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Paul Talks ScienceHow Economics Drives Safer ChemistryIn this special episode of Paul Talks Science—the first in a series recorded during my visit to the Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) at the University of Massachusetts Lowell—I sit down with TURI Director Baskut Tuncak to unpack how economics is playing a pivotal role in driving safer chemical practices. We explore the Institute's origins, the real-world impact of the Toxics Use Reduction Act, and how businesses are shifting away from hazardous substances—not because they're forced to, but because it makes economic sense. Baskut also reflects on his global work as a UN Spe...
2025-07-0722 min
All Things ChemicalToxics and Human Rights — A Conversation with Baskut Tuncak, Director of TURIThis week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Baskut Tuncak, newly named Director, Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI), at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Baskut is a lawyer and former research chemist with a truly distinguished and fascinating career in a diverse range of public and private sector roles in toxics issues. Baskut most recently served as the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights. In our conversation, Baskut explains the role of rapporteur to the UN and outlines for us his goals as Director of TURI, one of three agencies implementing the Massachusetts...
2022-02-1748 min
Podcast Alla TubaPodcast Alla Tuba: Müzisyen Umut PiêraPodcast Alla Tuba'nın Haziran ayı konuğu, bağlama sanatçısı Umut Piêra. Ödüllü Kavpersaz ekibinin de üyesi olan Piêra, aynı zamanda Köln'deki müzik okulu Rheinische Musikschule'de öğretmenlik yapıyor. Kendisi ile yaptığımız, sanattan, eğitime samimi ve içerikli söyleşimize buyrun! Yorumlarınız, bizleri ayrıca sevindirir. Umut Piêra'nın Youtube kanalı: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheUmutY...KAVPERSAZ'ın resmi internet sayfası: http://www.kavpersaz.com/ *Podcast Alla Tuba, kar amacı gütmeyen ToL Akademie gUG'nin bir kültür hizmetidir. www.tol-akademie.eu
2021-06-0534 minPodcast Alla TubaPodcast Alla Tuba IV (TR): Yazar Orhan BahtiyarPodcast Alla Tuba IV
Konuk: Tarihsel-kurgu romanlari ile ünlü yazar Orhan Bahtiyar
2021-05-0843 minPodcast Alla TubaAlla Tuba III mit Tony Lioatta (deutsch)Neue (deutschsprachige) Folge mit einem Preisträger, dem Gewinner des Deutschen Rock-& Pop-Preises: Tony Liotta ist ein weltberühmter Schlagzeuger und Dozent. Mit meinem Gast haben wir über seine Musik, internationalen Wurzeln, sein nächstes Livestream-Konzert und sein neues Buch gesprochen.
2021-04-0320 minPodcast Alla TubaAlla Tuba II: Enver Yalcin Özdiker (Deutsch)Mein Gast ist dieses Mal ein Musiker, der in verschiedenen Musikwelten unterwegs ist. Nach seiner Opernausbildung in der Türkei hat er an der Folkwang Universität in Essen Komposition studiert. Enver Yalcin Özdiker leitet den Nefes Chor und das Ensemble, komponiert für verschiedene Klassische Orchester transkulturelle Musikstücke, singt Rock- und Popsongs. In unserem Gespräch haben wir uns über seine Musik unterhalten und einige Kostproben angehört. Zum Schluss singt er ein Coverlied von Sebnem Ferah mit seiner Ehefrau Elif Yalcin zusammen. Viel Freude beim Zuhören!
2021-03-1309 minPodcast Alla TubaAlla Tuba II: Enver Yalcin Özdiker (Türkce)Müzisyen, besteci Enver Yalcin Özdiker ile Türkce sohbetimiz. Keyifli Dinlemeler!
2021-03-1317 minPodcast Alla TubaAlla Tuba I: Matthias Witt zu ALTIN GÜNKulturanthropologe Matthias Witt ist ein Fan von ALTIN GÜN. Er spielt Kontrabass und Baglama, koordiniert interkulturelle Musikprojekte an der Landesmusikakademie NRW. Warum er ALTIN GÜN so gerne hört, hat er mir erzählt.
2021-02-2308 min
Podcast Alla TubaPodcast Alla Tuba (1): Merve DasdemirPODCAST ALLA TUBA
Konuk:
Merve Dasdemir (ALTIN GÜN)
Keyifli dinlemeler!
2021-02-2010 min
Podcast Alla TubaPodcast Alla TubaMerhaba!
Podcast Alla Tuba 20.02.2021'de bu kanalda! Kaliteli, samimi sohbetler ve ünlü konuklarlarla.
Sunucu: Tuba Tuncak
2021-02-1700 min
Notícias Brasil de Fato MGJornada de Lutas marca os cinco anos do rompimento da barragem em Mariana (MG)O rompimento da barragem de Fundão, em Mariana (a 75km de Belo Horizonte), da mineradora Samarco - controlada pela Vale e BHP Billiton - completa cinco anos no próximo dia 5 de novembro. O Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (MAB) acompanha as vítimas desde os primeiros momentos e, para marcar a data, decidiu denunciar as violações que aconteceram desde então com a promoção da Jornada de Lutas "Vale com a injustiça nas mãos: 5 anos sem reparação na Bacia do Rio Doce”. A programação tem início hoje (5) e segue até 5 de novembro, com seminá...
