Episode 5 - FR /Alaa Salah / utopia3 / FIFDH 2020

EN - Human rights are always political. Their affirmation or defence goes far beyond a set of principles enshrined in a declaration or a constitution. Locally or globally, Voices tells the stories, cultures and struggles of marginalized individuals and communities. It focuses on the forgotten and questions the silences and the unspoken. Voices is a bilingual, collaborative podcast series produced by Utopia3 and the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH).

For the twentieth anniversary of the FIFDH, Voices engages with filmmakers Rahul Jain, Aïssa Maïga, Oussmane Zoromé Samassékou, Michal Weitz, former politician Avraham Berg, historian Denis Charbit, and Amnesty International representative, Saleh Hijazi, bringing issues of conflict, climate change, and migration to open debate. 

FR - Les droits de l'homme sont toujours politiques. Leur affirmation ou leur défense va bien au-delà d'un ensemble de principes inscrits dans une déclaration ou une constitution. Au niveau local ou mondial, Voices raconte les histoires, les cultures et les luttes des personnes et des communautés marginalisées. Elle se concentre sur les oubliés et remet en question les silences et les non-dits. Voices est une série de podcasts bilingues produits en collaboration par Utopia3 et le Festival international du film et forum sur les droits de l'homme (FIFDH). 

À l'occasion du vingtième anniversaire du FIFDH, Voices s'entretient avec les cinéastes Rahul Jain, Aïssa Maïga, Oussmane Zoromé Samassékou, Michal Weitz, l'ancien politicien Avraham Berg, l'historien Denis Charbit et le représentant d'Amnesty International, Saleh Hijazi, afin d'ouvrir le débat sur les questions de conflit, de changement climatique et de migration.

EN - Human rights are always political. Their affirmation or defence goes far beyond a set of principles enshrined in a declaration or a constitution. Locally or globally, Voices tells the stories, cultures and struggles of marginalized individuals and communities. It focuses on the forgotten and questions the silences and the unspoken. Voices is a bilingual, collaborative podcast series produced by Utopia3 and the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH).

For the twentieth anniversary of the FIFDH, Voices engages with filmmakers Rahul Jain, Aïssa Maïga, Oussmane Zoromé Samassékou, Michal Weitz, former politician Avraham Berg, historian Denis Charbit, and Amnesty International representative, Saleh Hijazi, bringing issues of conflict, climate change, and migration to open debate. 

FR - Les droits de l'homme sont toujours politiques. Leur affirmation ou leur défense va bien au-delà d'un ensemble de principes inscrits dans une déclaration ou une constitution. Au niveau local ou mondial, Voices raconte les histoires, les cultures et les luttes des personnes et des communautés marginalisées. Elle se concentre sur les oubliés et remet en question les silences et les non-dits. Voices est une série de podcasts bilingues produits en collaboration par Utopia3 et le Festival international du film et forum sur les droits de l'homme (FIFDH). 

À l'occasion du vingtième anniversaire du FIFDH, Voices s'entretient avec les cinéastes Rahul Jain, Aïssa Maïga, Oussmane Zoromé Samassékou, Michal Weitz, l'ancien politicien Avraham Berg, l'historien Denis Charbit et le représentant d'Amnesty International, Saleh Hijazi, afin d'ouvrir le débat sur les questions de conflit, de changement climatique et de migration.

EN - Human rights are always political. Their affirmation or defence goes far beyond a set of principles enshrined in a declaration or a constitution. Locally or globally, Voices tells the stories, cultures and struggles of marginalized individuals and communities. It focuses on the forgotten and questions the silences and the unspoken. Voices is a bilingual, collaborative podcast series produced by Utopia3 and the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH).

For the twentieth anniversary of the FIFDH, Voices engages with filmmakers Rahul Jain, Aïssa Maïga, Oussmane Zoromé Samassékou, Michal Weitz, former politician Avraham Berg, historian Denis Charbit, and Amnesty International representative, Saleh Hijazi, bringing issues of conflict, climate change, and migration to open debate. 

FR - Les droits de l'homme sont toujours politiques. Leur affirmation ou leur défense va bien au-delà d'un ensemble de principes inscrits dans une déclaration ou une constitution. Au niveau local ou mondial, Voices raconte les histoires, les cultures et les luttes des personnes et des communautés marginalisées. Elle se concentre sur les oubliés et remet en question les silences et les non-dits. Voices est une série de podcasts bilingues produits en collaboration par Utopia3 et le Festival international du film et forum sur les droits de l'homme (FIFDH). 

