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Title: Iraq: a lost generation
Runtime: 2:48
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Iraq: Children caught in the crossfire of the battle for Mosul suffer horrific injuries and trauma

The desperate plight of a generation of children is in the balance as the bloody battle for the city of Mosul threatens to become a humanitarian catastrophe, Amnesty International said today following a field investigation.

Title: Feeling Better?
Runtime: 1:15
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Was 2016 really the worst year ever?

Well thanks to you, we've found a few things to make us all feel better about this year.

Title: Edward Snowden - Whistleblower
Runtime: 4:06
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/write-for-rights/

When Edward Snowden shared USA intelligence documents with journalists in June 2013, he revealed the shocking extent of global mass surveillance.

He showed how governments were secretly hoovering up huge chunks of our personal communications, including private emails, phone locations, web histories and so much more. All without our consent.

His courage changed the world. He sparked a global debate, changing laws and helping to protect our privacy. For the first time in 40 years, the USA passed laws to control government surveillance. Globally, technology companies including Apple and WhatsApp are now doing more to protect our personal information.

None of this would have happened without Edward Snowden. A former US Attorney General admitted that Snowden’s revelations “performed a public service”. Even President Obama said that this debate about surveillance “will make ...

Title: Post Execution
Runtime: 1:59
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Sign the petition:
http://amn.st/60078J6Y5

Belarus is the last country in the whole of Europe and the former Soviet Union which still uses the death penalty. Since its independence in 2001, over 400 prisoners are believed to have been executed.

Most are convicted after an unfair trial and torture is often used to extract confessions. Relatives of those sentenced to execution are not granted a final meeting and neither they, nor the prisoner are told of the time or date of execution. Prisoners are shot in the back of the head with only a minute or two’s warning that they will be executed.

Families of executed prisoners do not receive confirmation of the execution for weeks, or sometimes, months after the event. They are not given the bodies of their loved ones for burial, nor is the location of the burial site disclosed. The UN has ruled that in Belarus the secrecy surrounding the death penalty constitutes inhuman treatment of the relativ...

Deadly repression of pro-Biafra activists

Title: Deadly repression of pro-Biafra activists
Runtime: 5:49
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Supporters of Biafran independence have been shot dead by the Nigerian security forces during raids while they slept, at prayer meetings and remembrance celebrations, and while trying to flee from peaceful marches.
Since August 2015, the security forces have killed at least 150 members and supporters of the pro-Biafran organization IPOB (Indigenous People of Biafra) and injured hundreds during non-violent meetings, marches and other gatherings.
Video footage and eyewitness testimony consistently show that the military, which has been deployed instead of police to control pro-Biafran events, has dispersed peaceful gatherings by firing live ammunition with little or no warning.
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Title: Ilham Tohti - Write for Rights
Runtime: 5:06
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Demand action. Tell China to release Ilham Tohti immediately and unconditionally.

“The path I have pursued all along is honourable and peaceful. I have relied only on pen and paper.”

Interview with Ilham Tohti filmed by: Tsering Woeser

Ilham Tohti is a well-respected university professor, known for his moderate views on ethnic issues in China. Yet in January 2014 he was taken from his home in Beijing by police.

For five months, family and friends were not told where he was. He was denied food for 10 days and had his feet in shackles for 20 days straight. Then in September 2014 he was given a life sentence – supposedly for stirring up ethnic hatred.
Ilham comes from the Uighur community, a largely Muslim ethnic group that faces widespread discrimination in his home region, the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. In recent years, there has been a rise in tensions between ethnic groups there, as well as an increase in violen...

Peace River Valley - Write for Rights 2016

Title: Peace River Valley - Write for Rights 2016
Runtime: 5:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Tell Canada to halt the Site C dam.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/write-for-rights/

It’s been over 100 years since Helen Knott’s great-great grandfather signed a treaty with the government of Canada to protect his people’s way of life. Instead of honouring that promise, the government has authorized a massive hydro-electric dam that threatens Indigenous cultures and ways of life in the Peace River Valley, British Columbia.

