By: Derek Horton (United States), reproduced courtesy of DCTV Derek’s film recounts his struggles growing up in East New York faced with muggings, violence and people who discourage his ambitions. He fears that his neighborhood will prevent him from achieving his dreams, but is determined to succeed. For more info on PRO-TV, DCTV’s youth media…
By Sarah Kenningham (United Kingdom) Human Rights are about human beings! Raquel Rolnik, UN Special Rapporteur on Housing, had to insist upon this point when taking questions from journalists at a press conference on the 11th to highlight the preliminary findings of her two-week monitoring visit to the UK. TV cameras, journalists and campaigners were left jostling…
By Matt Davies (Mexico) I was recently invited by the ATD Fourth World team in Haiti to spend a week with them to know more about the work they are doing and get to know the active members of ATD Fourth World in the country. I had not traveled to Haiti before. Yet it is…
By Diana Skelton (France) The 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream that skin color would no longer shape people’s judgement of one another has been an opportunity for soul searching linked to racial profiling. But fully honoring his legacy requires us to look much more closely at economic profiling as well. To…
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