Par: Ryan Schlief, Posté le: Feb 5 10
Par: Ryan Schlief, Posté le: Nov 3 09
On 14 November in New York City, the 8th Annual Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council (MIAAC) Film Festival will screen Counterbalance, the co-production between WITNESS and our partner in Delhi, Chintan. After the screening of Counterbalance and two other films (see below), I will join Professor Lauhona Ganguly from the New School and film maker Sunil Gupta on a panel about Video for Change in India.
Par: Ryan Schlief, Posté le: Jul 27 09
*UPDATE, 27 July: 100+ HIV/AIDS and human rights organizations - including WITNESS, Human Rights Watch, and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance - co-sign a letter to the Royal Government of Cambodia expressing "deep concern about the discriminatory and potentially life-threatening treatment of HIV-affected families from the Borei Keila community."
Par: Ryan Schlief, Posté le: Jul 17 09
From WITNESS partner LICADHO:
At 4 am this morning [July 17, 2009], dozens of armed police took up positions around Group 78 in order to enforce a municipal order that they dismantle their homes or be forcibly removed.
Par: Ryan Schlief, Posté le: Jul 16 09
Government representatives of 7 countries, as well as the World Bank, United Nations and others, are calling on the Government of Cambodia to stop all forced evictions in the country.
Par: Ryan Schlief, Posté le: Jul 15 09
A few months ago I wrote about our new partnership with Chintan in India. Lots of planning, training, and shooting have happened since then and now I am back in beautiful Delhi to facilitate the editing of the first video co-produced by Chintan and WITNESS.
Par: Ryan Schlief, Posté le: Jul 2 09
A quick dispatch from Delhi, where I am working with our partner Chintan right now. The Delhi High Court today handed down a ruling scrapping part of Section 377 (pdf) that, in the words of one Indian colleague, sees "India taking another step closer to the intent of the framers of its constitution."
Par: Ryan Schlief, Posté le: Jun 15 09
Par: Ryan Schlief, Posté le: Feb 18 09
The entrepreneurial spirit of the urban poor should be encouraged
Many of the world’s cities rely on the work of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children to collect, sort, process and dispose or recycle what urban dwellers throw away. Operating independently or at times in collectives, this workforce earns an income, not from the city government itself, but from the house-to-house collection of waste, from the sale of scrap materials and from recycling.
Par: Ryan Schlief, Posté le: Jan 29 09
The relocation site for residents of Dey Krehorm, who were forcibly evicted in the early morning hours of Saturday 24 January, reportedly is woefully inadequate with many homes not ready and without clean water or electricity in the area. Removed from their land, homes and livelihoods, several Dey Krahorm residents have protested at the National Assembly for justice and proper compensation (Images here).
