Films Listed Among Human Rights Victims
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By MATTHEW LEE WASHINGTON - Fictional gay cowboys and a faux reporter from Kazakhstan suffered human rights abuses in 2006 as crackdowns on flesh and blood victims were extended to the Internet, award-winning films and noted plays worldwide, the State Department says.
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Ten years after a genocide described as the fastest massacre in history, filmmakers are reopening the wounds and retelling the stories in three movies playing at the Toronto Film Festival this week.
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A documentary about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal is to  premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.
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The events recounted in the World War II drama âMiriamâ are horrific, and the story behind it is moving. Unfortunately, the finished product feels like exploitation.
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The Venice Film Festival gets serious  this year with competition films about the Iraq war and its  impact on U.S. society, police brutality in Egypt, big  corporation corruption and the mafia in Italy.
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Child labor. Forced abortions. Religious persecution. Jailed dissidents. Cultural cleansing in Tibet and ethnic cleansing in Africa.
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Â· Shootings in Nairobi slum bring death toll to 20 Â· Western countries express human rights concern
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POLITICIANS and aid agencies yesterday stressed the importance of the media in keeping the spotlight on the appalling human rights abuses taking place in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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Too often, inspirational movies about extreme bravery in the face of affliction are pure goo. They only manage to inspire a few rolls of the eyes in those of us with more ironic constitutions.
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By MATTHEW LEE  WASHINGTON - Fictional gay cowboys and a faux reporter from Kazakhstan suffered human rights abuses in 2006 as crackdowns on flesh and blood victims were extended to the Internet, award-winning films and noted plays worldwide, the State Department says.
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PRAGUE- Weapons and military material from the Czech Republic are allegedly exported to the countries in which human rights are violated and where there is a risk of their abuse, representatives of human rights ...
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Six human rights groups released a list of 39 people they believe have been secretly imprisoned by the U.S.
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BERLIN, Feb 13 (IPS) - The bruising treatment of youngsters in many parts  of the world, and the use of child soldiers in war-torn parts of  Africa has emerged as a recurring theme at the ten-day Berlin  International Film Festival, which ends here Sunday.
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Ziad H. Hamzeh's documentary is important as a record of a disturbing incident that occured when 1,100 immigrants from Somalia settled in Maine.
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NEW YORK, Sep 12 (IPS) - The government of Libya routinely subjects  migrants, asylum seekers and refugees -- primarily from  sub-Saharan Africa -- to serious human rights abuses, including  beatings, arbitrary arrests, forced returns and in some cases,  torture, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released  Tuesday.
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LONDON, Dec 7 (IPS) - âPeople cannot live without their memory. Memory is   about culture, and culture is identity,â said Argentine  filmmaker Fernando  'Pino' Solanas, presenting his  latest documentary 'A Social Genocide', in  London.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - Eighteen months after the outbreak of Israel's war with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, filmmakers from both countries have brought movies conveying frustration over the conflict to the Sundance Film Festival.