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Almost every UN member country has signed covenants to guarantee human rights. 
But what happens when there’s a clash of rights, such as personal identity versus religious liberty? 
Some battles end in the courts but official human rights agencies are trying to balance these claims. 
The Templeton Foundation is funding a $1.2 million global study of the issue. 
GUEST:
Queensland University law professor Nicholas Aroney is project leader.

“The scale and suddenness of this flood have left many families facing immense uncertainty and hardship.” says Roslyn Gabriel, World Vision’s National Director in Nepal. The death toll from the floods that have swept the border region between Nepal and Chinese-controlled Tibet continues to rise, along with the intense rescue effort. But Nepal must also rebuild the villages in the path of the flood or rehouse people who’ve moved to the capital, Kathmandu. Hundreds of children have also reportedly been made orphans.
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Almost every UN member country has signed covenants to guarantee human rights. But what happens when there’s a clash of rights, such as personal identity versus religious liberty? Some battles end in the courts but official human rights agencies are trying to balance these claims. The Templeton Foundation is funding a $1.2 million global study of the issue. 
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It’s five years since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, erasing, almost overnight, the human rights gained in the previous 20 years. A western occupation had its problems – a Brown University study found it cost allied powers around $2 trillion – but for two decades it empowered many women and girls to live as full citizens. Now they face what Afghanistan’s former human rights chief is calling a “femicide”. 
GUESTS:
Roslyn Gabriel is the National director of World Vision Nepal
Nicholas Aroney is Professor of Constitutional Law at The University of Queensland
Shaharzad Akbar is a human rights activist from Afghanistan, currently in exile and a Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford
Australians can support World Vision’s Nepal emergency appeal at the World Vision Australia website: Nepal emergency flood appeal | World Vision Australia
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“The scale and suddenness of this flood have left many families facing immense uncertainty and hardship.” says Roslyn Gabriel, World Vision’s National Director in Nepal. 
The death toll from the floods that have swept the border region between Nepal and Chinese-controlled Tibet continues to rise, along with the intense rescue effort.
But Nepal must also rebuild the villages in the path of the flood or rehouse people who’ve moved to the capital, Kathmandu. 
Hundreds of children have also reportedly been made orphans.
GUEST:
Roslyn Gabriel is the National director of World Vision Nepal based in Katmandu
Australians can support World Vision’s Nepal emergency appeal at the World Vision Australia website: Nepal emergency flood appeal | World Vision Australia

It’s five years since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, erasing, almost overnight, the human rights gained in the previous 20 years. 
A western occupation had its problems. A Brown University study found it cost allied powers around $2 trillion. 
But for two decades it empowered many women and girls to live as full citizens. 
Now they face what Afghanistan’s former human rights chief is calling a “femicide”. 
GUEST:
Shaharzad Akbar is a human rights activist from Afghanistan, currently in exile and a Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford

Twenty-five years ago – September 11, 2001 – an Islamist terror group emerged from its refuge in Afghanistan to strike down two symbols of America.