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21 Apr The Battle for Guatemala

Posted at 19:47h in Human Rights in Focus, Journal by Paco

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Last week the battle for the soul of Guatemala came to a head during the genocide trial of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt. After the prosecution rested its case...

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20 Mar "A Greater Story Never Told"

Posted at 11:52h in Journal by Paco

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Yesterday began the historic trial of retired General and former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt on charges that he committed genocide against nearly 2000 Maya-Ixil people in Guatemala in 1982 -...

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04 Feb Using a Film to Nail a Dictator

Posted at 12:13h in Film News, Human Rights in Focus, Journal, Outreach by Pamela

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http://vimeo.com/35763021   HOW TO NAIL A DICTATOR Efrain Ríos Montt is going to trial. The brutal Guatemalan dictator is the first head of state to be prosecuted for genocide in genuine proceedings in...

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14 Jan Imagining Impact: Documentary Film and the Production of Political Effects

Posted at 23:05h in Journal by Paco

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  The title of this blog is actually pulled from a fine essay by filmmaker and friend Meg McLagan, published in her anthology titled Sensible Politics: The Visual Culture of Non-Governmental Activism,...

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13 Mar Regarding #stopKony

Posted at 08:49h in Journal, Outreach by Paco

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In terms of practical approaches to apprehending Kony, since I became aware of him when we began to make The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court in 2006,...

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31 Dec Closing the Impunity Gap

Posted at 08:16h in Journal by Paco

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We walked with Hema tribal spokesman Professor Pilo Kamaragi through the killing fields of Bogoro in the Ituri region of eastern Congo, site of the massacre allegedly perpetrated by...

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