Indigenous peoples in the region have already lost much of their land to oil and gas drilling. If the multi-billion dollar Site C dam goes ahead, they will lose one of the last areas where they still hunt, fish and carry out sacred ceremonies.

The government approved the dam, despite finding that it would cause permanent harm to Indigenous peoples in the area.

Now, Indigenous peoples from the West Moberly and Prophet River First Nations have gone to court, insisting that the Canadian go...

Title: "Shawkan" - Write for Rights
Runtime: 5:28
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Urge Egypt to drop all charges against Shawkan and free him immediately.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/write-for-rights/

Mahmoud Abu Zeid, better known as Shawkan, was only doing his job. A photojournalist, he was covering a sit-in on 14 August 2013 in Cairo, when security forces swept in.

“It was like a Hollywood movie,” he wrote later. “It felt like we were in the middle of a war. There were bullets, tear gas, fire, police, soldiers and tanks everywhere.”

Shawkan used his camera to capture the mayhem around him. Police and soldiers had been deployed across the country to stamp out dissent where they found it. It was the bloodiest incident in Egypt’s recent history, claiming some 1,000 lives in one day.

When police found out Shawkan was a journalist, they arrested him. They tied his hands together with plastic cables that cut through his skin, bloodying his wrists. They punched him and whipped him wi...

Title: Annie Alfred - Write for Rights
Runtime: 5:27
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Demand that Malawi protect people with albinism from murder.

Annie Alfred is like any other child in Malawi. Her friends and family love her. Aged 10, she wants to be a nurse when she grows up. But she may never live to realize her ambitions because of people who believe her body has magic powers. These people think she’s unhuman. They call her names like “ghost” or “money”. They want to steal her hair or – worse – her bones.

Annie was born with albinism, an inherited condition that prevents her body from making enough colour, or melanin, to protect her skin from the sun. About 7,000–10,000 people in Malawi share Annie’s condition. And they are all at risk of being hunted and killed by people who think their body parts will make them rich.

Attacks on people with albinism have seen a sharp rise since November 2014. In 2015 alone, there were 45 reports of actual or attempted murder and abduction.

People like Annie h...

Title: Giyas and Bayram - Write for Rights
Runtime: 1:19
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: UPDATE: GIYAS HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS IN PRISON. URGE AZERBAIJAN'S PRESIDENT TO FREE GIYAS AND BAYRAM NOW.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/write-for-rights/

They protested in the only way they knew how. Fed up with an increasingly authoritarian state, students Bayram Mammadov and Giyas Ibrahimov sprayed an angry message on the statue of Azerbaijan’s former president, whose son currently rules the country.

The message read “Happy slave day”, a play on the slogan “Happy Flower Day” which is celebrated on 10 May, the former president’s birthday. The young men posted a photo of their action on Facebook on 9 May 2016. They were arrested within a few hours and charged with drug possession.

Bayram and Giyas say that the police planted heroin on them. The fact that they were arrested shortly after painting the statue, and that they were only interrogated about the graffiti, exposes the charges for what they are: a ...

Title: Peace Valley - Write for Rights - Short
Runtime: 1:34
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Tell Canada to halt the Site C dam.

It’s been over 100 years since Helen Knott’s great-great grandfather signed a treaty with the government of Canada to protect his people’s way of life. Instead of honouring that promise, the government has authorized a massive hydro-electric dam that threatens Indigenous cultures and ways of life in the Peace River Valley, British Columbia.

Indigenous peoples in the region have already lost much of their land to oil and gas drilling. If the multi-billion dollar Site C dam goes ahead, they will lose one of the last areas where they still hunt, fish and carry out sacred ceremonies.

The government approved the dam, despite finding that it would cause permanent harm to Indigenous peoples in the area.

Now, Indigenous peoples from the West Moberly and Prophet River First Nations have gone to court, insisting that the Canadian government stand by the treaty promise made over a century ago, and stop ...

