Featured Rights Alerts

Mobile phones captured Oakland,CA police shooting an unarmed black man on New Year's Day. Watch the video and read about how ordinary citizens are calling for attention to and justice for Oscar Grant's murder
Launch Date: January 15, 2009

Survivors and relatives of those unlawfully detained and disappeared in Chechnya, Russian Federation and neighboring republics in the North Caucusus struggle for justice in a system that is rife with impunity.
Launch Date: March 19, 2008

More than 20 villages have been abandoned in Chechnya's mountains in the Russian Federation as villagers are struggling to preserve cultural identity and traditions in the context of ongoing war.
Launch Date: July 18, 2007

Every year, over 25,000 workers are enslaved in rural Brazil. Trapped by debt bondage on isolated ranches in the Amazon region, they are forced to do backbreaking work and live in dismal conditions. With no way out, they toil to buy back their freedom.
Launch Date: April 29, 2007

A cada ano no Brasil mais de 25.000 trabalhadores rurais são escravizados, principalmente na região Amazônica. Enganados por promessas falsas e levados a fazendas isoladas, eles acabam endividados e trabalham duro para comprar sua liberdade de volta.
Launch Date: April 29, 2007

Violence and persecution escalate as thousands flee their homes amid the worst attacks on ethnic minority communities in a decade
Launch Date: April 10, 2007

"Outlawed" tells the stories of Khaled El-Masri and Binyam Mohamed, two men who have survived extraordinary rendition, secret detention, and torture by the U.S. government working with various other governments worldwide.
Launch Date: June 26, 2006

Filmado por activistas y habitantes de la frontera, este video expone las alarmantes políticas anti-migrantes detrás de Proyecto "Minuteman" por medio de entrevistas e imágenes desgarradoras de sus patrullajes nocturnos.
Launch Date: December 20, 2005

Shot by activists and border residents, this video exposes the ugly anti-immigrant politics that lurk behind the Minuteman Project through a close-up look at vigilantes through disturbing interviews and footage of their nighttime patrols.
Launch Date: September 23, 2005

Since 1993, over 400 women have been violently killed along the U.S.-Mexico border. Under fire for their inability to resolve these crimes, the police have tortured people to confess to the murders.
Launch Date: April 12, 2005

Active Rights Alerts

Throughout Central and Eastern Europe, racial segregation denies thousands of Romani children the right to education. "Equal Access" documents a groundbreaking integration initiative and calls for action to enable young Roma to join mainstream schools.
Launch Date: November 9, 2006

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Launch Date: November 9, 2006

Awaiting Tomorrow is an urgent call to action by people living with HIV/AIDS in war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to confront the disease that is ravaging communities throughout Africa.
Launch Date: August 14, 2006

Over half a million ethnic minority civilians in eastern Burma have fled from attacks of the SPDC - Burma's military regime. In the last year 27000 people were freshly displaced, and 5000 fled to refugee camps in Thailand in the worst attacks in a decade.
Launch Date: May 26, 2006

Nearly two million people are internally displaced in Northern Uganda, a region in conflict for the last two decades, caught between rebel attack by the Lord's Resistance Army, known for its abduction of children, and abuses committed by the Ugandan army.
Launch Date: March 8, 2006

The video documents a groundbreaking initiative to provide alternatives to institutional confinement for Croatians with intellectual disabilities.
Launch Date: December 8, 2005

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Launch Date: December 8, 2005

This video was filmed in a small community of internally displaced people just before an offensive by the SPDC regime swept through the area, and documents the emotions and fears of people caught in one of the world's forgotten humanitarian crises.
Launch Date: June 13, 2005

Over 10,000 children have been recruited and used as child soldiers in the DRC since 1996. They are used in active combat, as spies and porters and sexually exploited.
Launch Date: April 29, 2005

Los artistas Peter, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna solicitan al gobierno México que resuelve las muertes violentas de mas de 400 mujeres en la frontera de los EEUU-México.
Launch Date: April 28, 2005

WITNESS' video report of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconcilation Commission's final report and recommendations
Launch Date: December 8, 2004

Human Rights Watch video document of "ethnic cleansing" and crimes against humanity in Darfur, western Sudan filmed in July and August 2004.
Launch Date: September 20, 2004

This video documents the use of forced labor in Burma and offers an insight into what all ordinary civilians of all ethnicities face under the military dictatorship in Burma.
Launch Date: May 1, 2004

More than 600,000 people inside Burma have been displaced by the ongoing persectution at the hands of the Burmese military junta. This video documents the impossible choices facing internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the free-fire zones of Burma.
Launch Date: September 1, 2002

