Displaced Videos

Second Cinema host Hilary Russo had the pleasure of speaking with speaking with Author, and Duke University Professor, Negar Mottahedeh about Iranian Cinema and her book, Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema.

The United Nations investigation into the war on Gaza has accused Israel of committing war crimes and called on both Israel and the Palestinian factions to conduct their own inquiries or face the International Criminal Court. Israel has been quick to reject the UN request. Now it remains to be seen if the report will bring justice to the thousands affected by the war, including those who remain displaced. Sherine Tadros reports from Gaza.

Marino Cordova of AFRODES the Association of Displaced Afro Colombians, gives a personal testimony on the current humanitarian crisis affecting millions of Afro descendants and Indigenous peoples in Colombia. Over 4.5 million Colombians have been displaced by the violence promoted by the government, paramilitary and guerrillas. Recorded during the opening of the Afro Colombian Mural painted by Joel Bergner in Washington, DC, on September 12, 2009. Carlos in DC blog.

Plum TV's show Giving featured the work of Shakira and her Barefoot Foundation. Singer-songwriter and international star Shakira founded the Barefoot Foundation to provide education and nutrition to poor and displaced children.

Displaced populations suffer a lost political life because government and NGO agencies do not have their data integrated. By using new Semantic Web technologies, we are enabling the interoperability of the data to help recover the lost social tissue.

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Baghdad/Abu Dsheer, Iraq - There are many Sunni Families living in Hawr Rajab, and a great number were attacked by people wearing black uniforms similar to the uniform that the Mehdi Army is known to wear, which is also considered similar to the uniform worn by members of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. The Sahwa forces are gathered in Hawr Rajab trying to protect those families from being attacked during the night or the early hours of the morning. Several attacks happened to families living in Hawr Rajab occurring like raids. When men in black uniforms attack a family they often kidnap the father or the brother or sometimes the whole family, and it is normal to find the family member dead after several days. These actions pushed some families to flee Hawr Rajab and move to a nearby area called Abu Dsheer which seems to be demonstrating ongoing solidarity within Iraq society, as the families who spoke with Alive in Baghdad are Sunni families that fled from Hawr Rajab to Abu Dsheer, which is known to be a majority Shi'a neighborhood. Since the Sahwa force was established in Hawr Rajab there have been a number of massacres, demonstrating the ongoing instability that discourages many displaced families from returning home. Hawr Rajab was controlled by Al-Qaeda and used to be known as a major area under Al-Qaeda's control. In the beginning they targeted anyone who worked with the United States military, and after awhile, Al-Qaeda started to establish rules to be followed by the people living therem like men are not allowed to wear shorts have a short beard, and for all women they must wear a veil on their head when they go out of their homes. The people lof Hawr Rajab liked the idea of the Sahwa Forces and many people joined that force in order to get Al-Qaeda out of their area. Al-Qaeda decided to retaliate against this behavior of people living there and to show them that Al-Qaeda is still strong and still controlling the area. Members Al-Qaeda began to assassinate heads of the tribes that joined Al-Sahwa, and the young people that joined, in order to push them away from the Sahwa. One of the methods of assassinations was to behead the kidnapped person and put the victim's head on their chest, and leave the body in front of their family's ho,e By early 2008 Al-Qaeda had burned and destroyed some houses for random people and killed people only for belonging to a certain tribe that agreed with the Sahwa method and that reason pushed people to flee to anywhere and made many go to a Shi'a neighborhood just to stay alive. *** If you appreciate the insightful content provided by Alive in Baghdad, which you won t find anywhere else, please consider becoming a paying subscriber, or making a donation to Alive in Baghdad. You can also purchase Alive in Baghdad T-shirts to spread the word!

In this 12 minute interview with a young man named Sadir, you will hear about the plight of Iranian Kurds. Sadir and his fellow Iranian Kurds have been living in the desert near Jordan's border with Iraq for 3 years. They have been awaiting resettlement in a third country since they fled Iraq in 2003. They are not allowed to leave the camp, and can only have vistors who receive official permission from the King, the Interior Ministry office, or the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.With the help of an NGO working to provide school supplies to the Ruweishid Refugee Camp, Alive in Baghdad was able to gain access to the camp and interview several of the refugees there.This is the first of several interviews you can expect, we will also be uploading a short edited piece about Ruweishid, hopefully by the coming weekend.