Title: Ilham Tohti - Write for Rights - Short
Runtime: 0:53
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Demand action. Tell China to release Ilham Tohti immediately and unconditionally.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/write-for-rights/

“The path I have pursued all along is honourable and peaceful. I have relied only on pen and paper.”

Ilham Tohti is a well-respected university professor, known for his moderate views on ethnic issues in China. Yet in January 2014 he was taken from his home in Beijing by police.

For five months, family and friends were not told where he was. He was denied food for 10 days and had his feet in shackles for 20 days straight. Then in September 2014 he was given a life sentence – supposedly for stirring up ethnic hatred.
Ilham comes from the Uighur community, a largely Muslim ethnic group that faces widespread discrimination in his home region, the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. In recent years, there has been a rise in tensions between ethnic groups there, as well as an increase in v...

Title: "Shawkan" - Write for Rights - Short
Runtime: 0:54
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Urge Egypt to drop all charges against Shawkan and free him immediately.

Mahmoud Abu Zeid, better known as Shawkan, was only doing his job. A photojournalist, he was covering a sit-in on 14 August 2013 in Cairo, when security forces swept in.

“It was like a Hollywood movie,” he wrote later. “It felt like we were in the middle of a war. There were bullets, tear gas, fire, police, soldiers and tanks everywhere.”

Shawkan used his camera to capture the mayhem around him. Police and soldiers had been deployed across the country to stamp out dissent where they found it. It was the bloodiest incident in Egypt’s recent history, claiming some 1,000 lives in one day.

When police found out Shawkan was a journalist, they arrested him. They tied his hands together with plastic cables that cut through his skin, bloodying his wrists. They punched him and whipped him with a belt. Today he is held in Cairo’s notorious Tora Prison, and alt...

Annie Alfred - Short - Write for Rights 2016

Title: Annie Alfred - Short - Write for Rights 2016
Runtime: 1:08
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Demand that Malawi protect people with albinism from murder.

Annie Alfred is like any other child in Malawi. Her friends and family love her. Aged 10, she wants to be a nurse when she grows up. But she may never live to realize her ambitions because of people who believe her body has magic powers. These people think she’s unhuman. They call her names like “ghost” or “money”. They want to steal her hair or – worse – her bones.

Annie was born with albinism, an inherited condition that prevents her body from making enough colour, or melanin, to protect her skin from the sun. About 7,000–10,000 people in Malawi share Annie’s condition. And they are all at risk of being hunted and killed by people who think their body parts will make them rich.

Attacks on people with albinism have seen a sharp rise since November 2014. In 2015 alone, there were 45 reports of actual or attempted murder and abduction.

People like Annie h...

Title: How Write for Rights works
Runtime: 0:45
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Write a letter, change a life

Every December, Amnesty supporters across the globe will write millions of letters for people whose basic human rights are being attacked.

It’s all part of Write for Rights, our global letter-writing marathon. It’s one of the world’s biggest human rights events and carries on a long tradition of people like you writing letters to right some of the world’s biggest wrongs.

And it’s not just letters – it could be petitions, emails, Tweets, Facebook posts, photos, postcards… Whatever you think will have the biggest impact, and help bring about change.

Edward Snowden - Write for Rights - Short

Title: Edward Snowden - Write for Rights - Short
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/write-for-rights/

When Edward Snowden shared USA intelligence documents with journalists in June 2013, he revealed the shocking extent of global mass surveillance.

He showed how governments were secretly hoovering up huge chunks of our personal communications, including private emails, phone locations, web histories and so much more. All without our consent.

His courage changed the world. He sparked a global debate, changing laws and helping to protect our privacy. For the first time in 40 years, the USA passed laws to control government surveillance. Globally, technology companies including Apple and WhatsApp are now doing more to protect our personal information. None of this would have happened without Edward Snowden. A former US Attorney General admitted that Snowden’s revelations “performed a public service”. Even President Obama said that this debate about surveillance “will make us stronger”...

