Human Rights

Around 2 million refugees have entered Europe since 2015. One of the countries was the Netherlands. Boasting a liberal culture, Dutch society presented the newcomers with an environment strikingly different from what they were used to. However, despite the challenges, Holland seems to be making the integration work. We travel there to find out how the refugees are adapting to their new realities and who is helping them.

In Tanzania, the tradition of child brides is still prevalent. Despite strict laws against this practice, promising harsh punishment for grooms and parents, young girls are still married off to much older men. In exchange, the family of the bride receives cows that it considers more useful than their daughter.

If you want to stay, you have to pay.  Non-EU spouses of British citizens have no automatic right to live in the UK.  The British spouse must earn £18,600 a year for their other half to receive a working visa. Less than half of Britain’s population earns this much.  It means thousands of loving families are forced apart every year.

Cambodia, with its cheap labour, is an attractive place for many international fashion brands to manufacture their clothes. However, low production prices are often only achieved by violating workers’ rights. Most women working in clothes factories are fired as soon as they get pregnant.

Sweden has a long history of welcoming refugees from military conflicts all around the world. The current refugee crisis is no exception. However, its scale is unprecedented and the country is still dealing with previous migration issues. Many are now asking if it’s all too much, even for Swedish hospitality.

The ancient Greek island of Lesbos is where hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Africa and the Middle East first reach Europe. “Clowns without Borders” is an organisation that sends volunteers to entertain children in the refugee camps and offer a little comic relief.

Domestic abuse usually involves violence against women. There are cases though when men become the victims and the attacks aren’t always physical. That is certainly the case in Israel, where men fall prey to women who choose to abuse the laws put in place to protect them. 

An Italian activist wants to hold NATO to account for harm she says it has caused around the world. Marinella Correggia likens her personal fight to a little donkey taking on a tyrannosaurus. Donkeys though, can be extremely stubborn.

Should prostitution be legalised, banned or left to its own devices? The main protagonists in this film are former and current sex workers, victims of circumstance and members of their own trade union. And they all have a very diverse range of opinions on this controversial subject.

Almost 500 children were robbed of their lives after their parents were murdered by a vile regime and their identities erased. Years later, a determined group of grandmothers, who refused to give up, finally found the children of the “disappeared”, and re-introduced them to their true selves.

As the turmoil of revolutions brought economic instability to many African countries, its citizens began to look across the sea, to Europe, for a chance to improve their lives. The Italian island of Lampedusa is often seen as “a door” to the Western paradise. Getting there though can be sheer hell.

This film focuses on life for gay men in America; they explain why it is important to them to be able to marry, go to church and be accepted by society without having to sacrifice their true identity.

There are many reasons why women stay in abusive relationships. Some believe their husbands will change, some have nowhere else to go and some are just afraid to act. But at what point do you say enough is enough? 

Their god is woman and their weapons are bare breasts. We'll meet the firebrand girls of FEMEN and hear about how the organisation got started and what it stands for.