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AFRICA |
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| Charlayne Hunter-Gault in Mogadishu, Somalia, examines the pros and cons of humanitarian military interventions and their human rights impacts; also stories from the Sudan, Liberia, Rwanda and Zaire. 08DR/CL IJSCA 30 min. |
| Profile of Rev. Beyers Naude, an Afrikaner who gave up a life of privilege to follow his anti-apartheid convictions; an interview with Kenyan Wangari Maathai; plus African Rights and Amnesty International. 08DR/CL IJSCA 30 min. |
| The military regime in Nigeria has nullified democratic elections, made "extra-judicial" arrests, and exploited indigenous peoples. Human rights activists are calling for economic sanctions against Nigeria. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| Reports on what has happened since the genocidal attacks in Rwanda. We discover that despite its many problems, there is hope there today as people are beginning to rebuild their lives. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| Judge Richard Goldstone; plus excerpts from a film about women in South Africa; President Nelson Mandela on his plan to forge a "government of national unity"; also a music video, Freedom Charter. 08DR/CL IJSCA 30 min. |
| Apartheid is dead, but its legacy lives on. The new government has abolished racial laws, has overhauled the police departments, and continues to deal with those guilty of human rights violations. 08DR/CL IJSCA 30 min. |
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ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST |
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| Reveals the personal story of a leader of the Tiananmen Square uprising; also we see a detailed analysis of the "most-favored nation" US-China controversy. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| Footage from inside a Chinese "slave ship" bringing immigrants to New York leads to a discussion of US Immigration policy; plus the resistance of Tibetan nuns abused by their Chinese occupiers. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| Two major anniversaries that refocus discussion of the issue of Human Rights are documented here: remembering Tiananmen Square and Vietnam. Here we see excerpts from the independent film, Moving the Mountain, which focuses on one of the leaders of the Tiananmen uprising, Li Lu; also in an interview with Li Lu, he discusses the decline of human rights in China. Next we see an excerpt from From Hollywood to Hanoi, in which a Vietnamese-American filmmaker, Ti Thang Nga, journeys back to Vietnam to understand her feelings about the war; also she visits My Lai, the site of a tragic massacre by American troops, to make an appeal for reconciliation and friendship. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| The transition to Palestinian self-rule in parts of the Israeli-occupied territories by monitoring complementary groups from deep inside these territories; also Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian peace negotiator. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| One of the most reported on conflicts in the world for many years has been the dispute between Israel and Palestine over the same area of land. Today, the majority of Israelis and Palestinians are edging towards peace. Looking back in this historical documentary, we meet individuals who have been involved with and part of this on-going peace process, including writer Michelle Walden, the granddaughter of Shimon Peres, the ninth President of the State of Israel; also Terje Larsen, the former UN Under Secretary General, who worked on the implementation of the 2006 cease-fire resolution. At the heart of the program are video diaries of two young women: Suher Ismail, from a Palestinian center, and Einat Kapch, from an Israeli settlement, who express their own personal feelings and reactions to this emotional conflict. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| The SLORC has engaged in massive human abuses against the Burmese people and crushed a democratic movement led by Nobel Prize winner Augn San Suu Kyi, who is still under house arrest. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| How the lives and culture of the T'boli people were threatened when gold was discovered; also a story about a garbage dump outside Manila and the link between the environment and human rights. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| This program travels to Bangkok for an examination of Thailand's burgeoning multi-billion dollar sex industry and the sexual trafficking of minors, called a "modern form of slavery." 08DR/CL SCA 15 min. |
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EUROPE |
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| When Slobodan Milosevic became Serbia's leader in 1987, his form of "nationalism" spread, creating conflict in Bosnia, which had become independent in 1992; however, by 1995 the euphemism for genocide, called "Ethnic Cleansing," had buried deep roots there by Serbian troops in what had become the Bosnian War. Part One of this historic two-part program includes an exclusive interview with reporter Jovan Dulovic, who chronicled the activities of one of many Serbian paramilitary units operating in Bosnia, the Yellow Wasps, who took part in the Zvornik killings; also we hear from refugees who recount stories of rape, torture and massacre; plus we meet the late Warren Zimmerman, who served as the last U.S. Ambassador to the former Yugoslavia and was the author of Origins of a Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and Its Destroyers; here he offers his views on Milosevic and the intense situation in these two Baltic nations. