Amnesty International proudly presents the 17th Annual Seattle Human Rights Film Festival, from February 4-8, 2009. The Seattle Human Rights Film Festival (SHRFF) celebrates the invaluable contribution filmmakers offer to raising public awareness and understanding of often overlooked human rights issues. Since 1992, SHRFF has brought some of the world’s most thought-provoking films to our…
If you have not yet seen the movie Slumdog Millionaire, you’ve surely heard of it. One of the biggest movies of the year, it just swept the Golden Globes and looks poised to do the same at the Oscars. For good reason – it’s affecting without being affected, gives us great multi-dimensional characters, has phenomenal…
That’s the number of children in the American foster care system today. Specifically, 508,406.29% of them will be there three years or more. And at 18, they’re out of the system. You don’t have to raise them to help them. You just have to raise your hand and say you’ll help. Raise Me Up is a…
In 1998, Agnes Oswaha fled Sudan with nothing but her purse and her life. She ended up in Seattle, Washington where she was granted asylum in 1999. But even today, ten years later, Oswaha has nightmares about the ongoing genocides in her home country. She has lost brothers, sisters, cousins angrandparents in Sudan. In October 2004,…
This is an incredible video of a Canadian girl who spoke to the United Nations and left them completely silent and speechless for five minutes. Her name is Severn Suziki, and her speech was given at a U.N. assembly in Brazil when she was twelve years old. She had raised all the money to travel…