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Human Rights
24 film(s) found
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Meet Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, a human rights activist twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She is the impassioned though graying exiled leader of the Uyghurs, a Muslim people whose ancestral home, East Turkestan, was annexed by the Chinese in 1949 and re-named Xinxiang province. more »
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A Somalian woman uses all methods at her disposal to change the mindset of her people about circumcision. more »
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This powerful documentary chronicles a Ghanaian young woman’s desperate attempt to escape the ritual of female circumcision in her native land. more »
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This film gives voice to the street children of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil whose dire circumstances forces them to beg, steal and deal drugs. Their loyalty to one another has helped them to survive. more »
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In Haiti, some destitute families give up young children to work as unpaid domestics in other households. The film reveals this exploitation more »
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Bolivia has silver mines which date back to the Spanish conquest. The miners work in hazardous conditions that have not improved over the years, for a meager livelihood. more »
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Haiti is a nation caught in a tragic, downward spiral. Its economy is broken, its land denuded, and its children hungry. Combining vivid footage with interviews of a wide range of people who are close to recent events there, the film documents how the U.S. and the U.N. failed to help the country. more »
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This intensely personal film traces the filmmaker’s search for identity within the culture of her Armenian parents and in the context of the larger multicultural society in which she lives. Weaving together archival footage and interviews with elderly survivors of the Genocide, it creates a deeply felt portrayal of a holocaust that the Turks deny. more »
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Through exclusive historical footage, interviews, and artworks, this film provides a history of the Haitian people's struggle for freedom. more »
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Bolivia, the poorest of the South American countries, is on the verge of civil war. After centuries of oppression, the Indian people are now demanding their rights, including the nationalization of Bolivia's natural gas. This is a matter of concern to the U.S. more »
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This BBC film exposes how fundamentalist interpretation of the Koran in Pakistan leaves women vulnerable to be murdered for seeking divorce. more »
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Half the population of Mexico City are illegal squatters. This film introduces us to several families struggling to survive, putting a human face to Mexico's urban problems. more »
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Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s best-known modern novelist and winner of the Nobel prize in 2006, became a pariah in his country overnight for speaking out about the Turkish role in the Armenian genocide. He insists the nation should know the truth about its history, and that there must be freedom of speech. more »
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Falun Gong is an ancient meditative practice that enjoyed a revival in China in the 1990’s. For years, however, the government has been brutally cracking down on practitioners. more »
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The tragic story of Pela Atroshi, a daughter of Kurdish immigrants living in Sweden, who was murdered by her family after she went out on a date. more »
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The Bishop of East Timor, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, dares to speak out against Indonesia's relentless oppression. more »
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The trafficking of women and children for prostitution is a global problem. The United Nations estimates that more than one million children are forced into sexual slavery each year. This powerful documentary follows Chris Payne, a former police officer turned private investigator, as he investigates this shocking crime. more »
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Three thousand young children, running away from abusive families and broken homes, now live on the streets in Mongolia's capital Ulan Bator. To survive the cold they huddle in underground passages at night. Their poverty reflects Mongolia's economic crisis after the Soviet Union's withdrawal. more »
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In Ghana, children as young as three and as old as sixteen are often sent away from home to work in bondage for small payments, desperately needed by impoverished families. more »
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A powerful portrait of adults born as a result of wartime rape who now need to come to terms with their origins. Filmed in Bangladesh, Bosnia, Rwanda and Nicaragua. more »
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This film, shot mostly covertly, shows the irony of a regime where 20 million people live in poverty, some on the brink of starvation, while former dictator Kim II Sung builds extravagant monuments to reflect his power. more »
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Nominated for an Academy Award this documentary makes a powerful statement about racism in working class America. Twenty-seven year old Vincent Chin was brutally murdered in a fight with a Detroit auto worker, who was at first let off with a suspended sentence and a small fine. The Chinese- American community successfully rallied for justice. more »
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The focus is on three vulnerable women refugees who must cope with being uprooted. One is a 13 year-old Vietnamese girl living in a camp in Malaysia, another a widow from Mozambique and the third is a Salvadorian mother living precariously with three children in Costa Rica. more »
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This documentary provides a personal insight into the plight of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) under the brutal regime of Mugabe. What was to be a liberation movement turned into despair, with rage, riots, killing and starvation rampant. more »
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