other democracies with detainees set interrogation standards and why they haven’t passed the kind of law that President Bush wants, but that so troubles Colin Powell and John McCain. Also, who said what at the United Nations General Assembly; a look at the work of innovative filmmaker Shirley Clarke; and a call-in on arranged marriages.

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