anna @ November 7, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The economic crisis has hit American homeowners and renters especially hard. You can read the impact on the faces of the homeless and in the yard signs that say foreclosed. Now a UN official is seeing it for herself on a tour of the United States. Reporter Anna Sussman went along for the ride in [...]
anna @ August 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The US has donated some $200 million in military aid to re-train and re-arm Liberia’s military. While some say the notoriously criminal army needed the professional training, others are worried given the violent consequences US military aid to the country in the past. Anna Sussman reports for PRI’s The World. Liberia’s Military.
anna @ November 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
How does a country recover from a genocide? In Rwanda, the government has implemented a traditional system of justice and reconciliation known as the Gacaca courts. The courts are expected to deal with the hundreds of thousands of people accused of participating in the 1994 genocide and promote reconciliation between genocide perpetrators and survivors. Jonathan [...]
anna @ September 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Anna Sussman writes for the San Francisco Chronicle on the detention of a local journalist by the US Military in Afghanistan
Journalist Detained for Reporting
anna @ June 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Find and view all the BackPackJournalist TV features from Africa, Asia and beyond here.
anna @ June 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Poor families in Indonesia are forced to make hard choices as the price of food continues to rise. Watch the BackPackJournalist short film on Current TV, the first in a series on the global food crisis.
Food Crisis: Hard Choices
anna @ April 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In Uganda, Lord’s Resistance Army commander Joseph Kony continues to delay signing a peace agreement that would end Africa’s longest-running civil war.
Foreign Policy magazine’s blog recommends Jones/Sussman short film “A Civil War Ends?”
“…an amazing short documentary on the conflict that includes an interview [...]
anna @ March 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Anna Sussman writes for CNN about one of the last interviews with slain Karen rebel leader Pa Doh Mahn Shar before his assassination.
Slain Karen Leader: Rebel effort is self defense
anna @ March 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Perspectives from Cambodia on the long awaited Khmer Rouge Trials. Former Khmer Rouge leaders, Khmer Rouge defense lawyers and victims of the Khmer Rouge discuss their views on the long awaited attempt at justice.
Why has it taken so long? Why is it so expensive? Is there a presumption of innocence in a war crimes trial? [...]
anna @ March 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Despite the military government’s promise to hold multi-party elections in 2010, Burmese refugees, monks and resistance fighters say the crackdown on dissent in far from over. Jonathan Jones and Anna Sussman report for Current TV.
Same Same but Mae Sot
An unknown future for the monks at the forefront of the Saffron Uprising. [...]