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A video-based teaching pack introducing human rights using clips from films and television programmes, made to meet the growing concern about human rights amongst young people. There are separate sections on...
Discusses the impact of Islamisation on women in Pakistan, particularly laws relating to extra-marital sex which is now a crime against the state, punishable by stoning to death. Women in prison, or out on...
Records the last 14 days in the life of death row inmate Edward Earl Johnson, up until 15 minutes prior to his execution in May 1987. Shows how a scheduled execution affects prisoners, prison personnel and...
A picture of the way in which trade unionists’ rights are abused all over the world. Filmed in seven countries on 1 May 1987, it illustrates how local Amnesty International groups and trade unions share a...
Examines the case of Herbert Marin, a human rights worker who ‘disappeared’ in 1986, and gives details of the problems of ‘disappearences’ and extra-judicial executions taking place in Colombia....
Looks at the death penalty in the USA and describes the work of Marie Deans, who secures the help of attorneys to argue for those on death row, usually with positive results. Includes interviews with inmates...
Part 1 deals with civil and political rights. Part 2 covers economic, social and cultural rights. Discusses the 1948 United Nations Charter of Human Rights and perennial issues such as freedom from hunger...
Describes the imprisonment and eventual release of a family of political prisoners in Argentina. During his eight years of imprisonment, Juan Carlos’ morale was sustained by the knowledge that groups such...
Discusses the protests of the mothers of the 30,000 people who disappeared in Argentina during the kidnappings, tortures and murders that occured in the 1970s ‘dirty war’ of the Argentine military...
Told through the testimony of one family in Chile, five members of which ‘disappeared’ following their arrest in Isla de Maipo in 1973, the film records their experiences and explains how members of...
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