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The transition to a sustainable economy needs effective representation in order to be fair. The Federation of Young European Greens offers a space for youth voices to be amplified. In this episode I had a chat with Luca Guidi, who is running as co-spokesperson for the FYEG.

Food is deeply interlinked with community building, offering opportunities for socialization and encouraging the creation of patterns of co-dependency and cultural exchange. We discussed this with Buddhist Nun Bop Yo Sunim.

Food makes you homesick quick. In a very chaotic episode featuring Kenza, Fede and Elias, we talked about how our eating habits have changed and what we miss from home. We also cover extensively the relation of Fede with his hamster.

We are all critical towards social media, but we can't live without them. We discussed about this paradox, and some solutions to it.

We all live Seoul in different ways, finding our own spaces and rituals within it. Today, we talk about those spaces with Cerni and Andrew.

When chat GPT came, we all panicked : the age of machine superiority had finally come. Now, after a few months, we have a more realistic sense of what AI can do, and what are its limits. From cheating to boosted productivity and emotional support : we talk about the potential of AI in education and love realtions with Tori and Su from South Korea.

When you have a two months long break and you are based in Seoul there is one thing you do : travel! Today Juliette, Marcos and Martin share with us their experiences, their "oh I am going to die" moments and ofcourse some tips on how to make the best out of your trip. Because we are getting cooler and cooler, we even added games to the show now (sheeesh!).

One thing Korea is know for is it's high beauty standard, and that is for a reason. Tune in to learn more about how Tao and Catylin learned to engage with the different estetic expectations placed on them here, and how that has affected their style and self perception.

Drake the type of guy to enter in a “no I love you more” fiight with his girlfriend while talking on the phone. To avoid making such rookie mistakes, we asked Julia and Anna to explain us how to have a successful long distance relationship. Tune in to learn more :)

For those of you who have already traveled abroad, you know what a pain it can be to take care of all the administrative procedures with VISA, travel authorizations and paperwork, especially when going to a place that is more or less far from your home. Today we dive into those challenges with Mads and bAndrew (the b is silent) hoping to come up with some good tips as well.

One of the hardest parts of moving into a new city is integrating into the local community. This is even more challenging if you are in a big metropolis and you don't speak the language. As a result, you might end up in bubbles that are too thick to burst. Having been in Seoul for quite some time, Nolan and Mackenzie share their thoughts about meeting new people as international students in a foreign country.

Or is it? In this episode we talk about sports and university-life with two very sporty people and one impostor (it's up to you to figure out who is who). Enjoy!

When you move out for university, you might end up sharing an apartment with friends, for better or for worse. We're here to learn from your experience living with people who aren't your family: whether you get along dealing with chores, if you spend a lot of time together, etc. Come listen to Mason and Emma as they trash talk on their roomies!

Who is the friend you turn to when you want to eat a nice dinner? Who's that one person you can count on to have good advice on the dish you're making? Today, Maud will offer her perspective on cooking, so you can be inspired to be the chef for your next dinner! Tune in to see what they have to bring to the table.

With a combination of quantitative data analysis and qualitative first-hand accounts, Friedman and Laurison unveiled the complexity of meritocracy beyond the promises of political rhetoric. Shedding light on the prevalent class pay gap in the U.K., where one's socioeconomic background largely influences one's career choices and trajectory, we come to discover the Bourdieusian mechanism of elite class reproduction. Check out the episode to find out more about the class ceiling. Image credit: The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to be Privileged, Friedman, S., & Laurison, D. (2020). The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/07/the-class-pay-gap-why-it-pays-to-be-privileged Dialogues Économiques https://www.dialogueseconomiques.fr/en/article/glass-ceiling-academia-when-women-hurt-their-career-success

What are some of the best advice you can give to us 1st year students going into the 2nd year of our college life?

Date, hook-up, lover, partner, etc. Love and its derivatives are quite everywhere in our daily lives. During our university years, we have and most probably will experience relationships going beyond friendship. Is the dating culture in our international environment different from your home country's? Are sexy looks really that effective? Lian (from Singapore) and Alberto (from Italy) will gladly share their thoughts about their experiences.

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, written by David Landes and published in 1998, provides a contentious take on the reason behind Europe's economic take-off by the end of the Middle Ages. Through a comparative approach, Landes boldly claimed that historically unique cultural values of curiosity, novelty, and property protection empowered European society and propelled it to global dominance. Tune in to this episode of Inkling and find out whether you should read Landes. (An Easter egg awaits at the very end.)

There is a version of college that each person has conjured up in their minds. Perhaps you were expecting a huge campus, parties every weekend, a secret poet society, a chill schedule and eating pain au chocolat for breakfast- perhaps the latter is mostly true (your secret is safe with us). Nonetheless, we all have a different perspective and take on what college means to us now that we have finally made the move from adolescence to adulthood. Dive into the podcast to hear Zaheer and Pavithran talk about their experiences from mental health to their idealized version of college and everything in between!

