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Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Part five looks at the Battle of Waterloo. The battle of Waterloo (the last engagement of Napolean's so-called Hundred Days) was fought on Sunday June 18, 1815, just south of Brussels in modern Belgium. It began late in the morning, as the French Emperor waited for the ground to dry after the soaking rain of previous days, but once battle was joined it raged until evening.
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
A tangled web of issues is involved in electing a president. Edmund Muskie, former presidential press secretary Jody Powell, party officials and others discuss the role of political parties, the electoral college, and what to do if a president becomes disabled.
Series
American Experience volume 0
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Through riveting accounts from hostages, journalists and officials, learn how Iranian students held 52 hostages at the American embassy in Tehran from November 1979 to January 1981—a defining crisis of Jimmy Carter’s presidency.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In response to immigration laws, churches and cities across the country have declared themselves “sanctuaries” – pledging to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation. It’s just the latest resurgence of a movement that started more than 30 years ago.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
More than a billion people worldwide, mostly children, do not have a legal identity. In many countries, this means they can't get access to vital services like health care and education, says legal identity expert Kristen Wenz. She discusses why this problem is one of the greatest human rights violations of our time -- and shares five strategies to ensure everyone can get registered and protected.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This episode of the Green Interview features Camille Labchuk, an animal rights lawyer and Executive Director of Animal Justice, a not for profit legislative fund dedicated to advocating for the humane treatment of animals. As a lawyer she defends activists and animals in the courts including the Supreme Court and works on campaigns that seek further protection for animals, particularly farm animals.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision protecting people's right to have an abortion in the United States, will be overturned within a year, says reproductive rights attorney Kathryn Kolbert. In this electrifying call to action, she breaks down the systematic attack against reproductive freedom in the US and envisions what a post-Roe world could look like. "First, we've got to build a badass social justice movement," she says. (This...
12) Child Labor
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The U.S. government found child labor violations involving over 3,800 minors in 2022. At the same time, some states say there is too much regulation of child labor. This NewsHour program features a discussion between Katherine Walts, director of the Center for the Human Rights of Children at Loyola University Chicago; Dan Bowling, a distinguished fellow at Duke University School of Law; and Ali Rogin on the state of child labor laws.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This film was produced by the Green Interview and is about the human right to a healthy environment and Mother Nature’s right to be respected and protected. This film vividly portrays remarkable legal battles in nations around the world: dramas in the courts and on the land. In Argentina, the Netherlands, Ecuador, the Philippines and elsewhere, devoted citizens and courageous lawyers take on national governments and international corporations –...
15) 211: Anna
Pub. Date
[2013], c2010
Language
English
Description
Human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya was the 211th Russian journalist to be killed since the Soviet Union's collapse. This documentary investigates how she died while covering both president Vladimir Putin and the Chechen conflict. Features incisive commentary and interviews with key figures.
17) The rebel and the kingdom: the true story of the secret mission to overthrow the North Korean regime
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This remarkable story of idealism and insanity, hubris and heroism, follows Yale undergraduate Adrian Hong, who in the early 2000s, found purpose helping asylum-seeking North Korean escapee to safety and trying to subvert the North Korean regime, causing him to become one of the world's most unlikely fugitives"--
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Some 25 dead bodies have been found on Long Island since September of 2016. Dozens of immigrant teenagers are missing. Who is behind the wave of killings on Long Island - and is law enforcement's crackdown on suspected MS-13 gang members detaining the real culprits, or innocent teens?
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
After more than 50 years of activity, Amnesty International does not slow down its commitment to promoting freedom and justice worldwide. It recently made headlines with reports on the human rights violations committed by Turkish authorities during the Gezi Park protests. It engages a controversial debate with Barack Obama to remind him of his promise to close the Guantánamo Bay detention camp. But most of all, the organization, strong of over 3...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A shockingly intimate look at the world of honor killings, as seen through the eyes of both the perpetrators and the victims. What drives a person to murder their sister, mother, or daughter? What is life like in a society in which women are imprisoned for their own "protection," while their potential killers walk free? In this powerful and affecting book, writer and journalist Lene Wold offers a rare window into the world of "honor killings"-the...
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