À l'occasion du vingtième anniversaire du FIFDH, Voices s'entretient avec les cinéastes Rahul Jain, Aïssa Maïga, Oussmane Zoromé Samassékou, Michal Weitz, l'ancien politicien Avraham Berg, l'historien Denis Charbit et le représentant d'Amnesty International, Saleh Hijazi, afin d'ouvrir le débat sur les questions de conflit, de changement climatique et de migration.

EN - Human rights are always political. Their affirmation or defence goes far beyond a set of principles enshrined in a declaration or a constitution. Locally or globally, Voices tells the stories, cultures and struggles of marginalized individuals and communities. It focuses on the forgotten and questions the silences and the unspoken. Voices is a bilingual, collaborative podcast series produced by Utopia3 and the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH).

For the twentieth anniversary of the FIFDH, Voices engages with filmmakers Rahul Jain, Aïssa Maïga, Oussmane Zoromé Samassékou, Michal Weitz, former politician Avraham Berg, historian Denis Charbit, and Amnesty International representative, Saleh Hijazi, bringing issues of conflict, climate change, and migration to open debate. 

FR - Les droits de l'homme sont toujours politiques. Leur affirmation ou leur défense va bien au-delà d'un ensemble de principes inscrits dans une déclaration ou une constitution. Au niveau local ou mondial, Voices raconte les histoires, les cultures et les luttes des personnes et des communautés marginalisées. Elle se concentre sur les oubliés et remet en question les silences et les non-dits. Voices est une série de podcasts bilingues produits en collaboration par Utopia3 et le Festival international du film et forum sur les droits de l'homme (FIFDH). 

À l'occasion du vingtième anniversaire du FIFDH, Voices s'entretient avec les cinéastes Rahul Jain, Aïssa Maïga, Oussmane Zoromé Samassékou, Michal Weitz, l'ancien politicien Avraham Berg, l'historien Denis Charbit et le représentant d'Amnesty International, Saleh Hijazi, afin d'ouvrir le débat sur les questions de conflit, de changement climatique et de migration.

EN - Human rights are always political. Their affirmation or defence goes far beyond a set of principles enshrined in a declaration or a constitution. Locally or globally, Voices tells the stories, cultures and struggles of marginalized individuals and communities. It focuses on the forgotten and questions the silences and the unspoken. Voices is a bilingual, collaborative podcast series produced by Utopia3 and the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH).

For the twentieth anniversary of the FIFDH, Voices engages with filmmakers Rahul Jain, Aïssa Maïga, Oussmane Zoromé Samassékou, Michal Weitz, former politician Avraham Berg, historian Denis Charbit, and Amnesty International representative, Saleh Hijazi, bringing issues of conflict, climate change, and migration to open debate. 

FR - Les droits de l'homme sont toujours politiques. Leur affirmation ou leur défense va bien au-delà d'un ensemble de principes inscrits dans une déclaration ou une constitution. Au niveau local ou mondial, Voices raconte les histoires, les cultures et les luttes des personnes et des communautés marginalisées. Elle se concentre sur les oubliés et remet en question les silences et les non-dits. Voices est une série de podcasts bilingues produits en collaboration par Utopia3 et le Festival international du film et forum sur les droits de l'homme (FIFDH). 

À l'occasion du vingtième anniversaire du FIFDH, Voices s'entretient avec les cinéastes Rahul Jain, Aïssa Maïga, Oussmane Zoromé Samassékou, Michal Weitz, l'ancien politicien Avraham Berg, l'historien Denis Charbit et le représentant d'Amnesty International, Saleh Hijazi, afin d'ouvrir le débat sur les questions de conflit, de changement climatique et de migration.

EN - Human rights are always political. Their affirmation or defence goes far beyond a set of principles enshrined in a declaration or a constitution. Locally or globally, Voices tells the stories, cultures and struggles of marginalized individuals and communities. It focuses on the forgotten and questions the silences and the unspoken. Voices is a bilingual, collaborative podcast series produced by Utopia3 and the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH).