Parties are an essential aspect of student life. They help us get rid of stress and pressure, and construct social contact. When noticing differences between parties of people of the same nationality, we wondered what it would be like for an international student to discover another culture when changing countries. How does the party experience differ from one country to another? We talked about this with Rameen and Pedro, two international students.

Breaking down the key ideas of one of the most famous works in recent years, Piketty's Capital in the 21st century, we'll look at how wealth and income inequality has surged in the past decades. What do these changes imply for the system of meritocracy and people's social mobility? What does Piketty propose to do to counter the rising social and economic inequality? Tune in to the first episode of Inkling, a brand new and ambitious book review programme in search of the good life in good writing.

As we have moved away from our friends and family for university, which often implied going to a different country, we have begun to notice changes in our behavior, mentality, approach to life, etc. When visiting our hometown and its people, we might have found this change has affected our relationships with our friends and family who we left behind. We talk about this with Brennan, Jahnvi and Ugo (respectively Singaporean, Indian and Belgian) who have moved here in Le Havre to study at SciencesPo.

The military junta in Myanmar seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. Since then, military authorities have cracked down on protests and dissent, killing some 1,269 people and arresting more than 10,000, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, an advocacy group monitoring the situation. Rights of citizens were suddenly suspended and free speech became a dangerous road to tread upon. The numbers of journalists arrested vary, going from at least forty seven and into potential hundreds. The American journalist Danny Fenster, who recently made it back home from behind Burmese bars was one of the lucky few who have been able to escape the tyranny that Myanmar finds itself in.

The international human rights law protects and defends human rights which are premised on the fundamental right to life. However, a right to a dignified life does not seem to include a right to a dignified end. More controversial is whether doctors or anyone else has the right to make medically informed decisions about whether death would serve some terminally ill patients better than trying to keep them alive, and how such decisions will transform societies. All these debates were put to the foreground of American society in 1915, when doctor Haiselden allowed a deformed newborn to die.

The Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated while at the Saudi Consulate of Istanbul on October 2, 2018. Despite being close to the Saudi royalty, and even maintaining a friendship with Osama bin Laden, he progressively drifted apart from their mentality and entertained pro-democracy ideas. Although now solved, his case remains controversial to this day.

Writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga received in 2021 the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. Her artistic work and her activism emphasized the mechanism of oppression, linked with gender, colonialism and racism intrinsic to the Zimbabwean society.

A migrant domestic worker who came to Lebanon when she was a teenager faced extreme abuse at the hands of her employers for over 10 years. From having her salary withheld to being cut-off from having contact with the outside world, Sajita Lama is one of many abused domestic workers in Lebanon that was inhumanely treated and is still currently seeking justice for the atrocities committed against her.

This entire podcast is devoted to raising awareness on human rights abuses happening across the world to people of all origins and nationalities. We've seen abuses in the likes of countries such as Malaysia, Ethiopia, Egypt and the US. We dream of a future of social and political justice, but who can hold these states accountable, and on what basis?

About 21,000 women and girls from northern Myanmar were forced into marriage in just one province of China from 2013 to 2017. These women and girls are usually tricked by brokers who promise well-paid employment across the border in China where they are sold for around 3000 to 13000 dollars to Chinese families seeking a daughter-in-law for their adult son. Seng Moon became one such trafficked bride when she was 16. She had a son with her ‘husband' and escaped back to Myanmar 2 years later. The trauma of forced marriage, rape, and separation from their children with their buyer-husbands mark survivers for their lives.

“A man once told me that to be a leader in this country, one needs to carry a coffin at all times.” Such is the current state of dangerosity human rights defenders and social leaders face in Colombia. The once praised 2016 peace accord passed between the government and the biggest armed group of the country proves meaningless as massacres rose, leaving once again the country in chaos and bloodbath, as the state is rendered powerless. LINK: https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/02/10/left-undefended/killings-rights-defenders-colombias-remote-communities?fbclid=IwAR0-ZVo2klWfbWtBH3CgG00kMjRLSuis7xndKF86ibgv2Xm7CHwMcb7V4KE

You're scrolling through instagram on a lazy evening and you come across Rania, your classmate, announcing online that she is planning to visit home for a while and asking her followers what medicines they need that she could bring back from France. She asks you and her friends from university for donations, anything, and you wonder what kind of home she must be flying back to. This is the reality for Lebanese people worldwide: expats and visitors scrambling to send back resources and medication to their struggling friends and family, and even strangers, back home in Lebanon. It could seem that the country is running on the charity of its sizable diaspora, which is only growing by the day as masses of Lebanese are emigrating to what they hope is a brighter future. How are the patients in Lebanon coping, and what can be done for them?

The famously proclaimed father of democracy in Hong Kong finds himself behind bars today. Martin Lee is the eighty-two-year-old barrister-politician who has been convicted, just like other prominent faces from the city, for the pro-democracy protests of August 2019. But how did he get here? Why did he come out of political retirement? How did the star of Hong Kong struggle for democratic values end up facing charges?

