human rights
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Banned Falun Gong and the defiant story of TV hijacking
CHINA: Revisiting the Falun Gong’s TV takeover on the 20th anniversary.
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Recolonising Ecuador
NEO-COLONISALISM: Ecuadorian indigenous resistance against their homeland's resource exploitation at the hands of China.
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Wining and dining one’s way to endless rule
JOURNALISM: Despite imprisonment, journalist Khadija Ismayilova exposes the intricate corruption tactics of the families ruling Central Asia.
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Manifesting destiny
INDIGENOUS RIGHTS: Promised dominion over their own rainforest territory, Brazil's Uru-eu-wau-wau people have since faced illegal incursions from mining companies and land-grabbing invasions spurred on by right-wing politicians.
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The world’s most unrecognised human rights tragedy
CHINA: Genocide by any other name – President Xi Jinping’s campaign to eradicate the Muslim Uyghurs of Western China.
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WATCH DOCS Belarus returns with online 2022 festival
The #Human Rights# Film Festival WATCH DOCS Belarus returns, and be held under the name HUMAN RIGHTS EXTREMIST. All films will be available for viewing online in Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland. The Polish Helsinki Foundation has taken over the organization of the online festival as a long time partner of WATCH DOCS Belarus. From…
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A little bit of heaven
CHINA: The raw reality of daily life in China juxtaposes with a microcosm of kindness in a semi-legal countryside orphanage for handicapped children.
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Voices of reason in a world of lies
It is not often in these trying times that a news headline brings a genuine smile to the heart. Friday’s news that two courageous journalists – #Maria Ressa#, director of Philippine website Rappler.com, and #Dmitri Muratov#, editor in chief of Russia’s last independent daily newspaper, #Novaya Gazeta# – have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize…
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FIFDH opens call for 2022 Impact Lab
The Swiss city of #Geneva, the headquarter of the #WHO, #UNHCR, Human Rights Council, hundreds of NGOs, and philanthropists active in #human rights# protection and advocacy, hosts one of the leading events dedicated to film and human rights, the #FIFDH. Through its Impact Days industry programme, film teams have the occasion to strategically connect with…