Amnesty International
Qatar: World Cup 2022 forced labour
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- Qatar: World Cup 2022 forced labour
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- 11:08
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Migrant workers building Khalifa International Stadium in Doha for the 2022 World Cup have suffered systematic abuses, in some cases forced labour, Amnesty International reveals in a new report.
The report, “The ugly side of the beautiful game: Labour exploitation on a Qatar 2022 World Cup venue”, blasts FIFA’s shocking indifference to appalling treatment of migrant workers. The number of people working on World Cup sites is set to surge almost ten-fold to around 36,000 in the next two years.
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- EU Leaders Abandon Refugees
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Up to 5000 refugees are currently stranded in the port of Piraeus, Athens. Last Friday 18 March 2016, EU leaders decided on a deal to trade refugees’ lives. We must stand #WithRefugees and demand that the EU accepts refugees from Greece. Join us! https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/take-action/speak-out-for-refugees-rights/
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- Assessing our Impact - Shell in the Niger Delta
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- 2:48
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Amnesty International is continuously striving to become a better and more effective organisation. We constantly evaluate ourselves to improve our impact in getting justice for those whose rights have been abused and to prevent further human rights violations. To achieve this we use different tools and methods, including interviews with those whose rights we want to protect.
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- Illegal call to North Korea – is my father dead or alive?
- Runtime
- 4:11
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Imagine your parents are missing and you have no way of finding out where they are. When state agents pay you a sudden visit they inform you that your parents are dead, having been shot while trying to leave the country. Unable to call outside the country, and with no access to the internet, there’s little you can do but accept the news. A year later, a stranger knocks on your door . He says he has a letter from your parents: they have successfully left the country and are alive! And they want to speak to you.
But there is a catch. To speak to them, you will have to travel hundreds of kilometres. There is intense surveillance and at every moment, you run the risk of getting caught by the authorities.
Connection is a basic human need. Kim Jong-un must allow North Koreans to connect with the outside world.
Join our call and play the game at
Connectiondenied.amnesty.org
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- Banished and dispossessed in northern Iraq
- Runtime
- 6:15
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- This video shows how Peshmerga forces from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Kurdish militias in northern Iraq have bulldozed, blown up and burned down thousands of homes in an apparent effort to uproot Arab communities in revenge for their perceived support for the so-called Islamic State (IS) and to establish control of a disputed area of the country they have long claimed as theirs.
All images filmed on the road, in a camp for displaced Yezidi in Sinjar, in Barzanke and Umm Khabari are courtesy SRF.
Images from in Jalawla and Jiri belong to Amnesty International.
Satellite image of Sibaya © CNES 2015, Distribution AIRBUS DS
Satellite image of Tabaj Hamid © Digital globe
Music is by Niraj Chag.
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- This is what we die for: Child labour in the DRC cobalt mines
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- 8:02
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- This film documents the hazardous conditions in which artisanal miners, including thousands of children, mine cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It goes on to trace how this cobalt is used to power mobile phones, laptop computers, and other portable electronic devices. Using basic hand tools, miners dig out rocks from tunnels deep underground, and accidents are common. Despite the potentially fatal health effects of prolonged exposure to cobalt, adult and child miners work without even the most basic protective equipment.
MUSIC BY NIRAJ CHAG
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- Amal Clooney tells Amnesty International why the former President of the Maldives must be released.
- Runtime
- 4:21
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney tells Amnesty International why she has taken up the case of former President Mohamed Nasheed, former president of the Maldives who was jailed for 13 years on terrorism charges. This hasty trial received universal criticism and the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has declared his imprisonment as a violation of international law.
Amal Clooney gave this interview after she spoke at a side event organised by Amnesty International to highlight the human rights situation in the Maldives focusing on fair trials and access to justice.
Amal Clooney acts as legal council to Mohamed Nasheed who is only one of several opposition leaders imprisoned following unfair trials.
Others include former Defence Minister Mohamed Nazim, sentenced in March to 11 years for allegedly keeping an unlicensed weapon; former Deputy Speaker of Parliament Ahmed Nazim, sentenced in March to 25 years for alleged corruption.