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| The story of the Bosnia War between Bosnia and Serbia continues in Part Two of this historic two-part program. Here we learn details of what American officials knew about ethnic cleansing - and what they did with that knowledge - from key figures during this crisis, including Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Roy Gutman, currently the Foreign Editor for Newsday magazine and author of A Witness to Genocide; the former U.S. Asst. Sec. of State for European Affairs and Balkans' policy analyst, John Fox; George Kenney, who resigned his State Department position as a sign of protest; former Sec. of State Lawrence Eagleburger, an architect of U.S. policy in the Balkans; plus Antonio Cassese, the first President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| This program introduces viewers to SAGA, which stands for Sarajevo Group of Artists; here we meet this Sarajevo-based group of filmmakers who provide a chilling look at daily life in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Sarajevo Ground Zero, presents an exclusive preview of diaries from inside the besieged Bosnian capital shot by SAGA (Sarajevo Group of Artists). 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| The program presents the documentary Sarajevo Ground Zero - Part 1, which presents an exclusive preview of diaries from inside the besieged Bosnian capital, filmed by SAGA, the Sarajevo Group of Artists. a Sarajevo-based group of filmmakers, provides a chilling look at daily life in Bosnia-Herzegovina. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| This program includes the documentary, Sarajevo Ground Zero - Part 2, that offers the final chapter of this unique "inside-out" coverage filmed by SAGA, the Sarajevo Group of Artists, which the New York Times called "part news, part horror movie." 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| Shows how officials were coerced into eliminating air power as a military option for the protection of Srebrenica, and the resulting loss of confidence in UN peacekeeping initiatives and capabilities. 08DR/CL SCA 30 min. |
| Documents the actual siege of Srebrenica and the failure of UN forces to protect this safe haven; then addresses the need for timely intelligence and swift intervention to ensure global stability. 08DR/CL SCA 30 min. |
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Profiles the six year war in Chechnya, with new footage
documenting war crimes, genocide, and other human rights violations; it also
includes a profile of human rights hero, Fred Cuny. 08DR/CL SCA 30 min.
Associated Program: Chechnya: Blood and Belonging |
| Two diaries help clarify ethnic fault lines of Eastern Europe: first, in Nogorno-Karabakh, Azerbijan, then from inside Serbia, where Muslims were free of the horrors of "ethnic cleansing" - until recently. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| This program focuses on the rise of fascist hate groups targeting Jews and Gypsies in Hungary and the Czech Republic; plus an interview with George Soros, deeply involved in funding human rights work. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| The Assembly of Kosovo declared its country's independence as a Republic in February of 2008; however, Serbia continues to claim sovereignty over Kosovo, which keeps this Balkan country a potential hot spot for conflict. As Chapter One of this historical documentary points out, this dispute dates back over 600 years to the Battle of Kosovo, when Kosovo was lost to Turkish invaders, yet Serbians see the battle as a symbol of patriotism. The former president of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, used the anniversary of this important event to arouse nationalism against Kosovo and to accuse its Albanian majority of genocide against the Serbian minority, which eventually led to the Kosovo War, a conflict that did not end until June 1999. Chapter Two focuses on Tajikistan, strategically located north of Afghanistan, where from 1992 to 1997, the country was torn apart by a devastating civil war, killing an estimated 50,000 people. Here we get perspectives of this Central Asian country from Barnett R. Rubin, formerly the Director of the Ctr. for the Study of Central Asia at Columbia University, and today is a Senior Fellow at NYU's Ctr. on Intl. Cooperation and the author of The Fragmentation of Afghanistan; also from Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, formerly at the School of IPA at Columbia University, and today is the Director of the CERI Program for Peace and Human Security at L'Institut d' Etudes Politiques in Paris. 08DR/CL JSCA 20 min. |
| Although the campaign of violence in Northern Ireland between Nationalists, the Catholic minority, and the Unionists, predominantly Protestants, was never declared a civil war, it was popularly know as "The Troubles"; sadly, this bitter conflict claimed over 3,000 lives over 25 years, which ended in 1998 with the signing of the Belfast Agreement, also called "the Good Friday Agreement" or the G.F.A. This historical documentary introduces viewers to a significant number of individuals who were involved in this battle for Civil Rights. Laura Flanders reports on the discord; also we meet Marie Mulholland, a community organizer; Gerry Campbell, a Ford Motor Company employee; John Keanie, the Derry town clerk; Eamonn McCann, a Civil Rights' activists; Andrew Tyndall, a media analyst, who, today, is editor of the Tyndall Report; also Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, the youngest woman ever elected to the British parliament. She wrote the book, The Price of My Soul, which publicized discrimination against Roman Catholics in her country. Worth noting is, in 2003, she was barred from entering the United States and deported by the State Department, which declared her "a serious threat to the security of the U.S." 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
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NORTH, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA |
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| This episode focuses on Brazil's indigenous peoples who fight to maintain control over their lands. It clearly defines that their basic human rights are directly connected to the land they inhabit. 08DR/CL IJSCA 30 min. |
