Global Voices - Human Rights Video
12 Episodes of this Podcast:
Video HUB: Protecting women activists' rights around the world
Published: 2008-03-12 20:19:19Witness' The HUB Beta brings us three videos recorded at the "Human Rights for Women; Human Rights for All" event, where 3 strong women who defend other women´s rights speak about the International Campaign on Women Human Rights Defenders.
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Ethiopia: March to protest violence against women.
Published: 2007-04-17 09:54:25A march was organized on April, 14th at Merkel square, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This march wanted to show that women were still at risk of random acts of violence and that more needed to be done from a legal point of view to protect their well-being. The march was organized by the Ethiopian Wowen Lawyers [...]
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Guinea-Conakry: standing up to a power-hungry President
Published: 2007-03-13 18:42:26The technological revolution that enables ordinary citizens to capture and upload video footage on the web has been slow to take root in West Africa. Up to now we haven’t featured any video content from this part of the world on the Human Rights Video Hub Pilot. So this week we're bringing you [...]
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Forced evictions in Guatemala: whose land is it anyway?
Published: 2007-03-04 18:10:17Land ownership and occupation are complex and highly contentious issues in many parts of Latin America, and the tropical, resource-rich plains of northeastern Guatemala are no exception. On the one hand, legal title to land is generally brokered in formal processes between governments and private buyers. On the other hand, indigenous peoples who [...]
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Caught On Camera: Human Rights Video on GV
Published: 2007-02-14 10:11:36It has been a bumper few weeks on GV for human rights video, so let's get straight into it… Bandh of brothers… [via Neha] This footage, filmed by Dinesh Wagle, of United We Blog!, shows motorcycle riders being turned backed by members of the National Federation of Nepal Transport Entrepreneurs in Kathmandu. The NFNTE had called [...]
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Saddam execution video re-ignites death penalty debates worldwide
Published: 2007-01-06 18:59:21Over the past four months, we've tried to feature and contextualise videos we felt should be seen and debated by a wider audience. Today's featured human rights video is something completely new. You may be one of the millions who have sought it out online - or you may have decided to avoid [...]
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Egypt: Bloggers open the door to police brutality debate
Published: 2006-12-09 13:47:43‘Extraordinary rendition' has passed into common parlance over the last year as human rights organisations have accused the US government of exporting suspects to be tortured in regimes like Egypt, Morocco and Syria. But while cases involving international suspects get the headlines, these countries are regularly cited by human rights activists as having a [...]
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China: Videos emerge of clashes between police and students in Jiangxi
Published: 2006-11-24 13:59:37Hot on the heels of the Chinese government's claim of a 22.1% reduction in “mass incidents” (read “protests”), here's some more video of “mass incidents” from China, in case you missed this portion of John Kennedy's latest Beijing bulletin: Backing up to China late last month, students at one technical college in East China's Jiangxi province [...]
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Egypt: Cairo's women speak out against violence
Published: 2006-11-23 08:04:38In the run-up to the annual global campaign for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, Egypt's First Lady, Suzanne Mubarak, addressing a meeting of the Arab Women's Organisation, issued a heartfelt plea: What shall we do to face challenges of discrimination, extremism and religious fanaticism? It's a vexing question - and one to which women back [...]
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USA: Video-sharing places L.A.'s police in the spotlight
Published: 2006-11-17 18:09:50Hop over to Technorati right now and you'll see that six out of the top fifteen videos being linked to by bloggers show the same incident - University of California police officers using a taser gun on an Iranian-American student, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, in the Powell Library at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). [...]
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