Title: Write for Rights 2016 - A Chain Letter
Runtime: 3:07
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Every December, Amnesty supporters across the globe will write millions of letters for people whose basic human rights are being attacked.

It’s all part of Write for Rights, our global letter-writing marathon. It’s one of the world’s biggest human rights events and carries on a long tradition of people like you writing letters to right some of the world’s biggest wrongs.

Deepening Central American Refugee Crisis

Title: Deepening Central American Refugee Crisis
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Thousands of Central Americans flee their countries forced out by violence, they seek refugee status but many are deported to an uncertain fate.

Music credit: Ghosts I by Nine Inch Nails under a Creative Commons License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/)

Darfur: credible evidence of use of chemical weapons

Title: Darfur: credible evidence of use of chemical weapons
Runtime: 4:10
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS VERY GRAPHIC IMAGES. VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED.

An Amnesty International investigation has gathered horrific evidence of the repeated use of what are believed to be chemical weapons against civilians, including very young children, by Sudanese government forces in one of the most remote regions of Darfur over the past eight months.

For more information please go to www.amnesty.org

Title: Islam Khalil; free at last
Runtime: 1:10
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Islam Khalil was abducted in May 2015 by Egypt's security forces. He was harassed, beaten and tortured. For 122 days, his family had no information as to his whereabouts. They campaigned, alongside Amnesty.

Today we are happy to inform Amnesty activists and supporters across the globe that the campaigning is working – Islam is free! Don't just take our word for it – Islam’s brother Nour thanks you all for your continued commitment.

Together we will keep fighting for an end to enforced disappearances in Egypt and for the release of all people who remain disappeared.

Tell Egypt's president "Sisi"; they must end all enforced disappearances now.

Tweet: https://twitter.com/alsisiofficial

With: (copy and paste) end abductions and torture in Egypt

Title: Child labour : An urgent call
Runtime: 0:37
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Your smartphone could contain cobalt mined by children in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Is your phone powered by child labour?

Title: Trapped In Greece
Runtime: 4:48
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Alan Mohammad and his sister Gyan are disabled Kurdish refugees in Syria who fled with their mother, brother and sister to Iraq in 2014 and then via Turkey to Greece. They travelled via horseback, in the back of a van and in a dinghy.

They are now trapped in Ritsona camp, 1 hour north of Athens in Greece, whilst their father and another sister are in Germany. Both Alan and Gyan suffer from muscular dystrophy, are in wheelchairs and unable to do the most basic tasks which makes living in the camp very difficult for them. They would like to join their father and other sister in Germany.

Title: Your Light Keeps The Disappeared Alive
Runtime: 1:27
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: “We can all do something with our light. What do you want to do with yours?”

Through forty three portraits of the disappeared students of Ayotzinapa (Iguala, Mexico) in 2014, fire painter Steven Spazuk keeps all the disappeared people alive...

Title: Lonmin: Put Your House in Order
Runtime: 11:54
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Sign the petition:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/take-action/lonmin-broken-promises/

Four years ago, 38 employees of a platinum mine in Marikana, South Africa, were killed by the police, breaking up a strike. More than 70 others were wounded. The Commission of Enquiry into the killings said that one issue that ignited the unrest was the lack of adequate accommodation provided by the company's owners, Lonmin, for its 20,000 employees.

Four years on, little has changed. This report examines Lonmin's failures and fabrications on its legal obligations to provide adequate accommodation and why it still hasn't put its own house in order.

Title: Inside Saydnaya: Syria's Torture Prison
Runtime: 10:26
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Amnesty International has teamed up with Forensic Architecture, a research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London, to recreate the horrors of Saydnaya, a Syrian torture prison near Damascus, through an interactive 3D model.

This video demonstrates the model of the prison, and features interviews and testimonies from researchers at Forensic Architecture, from Philip Luther, Middle East and North Africa Programme Director at Amnesty International, and with former prisoners at Saydnaya.

