AIDS08: Peter Piot on Human Rights and HIV/AIDS
Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS, on why a human rights approach is not the best approach as well from a policy and effectiveness perspective, and on why countries that criminalize...
View ArticleWITNESS VAI: Laura Pilar Salas Sanchez from Mexico
An interview with Laura Pilar Salas Sanchez from the Proyecto de Derechos Economicos, Sociales y Culturales (ProDESC) in Mexico. Laura was a participant in WITNESS' 2008 Video Advocacy Institute.
View ArticleUDHR60: Warren Feek, Communication Initiative
Warren Feek is ED of the Communication Initiative, and answers our question, "What image opened your eyes to human rights?" Warren speaks movingly of the deep impact that the Black Power salute made by...
View ArticleInternational Women's Day Rally - Amnesty International
Join us and tell the Mexican Government we will not remain silent until the Women of Atenco receive justice! Outside the Mexican Consulate 204 S. Ashland Avenue Chicago, Illinois In May 2006, following...
View ArticleTell President Calderón: Justice for Neyra and the murdered women of Ciudad...
BACKGROUND: Read the series of posts about our trip to Mexico City to meet with President Calderón and urge him to end feminicide in Mexico: * 03/24: What we'll be asking President Calderón * 03/27:...
View ArticleWhat we'll be asking President Calderón to do
BACKGROUND: Read the series of posts about our trip to Mexico City to meet with President Calderón and urge him to end feminicide in Mexico: * 03/19: Preparing for Mexico * 03/27: Behind the scenes:...
View ArticleFeminicide in Mexico: End it NOW and Demand Justice for Neyra
"...since she isn't here, we become the victims. And we are her voice..." -- Patricia Cervantes, Neyra's mother *** Neyra Azucena Cervantes went missing on May 13, 2003 as she walked home from school...
View ArticleBehind the scenes: meeting with President Calderón today on violence against...
BACKGROUND: Read the series of posts about our trip to Mexico City to meet with President Calderón and urge him to end feminicide in Mexico: * 03/19: Preparing for Mexico * 03/24: What we'll be asking...
View ArticleFeminicide: Press Conference Attracts More Than 200 Reporters in Mexico City
BACKGROUND: Read the series of posts about our trip to Mexico City to meet with President Calderón to urge him to end feminicide in Mexico: * 03/19: Preparing for Mexico * 03/24: What we'll be asking...
View ArticleMexico's Drug War - Spotlight on Cuiliacan
Cuiliacan, in the Mexican province of Sinaloa, is one of the most dangerous cities in the country. Al Jazeera's Teresa Bo reports on the casualties of Mexico's spiraling drug violence.
View ArticleMexico Trip Update - Asking President Calderón to End Feminicide
WITNESS staffers Tamaryn Nelson and Rebecca Lichtenfeld travel to Mexico with musician and WITNESS founder Peter Gabriel to meet with Mexican President Felipe Calderón. The mission? Demand justice for...
View ArticleMexico Trip Update - Slideshow
WITNESS staffers Tamaryn Nelson and Rebecca Lichtenfeld travel to Mexico City with musician and WITNESS founder Peter Gabriel to meet with Mexican President Felipe Calderón. The mission? Demand...
View ArticleResults of our Meeting with President Calderón
BACKGROUND: Read the series of posts about our trip to Mexico City to meet with President Calderón to urge him to end feminicide in Mexico: * 03/19: Preparing for Mexico * 03/24: What we'll be asking...
View ArticleIt's Still Going On: Reproductive Rights Violations in Mexico
Running Time: 11:20 min. "It's Still Going On: Reproductive Rights Violations in Mexico" was produced by the Center for Women's Rights - Naaxwiin (previously part of the Women's Commission at UCIZONI,...
View ArticleJose Fernando Ochoa Pineda - ELAW Interview Series
Fernando Ochoa Pineda is at the forefront of the fight for clean water in the Gulf of California. Fernando's efforts for clean water have not discriminated between consideration for the environment...
View ArticleFighting the drug war in Cuidad Juarez 26 May 09
Despite the deployment of thousands of troops throughout Mexico, the country continues to be plagued by drug related violence. In Ciudad Juarez - on the border with the US - the body count is continues...
View ArticleExiled in America
Five siblings struggle to support their American livelihoods after their mother is deported to Mexico. [This Film is part of the Media That Matters Online Film Festival. For more information, go here.]
View Article12.511- Rosendo Radilla Case: An Open Wound from Mexico's Dirty War-(Excerpts)
Para leer en Español, haz cliq aquíUpdate: In a sentence made public in December 2009, the Inter-American Court found the Mexican government responsible for Radilla's 1974 disappearance and condemned...
View Article12.511- Rosendo Radilla Case: An Open Wound from Mexico's Dirty War (18 Min....
Para leer en Español, haz cliq aquíUpdate: In a sentence made public in December 2009, the Inter-American Court found the Mexican government responsible for Radilla's 1974 disappearance and condemned...
View ArticleThe Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez by Kieran Fitzgerald (Trailer)
In 1997, U.S. Marines patrolling the Texas-Mexico border as part of the War on Drugs shot and killed Esequiel Hernández Jr. Mistaken for a drug runner, the 18-year-old was, in fact, a U.S. citizen...
View Article12.511 - Caso Rosendo Radilla: Herida abierta de la Guerra Sucia en México (5...
En 1974, Rosendo Radilla Pacheco desapareció en un retén militar en México. Destacado líder comunitario, luchó por mejorar la salud y educación en Guerrero - un estado históricamente castigado y...
View Article12.511 - Caso Rosendo Radilla: Herida abierta de la Guerra Sucia en México...
En 1974, Rosendo Radilla Pacheco desapareció en un retén militar en México. Destacado líder comunitario, luchó por mejorar la salud y educación en Guerrero - un estado históricamente castigado y...
View ArticleNarco Wars: Mexico
Nearly three years after Mexican President Felipe Calderón declared war on drug traffickers, the conflict still rages on and the drug cartels have since spilled over into the United States. The...
View ArticleAmnistía Internacional adopta a Jacinta Francisco Marcial como presa de...
Primera parte de la rueda de prensa de Amnistía Internacional en la cual la organización adopta el caso de Jacinta Francisco Marcial como presa de conciencia (18/08/09)La segunda parte de este video de...
View ArticleEvery Woman Has a Story...
...and every story can create change.Over the past year, WITNESS has partnered around the world with human rights defenders to tell the stories, on video, of human rights abuses. We've worked on the...
View ArticleEsmeralda: A transgender asylum seeker speaks out against immigration detention
Courage comes in many different forms. For Esmeralda a transgender asylum seeker from Mexico who faced horrific circumstances in immigration detention, it came in the form of seeking justice. Kept in a...
View ArticleAguasabajo: El Proyecto de Presa Paso de la Reina
Desde hace varios años, existe el interés por parte de la Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) de construir una presa hidroeléctrica en la comunidad de Paso de la Reina y municipios cercanos de la...
View ArticleRaúl Hernández, Preso de Conciencia
El 17 de abril del 2010, se cumplieron dos años del encarcelamiento del defensor de derechos humanos y líder de la Organización del Pueblo Indígena Me'phaa (OPIM), Raúl Hernández, señalado como...
View ArticleCampesinos Ecologistas - El Documental
El 2 de mayo de 1999 fueron detenidos por militares Rodolfo Montiel y Teodoro Cabrera. Eran miembros de la Organización Campesina Ecologista de la Sierra de Petatlán y de Coyuca de Catalán (OCESP);...
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