Category: south asia

• Caught On Camera: Human Rights Videos on GV [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online] 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…

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  16/01/2007

  cellphone, Dalits, Elections, Governance, Human rights, internet, law, military, online video, south asia, Technology, Trafficking, violence, WITNESS, women

• Saddam execution video re-ignites death penalty debates worldwide [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] 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…

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  07/01/2007

  africa, Caribbean, cellphone, Central Asia & Caucasus, citizen journalism, Death Penalty, East Asia, Governance, GV, Human rights, internet, Journalism, Latin America, law, mobile, online video, politics, REGION, religion, south asia, Technology, War & Conflict, WITNESS