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Global-X Videos Feature Human Rights Defenders

Social Edge, a program of the Skoll Foundation--a Carter Center partner--conducted "Global-X" interviews with participants in the 2007 Human Rights Defenders Forum held Sept. 6-7 at The Carter Center.  Featured on the Social Edge and You Tube Web sites, the three- to seven-minute videos highlight leading social entrepreneurs as they tell stories that had a significant impact on their lives. They also describe how they see the world in 2017.

Watch the Global X interview with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

Watch the Global X interview with Louise Arbour, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Watch the Global X interview with Saad Eddin Ibrahim, leading Egyptian human rights activist and founder of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies.

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Watch the Global X interview with Gérard Jean-Juste, Haitian priest and human rights activist.


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Watch the Global X interview with Jessica Montell, executive director of Jerusalem-based human rights group B'Tselem.


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Watch the Global X interview with Zainah Anwar, executive director of Sisters in Islam (SIS), in Malaysia.


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Watch the Global X interview with Apollinaire Malumalu, president of Independent Electoral Commission of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Note: Interview conducted in French.


Learn more about Apollinaire Malumalu >>

Watch the Global X interview with Mitri Raheb, director of The International Center of Bethlehem (Dar Annadwa Addawliya).

Watch the Global X interview with Bernice Celeyta, president of La Asociación para la Investigación y Acción Social - NOMADESC (Association for Social Research and Action)

Note: Interview conducted in Spanish.


Learn more about Bernice Celeyta >>

Watch the Global X interview with Mossad Mohamed Ali, lawyer and human rights defender based in Nyala, South Darfur.




Learn more about Mossad Mohamed Ali >>