VerbraucherInnen und Einzelhändler: Take Action Now!
Menschenrechtsorganisationen haben eine Video-Kampagne gestartet, in der sie VerbraucherInnen und Einzelhändler dazu auffordern sicherzustellen, dass ihre Kleidung kein Produkt von Zwangs- und Kinderarbeit ist und die Bundesregierung aufzufordern, sich aktiv für die Beendigung staatlich organisierter Zwangsarbeit in Usbekistan einzusetzen.
Das European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) und das INKOTA-netzwerk Continue Reading
While co-organizing this year's One World Berlin Human Rights Film Festival, Tapehead was pondering how the always simmeringly controversial subjects of religion and sexuality really exploded, at times collided and in any case dominated the human and civil rights discourse this past fall more than in the recent past. Questions as intensely personal as what Continue Reading
Earlier this month we reported on the finalists for the human rights logo contest (see picture left). On Friday, September 23, the winner was selected. To find out if your favorite was chosen or not, go to the contest's website.
Hopefully, the new logo will not just be more symbolic politics but actually enhance the awareness Continue Reading
The Persian Gulf holds many attractions for the intrepid traveler, but I’ve already made up my mind: for a media junkie, no visit to Qatar can be complete without a trip to the Al Jazeera TV channel headquarters in downtown Doha. Full story
Posted by Stephanie Boyd
It feels like I’ve won the lottery. A documentary I made about Peruvian farmers standing up to US and British-owned mining companies has been selected for the Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival in Doha, Qatar. Suddenly I find myself far from my Andean mountain home Continue Reading
The One World Prague International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, is in full swing.The festival motto “Your energy is needed elsewhere” turned out to be highly prophetic, as will be discussed later.
This year’s program sees a new high in terms of quality and relevance. Topics such as Guantanamo, homphobia around the world, children’s rights, renewable Continue Reading
Hi friends. If this film clip from the documentary project Complaints Choir is any indication how the Berlin One World Film Festival is going to shape up this year, I think we can all start booking our tickets for the Arsenal Cinema NOW! One World Berlin is a sister project of realeyz.tv.
“Both films impressed and convinced us equally. But as you can’t compare fiction and documentary, we felt we had to award both”, said actress Barbara Sukowa as a member of the Amnesty International Film Award Jury at the Berlinale 2010.
“‘Son of Babylon’ is a sensitive road movie set in Iraq, which, through its artistic means Continue Reading
Greenhouse is proud to announce a New International Development Program for documentary filmmakers from Europe & MEDA countries.
In light of the success of Greenhouse, the European Commission, in the framework of MEDIA International, granted an initiative: a new development program for 2010 dealing with the theme of Racism & Human Rights.
Filmmakers from the 10 MEDA Continue Reading