- Title
- The Land of Make Believe
- Runtime
- 2:14
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- READ MORE: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2015/10/myanmar-make-believe/
Despite important political and economic reforms in Myanmar, people continue to be arrested simply for exercising their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. There are still prisoners of conscience (POCs) in the country. They must immediately and unconditionally be released ahead of the upcoming general elections on 8 November.
This action circular is for campaigners in Amnesty sections and in the IS and describes the campaign: ‘Myanmar: The land of make believe’. The campaign calls on the international community to put pressure on Myanmar’s President to order an amnesty to release all prisoners of conscience ahead of the general elections scheduled for 8 November.
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- "We had nowhere else to go": Forced displacement and demolitions in northern Syria
- Runtime
- 7:44
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Film produced by Amnesty International showing the researchers' investigation of the abuses committed by the Autonomous Administration, led by the Democratic Union Party (PYD), a Syrian Kurdish political party . These abuses include forced displacement, demolition of homes, and the seizure and destruction of property. In some cases, entire villages have been demolished, apparently in retaliation for the perceived support of their Arab or Turkmen residents for the group that calls itself the Islamic State (IS) or other non-state armed groups.
Amnesty International's Researchers conducted research in the areas under the control of the Autonomous Administration in northern Syria interviewing local residents who had directly experienced abuses perpetrated by the Autonomous Administration’s security forces or witnessed them. Researchers also interviewed refugees from the area administered by the Autonomous Administration when visiting southern Turkey in August 2015.
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- Yemen : ‘Bombs fall from the sky day and night’
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- 4:03
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Amnesty International researchers visited Yemen in June and July 2015 and gathered evidence of serious violations of international humanitarian law, including war crimes in Sa'da in northeastern Yemen. They investigated 13 deadly airstrikes which killed some 100 civilians including 59 children. They also documented the use of internationally banned cluster bombs.
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- Refugees at the Hungary/Serbia Border 16 Sept 2015
- Runtime
- 1:06
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Amnesty met Abdullah, a refugee from Syria, in Roezke, a crossing on Hungary's border with Serbia, 16 September 2015.
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- Serbia/Hungary: Refugees stuck in ‘no-man’s land’.
- Runtime
- 1:29
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- More than 1,000 people, including many families fleeing conflict in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, remain stuck in abysmal and rapidly deteriorating conditions along a Serbian motorway after Hungarian authorities closed the border crossing yesterday, Amnesty International said today from Horgoš on the Serbian side.
Humanitarian organizations, including the UN Refugee Agency, have been virtually absent so far and the Serbian authorities’ only response has been to send a handful of police to the border area. Hundreds of refugees are sleeping rough on a closed motorway, with only ad hoc aid from volunteers and severely restricted access to food, running water or toilets.
“The refugees we’ve spoken to have described the uncertainty and indignation they feel, stuck in limbo with a complete lack of information. They are effectively stuck in a no-man’s land on the Serbian border and the Hungarian border fence,” said Tirana Hassan, Director of Crisis Respon...
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- Chain Reaction - #refugeeswelcome
- Runtime
- 1:11
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- We welcome refugees #refugeeswelcome
On Sunday 13th September 2015, Amnesty International Italy, Art for Amnesty and the Italian NGO "Insieme Si Può" organised a massive 'human chain' event, linking arms around the three peaks of Lavaredo, a mountain within the Dolomites mountain range in Italy.. An estimated 5,000-6,000 people joined in.
Participants in the human chain signed a human rights manifesto including support for refugees and migrants.
Signatures will be sent to Italian Foreign Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, and to Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
We face the biggest refugee crisis since World War II. Millions of people are fleeing unthinkable violence and abuse in their home countries – from barrel bombing and gas attacks in Syria, to torture and enslavement in Eritrea. A shameful response.
Since January 2015, over 411,000 people, most of th...
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- Hungary - Serbia border
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Tirana Hassan, Amnesty International's Director of Crisis Research, and Todor Gardos, Balkans campaigner are on the Hungary - Serbia border to investigate the effects of Hungary closing its borders to fleeing refugees.
For more information: https://www.amnesty.org/en/press-releases/2015/09/hungary-refugees-blocked-by-forces-criminalized-by-laws/
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- The Bombing of Zergele
- Runtime
- 5:21
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Turkish air strikes on August 1 in Zergele kill local residents.
