[Peace] FILM SERIES: Human Rights & Conflict: Case studies from Africa

[Jamie McGowan]

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African Studies' Documentary Films Series
Human Rights & Conflict: Case studies from Africa
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TIME: 12:00 -1:00 p.m.
PLACE:  Rm. 101, International  Studies Bldg., 910 S. Fifth St., Ch.

March 5
"Forsaken Cries"
Washington, DC., 35 min. Amnesty International, USA, 1997

This video examines the 1994 genocide in Rwanda as a case study in the 
human rights challenges of the 21st century.

March 12
Lecture "Rethinking Human Rights"
by Dr. Belden Fields, Political Science, University of Illinois

March 19
"For Everyone Everywhere: The Making of the Universal Declaration of Human 
Rights"
New York, 30 min. United Nations Department of Public Information, 1998

The horrors of the Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War 
awakened world awareness to the need to codify standards of basic human 
rights applicable throughout the world. This documentary uses rare archival 
footage to chronicle the history of the Universal Declaration of Human 
Rights, and the struggle by Eleanor Roosevelt and a coalition of diplomats, 
jurists and intellectuals to implement this document at the United Nations. 
Filmed on four continents, the documentary further surveys the current 
state of world human rights standards.

April 9
"Kafi's Story and Nuba Conversations"
San Francisco, 54 min. California Newsreel, 2000

Two films shot in the same places by the same filmmaker only ten years 
apart, offer an opportunity to measure the full devastation of Africa's 
civil wars. They expose a human rights
tragedy of epic proportions, which has remained invisible to the rest of 
the world: the deliberate destruction of the ancient Nuba civilization by 
the Islamic fundamentalist regime in
Sudan.

April 16
"Chain of Tears"
London, 52 minutes Channel 4, 1988

This film illustrates the lasting psychological damage inflicted on child 
victims of the apartheid regime in Mozambique, Angola, and South Africa.

April 30
"Delta Force"
London, 49 min. Television Trust for the Environment, 1995

A documentary made before the judicial murder of the Nigerian writer and 
human rights activist Ken Saro Wiwa in November 1995. "Delta Force" tells 
the story of the non-violent efforts of the Ogoni people to halt 30 years 
of environmental damage, suffering and inequality on the Niger Delta. 
"Delta Force" opens with the arrest of Saro-Wiwa and the subsequent 
implementation of "Operation Restore" in Ogoniland--the military campaign 
of terror waged against the Ogoni people in an attempt to suppress their 
environmental campaign against oil drilling by Shell International. It also 
includes interview excerpts with Ken Wiwa, son of Ken Saro-Wiwa

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