Human rights violations in modern-day India

Review India's country profile at:

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2007/06/india_street_chlinks.html
Select one of the human rights topics to investigate below. Read and or/ view sources on PBS'

Frontline website.

Summarize the issue being sure to explain why it is a human rights issue. Explain how India's government is responding to this crisis and evaluate the role and effectiveness of Parlaiment in managing this issue. Propose your own action plan for resolving this problem.

Poverty and the Organ Selling Industry
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2006/07/india_a_pound_o.html

Sexwork, Human Trafficking and HIV/ AIDS
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/india304/aronson.html

Education, poverty and the "digital divide"/ access to technology
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/india/

Street Children
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2007/06/india_street_ch.html

Due Wednsday, January 7. Minimum 250 words. Remember that all video elements must be submitted by Tuesday January 6 for in-school editing.

How Risky Is India: Analyzing international investments in a time of financial and security crisis

1. Read "How Risky is India", an article from the December 4 issue of Businees Weekly at:

http://businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_50/b4112024094731.htm?chan=rss_topDiscussed_ssi_5. 

2. Summarize the article and explain how it reflects the structure of politics in India as well as the nation's relationship with Britain and the United States. 

3.  Mehul Srivastava and Nandini Lakshman (the authors) tell us that "Only in 2001, when a stable government focused on the economy with a brand message "India Shining" did things (economically speaking) take off." They then ask the reader "Which India will prevail- the India that nurtures global industries and rising affluence or the India of stalled hopes and endemic violence?"  Answer this question with regard for the information presented in the article. 

****If you need further help understanding the recent attacks in Mumbai and the conflict in Kashmir, check out the research and background links at : 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7754438.stm

Film Trailer Study

In order to help you think through the format of your Political Issue Documentary or Feature trailer project, you and your Production Team are asked to view and analyze at least SIX trailers from the links below. You must view at least two documentary and two feature trailers. These should be a mix of ametur and professionally produced films.

Features (trailers available for view in large format at www.spout.com/films):
City of God - street children in Brazil
Paradise Now- suiscide bombing
Maria Full of Grace- drug trafficking
Osama- women's rights in Afghanistan
Bread and Roses- immigrant worker rights/ labor organizing USA
The Last King of Scotland - dictatorship of Idi Amin in Uganda
Human Trafficking - self explanitory


Documentaries:
God Grew Tired of Us: children of war in Sudan: http://www.spout.com/films/God_Grew_Tired_of_Us/261762/921795/trailers.aspx

Sicko: Health care in US and Canada
http://www.spout.com/films/Sicko/284216/35687/trailers.aspx

Inheritance - an American woman comes to terms with the Nazi roots of her family's wealth: http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2008/inheritance/index.html

Various POV doucmentaries are available for view at: http://www.pbs.org/pov/filmarchive.php

Several SHORT documentaries concerning global human rights issues are available for view at:www.mediathatmattersfest.org

Rights on the Line - Immigrant Rights:
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/7/rights_on_the_line_vigilantes_at_the_border/index.php?fs=about

Bread: Poverty in Guatemala:
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/6/bread/