Bringing abuses to light: the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival focuses the public eye on human rights abuses

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The 1997 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival featured 20 films that focused on human rights issues in the US, Zimbabwe, Bosnia and China, among other countries. Motion pictures are a powerful medium for documenting abuses in countries that control other forms of media. Documenting conditions in such countries can itself be considered a subversive act, and the film festival celebrates such efforts. These films explore rule of law and amnesty issues in a number of nations.

Political activity, Portrayals, Human rights, Film festivals, Human Rights Watch

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The path of the just: Jack Greenberg, a legend of the civil rights era, discusses the past and present of the civil rights movement

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Jack Greenberg is a lawyer and luminary of civil rights history who in 1949 took a position with the Inc. Fund, later called the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Thurgood Marshall was his mentor and Greenberg's career aw him arguing over 30 cases before the Supreme Court, including landmark ones such as Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education and Griggs v. Duke Power. Greenberg eventually resigned from the Fund and taught law at Columbia University.

United States, Civil rights movements, Greenberg, Jack (American lawyer)

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Mary Robinson brings a determined faith to the role of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

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Mary Robinson will apply her experience as a human rights lawyer and constitutional scholar as well as work in the crisis situations of Rwanda and Somalia to her new position as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Robinson must maintain a language of hope as she is exposed to ever-growing rights violations. As Robinson assumes the position in Sept 1997, Secretary General Kofi Annan has committed himself to human rights as a key tenet of UN action.

Officials and employees, United Nations. Commission on Human Rights, Robinson, Mary Darby

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