| This program explores issues about Cuba with the US Under Secretary of State and with two Cuban-Americans; also Emmy Award winning filmmaker Jon Alpert visits Cuba to gauge popular feeling. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| An excerpt from the film Cuba Va; then a profile of Guatemala and Nobel Peace Prize winner Roberta Menchu; plus a report on the findings of the UN's Truth Commission on El Salvador. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| This now historical program offers an in-depth interview with the former Haitian President, Jean Bertrand Aristide; then we view highlights from the film The Other Haiti, about grass roots democratic movements, and hear from its director. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| Selections from The Panama Deception, the Academy Award winning documentary that networks refuse to air; also interviews with director Barbara Trent, Panama's Ambassador to the UN. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| Focus on the US's condition that China demonstrate "significant overall progress" to receive the "Most-Favored-Nation" status - with Henry Kissinger, Lane Kirkland, the Dalai Lama, and John Shattuck. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| This program examines the plight of Native Hawaiians waging a struggle to preserve what little land, culture and heritage still remains in Hawaii. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| Mississippi's "Freedom Summer" (civil rights) anniversary; then the Cree people vs. the state-owned energy company in Quebec; US history from unique African American and Native American perspectives. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
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"Recommended. The technical standards of the program are
very high. The key points uniquely illustrated could be used for discussion
triggers by community groups, or in courses dealing with human rights or
social awareness issues." -EMRO Review Anna Deavere Smith, writer, performer, social commentator and star of her own one-woman Broadway Show, Twilight: Los Angeles; plus a featurette on a Human Rights High School in New York. 08DR/CL JSCA 20 min. |
| Historical report card on the human rights policies of the Clinton Administration during his first 100 days in office; also an interview with former President Jimmy Carter. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
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Associated Article: The Snakehead -The New
Yorker Magazine This program includes provocative footage of the plight of illegal Chinese immigrants in New York's Chinatown and of the unbridled "Snakehead" - a.k.a. gangster - activities in China. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| Intolerance, racism and hate crimes are escalating in the United States. But there is hope: the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and Project Teamwork are creating awareness through education. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| With NAFTA, American industry is flooding south of the border to seek cheaper labor and manufacturing costs - good for business, devastating locally - also human rights standards are threatened. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| Focus on overzealous law enforcement activities and racial disparities; then asks if US drug strategy has overlooked public health concerns, such as prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of drug users. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
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WORLDWIDE |
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| Although nearly every country has passed laws and ratified international treaties banning the practice of child labor, there are still nearly two hundred million child laborers worldwide. Most of these children live in developing countries, working as many as sixteen hours a day and earning as little as five cents an hour. Citizens of the U.S., Germany, the U.K., Sweden, and Japan tend to promote child labor abuses by routinely purchasing products made by children working under abysmal conditions. This program addresses this issue by focusing on the child labor system in Pakistan, which has been labeled "the last vestige of slavery"; it includes excerpts from The Carpet, a documentary film by Swedish director Magnus Bergmar, as well as interviews with Ahmed Kamal, the former Ambassador from Pakistan, noted for his work at the United Nations, and Dr. Guido Bertolaso, the former Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, and today is the Head of the Italian Civil Protection Department. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| Addresses the moral responsibility of corporations, celebrities, and consumers to combat child labor abuses by knowing where and under what conditions products are manufactured. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| Profiles a 13-year-old African-American boy in Washington, DC, a 15-year-old girl in India, and a report on Brazilian street children; plus students at El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice in Brooklyn, NY. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| This program profiles two social service programs (one in Harlem and another in Appalachia) that have been particularly effective in instilling a sense of culture and community in children. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| Here we learn of efforts on the part of activists to make children's rights a moral and political priority in the US; also a poignant portrait of a young, parentless girl in India, where over 400,000 children live in the streets. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| This program examines the need for the United Nations, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund to adapt to changing political, economic, and social conditions in the world. 08DR/CL IJSCA 30 min. |
