Human Rights Video Channels
Bail for Immigration Detainees
Bail for Immigration Detainees is an independent charity that exists to challenge immigration detention in the UK. We work with asylum seekers and migrants, in removal centres and prisons, to secure their release from detention. Makes free applications for release from immigration detention for asylum seekers and migrants
Human Rights: Empowering the Voice Seldom Heard.
Asylum is one of the most contentious issues in contemporary politics. It is consistently at the top of the public's list of political concerns. Never far from the headlines, there is a widespread belief that the system is not "fit for purpose". Meanwhile, there are many reports of asylum seekers facing unfair treatment, destitution and a loss of dignity. And a recent citizens' commission into conditions at Lunar House, the headquarters of the Immigration and...
The two videos on this page were submitted as evidence to the IAC hearing in Scotland. Since 2003 The Camcorder Guerillas have been making hard-hitting, entertaining and award winning films on various social justice issues that are affecting our local communities.? Based in Glasgow, Scotland we are a voluntary collective with a strong membership of skilled individual who are committed to making high quality video tools for groups and individuals campaigning on social justice issues. The ...
LawWorks is an independent charity with a mission to support, promote and encourage a commitment to pro bono by solicitors and law students. LawWorks aims to increase the delivery of free legal advice to individuals and communities in need.
The whole of Human Rights TV is a thank you to Sharon Kinchela, Violet Spicer, Rodney Boschman and Jennifer Wright without whom it would not have been possible. The whole team who have built the site would also like it to stand as a symbol of reconciliation as inspired by the Indigenous people of Australia.
LONDON CITIZENS is the biggest and most diverse civic alliance in the UK, encompassing over one hundred churches, mosques, temples, trade union branches, schools, student unions and community groups. With a track record in confronting London's politicians on the key policy issues of the day, the alliance has pioneered grassroots participation in politics.
Autograph ABP is an international, non-profit-making, photographic arts agency established in 1988 to address the lack of representation for a constituency of photographers that has been historically ignored. Our primary role is to develop, exhibit and publish the work of photographers and artists from culturally diverse backgrounds and to act as an advocate for their inclusion in all mainstream areas of exhibition, publishing, training, education and commerce. To this end, we produce our own...
Music is an important part of Human Rights and is one of the traditional means by which we have protected our free speech. Unfortunately a lot of music seems to have been swallowed whole by the beast of celebrity and vanities sometimes replace principles. At Human Rights TV we are not interested in celebrating careers or egos and therefore we only have musicians on our channel who have a proven track record in supporting Human Rights. For the musicians here, Human Rights is something they...
Islington Friends of Yibna
We will combat poverty, and related ill health and educational underachievement; We will promote the improvement of living and working conditions on the basis of economic and social justice in pursuit of a society that is fully inclusive of people of every race, colour and creed through the provision of evidence based policy alternatives to government. We will pursue policies that are rooted in the experiences of the disadvantaged and excluded people of the United Kingdom, and the work of...
Centre for Migration Policy Research
The Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR) is an inter-disciplinary Research Centre based at Swansea University. The Centre was established in 2007. Asylum and migration issues have never been higher on the political and policy agendas. The unprecedented global movement of people seeking protection, employment and family reunion poses economic, social and political opportunities and challenges. These opportunities and challenges have local, regional, national and international...
Introduced in 1995 by Bill Clinton's administration, the use of the CIA's extralegal system of extraordinary rendition has accelerated since 2001 and has resulted in the kidnap, transfer to third countries and torture of tens of thousands of individuals. Covering a global network of secret prisons and places such as Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, detainees are held incommunicado and without access to legal or medical professionals. A system of detention and cruel and inhuman...
Thursday, 4 October 2007 Dear Friends Following the news of the uprising in Burma last week, I along with many Burmese civilians, felt optimistic that the involvement of the monks presented a real possibility for a bloodless transition to democracy. Photographs of thousands of monks in their saffron robes peacefully marching through the streets filled me with a sense of hope despite the threats that were being issued by the military junta. Something about their shaven heads and calm,...
Retaliatory Evictions Must Stop
A campaign to end the practice of retaliatory evictions. The retaliatory evcition campaign suffered a set back recently when the Law Commission decided not to make any recommendations regarding the concept of retaliatory eviction although their reasons for reaching this conclusion, I find baffling! Reasons stated include the fact tenants do not often exercise their legal rights through court proceedings, the difficulty in gaining evidence, and the view that retaliatory eviction does not fit...
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The Shrewsbury Pickets' Campaign
The Shrewsbury Pickets' Campaign
This review has now been renamed as the Z2K Housing Review. An innovative on line video journal that gathers expert testimony on the issue of UK Housing Policy. The first issue presents expert testimony which is highly critical of governments and bureaucracy. Yopu will find links to the first issue of the Z2K Housing Review below each of the videos in the video series No Place Like Home which is held in this channel. Alternatively you may go to Z2K Housing Review in the channel listings...
