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 @ 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 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. [...]
anna @ November 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Jonathan Jones tells the story of recovery, rebels and resurgence in Congo’s seemingly endless war in the short video Crisis in North Kivu.
An article on Congo’s escalating war for the San Francisco Chronicle, by Jones and Sussman.
Hundreds of thousands are refugees from Congo ethnic violence
A report by Anna Sussman on PRI’s The World. [...]
anna @ November 3, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Anna Sussman writes on the rise of women in the traditionally masculine field of mountain climbing, accompanied by a short video of a female led ascent to Annapurna Base Camp by Jonathan Jones.