| This program explores the connection between health and human rights and profiles the leaders of a new way of thinking about society, disease and the inter-relation between them. The "cutting edge" people we meet include the late Dr. Jonathan Mann, the first Director of the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Global Program on AIDS, he was a key figure in highlighting the need for a global response to the AIDS' crisis; and Dr. Paul Farmer, the MacArthur "Genius" awardee, a found of Partners In Health (PIH), and currently a Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard University. Viewers learn that AIDS is only one of many public health issues that need to be re-examined in light of its human rights' implications. Lastly, Charlayne Hunter-Gault interviews Yale law professor Harlan Dalton, author of Racial Healing, and professor Karen Porter, who formerly taught courses at Washington University Law School on AIDS and the law, and today is the Executive Director of Brooklyn Law School's Center for Health, Science, and Public Policy; each address the effects of discrimination on the health of African Americans. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| This program profiles several human rights' heroes who have made significant contributions throughout the world. It includes footage of Chief Wai-Wai, who succeeded in securing land rights on behalf of the Brazilian Waiapi, a tribe whose livelihood was being threatened by industrial intrusions into their forests. It praises Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, who traveled to over 26 countries in her efforts to further the cause of the indigenous peoples of Guatemala. The program showcases journalist Roy Gutman and filmmaker Ademir Kenovic, who helped uncover many of the atrocities in war torn Bosnia, including mass deportations and Serbian concentration camps. After a tribute to the slain reporter, Veronica Guerin, the program focuses on the courage and tenacity of people who devote their lives to combating genocide, right wing nationalism, organized crime, and economic exploitation; plus a profile of the African-American social activist and author Geoffrey Canada (Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America), who is the president of the Harlem Children's Zone in Harlem, New York. 08DR/CL IJSCA 30 min. |
| Peasants in the Amazon; families of murder victims in the US; assassinations in Sri Lanka; Cambodia as it moves toward Democracy; the Afro-Caribbean experience in the UK; and Romania. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| From "Chelyabinsk: The Most Contaminated Spot on the Planet"; then an ongoing chronicle of the global effort to define peacemaking and to examine the interplay of conflict resolution. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| Algeria is divided in conflict; tensions mount as Islamic fundamentalists confront their authoritarian government; and Moslem women cry out for an end to 2nd class citizenship throughout the world of Islam. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| A report on the lack of media independence in post-communist Hungary; next a story on reporters who are killed while on assignment; then a report on how the media covers media. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| This program addresses the need for unbiased and thorough reporting of human rights issues it also covers several initiatives, including PictureTel, video diaries, and the Internet. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| Charlayne Hunter-Gault travels to Venice to cover a conference organized by holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel; then in Brooklyn young students learn conflict resolution. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| Three initiatives to break down barriers of segregation, misunderstanding, and conflict: the Cranmore School in Northern Ireland, Summer Camp in the Middle East, and Archbishop Tutu in South Africa. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| This program addresses the movement for rehabilitating victims of torture; then reports on how and mines affect Cambodians; then how human rights groups are utilizing new technologies (i.e. the Internet). 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| This program looks at UN operations in Bosnia, Somalia, and El Salvador to examine the status of the human rights mandate on the UN; plus a report on the UN Declaration of Human Rights. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| An analysis of plans for a UN War Crimes Tribunal to deal with atrocities committed in the former Yugoslavia; interviews with Arey Neier of Human Rights Watch and Feryal Gharahi of Equality Now. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| A behind-the-scenes' look at the problems and priorities at the UN World Human Rights Conference; plus interviews with Undersecretary of State Timothy Wirth and former President Jimmy Carter. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| Charlayne Hunter-Gault reports on the debates at the Conference, featuring interviews with government delegates, UN officials, and John Shattuck, the US Asst. Sec. of State for Human Rights. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| The Fight Against Rape presents an examination of evidence indicating that rape has become a conscious war strategy in many conflicts; also a movement to classify rape as a "crime against humanity." 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker discusses her novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy, about an African woman who responds to the cultural tradition of female circumcision. 08DR/CL SCA 30 min. |
| Non-governmental organizations have advanced the status of women throughout the world under the theme Women's Rights are Human Rights; showcases Hillary Clinton, Bella Abzug and Prudence Hill. 08DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
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Rights and Wrongs Series (Poster) |
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17" x 22" Rights and Wrongs Series Poster:
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