Right Now I Want to Scream: Police and Army Violence in Rio – the Haiti Brazil Connection
Right now I want to scream’; this cry of urgency is how Vanessa Félix, mother of 8 year old Ágatha, shot by the police in Rio de Janeiro, September 2019, closes her interview in this film that connects two worlds: the marginalised black communities of Cité Soleil and Rio. The film aims to provide a […]
It Stays With You: Use of Force by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti
Between 2005 and 2007 UN peacekeeping troops carried out several raids on Cite Soleil, an economically-depressed neighbourhood of Port au Prince. The raids were targeted against leaders of criminal gangs but scores of civilians people were killed, including children, and many more injured. Amnesty International has repeatedly called on the UN to carry out an […]