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Story Summaries
| Ciudad Juarez |
"…this isn’t just about big concepts like human rights and global issues and international affairs, this is about a little girl being able to live her life safely and securely – just like my little girl." – Alex Neve
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 See Amnesty International’s Alex Neve on a mission to Juarez, Mexico, where a shocking pattern of human rights violations against women – women who are being raped and killed at alarming rates – have gone unanswered by local authorities who are doing little to bring the criminals to justice.
hosted by Michael Gross, includes Alex Neve, Secretary General of Amnesty International in Canada
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| Prisoners of Conscience in Cuba |
"I am happy because my son is finally free, in this country, but at the same time I am suffering because other political prisoners are in jail because they express freely their ideas." - Ishmael Sambra, whose son was imprisoned for five years for expressing his political beliefs.
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 A story about a father and son, reunited after the son was finally released from prison, after being arrested imprisoned after his 22nd birthday, newly married and only to months after the birth of his first child, for speaking out against a political system.
hosted by Peri Gilpin
"Does it really work? A lot of people ask that about what Amnesty International does. And sadly, not always. But when it does -- it's a beautiful thing to watch." -Peri Gilpin |
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| A “Disappearance in Honduras |
"I think human rights are everybody's business, not just the business of people who are being persecuted or killed or disappeared. It affects us, one way or the other it affects us."
-Nora Lopez |
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 What would you do if a loved one, maybe your spouse, left for work one morning never to return? Learn what Nora Lopez did in this story about a woman whose husband was jailed, tortured and killed in Honduras for speaking out against his government.
- hosted by Leonard Nimoy
Imagine what it would be like if your husband – or wife – left the house one morning, for work, and simply... disappeared. Let that word burn into your brain just for a second. Disappeared. It usually means murdered. I want you to meet Nora Lopez and hear her story." - Leonard Nimoy
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| Human Rights Defender from Kenya |
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Could you leave your entire family and life behind, in search for the slightest possibility of a new life? Kamau could, and did. Learn about a Kenyan human rights defender who fled for his life to Canada, and now, years later, his family has joined him.
- hosted by Henry Simmons
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| Honour Killings: Please Call it Murder |
"How can you not feel the pain when you see a person living a violation, when you see a person, you know absolutely absolutely gasping in a way to survive. In a society that is violent, that is brutal and that is totally insensitive to women's plight."
-Hina Jilani
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 Women in Pakistan are being killed in alarming numbers - A story about the devistating lack of women’s rights in Pakistan, and women who are killed and abused, many of them burned to death, by their husbands and family members for “dishonouring” them.
- hosted by Susan Sarandon
"She was a young bride who decided to marry the man she loved. But her family had other ideas. They attacked her and beat her with machetes and left her for dead. But she didn't die. When the family found out she survived they took her to court and had her thrown in prison for marrying a man they didn't approve of."
-Susan Sarandon
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