Weekend Edition 12 Jan 2013: Pristina and Phnom Penh Revisited
Personal stories from Canada (Lorraine Mallinder), Kosovo (Charmian Evans), Cambodia (Nicholas Shakespeare), Tunisia (Eileen Byrne) Greece (Andrew Bomford), Egypt (Olga Betko).
Pascale Harter introduces highlights of the week's dispatches from around the world on From Our Own Correspondent. In this edition: Lorraine Mallinder meets one of the most prominent First Nations protesters in Ottawa as the Idle No More movement demonstrates for indigenous rights; while Andrew Bomford make the acquaintance of some of Europe's liveliest and longest-lived pensioners on the Greek island of Ikaria.
Charmian Evans revisits Kosovo, which was a warzone when we left, to find many in an institute for people with disabilities still struggling to survive; Nicholas Shakespeare also retraces his steps, going back to Cambodia, where he spent some idyllic years as a child.
Eileen Byrne lives in Tunisia, and explores the cultural roots of the 'women's curfew' across the Maghreb making the streets after dark a very male space. And elsewhere in North Africa, Olga Betko reflects on just why holidaymakers from the former Soviet Union make hotel staff roll their eyes in Sharm el Sheikh...
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