MEMBER BLOG TAG: abuse of children and teens
| Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:43PM | | | | Witness: See It Film It Change It | Tags: Human rights, child slavery, abuse of children and teens, witnessing
| | | This morning’s panel at the Instituto Cervantes featured a stellar line-up of acclaimed authors whose narratives provide witness to the horrible human rights atrocities inflicted on children around the globe. The panel was hosted by Matisse Bustos Hawkes, who works for The Hub, a global platform for human rights media and action (http://hub.witness.org/).
The highlight of the event was when Uzodinma Iweala, a Nigerian American medical student and author of Beasts of No Nation, really engaged the students by asking them what experiences they had with their rights being violated. It was not surprising that in a room full of primarily African American and Latino NYC high school students almost everyone had a story. Most of these stories had to do with a bad... | | | | | |
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