This week on FP Playlist, we feature an episode from USCIRF Spotlight, procured by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. USCIRF Spotlight focuses on news and developments covering religious freedom around the world. Spotlight host Dwight Bashir, director of outreach and policy at the Commission, spoke about the ground-breaking movement by the Chinese government sanctioning two commissioners over deeming the treatment of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang province a genocide.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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China Sanctions US Religious Freedom Officials

This week, Foreign Policy Playlist recommends: The Atlas Obscura Podcast. Host Amy Mackinnon speaks with Atlas Obscura founder and host of The Atlas Obscura Podcast Dylan Thuras on travel storytelling and why certain stories go untold. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app or listen on this page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Travel Storytelling and Killing your Darlings

Foreign Policy recommends: Day X  This week, Foreign Policy Playlist plays a special episode of a new series — Day X by the New York Times. Host Amy Mackinnon speaks with Times Berlin Bureau Chief Katrin Bennhold on the infiltration of far-right extremism in Germany’s security services. Together, they take a deep dive into reporting on the subject and history of extremism in Germany.  Subscribe on your favorite podcast app or listen on this page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Extremism and the German Military

This week we highlight FP's newest limited series: Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women or HER♀ for short. As FP Analytics highlights in its new report, “Elevating Gender Equality in COVID-19 Economic Recovery, there’s a dire global child care shortage, which the pandemic only worsened. But increasing COVID-19 recovery plan investments in care work -- especially the child care sector -- would deliver greater and more sustainable stimulus than other measures, such as construction-oriented funding. Still, even if more governments better support the care sector, how does one launch high-quality, affordable child care centers in the near future?  On the premiere episode of HER♀, host Reena Ninan speaks with Kidogo Founder Sabrina Habib about how she created a new approach to franchising affordable childcare centers that has changed the lives of low-income mothers and female daycare owners in Kenya. In it, Habib describes how almost stepping on a baby in a day care center was a “moment of obligation” for her to make a difference. Then, Ninan hears about the state of early childhood development in Kenya from African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) Associate Research Scientist Patricia Wekulo.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Quality Child Care is Changing Lives for Women and Children in Kenya

Foreign Policy recommends: Hip Deep This week, Foreign Policy Playlist features Hip Deep, a podcast from Afropop Worldwide. This episode examines the influences — both political and musical — to come out of Cuba’s intervention in Angola.  Filling in for Amy Mackinnon, FP Africa Brief writer Lynsey Chutel hosts Ned Sublette, one of the producers of the episode, as they discussed these influences on Angola.  Subscribe on your favorite podcast app or listen on this page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Rhythmic Connection: Cuban Influences in Angola

In this episode of FP Playlist, we feature an episode of Deep Dish, a weekly show produced by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. This episode focuses on the increasingly competitive nature between superpowers — and others — in the Arctic region. Host Brian Hanson interviews two scholars at the intersection of Arctic policy and the superpowers that wish to rule the day. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app or listen on this page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ready, Set, Melt: The Race for Power in the Arctic

This week Foreign Policy Playlist features Ufahamu Africa, a podcast about life and politics on the African Continent. Hosts Kim Yi Dionne and Rachel Beatty Riedl introduce the podcast and one of their latest episodes which looks into the violence and unrest in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. Kim speaks with Goitom Gebreleul a researcher in international and comparative politics of the Horn of Africa at Hatèta Policy Research. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ethiopia's Violence in Tigray

In this episode of FP Playlist, host Amy Mackinnon speaks with Pascale Harter, host of From Our Own Correspondent, a BBC staple and one of Amy’s favorite podcasts. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app or listen on this page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dispatches from Around the World

As a bonus this week, we share with you another episode from Season 2 of Course Correction.. Subscribe to Course Correction here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Course Correction: Hijab Bans and French Secularism

This week we feature Global Reboot, a new podcast from Foreign Policy in partnership with Doha Forum. Global Reboot explores how to rebuild a world upended by disruptive international events. FP’s editor in chief Ravi Agrawal engages with world leaders and policy experts to identify solutions to our greatest challenges. Host Amy Mackinnon speaks with Agrawal about the series' debut episode which features US Climate Envoy John Kerry who shares his plans for fighting climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How John Kerry Plans to Tackle Climate Change

In our last Foreign Policy Playlist episode in May, we feature Vice News’ Chapo: Kingpin on Trial. It’s a miniseries that explores the impact of Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán by sharing the stories of people who were caught up in the drug war between the United States and Mexico. Episode seven of Chapo follows the violence that followed after El Chapo was arrested and extradited to the United States. FP’s Amy Mackinnon talks to Chapo’s host Keegan Hamilton about how they put together the episode and how they treated a story that affected a member of their own team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Happened After El Chapo Was Arrested?

This week we recommend Overheard at National Geographic, a podcast featuring the crazy adventures of explorers and scientists around the globe. In the episode, National Geographic photographer recounts his time living on the Arctic sea ice with Inupiaq whale hunters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Camping With Whale Hunters

This week on Foreign Policy Playlist we feature Power of the Streets, a podcast from the Human Rights Watch that talks to human rights activists working on the continent of Africa. FP’s Amy Mackinnon talks to Power of the Streets’ host Audrey Wabwire about an episode they did where they spoke to Thomars Shamuyarira a migrants rights worker in Zimbabwe about the experiences of LGBT people in South Africa’s asylum process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Working with LGBT Migrants in South Africa

In our first Foreign Policy Playlist of May, we feature The China in Africa Podcast, a show that focuses on China's engagement in the African continent. In the episode “How China Lends : A Landmark Report on Chinese Loan Contracts,” hosts Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden discuss the topic that is dominating Washington right now: how China is using its money to expand its influence around the world. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app or listen on this page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How China Lends

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