The 3D model of the prison can be found at the following link.- https://saydnaya.amnesty.org

Title: South Sudan: Army Attacks on Civilians
Runtime: 2:54
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Civilians in South Sudan describe how government forces have attacked them during the ongoing civil war - committing murder, rape and abductions, while no one is being called to account.

Title: Ukraine - Secret Detentions
Runtime: 3:53
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Petition Ukraine's President
http://amn.st/6007BIBVc

This is the story of Kostyantyn Beskorovaynyi one of a number of people who disappeared in eastern Ukraine.

Both the Ukrainian government authorities and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have held civilians in prolonged, arbitrary detention, without any contact with the outside world, including with their lawyers or families. In some cases, the detentions constituted enforced disappearances, meaning that the
authorities in question refused to acknowledge the detention of the person or refused to provide any information on their whereabouts or fate. Most of those detained suffered torture or other forms of ill-treatment. Several were denied needed medical attention for the injuries they sustained in detention.

In cases documented by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, the Ukrainian authorities and pro-Kyiv paramilitary groups detained civilians suspected of inv...

Title: Egypt's Disappeared
Runtime: 4:56
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: https://twitter.com/alsisiofficial
end kidnappings and torture in Egypt

Under the watch of Minister of Interior Magdy Abdel Ghaffar, the pattern of enforced disappearances has become more apparent. Egyptian human rights NGOs have documented an average of 90-100 cases of enforced disappearance monthly since the beginning of 2015. Prior to this, there were isolated cases of enforced disappearances but the practice was not as routine as it is today.

Amnesty is releasing its report accompanying this video just over one year after Egypt’s Minister of Interior, a veteran of one of the most notorious security services under former President Hosni Mubarak, was appointed in March 2015. Since his appointment, the country has seen a surge in enforced disappearances and torture by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the Ministry of Interior.

Under the rule of former President Hosni Mubarak, the State Security

Investigations Service (SSI...

Title: Mexico's Open Secret
Runtime: 1:28
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Music by Niraj Chag

Title: The Human Warehouse
Runtime: 3:37
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: On a recent high level mission to Iraq, a team from Amnesty International were taken to a warehouse in the middle of nowhere.

What they found here was shocking. They were not allowed to take any pictures or shoot video.

Illustrations by Shir Katz
Music by Eric Hopton, Somaye and Niraj Chag

Title: Teenagers brutally killed in Turkey
Runtime: 3:52
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: On the the 12th August 2015 two teenagers who worked in a small town's bakery were shot and killed by the police in eastern Turkey.

The governor of the province is now considering whether or not to open a criminal investigation into the officers' actions that night

Share and like this video to show your support for an immediate, independent, impartial investigation by the Turkish authorities.

Transcript:

Muhammet Aydemir was with his friend Orhan who was also shot and killed late at night.

The boy’s families believe the two teenagers were caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The teenagers worked in the towns bakery

Earlier that day a police station near by had been attacked by the PKK, an armed Kurdish organization which is engaged in clashes with security forces

Officers then went searching for the gunman.

Everybody amnesty international spoke too said the bo...

Title: Hunted For Their Body Parts
Runtime: 7:41
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: A surge in killings of people with albinism, whose body parts are used in ritual practices, has exposed a systematic failure of policing in Malawi and left this vulnerable group living in fear, Amnesty International has revealed in a new report.

The report, “We are not animals to be hunted or sold”: Violence and discrimination against people with albinism in Malawi”, reveals how the wave of violent attacks against people with albinism has increased sharply over the last two years, with four people, including a baby, murdered in April 2016 alone.

Take action: https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/take-action/stop-albinism-killings-in-malawi/

Title: What happens when we work together
Runtime: 1:11
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Over the last two years, millions of you have demanded that governments around the world stop torture. From Morocco to the Philippines, from Nigeria to Mexico and even further afield, people all over the globe have stood up to torture and demanded justice.

Across the globe we want to celebrate just how much difference your support has made to the lives of those who’ve suffered torture.