Music by Niraj Chag
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- Human rights for sex workers
- Runtime
- 5:19
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- A crucial vote to protect the human rights of sex workers was passed today in Dublin at Amnesty International’s decision-making forum, the International Council Meeting (ICM). Delegates from around the world adopted a resolution which authorized the International Board to develop and adopt a policy on the issue.
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- Black Friday
- Runtime
- 14:59
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The 1st August 2014 saw the darkest day in the Gaza Conflict of 2014 - Black Friday. This is the story of what happened that day - which saw the highest number of Palestinian civilians lose their lives under a massive bombardment by the Israeli military - told in most extraordinary detail in a joint investigation by Amnesty International and the Forensic Architecture department of Goldsmiths, University of London. Using a 3D model of Rafah and hundreds of stills, video footage, testimonies this collaboration shows that there is strong evidence that the Israelis committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity: something they have always denied. It is the story of the kidnapping of a soldier, a secret military order and the extraordinary price paid by Palestinian civilians for a single Israeli life.
The video references research released in the Amnesty International report of the same name.
https://blackfriday.amnesty.org/
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- How Do They Do It? : Forensic Architecture
- Runtime
- 8:05
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
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- Gaza Platform Findings
- Runtime
- 10:02
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Read More: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/cam...
Forensic Architecture - The Gaza platform is an innovative new tool being used to investigate human rights abuses. Amnesty International commissioned Goldsmiths University's Forensic Architecture department to build a unique database using all available satellite imagery, broadcast news and citizen generated footage, stills, tweets, press reports and releases etc generated during the 50 days of the Gaza Conflict 2014 to build a definitive picture of what happened minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day as a way of investigating war crimes.
The aim to identify trends and patterns in the military strategy to counter Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statement to the United Nations that Israel had done "everything possible to minimise Palestinian civilian casualties".
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- Euro Pride 2015
- Runtime
- 3:18
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- In 2005, 70 LGBTI activists faced 2,000 counter-protestors to march in Riga's first Pride. Ten years later, in the same city, Latvian LGBTI organisation Mozaika hosted the pan-European Europride event, and Amnesty International sent a delegation of activists in support. Here's what happened.
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- CSI: Gaza - Forensic Architects
- Runtime
- 4:42
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Together with Amnesty International, Forensic Architects of Goldsmiths, University of London have embarked on an extraordinary and ambitious scientific project - The Gaza Platform. Its the most comprehensive database ever build on what happened during the Gaza conflict 2014. The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said that his country did everything possible to minimise civilian casualties. But it's not true.
https://gazaplatform.amnesty.org/
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- Stop Torture - Flash mob!
- Runtime
- 4:52
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
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- Ban Mass Surveillance
- Runtime
- 1:12
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Sign the petition today.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/action-unfollowme-tell-governments-to-ban-mass-surveillance/
Action: Tell governments to ban the use of mass surveillance.
Mass surveillance is out of control – it invades our privacy and threatens free speech
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- Stars on their shoulders, blood on their hands... Nigerian military war crimes
- Runtime
- 11:21
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- The Nigerian military, including senior military commanders, must be investigated for participating in, sanctioning or failing to prevent the deaths of more than 8,000 people murdered, starved, suffocated, and
tortured to death, according to a comprehensive report by Amnesty International.
Based on years of research and analysis of evidence - including leaked military reports and correspondence, as well as interviews with more than 400 victims, eyewitnesses and senior members of the Nigerian security forces - the organization outlines a range of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity committed by the Nigerian military in the course of the fight against Boko Haram in the north-east of the country...
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- Ambassador of Conscience Award 2015
- Runtime
- 5:05
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Joan Baez and Ai Weiwei receive 2015 Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award.
Legendary folk singer Joan Baez and world-renowned artist Ai Weiwei were awarded the 2015 Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award at an evening ceremony in Berlin on 21 May 2015 which featured performances from artists around the world.
The Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award recognizes those who have shown exceptional leadership in the fight for human rights, through their life and work.
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- Campaign Video - South Korea Conscientious Objector
- Runtime
- 1:42
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Short film produced by Amnesty International's Regional Office in Hong Kong.
The film summarises the issue of prison terms and criminal records meted out to conscientious objectors in South Korea.
