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UDHR 60th Anniversary: Oshoveli Munashimue
By: Oshoveli
Posted: Dec 8 08
Witnessed: 2593 veces
Regions: South Africa
Issues: Discrimination, Justice, Violence
Tags: apartheid, images, Nelson Mandela, riots, Soweto uprising, udhr60, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Youth
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, WITNESS' Oshoveli Munashimue, Development & Archive Associate, answers the question and talks about an image from the Soweto Uprising, in South Africa, that made a lasting impression on her.
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Blogs on Hector Pieterson
PorOshoveli on Dec 11 08
Check out these blog posts about Hector Pieterson in response to the WITNESS UDHR60 campaign.
http://www.weblogtheworld.com/south-africa/the-power-of-imagery-the-deat...
http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2008/12/10/the-power-of-imagery-the-deat...
correction
PorOshoveli on Dec 11 08
Unfortunately my statement is inaccurate, Hector Pieterson is the boy who was killed and being carried away by a fellow student during the Soweto uprising in 1976.
The picture stayed with me for a long time even though I did not really understand the context in which it was taken when I first saw it. I just knew that there was sadness and anguish in the older boy's eyes and that didn't sit well with me.