Please continue supporting those who need your help.

Title: Afghanistan’s broken promise
Runtime: 2:34
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: “My children will die this winter” – Afghanistan’s growing displacement crisis and the failed promise of a national IDP policy.

The intensifying conflict in Afghanistan has taken a devastating toll on ordinary Afghans, hundreds of thousands of whom have been forced to flee their home. In the space of little more than four years, the number of those internally displaced by conflict has more than doubled in the country and today stands at more than one million. With levels of violence showing no sign of abating, there is every reason to believe that this trend will only continue in the near future.

Amnesty International recognises that the Afghan government is facing enormous challenges in terms of the worsening security situation and the flagging economy. Endorsing the IDP Policy was a significant and welcome step, and the implementation of such a comprehensive policy was never going to be a fast or straightforward process. The lack of progress to date ...

Look Beyond Borders: a 4 minute experiment

Title: Look Beyond Borders: a 4 minute experiment
Runtime: 5:01
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: When talking about the problem of refugees, we use dehumanised language, which reduces human tragedy to numbers and statistics. But this suffering concerns real people, who – just like us - have families, loved ones, friends; their own stories, dreams, goals... Only when you sit down opposite a specific person and look into their eyes, you no longer see an anonymous refugee, one of the migrants, and notice the human before you, just like yourself – loving, suffering, dreaming...

20 years ago, psychologist Arthur Aron discovered that 4 minutes of looking into each other's eyes can bring people closer. Using this discovery, we decided to carry out a simple experiment, during which refugees and Europeans sat opposite each other and looked into each other's eyes. Clearly, it is most important to give each other time to better understand and get to know each other.

The experiment was conducted in Berlin: the city, which - first of all - is a symbol of overcomi...

Title: Yemen: Cluster munitions
Runtime: 1:44
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Children and their families returning home in northern Yemen after a year of conflict are at grave risk of serious injury and death from thousands of unexploded cluster bomb submunitions, Amnesty International said, following a 10-day research trip to Sa’da, Hajjah, and Sana’a governorates.

International assistance is urgently needed to clear contaminated areas and countries with influence should urge the Saudi Arabia-led coalition forces to stop using cluster munitions, which are internationally banned and inherently indiscriminate.

Title: #WithRefugees
Runtime: 2:24
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The results of our global survey on public attitudes towards refugees are overwhelmingly positive – but most governments still just aren’t listening. It's time to speak out!

It’s time to make brave decisions and do the right thing - Governments can start by agreeing to share responsibility for those refugees who need help most, at the World Humanitarian Summit in Turkey on 23-24 May.

We're pushing for more than 1 million refugees to be resettled by the end of 2017. It’s not going to be simple, or easy, but as our Refugees Welcome survey shows, thousands of people stand ready to roll up their sleeves and pitch in.

Stand #withrefugees

Take the pledge https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/take-action/speak-out-for-refugees-rights/

Title: An Urgent Appeal - Save Alireza
Runtime: 1:18
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Alireza Tajiki is a 19 year old teenager due to be executed on 15th May 2016. He was just 15 years old at the time of the crime.

We are urging Iran's Head of the Judiciary, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, to stop this execution.

Executing someone who was a child at the time of the crime is illegal under international law. So is carrying out a death sentence after an unfair trial.

Please stop Alireza Tajiki’s execution.

#Iran must STOP execution of teenager Alireza Tajiki and grant him a re-trial NOW
#SaveAlireza
@JZarif
@Khamenei_fa

No nationality, no rights: stateless people in the Dominican Republic

Title: No nationality, no rights: stateless people in the Dominican Republic
Runtime: 3:31
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: 10 million people are stateless in the world. This means that no country recognize them as their nationals. They belong to nowhere. In the Dominican Republic only they’re tens of thousands. Stateless people are like ghosts, with no rights, no future.

www.ow.ly/Zx9UN

Title: A Lesson from Burkina Faso
Runtime: 2:24
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: #mybodymyrights

52% of girls in Burkina Faso marry before they are 18.