Criminal justice in the US

Ever since the 2013 coup in Egypt, an increase in the harassment of journalists, bloggers, activists and now TikTok content creators posed the question of discrimination, especially since the targetted people are almost all women. While the government is accused of constantly monitoring the way women are represented in media (cinema, TV, and other arts), TikTok video makers are accused of promoting values contradicting those of the family. LINK: https://www.change.org/p/free-egypt-s-tiktok-women

He was a cow's milk trader and father of two. What was initially supposed to be aiding the police at Gombak Police Station into the whereabouts of his brother turned into a 12 day lock up, followed by a sudden admittance into the Intensive Care Unit at Selayang Hospital. Mysteriously, five days later- Ganapathy is pronounced dead. What happened? Who were the perpetrators? Was justice served?

Win Htet Oo, a promising and talented swimmer, withdrew from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to protest against the military coup in Myanmar, responsible for a repression that killed over a thousand people. The IOC, which didn't answer any of his petitions, is accused of letting perpetrators of crimes against humanity compete under their neutrality principle.

Evergrande is China's second largest real estate developer and its revenue accounts for 2% of China's GDP. Recently a credit crunch (which basically means a lack of cash) has made anxious investors worried about the bets they took in the company with their lifelong savings. The crisis came about both due to over-borrowing and a blunt state intervention to ward off an industrial crush. But countless consumers will soon find themselves trapped in decisions that they did not know they made.

Aafia Siddiqui, also known under the name ‘Lady Al-Qaeda' for her potential affiliation with the group, was imprisoned in 2010 for 86 years. Strangely enough, none of the charges against her included being a terrorist. This complex case was highly debated because of the different versions of the story each party claimed as the truth. LINK https://www.dawn.com/news/1641831

In this episode of Write the Wrongs, we will focus on Gurnam Singh Chnaduni, a farmer who has become an important representative of the anger of the farmer population of India. Indeed, new farm laws are not accepted by an important part of the population, leading to huge protests all over the country.

Kris Wu is the most influential Chinese celebrity to face criminal charges since the global #MeToo root in China in 2018. The story of the young Ms Du marked sparked a new wave in the movement, with the country's netizens wrapped in a very polarized debate.

In war-torn Afghanistan, history repeats itself. In 2021, as in 1996, the situation of women is threatened by the Taliban forces. Learn more about Zahra Joya, a journalist who through her work, fights against the discrimination of women in her country. Some ressources: - after-the-taliban-takeover-will-an-all-female-afghan-news-site-survive 36_Zahra-Joya.pdf - https://chuffed.org/project/reporting-on-issues-that-affect-afghan-women-is-expensive-rukhshana-media-needs-your-help Writers: Kaya and Isis Speaker: Mason Producer: Morinne

This episode is the sixth in a March series that has continued to April tackling heavy topics uniting cultures, the one dealing with growing up, the notions associated and social expectations associated with this phase ineveryone's lives.

This episode covers the historical snapshot behind the current violence and conflict between the Protestant loyalists and the Catholic nationalists in Northern Ireland, and how this troubled past is defining the future of the younger generation. Featuring Paul Brady's 'The Island'.

In this episode of Write the Wrongs, we explore the humanitarian, political and human-rights aspects of the sudden surge in illegal migration along the US-Mexico border as well as the reaction of the current and previous US administrations to this domestic crisis and their major shortcomings in addressing this situation.

This episode is the sixth in a March series that has continued to April tackling heavy topics uniting cultures, the one dealing with religion, the way it affects your life and the community you are part of it.

Welcome to the last episode on the topic of pornography. In it we navigate the often contradictory studies on its influence on the image of women in our society. Is pornography just another tool of the patriarchy? Find out listening to this episode!

This episode continues looking at war crimes taking place in Ethiopia, but this time from an international intervention approach. We looked at international bodies such as the UN and Amnesty International's responses, as well as briefly noting the Biden administration and the neighbouring regional countries' actions.

This episode is the fifth in a March series that has continued to April tackling heavy topics uniting cultures, this one dealing with sexuality, sexual relations, and sexual orientations.

Among the many ways that Covid-19 has wreaked havoc across the globe, an increase in domestic and intra-family violence has been observed in many countries during periods of confinement. The share of domestic violence reports filed by third parties - like friends, neighbours, or even pedestrians - have been on the rise. This reminds us of our civic responsibilities in such exceptional times to watch out for one another and voice out on behalf of the victims. Tune in to find out more!

Like many people today, you might be a consumer of pornographic media. Have you ever wondered about the consequences of such use, especially if it is a regular one? Listen to this first episode on the topic of pornography to discover more about how it might affect our/your sexual relationships!

As one of the recurrent topics rooted in American history, racial issues have once again been brought to light by the current international context. Whereas the memory of George Floyd and precedent victims is still fresh, the Asian community in the United States is threatened by a rise of xenophobia, racism and discrimination. In today's episode of Write the Wrongs, we are discussing this characteristic of American society under the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic.