Profile: Breakthrough
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About Breakthrough
Breakthrough is an international organization that creates original media and uses education and popular culture to transform public attitudes and teach human rights.
We encourage a culture of human rights through the following avenues:
* Music, art, performance, television and media for social change.
* Our interactive website, www.breakthrough.tv, which is an educational and entertaining forum packed with ideas for action.
* Public forums and workshops.
* Multi-media educational materials.
Our current campaign in the U.S focuses on immigration. Unfair immigration laws deny due process and violate human rights. These laws affect all immigrants: legal residents, those fleeing persecution, students and undocumented people. We have video stories, animations, speeches and a video game (www.homelandgitmo.com) that we have produced to illustrate this injustice.
Uncover what's going on behind immigration detention center walls- Experience Gitmo: www.homelandgitmo.com
India:
Our current campaign in India,"Bell Bajao" aims to bring attention to the growing incidences of domestic violence faced by women in India.
Watch our original content, leave feedback and share with friends!
Breakthrough works through partner offices in the United States and India, the two world’s largest democracies. We believe that the promise of both countries lies in building secular, democratic and multi-cultural societies that ensure human rights for all.
www.breakthrough.tv
Breakthrough's recent content
Let's Breakthrough Together Benefit Video - 2008
On October 17, 2008, Breakthrough held it's Fourth Annual Let's Breakthrough Together Benefit Gala....
India, United States
HIV-AIDS, Immigration , Women's rights
John Thornton at 2008 Let's Breakthrough Together Gala
On October 17, 2008 world-renowned professor John Thornton spoke and was honored at the Fourth Annual Let's Breakthrough Together Gala.
United States
Immigration
Amartya Sen at Let's Breakthrough Together Gala
On October 17, 2008, Amartya Sen spoke and was honored at the Fourth Annual Let's Breakthrough Together Gala.
United States
Immigration
Don't Deport Me, Scotty
See what happens when a permanent member of a popular space crew finds his status is in question....
United States
Immigration
Death by Detention
Major press outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post have recently reported on the “System of Neglect,” namely, the state of immigration detention center conditions....
United States
Detention, Immigration
Agatha Joseph: Exposing Detention
Agatha Joseph’s daughter was placed in seven detention centers over three years. She was the victim of double jeopardy....
United States
Immigration
Mann Ke Manjeere
Breakthrough's video -Mann ke Manjeeré- reached 26 million households via six satellite music television channels, effectively mainstreaming discussions about domestic violence issues throughout Sout...
Global
Marriage, Violence against women, Women's rights
A Military Man Behind Bars
Angela Joseph and her brother Warren came to the U.S from Trinidad with greencards. Warren served in the US military for eight years and returned with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder....
Etats-Unis d'Amérique
Immigration
Professor David Brotherton: Detention Trial
Professor David Brotherton's work has allowed him to witness an immigration trial firsthand....
Etats-Unis d'Amérique
Détention
Professor David Brotherton: Deported to the D.R.
David Brotherton, Professor of Sociology at John Jay College in New York City, has done extensive research on the effects of deportation....
Etats-Unis d'Amérique, République dominicaine
Immigration
