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Video PitchChildren cattle herders of Ruai
In Kenya, the sight of young Maasai boys and girls grazing their parents cattle is not uncommon. For the Maasai, talk of child labour is alien; they graze their families’ livestock, sometimes at the expense of their education.
It’s about young Maasai children who brace the scorching sun and even torrential rains in Ruai one of the fast growing suburbs in Nairobi to looking after their parents cattle numbering in hundreds. This story will stand out because most Maasai people, by having their children graze their animals, are unaware of infringing child rights- to them it’s a way of life.
02 Dec 20100 -
Video PitchChildren crush stones to supplement their mothers budge
A middle-aged woman uses her two young boys to crush ballast in order to put food on the table. The woman believes that it’s a necessary evil if the family will survive the harsh economic times.
The story revolves around a family living in Nairobi which depends on crushing stones which they sell as ballast to contractors. It is a story that shows how the young boys show resilience in a task mostly done by older people. It is a spectacle to behold as the children toil daily under the scorching sun their barefoot feeble legs and hands relentlessly delving in the jagging stones.
02 Dec 20100 -
Video PitchThe prostitution area will close, solution or problem ?
The biggest prostitution in South East Asia will be close, solution or problem for survival sex?
Dolly red light district in Surabaya, East Java province in Indonesia is claimed as the biggest prostitution in South East Asia. There are more than 1000 sex workers and pimps depend on their live in this well known red light district. Last year the local government plan to shut down this area to decrease the new comer prostitute and HIV AIDs disease. The local communities refuse this plan because around 70% of running local economic community really depends on this business.
11 Jan 20110 -
Video PitchFarmers committing suicide
14 debt-ridden farmers have so far committed suicide this month in central India. Some of them have even committed suicide because of crop failure.
Lack of water and severe cold has also destroyed crops in central India.According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 8,360 farmers have committed suicide since 2005 in five states of India.
28 Jan 20110 -
Video PitchCobbler doubles up as scribe
A cobbler in India, takes out his own newspaper to make change for his community. This man Suresh Nandmehar belongs to scheduled caste. Nanmehar, who ekes out a living by mending shoes sets apart a few hours of his busy schedule to bring out a journal that acts as a voice for his scheduled caste(lower caste or untouchable) people.
Here he is working for bringing change within the society. Fighting against untouchability and discrimination of his caste.
31 Jan 20110 -
Video PitchGAZA - TWO YEARS LATER Issam Younis & Joakim Wohlfeil
Joakim Wohlfeil, Diakonia Sweden and Issam Younis, Director General of the Palestinian human rights organizations Al Mezan in a seminar about Gaza two years later. Al Mezan is known both for his criticism of Israel's blockade and the war in Gaza, but also for being a fearless critic of Hamas crimes against international law and human rights. Al Mezan has contributed with documentation to the UN Fact-Finding Mission and filed complaints with evidence to the Office of the Israeli Military Advocate General to prompt criminal investigations.
09 Feb 20110 -
Exellent video this a reality life the journalist at Latin America, they are working always under attack the criminals in society with the goverment ,Colombia Mexico ,Honduras where more Journalist die every year .
11 Nov 20100 -
Excelente historia. Y celebro que ya tenemos subrítulos en español. Esto aumentará el interés y la capacidad de comprensión del público hispano hablante.
07 Jan 20110 -
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A propósito de la historia acerca de los niños en prisión en Bolivia quería añadir que la madre del niño que ofrece su testimonio está todavía presa lo mismo que su padre en la cárcel de hombres. Ella no quiso hablar por temor a represalias de las autoridades carcelarias. Y es que bajo la administración del gobierno de Evo Morales el acceso de la prensa a las cárceles se ha restringido (de hecho para filmar este vídeo demoramos cerca de dos meses en trámites burocráticos y el rodaje fue realizado con muchas limitaciones). Las mujeres presas temen contar muchas cosas, entre ellas el maltrato no sólo hacia ellas y entre ellas, sino hacia los niñ@s que viven allí. Por su parte, la administración carcelaria hasta ahora no puede responder por qué hay nin@s mayores de 6 años que viven en la cárcel junto a sus madres (unas sí tienen ese "privilegio" y otras no) y menos aún responden cómo las reclusas crían allí nietos. En todo caso, el video pone en discusión un hecho: ese sistema algo caótico, con hijos y nietos que se pasean por la cárcel como en un barrio cualquiera, finalmente hace posible una mejor estadía de las mujeres presas y de sus niñ@ o atenta a la formación de esos niñ@?
26 Jan 20110
