The Recount
Bob Crawford on How Bono’s Humanitarianism Runs Deep
John Heilemann talks with Bob Crawford, bassist for The Avett Brothers and creator of Concerts of Change: The Soundtrack of Human Rights, a new audio docu-series on SiriusXM. Through conversations with artists including U2's Bono, Bob...
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Former Guantanamo detainees reunite for conference
London, UK - 18 November 2005
1. Former Guantanamo detainee, Moazzam Begg, and Clive Stafford Smith, lawyer helping dozens of Guantanamo detainees, walking in to press conference
2. Journalist
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Irene Kahn, Amnesty...
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Embassy protest, Brown comment,Amnesty, analyst
AP Television
London, UK - 26 September 2007
1. Pan of protest opposite Myanmar Embassy in London
2. Protestors chanting demands for democracy
3. Various exteriors of embassy
4. Sign stating the embassy is temporarily closed
AP...
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CHINA: BEIJING: NGO FORUM ON WOMEN
Jap/Eng/Nat
In a videotaped message smuggled from Burma, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday that expanding women's power will bring greater peace and tolerance to the world.
The speech was replayed as a keynote...
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Amnesty Int'l in Jenin, funeral of 5-year-old Israeli girl
Jenin
1. Various of Amnesty International delegates talking to camp residents
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International
"Jenin has become a symbol of the violations of this conflict. But beyond Jenin...
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Wounded in hospital after army shelling of school
1. Nurses in hospital treating injured children in Batticaloa Base Hospital
2. Child on a trolley being wheeled through hospital ward
3. Mother looking at injured child in hospital bed
4. SOUNDBITE (Tamil) Jayantimaller (only one name...
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Amnesty International reacts to Saddam's execution
1. Establishing shot of James Dyson, Amnesty International spokesman
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) James Dyson, Amnesty International spokesman:
"Amnesty International has campaigned for years to bring to account Saddam Hussein for the...
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Amnesty International react to Saddam verdict
1. Walking shot of Claudio Cordone, senior director, Amnesty International
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Claudio Cordone, Amnesty International
"Obviously we're disappointed by the death sentences. As you know, Amnesty is always opposed to the...
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UK: PINOCHET EXTRADITION CHALLENGE FAILS (2)
Span/Eng/Nat
Belgium and six human rights groups have lost their bid to challenge the British Home Secretary over his conduct of the Augusto Pinochet extradition.
The High Court has rejected their request to challenge a decision denying...
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FRANCE: DEMONSTRATION AGAINST CHINESE PREMIER LI PENG'S VISIT
French/Nat
Amnesty International demonstrators have taken to the streets of Paris to protest over Chinese Premier Li Peng's visit to France.
Police quickly broke up the demonstration detaining about 50 whistling activists.
It was the...
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Amnesty International report on Mexico
June 25, 2004
1. Wide shot of press conference
2. Mid shot of press conference
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Rupert Knox, coordinator of research team on Mexico at International Secretariat of Amnesty International:
"At a federal level,...
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UK: PINOCHET EXTRADITION CASE TAKEN TO HIGH COURT
Spanish/Eng/Nat
Lawyers trying to stop Chilean General Augusto Pinochet's possible escape from extradition to Spain, took their case to the British High Court on Wednesday.
Six human rights groups and the Belgian government are...
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Italy - Human rights protest over court delay
Thousands of human rights activists lay down in the centre of Rome on Saturday night (4/7) in protest against what they say is a lack of progress made by a UN conference seeking to set up an effective world criminal court. In a...
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UK - Wei Jingsheng addresses Amnesty International
Wei Jingsheng, who was released from prison last year and is now living in the United States, arrived on Thursday (08/01) in Britain as the guest of Amnesty International, the organisation which campaigned for his release.
EXT. Amnesty...
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Palestinian and Israeli comments on Rafah, Amnesty report
Ramallah, West Bank
1. Palestinian Labour Minister Ghassan Khatib at desk
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ghassan Khatib, Palestinian Labour Minister:
"We believe that this particular escalation in Rafah which is responsible for this moment,...
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ARMS CONTROL ACTIVISTS PROTEST SALES OF WEAPONS TO SYRIA
A small group of arms-control activists marked the opening of a Paris weapons exhibition with a demonstration aimed at stopping sales of weaponry that they say are contributing to human rights violations.
They were taking aim...
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UK: EDINBURGH: COMMONWEALTH LEADERS' SUMMIT: DAY TWO
English/Nat
Trade, investment and whether or not to further punish Nigeria have dominated day two of the Commonwealth leaders' summit in Edinburgh on Saturday.
They've been drawing up an economic declaration -- the Commonwealth's...
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Amnesty International says the number of unsolved disappearances is a national scandal
1. Wide of the news conference at Amnesty International with relatives of missing people and Amnesty officials sitting on the stage
2. Mid of relatives of missing people and and Amnesty officials holding pictures of some of the missing...
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Amnesty Int'l in Jenin, funeral of 5-year-old Israeli girl
Jenin
1. Various of Amnesty International delegates talking to camp residents
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International
"Jenin has become a symbol of the violations of this conflict. But beyond Jenin...
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Myanmar - Aung San Suu Kyi wins in historic by-election / UN Secretary General meets opposition leader Suu Kyi / Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi sworn in as member of Myanmar's parliament / Suu Kyi visits Nobel Institute in Norway / Suu Kyi given freedom of City of Dublin / Suu Kyi addresses UK Parliament / Rohingya Muslims protest in Thailand against bloodshed in Myanmar
Myanmar - Democracy icon claims victory in historic by-election
Yangon - 2 Apr 2012
1. Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of opposition National League for Democracy, appears outside her party's headquarters to address crowd of supporters, who...
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WORLDWIDE: HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES IN EAST TIMOR UPDATE
English/Nat
Students have been marching through the East Timorese capital Dili in support of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo.
The bishop is under pressure from the Jakarta government for critical comments he ...
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SPAIN: NEW MEDICAL EXAMINATION OF PINOCHET REQUESTED
Spanish/Nat
Spain has put the Pinochet ball squarely back in Britain's court.
In a major U-turn, Madrid has handed the British government a magistrate's request for a new medical examination of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet to...
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Former NSA analyst comments on released CIA report
Edward Snowden joined a live video link up in Paris on Wednesday and asked why no-one is to be held accountable in the wake of the new CIA intelligence report.
The former NSA Systems Analyst lives in exile in Russia after revealing...
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Yoko Ono awards peace grant to jailed Russian band Pussy Riot
Yoko Ono awarded the Russian punk band Pussy Riot this year's LennonOno grant for peace Friday (21 SEPT 2012) in New York.
Ono presented the award to Pyotr Verzilov, husband of Nadia Tolokonnikova - one of three imprisoned members of...