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June 15th, 2007

WITNESS/Global Voices Human Rights Video Hub wins One World Media award

Georgia Popplewell · 02:44 · Cyber-Activism , Human Rights
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Yesterday evening (June 14), the WITNESS/Global Voices Human Rights Video Hub pilot took the award for best New Media project at the One World Media Awards in London. As former Video Hub editor Sameer Padania writes in an e-mail this morning: "I know people say this all the time, but the award really does belong to the brave, committed, talented people on the ground - bloggers, human rights advocates, journalists, lawyers, filmmakers, citizens - who fought to bring these stories to light, and without whom we genuinely would have had nothing to say or show." (Visit this page to see the full list of winners). 3 comments  · read »

April 17th, 2007

Ethiopia: March to protest violence against women.Video post

A small portrait of the translator Lova Rakotomalala · 13:54 · Sub-Saharan Africa
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A 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 ... 0 comments  · read »

March 13th, 2007

Guinea-Conakry: standing up to a power-hungry PresidentVideo post

A small portrait of the translator Gavin Simpson · 17:42 · Sub-Saharan Africa
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The 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 ... 11 comments  · read »

March 4th, 2007

Forced evictions in Guatemala: whose land is it anyway?

A small portrait of the translator Gavin Simpson · 18:10 · Guatemala , Canada
Land 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 ... 3 comments  · read »

February 14th, 2007

Caught On Camera: Human Rights Video on GV

Sameer Padania · 10:11 · Middle East & North Africa , South Asia
It 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. ... 5 comments  · read »
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