Human Rights Watch
The Power of an Idea
A film history that traces the human rights movement to the founding of Human Rights Watch in Russia in 1978, showing how the efforts of a few activists helped bring down the Berlin Wall and the end of the Soviet Union. It tells how "Americas Watch" responded to the oppression of military dictatorships in 1980's Latin America, standing by menaced human rights defenders, demanding they be protected from death squads, while the U.S. government was sending military aid to the repressive regimes and was openly hostile to the search for truth and justice in the western hemisphere. In the post-Cold War world, HRW is portrayed as a strong advocate of women's rights and a leader in the campaigns to ban landmines and the use of child soldiers, to establish an International Criminal Court and to support the democracy movement in China.

Seeking Justice
A short film produced in co-operation with Human Rights Watch and Witness following the parallel stories of efforts to expose the atrocities of tyrants Augusto Pinochet of Chile and Serbia's President, Slobodan Milosevic. It follows the efforts of individuals and human rights groups around the world who paved the way for these dictators and ruthless murderers to be held accountable and for Milosevic to finally face charges before the International Criminal Court.
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