In South Korea, men who refuse to undergo compulsory military service are tried in civil courts for violation of the, Military Services Act (MSA). Under the MSA typically all males ages 18-35must serve an average of 24 months active military service followed by subsequent duties in the Reserved Forces for the following eight years. Most conscientious objectors in South Korea currently serve a minimum of 18 months in prison. They leave prison with a criminal record and are consequently discriminated against when seeking employment.
The large majority of conscientious objectors in South Korea are Jehovah’s Witnesses. The remainder conscientiously object because of other religious beliefs or have moral, ethical, humanitarian or similar reasons for refusin...
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- South Korea Conscientious Objector - Song In Ho
- Runtime
- 3:39
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Short film produced by Amnesty International's Regional Office in Hong Kong.
The film focuses on Song In-ho, a Jehovah's Witness who has a criminal record because he is a conscientious objector.
In South Korea, men who refuse to undergo compulsory military service are tried in civil courts for violation of the, Military Services Act (MSA). Under the MSA typically all males ages 18-35must serve an average of 24 months active military service followed by subsequent duties in the Reserved Forces for the following eight years. Most conscientious objectors in South Korea currently serve a minimum of 18 months in prison. They leave prison with a criminal record and are consequently discriminated against when seeking employment.
The large majority of conscientious objectors in South Korea are Jehovah’s Witnesses. The remainder conscientiously object because of other religious beliefs or have moral, ethical, humanitarian or similar reasons for refusing...
- Title
- How do you spell "discrimination"?
- Runtime
- 1:37
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- The video accompanies the new Amnesty International campaign against discrimination and segregation of Romani children in education in Czech Republic launched on 23 April 2015. It is called "Must Try Harder: Czech Prime Minister School Report" and features different children of different nationalities being asked to spell the word discrimination. Find out more and take action calling on the Czech Prime Minister to end ethnic discrimination of Romani children in schools at: www.amnesty.org/MustTryHarder
Romani children in the Czech Republic are not getting the same education as other children. They're bullied just for being different, kept separate from other pupils and even placed in schools for pupils with learning disabilities. It means they can't fulfil their potential and build a better future - for themselves, their families and communities, and Czech society.
The European Commission has criticised the Czech government for failing to tackle this discrimin...
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- Got a sinking feeling they don't care
- Runtime
- 0:35
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- The world's most dangerous sea crossing is getting even deadlier. Our governments are spending money patrolling borders when they could be saving refugees and migrants’ lives. EU leaders have power to change this – sign our petition. http://bit.ly/FortressEurope
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- Stop Torture in Uzbekistan
- Runtime
- 2:00
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Six interesting facts you won't know about Uzbekistan.
Six interesting facts you won’t know about about… Uzbekistan.
Fact One: Uzbekistan is one of only two countries in the world that are doubly land locked.
And it’s locked up around six thousand independent Muslim believers and political activists opposed to the Government …..oh and tortured them too.
Fact Two: The capital’s metro features chandeliers with marble pillars and ceilings. Tashkent’s been called one of the most beautiful tube stations on earth.
It’s numerous underground detention facilities are not quite so opulent.
Fact Three: Uzbekistan produces some of the world’s most colourful, intricate and stunning embroidery.
Uzbekistani torturers routinely use sharp needles, inserted under fingernails, to extract false confessions from their innocent prisoners.
Fact Four: On International Women’s Day women ar...
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- Boko Haram's Female Fighters
- Runtime
- 3:51
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- At least 2,000 women and girls have been abducted by Boko Haram since the start of 2014 and many have been forced into sexual slavery and trained to fight, said Amnesty International on the first anniversary of the abduction of the Chibok school girls.
Based on nearly 200 witness accounts, including 28 with abducted women and girls who escaped captivity, a new 90-page report, 'Our job is to shoot, slaughter and kill': Boko Haram’s reign of terror, documents multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Boko Haram, including the killing of at least 5,500 civilians, as it rampaged across north-east Nigeria during 2014 and early 2015.
The Amnesty International report sheds new light on the brutal methods used by the armed group in north-east Nigeria where men and boys are regularly conscripted or systematically executed and young women and girls are abducted, imprisoned and in some cases raped, forcibly married and made to participate in armed attacks, someti...
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- Death Penalty "Who We Are" Animation
- Runtime
- 1:29
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- The Death Penalty is cruel, inhuman and degrading and should not be used ever, anywhere, by anyone.