For the twentieth anniversary of the FIFDH, Voices engages with filmmakers Rahul Jain, Aïssa Maïga, Oussmane Zoromé Samassékou, Michal Weitz, former politician Avraham Berg, historian Denis Charbit, and Amnesty International representative, Saleh Hijazi, bringing issues of conflict, climate change, and migration to open debate. 

FR - Les droits de l'homme sont toujours politiques. Leur affirmation ou leur défense va bien au-delà d'un ensemble de principes inscrits dans une déclaration ou une constitution. Au niveau local ou mondial, Voices raconte les histoires, les cultures et les luttes des personnes et des communautés marginalisées. Elle se concentre sur les oubliés et remet en question les silences et les non-dits. Voices est une série de podcasts bilingues produits en collaboration par Utopia3 et le Festival international du film et forum sur les droits de l'homme (FIFDH). 

À l'occasion du vingtième anniversaire du FIFDH, Voices s'entretient avec les cinéastes Rahul Jain, Aïssa Maïga, Oussmane Zoromé Samassékou, Michal Weitz, l'ancien politicien Avraham Berg, l'historien Denis Charbit et le représentant d'Amnesty International, Saleh Hijazi, afin d'ouvrir le débat sur les questions de conflit, de changement climatique et de migration.

18th episode of the utopia3 podcast with Jason De Leon 

Interview in English.  

Today on Utopia3 we are happy to welcome Jason De Leon, anthropologist, activist, and 2017 McArthur Genius grant award winner, whose work U.S. border militarization and its staggering human will help us re-orient the the often tone-deaf discussion - among both the right and the left in America - to one that suggests that a more just and possibly safer reality could be achieved by placing human rights ahead of a blinkered focus on security. Jason, in cooperation with the Colibri Center Human Rights in Tucson, AZ - has also founded the Undocumented Migrants Project (UMP), which uses a combination of ethnographic, archeological, forensic, and visual anthropological approaches to understand various aspects of unauthorized border crossings including the many forms of violence and suffering that characterize the process. 

Over the past few years, the UMP has sponsored an international participatory art exhibit called Hostile Terrain 94. The exhibition is composed of over 3,200 handwritten toe tags that represent migrants who have died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert of Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2019. These tags are geolocated on a wall map of the desert showing the exact locations where remains were found. This installation will simultaneously take place at a large number of institutions, both nationally and globally in 2021 throughout 2022.

To donate to the Colibri center for Human Right and the Undocumented Migrants Project, please go to: https://www.undocumentedmigrationproject.org/ 

Land of Open Graves by Jason De Leon : https://www.jasonpatrickdeleon.com/land-of-open-graves 

Interviewer : Jonathan Matthew Schmitt 

Editing : Martial Mingam 

Photo : Courtesy of UCLA Anthropology Dept. 

www.utopia3.ch 

17th episode of the utopia3 podcast with Alice Speri. 

Interview in English.    

Joining us to discuss her reporting the International Criminal Court’s recent decision on Afghanistan, as well as the ICC’s history, and the background of the the U.S.’s relationship with the court is journalist Alice Speri, whose work for the independent American news organization The Intercept has focused, in addition to the ICC, on civil and constitutional rights abuses by the U.S. government, and the how those abuses impact the United States’ role as proclaimed advocate and defender of international human rights.

In Sept of this year, the ICC's prosecutor Karim Khan announced that the court would re-open its investigation into crimes committed in Afghanistan during the U.S. military occupation. The ICC is the sole international body with the mandate to adjudicate war crimes and crimes against humanity, which were unfortunately all too common in Afghanistan under the U.S.-backed regime. Kahn’s announcement, while welcome to many who are seeking justice for crimes committed by the Taliban and the Islamic State Khorason province (IS-K), comes with a glaring qualification: neither the United States occupying force, nor its allies, including the recently deposed Afghan government will be investigated for offenses that are clearly within the ICC’s jurisdiction. Khan’s statement seems to justify what he calls the “deprioritization” of investigating crimes against humanity by the U.S. and its allies on the grounds that the “gravity, scale, and continuing nature of the crimes by the Taliban and IS-K demand the full resources of [his] office.” Interestingly, Kahn defends his focus on IS-K by by citing the group’s designation as a terrorist organization, despite the fact that nowhere in the Rome Statute - the International Criminal Courts founding document - is the court given the authority to prosecute the crime of “terrorism.” Kahn’s narrow focus on terrorism and the crimes of the Taliban gives credence to those who accuse the court of subserivance to the political agendas of more powerful nations like the United States and its allies. The United States in particular has never recognized the jurisdiction of the ICC, despite having encouraged the court’s investigation of crimes against humanity and war crimes that do not involve US, comporting itself as too big to prosecute in an international forum.

