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Originally published by Amnesty International UK, with files added by Amnesty International Canada

So you binge-watched the new series of Black Mirror before 2017 had even finished. What next? Here are six films for you to seek out over the next 12 months that'll keep you entertained and informed, while making you think about the world we live in.  

‘Being a refugee...is the most pervasive kind of cruelty that can be exercised against a human being.’ The opening remark of the trailer for Ai Weiwei’s new documentary about migrants seeking safety is a poignant reminder of the fact that right now, tens of millions of men, women and children have been displaced from their homes – and that we must do more to help them. Watch the trailer below, and click here to see how you can watch it at home. 

Apparently, he fit the description of a suspect they were chasing: he had dreadlocks. Shackelia Jackson lost her brother when police shot him dead. 

Since that moment, Shackelia has been demanding justice, and has become a leader in the battle against police killings in Jamaica. She features in this year’s Write for Rights, Amnesty’s global letter-writing campaign and the world’s biggest human rights event. In a recent letter, she tells us what difference Amnesty has made to her quest for justice. 

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Crafting the perfect response took longer than I anticipated and so I resigned myself to writing from the heart. 

I spent the last three years speaking as a broken sister; ensuring that others wouldn’t forget. I later saw the evolution of that role; the doors it opened for others; but also the threats it posed for me.

The death of my brother Nakiea Jackson and my subsequent actions, made me synonymous with a struggle that was bigger than Nakiea; one in which, stopping became difficult. 

Azmina Dhrodia is a technology and human rights researcher at Amnesty International.

“After five years of online harassment coupled with offline harassment, I have basically reconciled myself to the fact that I’m prepared to die for the work that I do.”

This is what Pamela Merritt, a blogger and reproductive rights activist from the U.S., told me when I interviewed her as part of an investigation into online abuse against women. Pamela was remarkably sanguine as she described the barrage of rape and death threats she receives, but her story is chilling. It shows how brave women need to be to express themselves online, in a world where their opinions are so often meet with violent threats.

by Alex Neve, Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada

Last month CNN news footage caught on film what authorities in Libya and in Europe do not want you to see: migrants being bought and sold.

A damning new Amnesty International report released this week paints a shocking picture of how this terrible degradation of human life has come to happen. “Libya’s Dark Web of Collusion” documents the systematic human rights abuse of 20,000 refugees and migrants from all over Africa and elsewhere, who are being held in detention Libya.

Tortured. Deprived of food. Raped. Drowned at sea. Bought and sold.