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Health professionals

Specialized Training Manual on Psychosocial Counseling for Trafficked Youth (International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), Kathmandu, 2002). Language(s): English.Psychological...

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Human rights monitors

Where’s the Money Going? Monitoring government and donor budgets (London, 2004). Language(s): English.Monitoring and Reporting Human Rights Violations in Africa. A Handbook for Community Activists...

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Journalists

Library > JournalistsCrimes of War: What the Public Should Know (Roy Gutman and David Rieff (eds.), New York/London, 1999). Language(s): Arabic, English.Campaigning for Free Expression: A Handbook...

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Judges and Prosecutors

Outline of Human Rights Curriculum for Prosecutors (Administration of Criminal Justice Project, Cairo, 2007). Language(s): English.Judges and Torture (Amnesty International, London, 2003). Language(s):...

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Judges and Prosecutors

Outline of Human Rights Curriculum for Prosecutors (Administration of Criminal Justice Project, Cairo, 2007). Language(s): English.Judges and Torture (Amnesty International, London, 2003). Language(s):...

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Law Enforcement Officials

Handbook on United Nations Multidimensional Peacekeeping Operations (Department of Peacekeeping Operations, New York, 2003). Language(s): English.Police Response to Crimes of Sexual Assault: A Training...

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Lawyers and paralegals

Legal Investigations of Torture Allegations: A Practical Guide to the Istanbul Protocol – for Lawyers (REDRESS Trust, Copenhagen, 2004). Language(s): English, Spanish.Guide to Jurisprudence on Torture...

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Prison officials

Human Rights and Prisons: A Manual on Human Rights Training for Prison Officials (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, New York/Geneva, 2004). Language(s): English.A Human...

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Public Officials

Human Rights: Handbook for Parliamentarians (Manfred Nowak, Geneva, 2005). Language(s): English, French.Basic Overseas Refugee Processing (Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Ottawa, 2003)....

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Social workers

Transformative Arts and Human Rights Education Guide (Ba Futuru, Dili, 2006). Language(s): English.Human Rights and Social Work: A Manual for Schools of Social Work and the Social Work Profession...

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West Africa: On the Edge of Hope

Over the past 16 years, spillover conflicts in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Ivory Coast have resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and uprooted millions of people across West Africa.Although the...

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Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Trailer

Traumatized by physical injuries and brutal losses in Sierra Leone's civil war, a group of refugees fight back with the only means they have — music. The six-member Refugee All Stars came together in...

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Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars documentray

http://www.refugeeallstars.org Here is a short trailer for the documentary film SIERRA LEONE'S REFUGEE ALL STARS. The film tells the remarkable story of Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, a group of...

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Sierra Leone: Getting reparations right for survivors of sexual violence

Six years after the end of the conflict in Sierra Leone, little has been done to ensure that survivors of sexual violence receive justice, acknowledgement of their suffering, or full, meaningful and...

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Black Nature - Makeni to Bo

WeOwnTV is collaborative media project between documentary filmmakers in the US and ex-combatant and war-weary youth in Africa. WeOwnTV roughly translates In Sierra Leonean Krio to 'Our Own TV'. It is...

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Operation Fine Girl: Rape Used as a Weapon of War in Sierra Leone

Date: 2001 Produced by: WITNESS / Oxygen Media LLC / Lilibet Foster WITNESS Partner: Binta Mansaray Duration: 13:23Countless atrocities were committed during the course of Sierra Leone’s devastating,...

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Children of the Nations - 7 min promo

Promotional video from our Some Kind of Miracle events - "Now I Can Dream". Features several of our children from Sierra Leone

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Women's Rights in Sierra Leone

Short Documentary about Women's rights in Sierra Leone

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The Diamond Life

Running Time: 6:35 mins. The Revolutionary United Front's (RUF) attack on Freetown in January of 1999 was the culmination of a decade-long and bloody struggle between the RUF and the government of...

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Refuge?

Running Time: 8 Minutes.REFUGE?, shot by WITNESS partner Rencontre Africaine pour la Défense des Droits de l'Homme (RADDHO), with music and narration by Philip Hamilton, documents the social and...

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Operation Fine Girl: Rape Used as a Weapon of War in Sierra Leone (Excerpts)

Running Time: 13 Minutes, 23 SecondsOPERATION FINE GIRL : RAPE USED AS A WEAPON OF WAR IN SIERRA LEONE was titled, produced and directed for WITNESS and Oxygen by academy award nominee Lilibet Foster...

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Liberia: The Story of the Amputee All-Stars

The amputee soccer players - formerly child soldiers of opposing rebel groups - are held up as the new hope of Liberia. The Amputee Football Federation of Liberia has already played in international...

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stop the war - stop the recruitment of child soldiers

The music video exposes the extent of human rights violations cased by warfare as well as the predicaments faced by women and children during wars. It is a clarion call to stop wars that continue to...

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Interview of Former Child Soldier Ishmael Beah

As part of his AK-47 series Al Jazeera's Josh Rushing spoke to Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier in Sierra Leone, about his experiences.(This video was originally uploaded to YouTube by Al Jazeera...

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Witness to Truth (Excerpts)

Running Time: 7 min. A Video Report and Recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Sierra LeoneIn a groundbreaking use of video documentation, WITNESS was invited by the Sierra...

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Rival political groups clash in Sierra Leone - 17 Mar 09

At least 20 people were injured and several women raped when supporters of rival political parties clashed in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.The clashes between members of the opposition Sierra...

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Blood Diamonds- Trailer

Blood Diamonds - The unlawful diamond trade in Sierra Leone ... Blood Diamonds. Documentaries. Overviews. Up-and-Coming.History . Episodes. Videos. Photos. News. Forums ...Learn more about Blood...

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Arthur Pratt and WeOwnTV

We traveled to Sierra Leone in January/Febuary 2009 on a scouting trip for a community based media workshop we have planned for August/September this year. We are collaborating with Arthur Pratt who...

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Victims remember Taylor's brutal rule - 14 Jul 09

Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president, is being tried at the International Criminial Court at the Hague for war crimes during the brutal 1991-2001 civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone. Al...

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