A Society Gone Off the Rails?

Een Vraag Waar Je Niet Omheen Kunt:

Wat gebeurt er wanneer systemen die bedoeld zijn om eerlijkheid te waarborgen, mensen te beschermen en verantwoordelijkheid af te leggen, tekortschieten tegenover de mensen die zij zouden moeten dienen?

A Question Worth Asking

What happens when systems that are supposed to uphold fairness, protect people, and ensure accountability fail the people they are meant to serve?

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From Grenfell and the Post Office scandal to infected blood and other failures, this page examines what happens when systems fail the people they should protect.

1 When Established Institutions Struggle to Acknowledge Uncomfortable Truths

The Secret Princess: King’s love child in court battle for recognition | 60 Minutes Australia

11 okt. 2020

Game of Thrones (2020) 60 MINUTES reporter Liam Bartlett used to consider the British Royal family to be the masters – and mistresses – of scandal. Now he thinks they may have to hand over their crown to the Belgian Royal family, who have sensationally been ordered to acknowledge and recognise a brand-new princess. However, this decree is not a reason for official celebration on the streets of Brussels because, rather embarrassingly, the new royal is the 52-year-old love child of the former King, Albert II. Back in the 1960s when he was a prince, the supposedly happily married and deeply religious Albert took a long-term lover. Delphine Boel was the surprise consequence of the illicit affair. For most of her life she dutifully kept mum about her lineage, until a bitter falling out with her father changed her mind.
 
For forty years, 60 Minutes have been telling Australians the world’s greatest stories. Tales that changed history, our nation and our lives. Reporters Liz Hayes, Tom Steinfort, Tara Brown, Liam Bartlett and Sarah Abo look past the headlines because there is always a bigger picture. Sundays are for 60 Minutes.

Related stories: when questions of power, recognition, accountability, and justice become matters for society as a whole

2 When Warnings Are Ignored
3 When Systems Protect Themselves Instead of the People Affected
4 When Recognition and Accountability Take Decades
5 When Systems Fail the People They Are Meant to Protect
6 When Influence and Power Prevent Proper Action

→ Epstein and Maxwell

7 When Justice Systems Fail the Innocent

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