Living Proof: The Right to Live in the Community (Excerpts)

WITNESS Partner: Association for Promoting Inclusion (API)

Regions: Croatia

Issues: Mental disability rights

Equal Access: Integrated Education for Romani Children in Bulgaria (Excerpts)

Background: At an estimated 10 million people, Roma are the largest, yet most discriminated-against minority in Europe....

Regions: Bulgaria

Issues: Minorities

Human Rights Defenders - Latvia

Linda Freiman co-founded Mozaika, an organisation that has given a voice to many gays and lesbians in Latvia....

Regions: Latvia

Issues: LGBTQ, Sexual rights

Riga Pride 2007

View the video blog of Simon an Amnesty international activist who attended the 2007 Riga Pride.

Regions: Latvia

Issues: LGBTQ

Why Iraqis are fleeing to Syria

Regions: France, Iraq, Netherlands

Issues: Armed conflict, Child soldiers, Detention

Why Iraqis are fleeing to Syria

Regions: France, Iraq, Netherlands

Issues: Armed conflict, Child soldiers, Detention

Guantánamo Demonstration at the US embassy in London

Hundreds of activists concentrated in front of the US embassy in London (UK) to express their opposition to Guantánamo on the fifth anniversary of the camp.

Regions: Global, Great Britain, United States

Issues: Arbitrary arrest, Detention, Torture

Caught On Camera: Human Rights Videos on GV [via GV/WITNESS]

[Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online]

Regions: Cambodia, Hungary, India

Issues: Elections, Housing, Police brutality

Eastern Europe: Video documents homophobia on the rise [via GV/WITNESS]

[Originally published here as part of WITNESS's collaboration with Global Voices Online]

Regions: Croatia, Eastern Europe, Russia

Issues: Freedom of opinion & expression, LGBTQ, Sexual rights