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November 23rd, 2006

Egypt: Cairo's women speak out against violence

Sameer Padania · 08:04 · 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 a heartfelt plea: What shall we do to face challenges of discrimination, extremism and religious fanaticism? It's a vexing question - and ... 9 comments · read »

November 17th, 2006

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

Sameer Padania · 18:09 · Americas

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 police officers using a taser gun on an Iranian-American student, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, in the Powell Library at UCLA (University of ... 5 comments · read »

October 30th, 2006

Mexico: The last moments of Bradley Roland Will

Sameer Padania · 21:07 · Middle East & North Africa , Americas

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. The latest tragic example of this came on Friday 27th October, in the southern state of Oaxaca, with the shooting ... 14 comments · read »

October 20th, 2006

Video exposes child-soldier's identity

Sameer Padania · 08:50 · 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 we wouldn't even link to them. Today's post is about one of those videos. I was researching a possible post ... 6 comments · read »

October 13th, 2006

Zimbabwe: Smuggled DVD brings union protest beatings to light

Sameer Padania · 16:30 · 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. It includes footage of the Zimbabwean police and security intelligence services breaking up a peaceful demonstration by members of the ... 6 comments · read »

October 3rd, 2006

Iraq: Rare testimony of abuse by the Iraqi Security Forces

Sameer Padania · 16:00 · 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 at Alive In Baghdad to e-mail us to say that he had an interview with a man who ... 7 comments · read »