2020-10-0703 min
On Human RightsHuman Rights Defenders and the Role of BusinessThis episode of ’On Human Rights’ features the full length seminar on the role of business in the violation and protection of human rights. The discussion took place at this year’s Mr-Dagarna (human rights days) in Stockholm, Sweden and was a collaboration between the Raoul Wallenberg Intstitute, Forum Syd, Swedwatch, Diakonia, Amnesty International, Naturskyddsföreningen (Swedish Society for Nature Conservation), Afrikagrupperna and FIAN Sverige.
Frances Quimpo Dungueto, Baskut Tuncak, Jakob Kiefer, and Luisa Book discuss the dangers of being a human rights defender and how business have the potential to directly and indirectly influence human rights practices. RWI’s Stockholm...
2018-12-121h 00
On Human RightsWhat Do Toxics Have To Do With Your Human Rights?The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and hazardous substances and wastes, Baskut Tuncak, joins us for our latest episode of “On Human Rights.”
“Toxic pollution is quite possibly, very likely, the leading cause of premature preventive death in the world, so the World Health Organization estimates that it’s almost 13 million people per year who die prematurely from diseases that are linked to an unhealthy environment,” he says.
His work is informally known as the UN Human Rights Council’s mandate on "toxics.” Tuncak is a visiting scholar at American University's Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. He is also an...
2017-10-0421 min
The Scottish Independence PodcastScotIndyPod 158 - How Bad & Incompetent The UK Government Is"In the case of Brexit, I heard assurances throughout the course of the mission and yesterday at the human rights council from the government that Brexit would not lower protection from environmental threats. However, I also heard, or actually did not hear any clear assurances of how that would be the case. There have been statements from members of government saying that existing laws will be maintained WHEREVER PRACTICAL AND DESIRABLE, which I find very worrying." The 158th episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast features a talk given at the UN by Baskut Tuncak. The report was about...
2017-09-3027 min
Radio EncuentrosEdición Especial: Pueblos Indígenas y Acuerdos ComercialesEn esta edición especial de Radio Encuentros brindamos una entrevista que realizamos con representantes de países de nuestra América en el marco del Seminario Internacional “Tratados de Inversión, megaproyectos e impactos sobre los derechos de los pueblos indígenas” realizado el 25 y 26 de abril en Lima, Perú. Este encuentro reunió a representantes indígenas y de la sociedad civil de países de América Latina, África, Asia y Oceanía. Además, contó las exposiciones de los Relatores de la ONU, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Relatora Especial sobre Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas, y Bastuk Tuncak, Rela...
2016-05-2328 min
Pistas de ServindiRespuestas y mensajes finales de Relatores ONU y CIDH en foro público en LimaVictoria Tauli-Corpuz, Relatora Especial de la ONU sobre los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas, Baskut Tuncak, Relator Especial sobre Residuos Tóxicos de la ONU, y Francisco Eguiguren, Relator de la CIDH sobre los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas, cierran su participación en foro público: Acuerdos de libre comercio, Inversiones y Pueblos indígenas. Fecha: 26 de abril de 2016, en Lima. Más información aquí: http://goo.gl/W32UrZ
2016-04-2826 min
Pistas de ServindiPreguntas del público a Relatores de la ONU y la CIDHPreguntas del público a Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Relatora Especial de la ONU sobre los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas, Baskut Tuncak, Relator Especial sobre Residuos Tóxicos de la ONU, y Francisco Eguiguren, Relator de la CIDH sobre Pueblos Indígenas. Evento: Foro público en Lima: Acuerdos de libre comercio, Inversiones y Pueblos indígenas. Fecha: 26 de abril de 2016. Más información aquí: http://goo.gl/W32UrZ
2016-04-2818 min
Pistas de ServindiMensaje de Relatores de la ONU y de la CIDH ante auditorio en LimaIntervenciones de Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Relatora Especial de la ONU sobre los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas, Baskut Tuncak, Relator Especial sobre Residuos Tóxicos de la ONU, y Francisco Eguiguren, Relator de la CIDH sobre Pueblos Indígenas. Evento: Foro público en Lima: Acuerdos de libre comercio, Inversiones y Pueblos indígenas. Fecha: 26 de abril de 2016. Más información aquí: http://goo.gl/W32UrZ
2016-04-2818 min
Pistas de ServindiLideresas indígenas y Relator CIDH saludan al público en foro sobre inversiones y pueblos indígenasGladis Vila Pihue y Ketty Marcelo López, ex presidenta y presidenta de la Onamiap, respectivamente, saludan en representación de los pueblos originarios de Perú, la presencia de Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Relatora Especial de la ONU sobre los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas, Baskut Tuncak, Relator Especial sobre Residuos Tóxicos de la ONU, y Francisco Eguiguren, Relator de la CIDH sobre Pueblos Indígenas. Seguidamente, este último saluda al auditorio. Evento: Foro público en Lima: Acuerdos de libre comercio, Inversiones y Pueblos indígenas. Fecha: 26 de abril de 2016. Más información aquí: http://goo.gl/W32UrZ
2016-04-2806 min