Interviewer : Jonathan Matthew Schmitt 

Editing : Martial Mingam 

Photo : The Intercept

www.utopia3.ch 

16th episode of the utopia3 podcast with Christine Diindiisi McCleave.  

Interview in English.   

Christine Diindiisi McCleave is the executive director of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, an NGO based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA that is working closely with the U.S. Dept. of the Interior on the recently announced Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative.

In the this interview, we will talk to Ms. Diindiisi McCleave about her own journey to the directorship of the National Native American Boarding School Coalition, the history of Indian boarding schools in the United States, goals and challenges of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, the politics - and nomenclature  - of truth commissions, and how indigenous sovereignty intersects with human rights.

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This past May, the discovery of the remains of 215 indigenous children in a mass grave near the former grounds of a residential Indian boarding school in the Canadian province of British Columbia brought the shameful history of the Canadian Indian Residential School system to international media attention. Less media attention, however, has been given to the history of the Indian residential school system in the United States. Throughout the 19th and well into the 20th centuries, both the U.S. and Canadian governments - in cooperation with the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations - perpetrated a deliberate policy of indigenous cultural genocide by frocibly removing indigneous children from their national homelands and placing them in boarding schools meant “civilize” and assimilate them into white society; to estrange them from their language and their culture; to, as Col. Henry Pratt, founder of the flagship federal Indian boarding school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania infamously put it: kill the Indian to save the man. 

In June of this year, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland - the first indigenous cabinet secretary in United States’ history - announced a Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, a comprehensive review of the troubled legacy of federal boarding school policies in the United States. 

Instrumental to the federal initiative is Christine Diindiisi McCleave, the executive director of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, an NGO based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA whose mission it has been since 2012 to lead in the pursuit of understanding and addressing the ongoing trauma created by the U.S. Indian Boarding School policy. As executive director of the coalition Diindiisi McCleave - who is a dual citizen of both the Ojibwe Turtle Mountain Nation in Minnesota and the United States - has petitioned both the US federal government and the United Nations to officially commence investigations into the history of Indian boarding schools in the United States, and is still working to pass legislation to convene a federal U.S. Truth and Healing Commission, based on the Canadian model, which would document the intergenerational effects of boarding schools through witness testimony.

 

Interviewer : Jonathan Matthew Schmitt 

Editing : Martial Mingam 

www.utopia3.ch 

15ème épisode du podcast utopia3 avec l'écrivain Alain Damasio

utopia3 en collaboration avec FIFDH 2021

ALAIN DAMASIO: «DEJOUER LE REGIME DE CONTRÔLE»

C’est l’un des écrivains français les plus passionnants de sa génération. Mais aussi l’un des penseurs-adversaires de la société de contrôle les plus essentiels du paysage intellectuel européen. Auteur culte de SF, mais aussi militant increvable et subtile logicien de la fuite, Damasio scrute les inégalités qu’engendrent nos sociétés numériques et en dénonce les ravages. Son troisième roman, Les Furtifs (La Volte, 2019) est un texte immense à lire de toute urgence. 

Davide Rodogno et David Brun-Lambert s’entretiennent avec Alain Damasio à la Bibliothèque de Genève (BGE) après un passage exceptionnel par ses archives où est conservé le manuscrit du Contrat social de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. (photo @ Miguel Bueno / FIFDH)

utopia3:

Interviewers: Davide Rodogno, David Brun-Lambert

Réalisation: Martial Mingam 

Avec la complicité de Julien Babel et Julie Noyelle

www.utopia3.ch

Coproducteur: FIFDH 2021 (www.fifdh.org)

Remerciements:

Marc Atallah, directeur de La Maison d’Ailleurs, Festival Numerik Games, Yverdon-les-Bains (www.ailleurs.ch)

Frédéric Sardet, directeur de la BGE (www.bge-geneve.ch),

Jorge Perez, Responsable d'Unité, Services au public, BGE, 

Paule Hochuli, conservatrice des manuscrits et archives privées, BGE.