UDHR60: Article XIX's Toby Mendel
By: Sameer Padania
Posted: Dec 9 08
Witnessed: 942 times
Regions: Global
Issues: Freedom of opinion & expression, Indigenous peoples, Poverty
Tags: Article 19, freedom of information, images, Media, newspapers, udhr60, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
For 16 years, WITNESS has harnessed the power of video to advance human rights. In honor of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10th, we're asking our friends and partners to answer the following question:
What image opened your eyes to human rights?
Was it an image or video that gave you hope, or did it show you how much further we needed to go and inspire you to take action?
In this video, Toby Mendel, Senior Legal Director of Article XIX, talks about an image that brought home to him the reality of being an activist for freedom of expression.
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