- Title
- Death Penalty Facts and Statistics 2014
- Runtime
- 3:30
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Learn more: https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/death-penalty/
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- Torture Animation
- Runtime
- 1:17
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Torture is when someone in authority intentionally causes severe pain or suffering for a specific purpose. Such as to get information or a confession out of you, to punish, intimidate or threaten you.
It can be physical, such as beating, forcing into a painful position or sexual, such as rape. It can be psychological, such as sleep deprivation or public humiliation.
Torture is illegal: outlawed internationally since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. And 156 countries have signed the UN Convention against Torture. All forms of cruelty and humiliation are also outlawed.
Yet some governments openly continue to torture despite their commitments. Others betray their people by carrying out torture in secret.
Torture
• is barbaric and inhumane
• is banned under international law
• corrodes the rule of law and undermines the criminal justice system
… can never, ever be justified
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- Sexual and Reproductive Rights Animation
- Runtime
- 1:27
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Whoever you are, where ever you live, any decision you make about your body, life or your sexuality, should be yours alone.
Amnesty International believe, that everyone should be free to decide if, when and with whom they have sex, and whether or when to marry or have children.
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- Horror of civilian bloodshed in indiscriminate attacks in East Ukraine
- Runtime
- 2:17
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- An Amnesty International researcher on the ground in eastern Ukraine has gathered gruesome evidence of civilian deaths and casualties inflicted by both sides in the bloody conflict in the towns of Donestk and Debaltseve over the last few days.
The evidence was collected on the spot in the immediate aftermath of shelling and includes interviews with eyewitnesses and casualties in hospital.
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- Torture. More fun in the Philippines!
- Runtime
- 1:59
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Sign this petition:https://campaigns.amnesty.org/actions/in-the-philippines-no-one-arrested-by-the-police-is-safe-from-torture
Will it be suffocation or beatings, waterboarding or electric shocks - the Wheel of Torture decides.
It was discovered in 2014 that police in Laguna, Philippines were using a 'wheel of torture' to decide which torture techniques to use on prisoners shocked the world. 28 January 2015 marks the one year anniversary of when the 'Wheel of torture' was first discovered during a routine visit by the Philippines Commission on Human Rights.
The ‘Wheel of torture’ was loosely based on the popular 1980’s game show ‘Wheel of fortune’. To mark the anniversary, we have produced a video that is a satirical take on the show, recreating the exciting, family atmosphere but contestants spin the wheel of torture. One contestant spins the wheel to try and win a lawyer, but ends up landing on Manny Pacman (beatings).
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- Arms Trade Treaty - Entry into Force Animation
- Runtime
- 1:46
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Nathan Bayliss animated video that illustrates the global flow of arms around the world and Amnesty International's work in promoting the treaty for 20 years.
This video animation is both a celebration of the Treaty 'coming into force' on the 24th of December 2014 and a call to governments around the world to accept and uphold the treaty and put pressure on the world's biggest exporters and importers of arms and ammunition to join the treaty and endorse it too.
The sound design and music is by Jamie Perera
Nathan Bayliss http://www.nathanbayliss.tv/
Jamie Perera http://jamieperera.com/2014/01/25/jpm-music-library/
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- Stop Torture in the Philippines
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- For the launch of the Amnesty International, Stop Torture in the Philippines Campaign. The video features a call to President Aquino asking him to make stopping Torture his Legacy.
The video features reconstructions of torture including burning the skin with cigarettes.
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- Doudi writes to his dad in prison in Saudi Arabia
- Runtime
- 3:51
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- 10 year old Doudi writes to his dad Raif Badawi in prison in Saudi Arabia.
Raif Badawi was jailed for 10 years and sentenced to 1,000 lashes after starting an online forum for social and political debate in Saudi Arabia. Demand his immediate release – write to the King of Saudi Arabia today.
Join Amnesty International's global letter writing marathon, Write for Rights 2014.
Every December, Amnesty supporters like you write millions of messages for people whose human rights are under attack. Your words will help release prisoners of conscience. Bring torturers to justice. And change laws to protect people’s freedom.
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- End the total ban on abortion in El Salvador
- Runtime
- 1:35
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- This is not fiction. This is happening today in El Salvador.
Every year, thousands of women and girls are denied their human rights by El Salvador’s total ban on abortion. The Salvadoran government is ultimately responsible for the resulting deaths of women and girls, and for the thousands whose human rights have been violated by the ban.
