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Title:	Video HUB: Protecting women activists' rights around the world
Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:19:19 +0000
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Description:	Witness' The HUB Beta brings us three videos recorded at the "Human Rights for Women; Human Rights for All" event, where 3 strong women who defend other women´s rights speak about the International Campaign on Women Human Rights Defenders.

Title:	Hong Kong: Queen's Pier July 1 party
Date:	Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:38:03 +0000
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Description:	By Oiwan Lam Last night, during the 10th anniversary firework celebration, hundreds of local citizens disobedyed police warning, entered the Queen's Pier surrounded by iron bar and enjoy the firework, music and dancing there. Inmediahk.net has two citizen reports, one by mac donald, he wrote from an outsider perspective: the...

Title:	WITNESS/Global Voices Human Rights Video Hub wins One World Media award
Date:	Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:44:57 +0000
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Description:	Yesterday evening (June 14), the WITNESS/Global Voices Human Rights Video Hub pilot took the award for best New Media project at the One World Media Awards in London. As former Video Hub editor Sameer Padania writes in an e-mail this morning: "I know people say this all the time, but the award really does belong to the brave, committed, talented people on the ground - bloggers, human rights advocates, journalists, lawyers, filmmakers, citizens - who fought to bring these stories to light, and without whom we genuinely would have had nothing to say or show." (Visit this page to see the full list of winners).

Title:	Ethiopia: March to protest violence against women.
Date:	Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:54:25 +0000
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Description:	By Lova Rakotomalala A march was organized on April, 14th at Merkel square, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This march wanted to show that women were still at risk of random acts of violence and that more needed to be done from a legal point of view to protect their well-being. The...

Title:	Guinea-Conakry: standing up to a power-hungry President
Date:	Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:42:26 +0000
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Description:	By Gavin Simpson The technological revolution that enables ordinary citizens to capture and upload video footage on the web has been slow to take root in West Africa. Up to now we haven’t featured any video content from this part of the world on the Human Rights Video Hub...

Title:	Forced evictions in Guatemala: whose land is it anyway?
Date:	Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:10:17 +0000
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Description:	By Gavin Simpson Land ownership and occupation are complex and highly contentious issues in many parts of Latin America, and the tropical, resource-rich plains of northeastern Guatemala are no exception. On the one hand, legal title to land is generally brokered in formal processes between governments and private buyers....

Title:	Caught On Camera: Human Rights Video on GV
Date:	Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:11:36 +0000
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Description:	By Sameer Padania It has been a bumper few weeks on GV for human rights video, so let's get straight into it… Bandh of brothers… [via Neha] This footage, filmed by Dinesh Wagle, of United We Blog!, shows motorcycle riders being turned backed by members of the National Federation of Nepal Transport...

Title:	Caught On Camera: Human Rights Videos on GV
Date:	Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:00:05 +0000
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Description:	By Sameer Padania You'd be forgiven for thinking it's been Saddam, Saddam, Saddam, in recent weeks, but GV has covered other human rights videos that deserve a bit of limelight - so, in this regular new feature, I'm going to round up the best of those recent stories. Something for WITNESS's...

Title:	Saddam execution video re-ignites death penalty debates worldwide
Date:	Sat, 06 Jan 2007 23:59:21 +0000
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Description:	By Sameer Padania Over the past four months, we've tried to feature and contextualise videos we felt should be seen and debated by a wider audience. Today's featured human rights video is something completely new. You may be one of the millions who have sought it out online...

Title:	Egypt: Bloggers open the door to police brutality debate
Date:	Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:47:43 +0000
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Description:	By Sameer Padania ‘Extraordinary rendition' has passed into common parlance over the last year as human rights organisations have accused the US government of exporting suspects to be tortured in regimes like Egypt, Morocco and Syria. But while cases involving international suspects get the headlines, these countries are regularly...

Title:	China: Videos emerge of clashes between police and students in Jiangxi
Date:	Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:59:37 +0000
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Description:	By Sameer Padania Hot on the heels of the Chinese government's claim of a 22.1% reduction in “mass incidents” (read “protests”), here's some more video of “mass incidents” from China, in case you missed this portion of John Kennedy's latest Beijing bulletin: Backing up to China late last month, students at...

Title:	Egypt: Cairo's women speak out against violence
Date:	Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:04:38 +0000
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Description:	By Sameer Padania In the run-up to the annual global campaign for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, Egypt's First Lady, Suzanne Mubarak, addressing a meeting of the Arab Women's Organisation, issued a heartfelt plea: What shall we do to face challenges of discrimination, extremism and religious fanaticism? It's a vexing...

Title:	USA: Video-sharing places L.A.'s police in the spotlight
Date:	Fri, 17 Nov 2006 23:09:50 +0000
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Description:	By Sameer Padania Hop over to Technorati right now and you'll see that six out of the top fifteen videos being linked to by bloggers show the same incident - University of California police officers using a taser gun on an Iranian-American student, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, in the Powell Library at...

Title:	Former Yugoslavia: Can video play a part in truth, justice and reconciliation?
Date:	Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:38:06 +0000
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Description:	By Gavin Simpson It fell to the controversial figure of Carla del Ponte, prosecutor at the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague, to lament the slow progress of justice in the Former Yugoslavia in a lecture she delivered last week. del Ponte picked out Serbia as a country...

Title:	Mexico: The last moments of Bradley Roland Will
Date:	Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:07:44 +0000
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Description:	By Sameer Padania Journalism seems like a precarious profession to practise in Mexico. It's ranked by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) as one of the most dangerous places to be a journalist. The latest tragic example of this came on Friday 27th October, in the southern state of Oaxaca,...