Backpack Journalist » Human Rights http://backpackjournalist.org International Freelance Reporting Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:25:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 UN official looks at US housing crisis http://backpackjournalist.org/2009/11/07/un-official-looks-at-us-housing-crisis/ http://backpackjournalist.org/2009/11/07/un-official-looks-at-us-housing-crisis/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:22:27 +0000 anna http://backpackjournalist.org/?p=163 housingpic1

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 L.A.

UN Official looks at US housing crisis

]]> http://backpackjournalist.org/2009/11/07/un-official-looks-at-us-housing-crisis/feed/ 0 US Military Aid to Liberia Cause for Concern http://backpackjournalist.org/2009/08/10/us-military-aid-to-liberia-cause-for-concern/ http://backpackjournalist.org/2009/08/10/us-military-aid-to-liberia-cause-for-concern/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:39:11 +0000 anna http://backpackjournalist.org/?p=155 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.

]]> http://backpackjournalist.org/2009/08/10/us-military-aid-to-liberia-cause-for-concern/feed/ 0 Rwanda on Trial http://backpackjournalist.org/2008/11/06/rwanda-on-trial/ http://backpackjournalist.org/2008/11/06/rwanda-on-trial/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:37:38 +0000 anna http://backpackjournalist.org/?p=126 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 Jones and Anna Sussman were granted rare access to videotape the proceedings. They also traveled to other parts of the country to investigate underlying ethnic tensions.

Rwanda on Trial

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Journalist Detained for Reporting

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Food Crisis: Hard Choices

]]> http://backpackjournalist.org/2008/06/06/food-uncertainties-in-indonesia/feed/ 0 Peace still elusive in Uganda http://backpackjournalist.org/2008/04/12/peace-still-elusive-in-uganda/ http://backpackjournalist.org/2008/04/12/peace-still-elusive-in-uganda/#comments Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:48:33 +0000 anna http://backpackjournalist.org/?p=116 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 with a former top LRA commander who says he has no regrets about his actions:”

]]> http://backpackjournalist.org/2008/04/12/peace-still-elusive-in-uganda/feed/ 0 Last Interview with Slain Rebel Leader http://backpackjournalist.org/2008/03/30/last-interview-with-slain-rebel-leader/ http://backpackjournalist.org/2008/03/30/last-interview-with-slain-rebel-leader/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:28:40 +0000 anna http://backpackjournalist.org/?p=115 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

]]> http://backpackjournalist.org/2008/03/30/last-interview-with-slain-rebel-leader/feed/ 0 The Khmer Rouge Trials http://backpackjournalist.org/2008/03/29/the-khmer-rouge-trials/ http://backpackjournalist.org/2008/03/29/the-khmer-rouge-trials/#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:52:32 +0000 anna http://backpackjournalist.org/2008/03/29/the-khmer-rouge-trials/ 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? And why isn’t the US on trial for its bombing campaign? Jonathan Jones and Anna Sussman for Current TV.

The Khmer Rouge Trials, Operation Menu and Rice by the Can.

]]> http://backpackjournalist.org/2008/03/29/the-khmer-rouge-trials/feed/ 0 Burmese Crackdown Continues http://backpackjournalist.org/2008/03/05/burmese-crackdown-continues-2/ http://backpackjournalist.org/2008/03/05/burmese-crackdown-continues-2/#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:55:58 +0000 anna http://backpackjournalist.org/2008/03/05/burmese-crackdown-continues-2/ 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. The San Francisco Chronicle. Jones and Sussman.

Burmese Monks in Thailand Pace, Pray and Wait

The story of an American Karen man who left his home in Washington to join the Karen ethnic resistance movement. Seattle Times. Jones and Sussman.

Bellingham Retireee Embraces Myanmar Rebels’ Cause

And Anna Sussman reports on the efforts of one local journalist for the Women’s E News journalist of the month series.

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