Tag: humanitarian
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Haiti Earthquake – video and resources
We’re not tracking the Haiti earthquake ourselves, but here are a few links to those who are… – CitizenTube’s rolling playlist of Haiti videos on YouTube – The NYT’s list of those tracking the earthquake on Twitter – Reuters Alertnet’s live blog – Reuters’ own live updates – Washington Post’s live blog – Matisse mentions our friends at Global Voices Online…
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PEN World Voices Festival: Wafaa Bilal, Emmanuel Guibert and Josep-Maria Terricabras
[Cross-posted from the WITNESS Hub Blog.] I’m moderating a free panel in the NYC PEN World Voices Festival at 6pm on Thursday 30th April – “Quiet Revolutions in Storytelling” – at which we’re going to be discussing new media, storytelling and human rights. We have three fascinating panellists, and I wanted to introduce you to their…
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Animated film shows Gaza to be a “Closed Zone”
[Originally published here on the WITNESS Hub blog.] There’s an interesting post over at GV, where Maya Norton scours the Israeli blogosphere for reactions to “Closed Zone”, a new 90-second film about the closed border around Gaza: Read Maya’s post here – and read more about the film, and Gisha, the organisation that made it, here.
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Shocking video testimony from Darfur perpetrators (Aegis Trust)
[Originally posted here on the WITNESS Hub Blog.] If you watch one thing today, make it this video. And then forward it to 5 people you know. Why? Because it features stark and rare testimony from four alleged perpetrators of the mass atrocities in Darfur, and it needs to be seen as widely as possible. The…
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World Refugee Day – Zimbabwe, South Africa and Iraq
[Originally published here on the WITNESS Hub blog.] There are 16 million refugees and 51 million internally displaced people worldwide, according to the UNHCR’s latest figures [pdf]. That number is so extraordinary, so egregious, that I find it personally difficult to absorb – but this World Refugee Day, there seems to be much more imagery available showing…
Sameer Padania 