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Mobile Phones Document Police Killing Unarmed Man - Oakland, California
By: Chris Michael, Posted: Jan 7 09
United States
Impunity, Juvenile justice, Police brutality
As new information surfaces, I will update this post. In the meantime, please forward this post and videos far and wide and join the calls for justice.\
-Update 1.7.09, 5:20 EST: Officer Resigns.
InfoWar over Gaza
By: Sameer Padania, Posted: Jan 7 09
Israel, Palestine
Armed conflict, Discrimination, Humanitarian
btselem, comics, graphic novels, information war, infowar, joe sacco, nablus, palestine, propaganda, social media
The information war being fought over Gaza is one of the most commented-on aspects of the current crisis - Israeli military footage, Twitter updates, Facebook groups, media interviews, blogs, the use of megaphone software like Read more | 1 comment
Citizen media follows the war in Gaza
By: Priscila Néri, Posted: Jan 5 09
Israel, Palestine
Armed conflict, Humanitarian, Violence
citizen media, civilian casualties, Gaza, Global Voices, Hamas, Ikbis, MobileActive, twitter
Several citizen media websites have been covering the fighting in Gaza, which has left over 500 people dead in the last 10 days. Here are a few of them:
1 - Global Voices' special coverage of Gaza Strip Bombings
2 - Ikbis, a regional video-sharing platform, created a special channel for people to people to upload videos and contribute to the coverage here
Is there slavery in the world today?
By: Priscila Néri, Posted: Dec 24 08
Global
Bonded labor, Child labor, Slavery & forced labor
Bound by Promises, Free the Slaves, slavery, udhr60
Slavery not only exists today - but the scope of the problem is staggering. Roughly 27 million people are believed to be held as modern day slaves. Although slavery is not legal anywhere, it is still exists everywhere - from the United States to Brazil, India to Russia, and China to the Ivory Coast.
Is water a human right?
By: Chris Michael, Posted: Dec 24 08
Global
Food & health & development, Sustainable development, Water
udhr60, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, water
"There is enough water for human need, but not for human greed." - Mahatma Gandhi
Happy Holidays from the Hub team...
By: Priscila Néri, Posted: Dec 23 08
Hello and happy holidays! The blog's taking an end-of-year break till January 5th, but the Hub remains up-and-running throughout the holiday period. In the meantime, we wanted to invite both our old and new friends of the Hub community to:
* Take part in our latest project by answering: What image opened *your* eyes to human rights?
Open Call for Hub Interns & Volunteers
By: Chris Michael, Posted: Dec 23 08
WITNESS uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. We empower people to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools for justice, promoting public engagement and policy change.
Report-Back: What image opened your eyes to human rights?
By: Chris Michael, Posted: Dec 23 08
Global
udhr60
Colombian Army Kills Husband of Indigenous Leader
By: Priscila Néri, Posted: Dec 18 08
Colombia
Armed conflict, Indigenous peoples, Mass killings
Aida Quilcue, Alvaro Uribe, Assassination, cauca, Consejo Regional Indigena del Cauca, Human Rights Defenders, land rights, minga, Protests, violence
Rwanda: Genocide Mastermind Sentenced to Life in Jail
By: Priscila Néri, Posted: Dec 18 08
Rwanda
Crimes against humanity, Genocide, War crimes
hutu, immaculée ilibagiza, interahamwe, international criminal tribunal for rwanda, left to tell, tutsi
After six years of trial, the UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has just sentenced Colonel Theoneste Bagosora - a former senior official of the Ministry of Defense - to life in prison for instigating and commanding the slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the 1994 Rwandan genocide (BBC video here).
