On the International Day of the Disappeared here are a few initiatives using visual media to highlight the issue and those living in the uncertainty of having lost a loved one in this way.
‘Missing Lives’ – book and photo exhibition giving voice to victims and paying tribute to families from the recent conflicts in the Western Balkans. An ICRC production with photos by British photographer Nick Danziger and text by Canadian writer Rory MacLean.
ICRC have also released a documentary, ‘Shadows of Hope’, depicting the plight of families in Nepal. Unfortunately, it does not appear to be available on-line yet.
And, once again, ICRC, but this time from Peru – where in the 1980′s a conflict often compared with that of Nepal’s resulted in 15,000 disappearances. This video looks at an initiative by families to knit a 1 km scarf commemorating those who were disappeared.
‘Unsilenced‘ is a film by King Baco looking at the abduction of six paper industry workers in the Philippines by the military in 2000 and the campaign by the families for justice.
‘Surfacing’ is a project featured on REP before, but went thr0ugh a rather quiet time. Anyhow, it is back up and running. The projects brings local photographers (both amateur and professional) and families of the disappeared together to document and raise public awareness about the issue in the Philippines. They also have an FB page.
Purnimaya goes to visit the newly appointed Chief District Officer of Kavre district to introduce herself and brief him of her husband's pending case. Earlier on the same day, she visited the office of the Kavre District Superintendent of Police (DSP) to request him to expedite paperwork related to the exhumation of her husband's body. The DSP dismissed the request, deferring it to the human rights cell at police headquarters. Purnimaya has spent five years going from one government office to another to seek justice.
We have also uploaded some of the stills used in the Amnesty International multimedia piece on Purnimaya Lama on the REP Flickr page here.
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Filed under: Campaigning, Multi-media, Photography Tagged: | Asia, Bosnia, Croatia, disappearances, Eastern Europe, Europe, human rights, Kosovo, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, South Amesrica, South Asia
Amazing video and what a worthy cause to reflect on during this day and each day. How terrible it must be to live with not knowing whether your loved one is alive or not. Thank you for all who contributed to bringing this piece of new media to use to see the kind of healing these brave women are going through. In this vein i ask that you take a look at http://www.communicationisyourright.org/ we hope that many will see that without each person alive having the right to communicate we can’t achieve true justice.
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