Rising Voices: citizen media, publc health and human rights

Submitted by Sameer Padania on Sat, 06/28/2008 - 18:03.

Rising Voices, the grassroots outreach arm of Global Voices, has just announced its newest round of grantees at the GV Summit in Budapest.

The six selected grantees represent the most innovative applications of citizen media tools like blogs, podcasts, and online video to help further the advocacy goals of public health organizations, and to empower the communities they work with.

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Tarsniper videos expose police corruption in Morocco

Submitted by Sameer Padania on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 08:43.

I'm in a packed Budapest conference room, at the the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit.  Today's sessions focus on practical tools and measures that networks of activists can take to counteract global censorship efforts.

Morocco, North Africa, Tunisia

Impunity, Police brutality, Poverty, Other

Torture in Papua: Anselina Temkon

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World Refugee Day - Zimbabwe, South Africa and Iraq

Submitted by Sameer Padania on Fri, 06/20/2008 - 04:50.

There are 16 million refugees and 51 million internally displaced people worldwide, according to the UNHCR's latest figures [pdf].

Iraq, South Africa, Zimbabwe

Humanitarian, Internally displaced persons, Refugees

World Refugee Day 2008 - Returning to Burundi

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Every Human Has Rights

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Paramilitaries sentenced in Rio Negro massacre

Submitted by WITNESS Archive on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 13:52.

After years of trials, delays, and obstruction, five civil patrollers (Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil) have been found guilty by a Guatemalan court of the horrific mass murders on March 13, 1982 at Rio Negro. The Rio Negro massacre was just one among many massacres which characterized the height of the genocidal campaign against the indigenous Maya during the 36-year Guatemalan civil war.

Guatemala

Genocide, Mass killings

Every Human Has Rights Campaign - Sign the Pledge

Submitted by Chris Michael on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 20:40.

WITNESS is partnering with The Elders' Every Human Has Rights
campaign to build a global digital databank of human rights stories in
text, audio and video. You can find human rights stories from around
the world right here on the Hub - and Mary Robinson invites you to Tell Your Story here.

 

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Editor's Picks: Spotlight: Amazon Watch

Curated by: Chris Michael

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Amazon Watch works with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the face of large-scale industrial development-oil and gas pipelines, power lines, roads and other mega-projects. These three videos feature some of their work and campaigns, including their campaign against ChevronTexaco for dumping over 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater in the Ecuadorian Amazon - the largest oil-related environmental disaster in the world.

Burlington Resources (now Conoco) in Ecuador

By: amazonwatch

Background on attempted oil exploitation by Burlington, now owned by Conoco, in indigenous lands in ...
Chevron's Amazon Abu Ghraib

By: amazonwatch

The largest oil-related environmental disaster in the world - Chevron dumped over 18 billion gallons...
Amazon SOS

By: amazonwatch

A public service announcement about the need to protect the Amazon Rainforest and the indigenous com...

By: Chris Michael

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WITNESS is partnering The Elders' Every Human Has Rights campaign to build a global digital databank of human rights stories, in text, audio and video. You can find human rights stories from around the world right here on the Hub - and Mary Robinson invites you to Tell Your Story here.

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