Yet forced and early marriage is illegal in the country.

Girls in Burkina Faso demand their childhoods back.

Support them.

Produced by Yancouba Dieme and music by Smarty.

Military cover-up of mass slaughter at Zaria, Nigeria exposed

Title: Military cover-up of mass slaughter at Zaria, Nigeria exposed
Runtime: 1:03
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: A new report from Amnesty International exposes mass slaughter of hundreds of men, women and children by soldiers in Zaria and the attempted cover-up of this crime. Evidence gathered on the ground reveals how the Nigerian military burned people alive, razed buildings and dumped victims’ bodies in mass graves.

Title: One day on the Hungarian border
Runtime: 2:20
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Tirana Hassan, Amnesty International's Director of Crisis Research, tells the story of abuses committed against a group of refugees in just one day on the Hungarian border. In this touching story, tear gassed families have been separated, and the Amnesty International team must at once bear witness to these abuses, report on the events globally, and do everything they can to ensure that these families are reunited.

Title: A Turning Point for China?
Runtime: 2:52
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: In this film, William Nee discusses what it’s like doing human rights work in China today, and tells the story of Pu Zhiqiang, one of China’s most famous free speech lawyers, who was imprisoned in January 2014. Attacks on human rights defenders are common in China, but Amnesty International is working to improve the situation. William tells us how, with the help of Amnesty, and through William’s work bringing this case to the world’s attention, Pu was released in December 2015, and why it’s important to continue to fight for freedom and human rights in China.

Title: Africa Not 4 Sale
Runtime: 2:48
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Eddie Ndopu is a campaigner in Amnesty International’s Johannesburg office, campaigning for a new type of social justice that serves the real challenges and hopes of young people in Africa. Eddie’s hope is to move beyond the old narrative of Africa Rising, and involve influential young activists, in building, and campaigning on, their own stories. In this film Eddie tells the story of his journey to the World Economic Forum to launch his campaign: Africa Not 4 Sale.

Investigating conditions in Qatar migrant camps

Title: Investigating conditions in Qatar migrant camps
Runtime: 2:51
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: In 2015 Mustafa Qadri travelled to Qatar to investigate working conditions in migrant camps. Fearful of what might happen to him as a result of his investigation, Mustafa took great care when interviewing Ramesh, a Nepalese worker living in desperate conditions whose passport had been taken from him. However, his investigation was still almost discovered. Interrogated by police, Mustafa was able to smuggle his report out of the camp and take it to the National Human Rights Committee, leading to the release of Ramesh and 34 other workers.

Title: Action For Teodora
Runtime: 2:15
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: In this film, we learn about the fate of many women in El Salvador, where abortion laws are so inhumane that a woman can be imprisoned simply for having a miscarriage, and about Amnesty International’s ongoing work to pressure governments into changing this law. Deputy Director of Campaigns Juliana Cano Nieto tells us the story of Teodora, a woman tragically imprisoned for over eight years, who is still waiting for her release and for justice for all women in El Salvador.

Title: A letter for Ales
Runtime: 2:45
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Martyna is a campaigner at Amnesty International Poland, the birthplace of what is now Amnesty International’s biggest annual global campaign: Write for Rights. Every year people all over the world join with Amnesty International to flood powerful offices around the globe with demands for freedom and justice. Martyna tells the story of how she brought about the case for Belarussian activist Ales Bialetski, and how the campaign influenced Ales’ release from prison. Through Martyna’s story we learn about the power of solidarity, the impact of action, and about what it means to be part of a global movement for human rights.

Title: What if they don't? Trailer
Runtime: 0:51
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description

Title: Daraya, Syria - Barrel bombs
Runtime: 2:49
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description

Title: Death Penalty Facts and Statistics 2015
Runtime: 2:53
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: 2015 saw a dramatic rise in the number of people executed – at least 1,634 – the highest recorded by Amnesty International since 1989.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do...

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