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The program consists of a report on politically inspired violence threatening the transition to a multi-racial democracy; an interview with Judge Richard Goldstone, the head of the judicial commission, which revealed a conspiracy at senior levels of South Africa's security forces to sabotage the transition to majority rule; excerpts from Mama Awethu, a film by Bethany Yarrow about women in South Africa; and a music video of a multi-racial group singing "Freedom Charter," a song about the struggle to end apartheid.

The program consists of segments on the former Soviet Republic of Tajikistan, where the civil war has taken an estimanted 50,000 lives and has resulted in summary execution, disappearances, and ethnic strife; Father Ricardo Rezende and his work defending poor, landless peasants in the Brazilian Amazon; Peacewatch, an ongoing chronicle of the global effort to define peacemanking an to examine the interplay of conflict resolution and human rights; forced labor in Burma; the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Awards; and excerpts form Chelyabinsk: The Most Contaminated Spot on the Planet, and an interview with Slawomir Grunberg on the relationship between human rights and the environment.

The program consists of segments on Clinton's human rights policies; an interview with former US President, Jimmy Carter; and reports from Sarajevo, Sri Lanka, and Bombay, India.

The program consists of segments on the lack of media independence in post-communist Hungary where broadcast media came under attack by the government for its "liberal bias"; commentary by Andrew Tyndall on how the media covers itself; the growing number of journalists who are killed while on assignment; the world's most unusual radio station, Belgrade's B-92, which mixes music with anti-war activism in Serbia's Capital.

The program consists of segments on the media's shrinking coverage of international news and its impact on human rights with an interview with media analyst Noam Chomsky and a look at the role of new tools and technologies--low cost video cameras, computers, and the internet--in human rights activism, a phenomenon which some have termed "weapons of mass communication."

The program consists of segments on the status of the UN's human rights mandate in light of its Peacekeeping Operations in Bosnia, Somalia, and El Salvador; an interview with Kofi Annan, Under-Secretary-General of UN Peacekeeping Operations; an interview with Anna Deavere Smith, writer, performer, social commentator, and star of her own one woman show, "Twilight: Los Angeles 1992"; Hungary's nationalist movement; and the Black Audio Film Collective's examination of Black and Afro-Caribbean experience in the United Kingdom.

The program consists of an extended excerpt from the documentray Yellow Wasps, directed by Ilan Ziv and produced by Rory O'Connor, examines ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia through a war crimes trial of a Serbian para-military group called "Yellow Wasps" and jounalists and survivors relating their personal experiences.