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Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Fight for Human Rights
UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein; Yoichi Funabashi former Editor-in-Chief of Asahi Shimbun on US-Japanese relations; and author Ahdaf Soueif on Egypt post Arab Spring.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, on what he sees as the dangers to the current human rights consensus; Yoichi Funabashi, the former Editor-in-Chief of Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper, on US-Japanese relations after the end of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal; plus foreign correspondent Mike Thomson’s report on Egypt six years post Arab Spring and the thoughts of the Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif.
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