Making a spot-lit entrance on a balcony over Sampsonia Way, Swami reads three poems as she walks down the street, backed by a jazz band featuring Oliver Lake and Dee Alexander and her Trio, at City of Asylum Pittsburgh’s 9th annual Jazz Poetry Concert.
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Anabel Hernandez has been described as one of the most courageous journalists in Mexico. Her book Narcoland links top Mexican government officials to the world’s most powerful drug cartels. In 2012, she received the Golden Pen of Freedom award from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers.
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More than 600 journalists, media workers and social media producers have been killed in the last ten years. To put an end to violence against journalists, the United Nations has developed the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity.
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As the Cuban government places the powerful ranch owner and popular animal trainer, Miguel Ginarte, under house arrest, an unprecedented number of Cuban artists sign a letter of protest. But where’s the outrage for the treatment of democracy and human rights activists on the island?
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“The arrest of [Ali] Anouzla is the latest chapter in a series of harassment cases against uncompromising journalists. Such instances reinforce the impression that media freedom is under attack in the country.” – Hassan Masiky, former advisor to Amnesty International USA.
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Writer and Turkey columnist Tarık Günersel sounds alarm on the controversial Kanal Istanbul, a canal project that, scientists argue, could cause severe ecological harm to the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
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Marking 20 years since its establishment, in this video the Office of the UN Human Rights Office highlights some of the historic human rights events of the past two decades.
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