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Moving Images: WITNESS and Human Rights Advocacy ( Innovations Case Narrative : WITNESS)

2008; The MIT Press; Volume: 3; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1162/itgg.2008.3.2.35

1558-2485

Peter P. Gabriel, Gillian Caldwell, Sara Federlein, Sam Gregory, Jenni Wolfson,

Cambodian History and Society

Back in 1988 I was part of Amnesty International's "Human Rights Now!" Tour, which was to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.We managed to persuade Bruce Springsteen, Tracy Chapman, Youssou N'Dour, and Sting to join us, and we toured over nineteen countries.During that time I met hundreds of survivors of human rights abuses and listened to their stories of suffering and frustration.These were people who had been brutally tortured, forced to flee their homes and countries, who watched their loved ones murdered, and suffered overwhelming forces of oppression.What all of these personal accounts had in common was that the perpetrators went unpunished for their crimes.These human rights abuses were being successfully denied, ignored, and forgotten, despite many written reports.But, it was clear that in those cases where photographic film or video evidence existed, it was almost impossible for the oppressors to get away with it.