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Report-Back: What image opened your eyes to human rights?
By: Chris Michael, Posted: Dec 23 08
Regions: Global
Tags: udhr60
Two weeks ago we at WITNESS commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a video that explored what images opened some of our eyes to human rights and posed the question to you. As an organization that uses video for change, we thought it was an interesting question for us and that it would resonate with many of our friends and supporters, but we had no idea of how it would pick-up and spin around the web!
A few weeks later, with the help of Xeni Jardin and our friends at BoingBoing, the YouTube editorial team and the Hub community, we are looking at these pretty powerful numbers that highlight how this question sparked many conversations online (and we hope offline):
Your Participation in the Conversation
350,000+ views (that includes only what we can track!)
40+ bloggers picked-up the story and had conversations on their own blogs
247,000 web pages that reference the question and conversation - at the peak of the project
1,000+ responses to the question
925+ text responses
60+ video responses
Watch our report-back video with your responses
Keeping the Conversation Going
We will continue this conversation into the New Year, and we hope you will join us!
Also, we are compiling other questions that we hope will not only spur more conversation about how video is creating change and addressing urgent human rights issues.
So, here are a few questions that we thought may be interesting and links to campaigns and ways that you can get involved. What questions do you think may be interesting to ask that relate to human rights and the power of video to create change?
Initial Questions:
Is water a human right?
Is there slavery in the world today?
++ Please add your own questions and thoughts on these below in the comments section ++
Comments
Appropriate Housing and Care of Foster Children
By JoannaWright on Dec 27 08
We need a better method of ensuring children who are taken into state foster care through no fault of their own, deserve better.
Residential Child Care Licensing, in Austin Texas, claim they are unable to enforce the state's Minimum Standards based on the Level of Care.
Substandard living conditions, food that is not properly stored resulting in sick children, restraints that kill, increasing usage of psychotropic drugs used on children as young as 12 months, child on child abuse, lack of education, lack of appropriate medical care, and many other issues continue to plague the foster care multi-billion dollar industry.
Before there can be change, there must be awareness; once aware, we must act.
The question is how? How do ordinary citizens have action taken on behalf of this special population of children, largely hidden from public view?