Category: military

• 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

• China: Videos emerge of clashes between police and students in Jiangxi [via GV/WITNESS]

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

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  24/11/2006

  Cyber-Activism, East Asia, Freedom of Speech, Governance, GV, Human rights, internet, military, police, politics, protest, Technology, WITNESS

• Mexico: The last moments of Bradley Roland Will [via GV/WITNESS]

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

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  30/10/2006

  Cyber-Activism, Freedom of Speech, Governance, GV, Human rights, internet, Journalism, law, military, online video, police, politics, protest, Technology, WITNESS

• Video exposes child-soldier’s identity [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] If you’ve seen the guidelines for this site, you’ll know that there are types of footage that we wouldn’t post, and circumstances surrounding the shooting of particular videos that mean we wouldn’t even link to them. Today’s post is about one of those…

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  20/10/2006

  africa, children, Cyber-Activism, Governance, GV, Human rights, humanitarian, internet, law, military, online video, politics, REGION, Technology, War & Conflict, WITNESS

• Iraq: Rare testimony of abuse by the Iraqi Security Forces [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Torture in Iraq, says the UN, is “out of control”, and “worse than it has been in the times of Saddam Hussein”. So it was especially timely for Brian Conley at Alive In Baghdad to e-mail us to say that he had an…

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  03/10/2006

  citizen journalism, Freedom of Speech, Governance, GV, Human rights, law, Middle East & North Africa, military, Militia, North America, police, violence, War & Conflict, WITNESS