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- A Legend Writes A Letter
- Runtime
- 0:33
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Take Action here:
https://campaigns.amnesty.org/campaigns/individuals-at-risk
Write for Rights is Amnesty’s annual global letter writing marathon. Every December, Amnesty supporters like you write millions of messages for people whose basic human rights are under attack. Your words will help release prisoners of conscience. Bring torturers to justice. And change laws to protect people’s freedom. We’re focusing on 12 people and communities who urgently need our support this year.
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- Shell's false claims on Nigeria oil spills
- Runtime
- 3:54
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Court documents expose Shell's false claims on Nigeria oil spills. Audrey Gaughran, Amnesty International's Director of Global Issues explains the significance of these documents and the potential repercussions.
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- Write a letter change a life
- Runtime
- 1:16
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- A video to promote Amnesty International's up and coming campaign, Write for Rights 2014.
Write for Rights is Amnesty International’s annual global letter writing marathon for people whose basic human rights are under attack. Every December, Amnesty supporters like you write millions of messages to change lives worldwide. Your words will help release prisoners of conscience. Bring torturers to justice. And change laws to protect people’s freedom.
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- Martin Sheen for Amnesty International: Justice for Bhopal survivors
- Runtime
- 1:40
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Martin Sheen, US actor and star of the film, Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain, with a video message to highlight Amnesty International's continued campaign to seek justice for the people whose lives were affected by the Bhopal chemical disaster in India in 1984.
The chemical leak occurred on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The authorities subsequently released figures in 2006 detailing that the disaster caused 558,125 injuries including 38,478 temporary partial injuries and approximately 3,900 severely and permanently disabling injuries.
In 2001, Dow acquired Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), the US-based multinational that was majority owner of the company that operated the plant at the time of the leak. The Dow Chemical Company must stop dodging its responsibility towards the survivors of the Bhopal disaster
For more information please visit
Amnesty.org/Bhopal
- Title
- Don't Be a Dummy
- Runtime
- 1:25
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- More than one protester in the street without the authorities' permission is against the law in Russia. So Amnesty decided to take another approach...
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- Lost to the Deep
- Runtime
- 8:18
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- This short film that details the plight of migrants making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea from the Middle East and North Africa. Amnesty gained access to Italian Navy frigate, Virginio Fasan as its crew rescued people from the dangerous boats used by unscrupulous human smugglers.
S.O.S. Europe is Amnesty International’s campaign for the human rights of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in Europe and at its borders. People move to Europe for different reasons. Some flee persecution or war. Others leave because of chronic poverty. They hope to find a safer, better future in Europe. But too often they find a different reality.
The Italian Search and Rescue operation - Mare Nostrum - which has been in existence since October 2013 - is likely to cease at the end of 2014, mainly due to costs. It has saved over 130,000 people. In the first nine months of 2014 more than 2500 people have drowned trying to reach Europe.
Amnesty Inte...
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- Arms Trade Treaty Ratification September 2014
- Runtime
- 3:44
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- The full establishment of a global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) and its robust implementation is an idea Amnesty International initiated and one of our top priorities. After twenty years of global campaigning by Amnesty International with its partners, governments at the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to adopt an ATT on 2 April 2013.
Music 'Cirrus' by Bonobo
Written by S. Green
Published by Kobalt
P Ninja Tune 2013
Licensed courtesy of Ninja Tune
http://smarturl.it/cirrus
Featuring contributions from Russell Brand, Helen Mirren and Nicolas Cage.
- Title
- Stop Torture in Mexico
- Runtime
- 1:17
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Torture and ill-treatment in Mexico is out of control with a 600 per cent rise in the number of reported cases in the past decade, according to a new report published by Amnesty International.
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- Not on Your Radar?
- Runtime
- 1:17
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Every year millions of people around the world are forced from their homes by conflict, persecution and poverty. Only a small proportion of these seek sanctuary and a better life in the European Union. But EU countries are increasingly determined to keep them out. In the last few years they have been busy building fences, real and invisible, that have raised the stakes for those still desperate enough to risk the journey.
Every year hundreds of people die trying to reach Europe’s shores. Countless others are violently pushed back at Europe’s borders or trapped in neighbouring countries that do not respect their rights.
