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  Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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  On December 10th of 1948, fifty-six members of the United Nations unanimously voted to adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For the first time, a global standard against which to measure a nation’s treatment of its citizens would exist. For the first time, a country could be held accountable for the injustices enacted against its people. And for the first time, individuals were guaranteed certain rights simply because they were human.  This clip, from Chuck Olin’s Out of the Silence: […]

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  Out Of The Silence: Fighting For Human Rights

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  Documentary made up of narration, archive footage, and current footage and interviews highlighting human rights struggles. The first half focuses on the victorious fight for human rights in Czechoslovakia, concentrating on methods of underground information dissemination, including samizdat literature and The Video Journal created by Czech dissidents. The second half focuses on the ongoing struggle for human rights in Guatemala. This main concentration is on the human rights workers and the Guatemalan government’s attempts to squelch them through beatings, kidnappings, and killings.

• Tools, Weapons, Witnesses (rough cut).

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  A window-dubbed rough cut of a documentary with a working title of Tools, Weapons, Witnesses. The fine cut of this film was released under the title Out of the Silence: Fighting For Human Rights. This version is very similar to the fine cut, except the titles, credits, subtitles, some music, some archive footage, and some narration are missing. The following is the description of the fine cut: Documentary made up of narration, archive footage, and current footage and interviews highlighting the human rights struggles.