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23 November 2006

Egypt: Cairo's women speak out against violence

Written by Sameer Padania · Middle East & North Africa

In 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...

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17 November 2006

USA: Video-sharing places L.A.'s police in the spotlight

Written by Sameer Padania · North America

Hop 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...

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6 November 2006

Former Yugoslavia: Can video play a part in truth, justice and reconciliation?

Written by Gavin Simpson · Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

It fell to the controversial figure of Carla del Ponte, prosecutor at the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague, to lament the slow progress of justice in the Former...

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30 October 2006

Mexico: The last moments of Bradley Roland Will

Written by Sameer Padania · Middle East & North Africa, North America

Journalism seems like a precarious profession to practise in Mexico. It's ranked by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) as one of the most dangerous places to be a journalist....

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20 October 2006

Video exposes child-soldier's identity

Written by Sameer Padania · Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

If you've seen the guidelines for this site, you'll know that there are types of footage that we wouldn't post, and circumstances surrounding the shooting of particular videos that mean...

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13 October 2006

Zimbabwe: Smuggled DVD brings union protest beatings to light

Written by Sameer Padania · Sub-Saharan Africa

This video reached me late last night via Ethan Zuckerman. At nearly ten minutes, it's longer than the other videos we've put up, but I strongly recommend you watch this....

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5 October 2006

US secret detentions: from hotel room to squalid prison cell

Written by Gavin Simpson · North America

When President George W. Bush confirmed in a speech last month that the CIA has been operating a programme of secret detentions on foreign territory, it was portrayed by the...

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3 October 2006

Iraq: Rare testimony of abuse by the Iraqi Security Forces

Written by Sameer Padania · Middle East & North Africa

Torture in Iraq, says the UN, is “out of control”, and “worse than it has been in the times of Saddam Hussein”. So it was especially timely for Brian Conley...

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27 September 2006

Tunisia: Opening prisons to the world

Written by Sameer Padania · Middle East & North Africa

At this site, I’m trying to show videos that show or speak about human rights abuses, and – as in the Tunisian video above - the impact of human rights...

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20 September 2006

Eastern Europe: Video documents homophobia on the rise

Written by Sameer Padania · Eastern & Central Europe

The latest twist in the long-running saga of anti-gay violence and state oppression took place yesterday in Moscow, as an appeals court upheld the earlier lower court ruling to ban...

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