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Ebola: It's not over yet

Reality Check: Dr. Kuehnel-Rouchouze returns from Liberia; Drug tests for Hungarian kids; Torture; Human Rights Day; Creativity and the internet.

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Ebola poster campaign in Liberia

Ebola

The Ebola crisis in West Africa may no longer be leading the news headlines but the disease continues to take its toll on countries in the region. Dr. Michael Kuehnel-Rouchouze has been involved in all sorts of Red Cross missions from Haiti to the aftermath of the Tsunami. He was also involved with fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone. He has just returned from his fifth mission with the Red Cross. This time he was in Liberia.

Hungary: Dope tests for Kids

A mayor from the Hungarian ruling party FIDESZ is calling for all young people between the ages of 12 and 18, all elected politicians and all journalists to undergo annual drug tests. What’s behind this latest proposal and what are the chances of it gaining parliamentary approval? We try to find out.

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Prof. Dr. Manfred Nowak

Torture

As the US releases an Intelligence Committee report on the CIA’s use of torture, we speak to the Austrian human rights lawyer Prof. Dr. Manfred Nowak, former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.

Human Rights Day

Today is World Human Rights Day. Human rights lawyer Prof. Dr. Manfred Nowak talks to Reality Check about the establishment of an interdisciplinary human rights research center at Vienna University

Wasting time on the Internet

Wasting time on the internet, boredom as a creative force, cut and paste as the legitimate literary version of the DJ remix; if this sounds like your idea of the perfect university creative writing course – but especially if it sounds like your worst nightmare – then take the time to listen to US poet Professor Kenneth Goldsmith from the University of Pennsylvania.

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