Rights

Sri Lanka's Ghosts

HumanRightsWatch — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:57:31 -0700

The Sri Lankan government is responsible for widespread abductions and "disappearances" that have become a national crisis. Human Rights Watch has urged the government to reveal the whereabouts of the "disappeared," immediately end the practice, and hold the perpetrators accountable.

Charlotte Bunch - Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University

Hub Intern — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:50:53 -0700

The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) develops and facilitates women's leadership for women's human rights and social justice worldwide.

Gerald Lenoir - Black Alliance for Just Immigration

Hub Intern — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:51:47 -0700

This interview was conducted by a fellow participant at the US Human Rights Network National conference in Chicago April 17th-20th, 2008.
Gerald Lenoir discusses his work with The Black Alliance for Just Immigration.
The mission of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration is to engage African Americans and other communities in a dialogue that leads to actions that challenge U.S. immigration policy and the underlying issues of race, racism and economic inequity that frame it.

Katrina Anderson - Center for Reproductive Rights

Hub Intern — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:29:06 -0700

This interview was conducted by a fellow participant at the US Human Rights Network National conference in Chicago April 17th-20th, 2008.

Katrina Anderson discusses her work with The Center for Reproductive Rights.

James Thindwa - Jobs with Justice

Hub Intern — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:53:23 -0700

This interview was conducted by a fellow participant at the US Human Rights Network National conference in Chicago April 17th-20th, 2008. James Thindwa discusses the work of "Jobs with Justice".

Andrea Silva - National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Hub Intern — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:35:50 -0700

This interview was conducted by a fellow participant at the US
Human Rights Network National conference in Chicago April 17th-20th, 2008.

Jane Norman - American Rights At Work

Hub Intern — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:58:46 -0700

This interview was conducted by a fellow participant at the US Human
Rights Network National conference in Chicago April 17th-20th, 2008.

Jane Norman discusses her work with American Rights At Work.

Advancing Democracy in the American Workplace

Stop The Privatization of Water

VideoVolunteers — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:35:52 -0800

This video informed slum dwellers that the Mumbai Municipal Authority was planning to privatize their water. After the screenings, 300 people instead of the usual 60 showed up for a government meeting on water and demanded that the officials come clean about the plan and the costs to slum dwellers. Shortly after that meeting, the government halted the privatization plan in that part of Mumbai, and started supplying water twice a day instead of once in that particular area.

Three Queer Mice

globalactionproject — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:53:06 -0800

This short animation is a remake of the nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice. We find three very queer mice in a lot of trouble when their rights are being violated. Based on real stories.

When Silence is Golden--gold mining in Africa

alexlali — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:10:53 -0800

When Silence is Golden is a documentary film which follows its director in her quest to lift the silence on the gold mining activities of a Canadian mining company near a small town in Western Ghana. Through her journey, we meet the inhabitants of this town who, despite efforts by the government to silence them, cannot hide their anger and are eager to express their grievances.