-- "I was humiliated in school for being Roma. I don't want my children to go through the same experience..." Violeta, journalist & human rights activist --
Genocide Prevention Month is a global effort to raise awareness about how to stop and prevent genocide. Today's featured video focuses on Rwanda, where 15 years ago Hutu militias coordinated the slaughter of up to one million Rwandan men, women and children in 100 days of violence.
Today, people in Rwanda and around the world are honouring and remembering the victims of the genocide. There have also been numerous initiatives to promote justice and reconciliation.
This new video - just uploaded to the Hub by WITNESS partner LICADHO - captures the moment when armed government forces open fire on crowd of farmers in northwestern Cambodia, seriously injuring four villagers. The incident happened on March 22 in the Chi Kreng District of the Siem Reap Province. The footage was captured by a member of the community using his mobile phone.
"Our families perished while the world watched. Fifteen years after the international community failed to stop the slaughter of one million people in Rwanda, it is now failing the people of Darfur. We come together so our shared history does not continue to repeat itself."
- Eugenie Mukeshimana, survivor of the Rwandan genocide
BACKGROUND: Read the series of posts about our trip to Mexico City to meet with President Calderón to urge him to end feminicide in Mexico:
* 03/19: Preparing for Mexico
* 03/24: What we'll be asking President Calderón
* 03/27: Behind the scenes: last minute preparations
* 03/30: Press Conference
In the spirit of April Fools' Day, today we bring you The Yes Men, a collective of political activists that, in their words: "impersonate big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them... targets are leaders and big corporations who put profits ahead of everything else."
April marks the anniversary of five 20th Century genocides - Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda - and calls for action to end a contemporary crisis - Darfur.
More than 50 of the world's leading humanitarian organizations have united to launch a public awareness campaign during the month of April, in line with Genocide Prevention Month, which is celebrated in the USA.
What is Info-Activism? That is a question I asked myself weeks ago as I was applying for a visa to India to join 125+ dynamic activists and technologists that were going to participate in Tactical Technology Collective and Aspiration's seven-day Info-Activism Camp in Bangalore, India.
BACKGROUND: Read the series of posts about our trip to Mexico City to meet with President Calderón to urge him to end feminicide in Mexico:
* 03/19: Preparing for Mexico
* 03/24: What we'll be asking President Calderón
* 03/27: Behind the scenes: last minute preparations
BACKGROUND: Read the series of posts about our trip to Mexico City to meet with President Calderón and urge him to end feminicide in Mexico:
* 03/19: Preparing for Mexico
* 03/24: What we'll be asking President Calderón
* 03/30: Press Conference
* 04/01: Results of the Presidential meeting