Other Rights Alerts

Update to MDRI's petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of the people experiencing ongoing dehumanizing conditions at the national mental health hospital in Paraguay.
Launch Date: January 28, 2005

"System Failure" exposes the horrific conditions and human rights violations endemic of the California Youth Authority, one of the largest youth correctional agencies in the USA, and calls for a complete reform of the system.
Launch Date: October 14, 2004

Advocating for the Senegalese government and the international community to provide assistance to landmine survivors in the Casamance region of Senegal.
Launch Date: November 24, 2003

This video was shown as part of a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights demonstrating abusive conditions at the National Neuro-Psychiatric hospital in Paraguay.
Launch Date: October 1, 2003

The Afro-Honduran Garifuna people of northern Honduras strive to maintain their culture in spite of discrimination and governmental exclusion, including powerful interest seeking to "develop" the region.
Launch Date: July 1, 2002

Indigenous women in Oaxaca, Mexico face threats to their economic, social and cultural rights - especially in issues of health and reproductive rights.
Launch Date: June 1, 2002

Este video muestra como el "Plan Puebla Panamá amenaza a los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales (DESC) de las mujeres indigenas en Oaxaca, México.
Launch Date: June 1, 2002

A public campaign to pressure ChevronTexaco to clean up its toxic waste in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Launch Date: May 1, 2002

Ongoing oppression of ethnic minority civilians in Burma at the hands of the Burmese army is fueled in part by the presence of foreign companies who hire the army as security units.
Launch Date: March 1, 2002

A call for gender equality, democracy and an end to foreign military intervention in Afghanistan as it rebuilds.
Launch Date: November 15, 2001

An indigenous coalition in Mindanao, Philippines conducts video documentation of their legal and peaceful survey of ancestral land claims. Attacks on members are captured on video and lead to an investigation into the violence.
Launch Date: November 1, 2001

The Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra (MST, the Landless Workers Movement) is the largest social movement in Latin America.
Launch Date: October 1, 2001

The trend towards increased incarceration, lengthier sentences, and jailing younger offenders has placed a burden on the corrections system, especially in the United States.
Launch Date: August 1, 2001

According to UNICEF, there are over 300,000 children around the world engaged in military conflict. "Children of War" features the ongoing situation in northern Uganda, specifically the abduction of girls from a boarding school.
Launch Date: August 1, 2001

Countless atrocities were committed during the course of Sierra Leone's devastating, drawn-out conflict from 1991-2001. With civilians being the primary target of attack, women were particularly vulnerable to violence during the civil war.
Launch Date: July 1, 2001

Lured by the promise of good American jobs, women from several Asian countries flock to the U.S. territory of Saipan's sweatshops.
Launch Date: June 1, 2001

Four white police officers are acquitted in the shooting death of an unarmed African immigrant in New York City. The verdict sent a shock wave through communities affected by police brutality.
Launch Date: April 1, 2001

For years the Dominican Republic has expelled thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian decent. Targeted for no other reason than their skin color, these individuals are uprooted from their homes and the lives they have built for themselves.
Launch Date: September 1, 2000

Profiles of mostly immigrant women working in New York City's sweatshops and the illegal conditions they endure in order to make ends meet.
Launch Date: September 1, 2000

Today, an estimated 9.7 million people are classified as refugees. Upholding and protecting the fundamental human rights of refugees continues to be a massive challenge to governments, aid agencies and non-governmental organizations.
Launch Date: August 1, 2000

"The Diamond Life" provides a glimpse into the greed and violence that fueled Sierra Leone's brutal diamond war.
Launch Date: August 1, 2000

"The Price of Youth" focuses on the trafficking of Nepali girls to India for work in the sex trade.
Launch Date: June 1, 2000

"Kosovo and Beyond" demonstrates the need for an effective International Criminal Court to ensure that the gravest international crimes do not go unpunished.
Launch Date: May 1, 2000

"Forgotten People" documents the frightening similarities in the degrading treatment of people with mental disabilities around the globe, specifically in Mexico, Armenia, Hungary and the former Yugoslavia.
Launch Date: January 1, 2000

Over the last 30 years, residents of the state of Manipur in India report that the Indian Army has killed, abducted, declared missing, beaten, tortured, and raped hundreds of civilians, including women and children. Y. Sanamacha was one such child.
Launch Date: February 16, 1999

Every year hundrends of thousands of women are at risk of losing their personal freedom, suffering physical and emotional harm and working in degrading and sometimes life-threatening situations as forced sex workers.
Launch Date: June 1, 1997