Blind Guy Singing

This is a blind chap, singing at a gathering of organic farmers and seed traders at Vandana Shiva's biodiversity farm, Navdanya, in the foothills of the Himalayas. I think he's got a great voice. What are the lyrics of his song? I'm particularly interested in the lyrics that ilicit laughter and applause from the crowd midway through the clip.

Indian Song and Dance

Here's a traditional song and dance act performed at the Navdanya Biodiversity Farm, in the foothills of the Himalayas. What are the lyrics to their song?

Khmer Rouge Tribunal

More than thirty years have passed since the Khmer Rouge launched radical communist revolution in Cambodia. Their aim: to turn rural, "backward" Cambodia into an industrial nation in twenty years. Cambodian peasants were the tools of Pol Pot's crazed revolution. Bourgeois urban intellectuals, doctors and other professionals were the enemy, to be recruited into forced labour, starved to death or executed in the Killing Fields. Buddhist monks -- parasites in Khmer Rouge eyes -- were targeted too. About 1.7 million died in this nightmarish social experiment, put to a halt by Vietnam in December 1978. Now, a United Nations-backed tribunal is preparing to try five senior Khmer Rouge leaders. Pol Pot died in 1998 - on the eve of his handover - but five of his senior cohorts are under lock and key just outside Phnom Penh. Meanwhile, many young Cambodians are hazy about the crimes that swept their beautiful land between 1975 and 1979. Many of their parents are sceptical that the mixed international-Cambodian justice process will serve a useful purpose. Others disagree. Cambodians need to understand how and why the Khmer Rouge did what it did, they say. This documentary was produced for Radio Netherlands' program The State We're In.

Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Palestine

Al-Haq is an independent Palestinian NGO based in Ramallah, West Bank. Its mission -- to protect and promote human rights and the rule of law in occupied Palestine. I spoke with Al-Haq legal researcher Gareth Gleed. Click HERE to find out more about Al-Haq and its work.

The Legacy of Agent Orange

I remember watching Walter Cronkite report on the U.S. defoliation of Vietnam's forests. Enemy forces were hiding in the woods, he explained, as images of herbicide dusters swooping over Vietnamese jungle flickered on my TV screen. Agent Orange couldn't be good for people's health, I thought. I was right. Thirty-five years after the last plane dropped its toxic load, Vietnam continues to suffer the consequences of American chemical warfare. Vast tracts of land appear to have been destroyed forever, rural livelihoods stunted, cancers and birth defects are legion. On top of it all, dioxin "hot spots" at former U.S. airbases -- where herbicide was loaded onto planes -- are oozing poison into water bodies where people gather food.

Stranded on Bikini

Bikini Atoll is as close to the middle of nowhere as you can get. This is why the U.S. tested its nukes here, and why, when you’re on Bikini and both of Air Marshall Islands’ two airplanes have broken down, you’re stranded. Such was the case last August for six scuba divers who’d come from around the world to see Bikini’s famous ghost wrecks – scuttled by the first two of those bombs – and myself. Listen to my account, produced for the Radio Netherlands program The State We're In ("Return to Bikini," on bottom of RN's page).

Pacific Trash

Across the Pacific, small island nations are faced with a problem that grows bigger by the day: trash. Islanders have adopted western-style consumerism, with all the solid waste that comes with it, but haven’t any land to dispose of it. It’s an environmental and public health hazard of ballooning proportions. Majuro Atoll, in the Marshall Islands, has launched a waste management program that offers a solution to the garbage crisis. This story was produced for Radio Netherlands's Earthbeat.