The connection with Slow TV is one of combined mutual interests. HumanRights TV will carry some of Slow TV's material with the aim of supporting the human rights debate they foster in Australia. A free internet TV channel delivering interviews, debates, conversations and public lectures about Australia's key political, social and cultural issues.
Women were in tears when the news came through that judges had decided Basildon councillors had been within their rights to vote for a three million euro direct action operation against Dale Farm. More immediate is the issue of homelessness which now arises since the 90 families on the unauthorised part of Dale Farm have nowhere legally to live. HELPERS NEEDED Volunteers urgently need for the following roles: a) Human Rights Monitors (briefing soon at House of Commons) ...
Boolah Dillah-Sacred Mountain This is from the Worimi Language group which is from the Worimi Peoples of N.S.W. Australia
The Z2K Housing Review is an innovative on line video journal dealing with the issue of housing and poverty in the United Kingdom.
Legal Notice Amicus is the trading name of the Andrew Lee Jones Fund Ltd. Charity Number: 1019651 Registered office: Second Floor, 199 Strand, London WC2R 1DR.
The political, legal and economic health of every nation and community depends upon the strength of its social capital - its people. That's why Facilitate Global seeks to make a difference at the individual and community level, bringing about social and economic change. Giving voice to the voiceless in the corridors of power and the world's media. Enabling them to stand on their own feet economically. We are a not for profit organisation, promoting conflict resolution, human rights...
The INUK has three core aims : Educate: to encourage and support the creation and subsequent running of member innocence projects in UK universities. Research: to conduct and facilitate research into, among other related things: i) the causes of the wrongful conviction of the innocent; ii) the barriers to attempts to overturn these convictions in the Court of Appeal or by application to the CCRC; and iii) the associated harmful consequences of wrongful conviction on victims, their...
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The Peace and Prosperity Trust
Through the universal language of music, opera and the performing arts, The Peace & Prosperity Trust seeks to raise funds for charities in the Levant and other Middle Eastern countries. Its aim is to integrate internationally renowned artists with aspiring young talent. Based and registered in London, the Peace & Prosperity Trust hopes to share in the renewal of such countries by education and the relief of poverty. The Trust was established in 1995 by Founding Trustees H.R.H....
This project is a collaboration between the Z2K Trust, Housing Justice and HumanRights TV. The aim of the project is to record testimonies of rough sleepers and all those involved in providing services for them. The collected archive will be used as evidence to work to produce change in local and national government policies in respect of rough sleepers and the homeless in general.
Sam Hallam has suffered a Miscarriage of Justice
Nature Saves Cambodia is a Japanese led initiative in Cambodia.
This channel is dedicated to the work of Joseph Campbell in the field of Comparative Mythology. The material on this channel is copyrighted and all intellectual and other rights are owned by the Joseph Campbell Foundation. The work of Professor Campbell is an important starting position to understand the process of globalisation and the need for human rights to be the underlying legal foundation of a planet wide identity. For globalisation to succeed and become the cultural identity of the...
North Rift Human Rights Network
North Rift Human Rights Network is a non-profit, voluntary human rights organization that was formed in 2006 and was legally registered in the same year as a community based organization to promote, protect and enhance principles of non-discrimination, human rights, rule of law, right to freedom of opinion and expression for North Rift region people and to create a culture of peace through education and training with a special focus on monitoring, networking and dissemination. The North Rift...
This is a miscellaneous channel, it contains a variety of Videos covering a wide variety of topics. This channel can also be used as a temporary channel for newly uploaded videos
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust channel on HumanRightsTV has been created in recognition of the fact that it was the work done in a Churchill Traveling Fellowship in 1997-8 that has directly led to the creation of HumanRightsTV. The Trust offers an outstanding opportunity for individuals who wish to experience an overseas project to enhance their effectiveness in their career or field of interest.
Imagoviolensum is the ethical debate about the morality and ethics of violent imagery and how it is distributed with a global media.
This channel is dedicated to looking at housing management in the United Kingdom. Bad housing and poor management practice cost the tax payer dearly in terms of external costs. The costs in terms of health care, policing, environment and education as a result of the problems which result from bad housing are phenomenal. Simply by changing practice it should be possible to benefit the UK economy substantially. Material for this channel will be forthcoming from March 2010
Poetry has always been a form in which something of the soul is expressed. At the heart of human rights is the idea of our own valuable uniqueness and how that should be protected in law. However we cannot leave human rights only in the hands of legal systems, we have to consider human rights and artistic expression. This channel is a new and developing channel open to poets, open to poetry and open to development.