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GABRIEL AND TIM ROBBINS KICK OFF Online Visitors to Participate in Global Human Rights Campaigns New York, March 9, 2000 -- WITNESS, a pioneer in the use of video and technology to fight for human rights, today announced that it is launching WITNESS Rights Alert, a series produced by Oddcast.Com. "WITNESS Rights Alert," (http://www.oddcast.com/witness) is a bi-weekly series of human rights videos introduced by celebrities and advocates from around the world. "WITNESS Rights Alert features powerful, unfiltered stories from every corner of the world," said Peter Gabriel. "WITNESS stories are told through the eyes of women and men who are fighting for human rights, and they offer real ways for online visitors to get involved in campaigns." Founded in 1992 by Gabriel in partnership with Human Rights First and the Reebok Foundation, WITNESS has provided 125 human rights groups in 47 countries with video cameras and helped them to expose the crimes, right the wrongs, and end impunity for human rights violators. This week’s featured video, hosted by Peter Gabriel and Angelique Kidjo, is titled "Children of War." It tells of 250,000 children worldwide engaged in military conflict, as porters, spies, sex slaves and soldiers, in places like Sudan and Uganda. This video was recently noted in a New York Times Circuits article about WITNESS. Additional stories introduced by Tim Robbins, Lou Reed, and others on "WITNESS Rights Alert" include the Global Survival Network’s undercover investigation into the Russia mafia and the trafficking of women who are lured to the U.S. and elsewhere with false promises of jobs and then forced to work as prostitutes. WITNESS, a program of Human Rights First, advances human rights through the use of video and related communications technologies. About Witness Founded in 1992 by Peter Gabriel in partnership with Human Rights First and the Reebok Foundation, WITNESS has provided 125 human rights groups in 47 countries with video cameras and helped them to expose the crimes, right the wrongs, and end impunity for human rights violators. About Oddcast Oddcast is an interactive entertainment company dedicated to creating engaging online properties and content technologies. Harnessing broadband and emerging technologies, Oddcast's properties combine the immediacy of video with the dynamics of user-generated content. The Oddcast Network (www.oddcast.com ) is showcased on Apple's QuickTime TV.Oddcast and its principals have a rich history of creating entertainment properties, Web sites,entertainment applications and interactive video, including properties such as Warner Bros.' The Matrix, HBO The Sopranos and Sex in the City, Nothing Records' Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Witness - human rights program at Human Rights First co-founded by Peter Gabriel, Universal Records Ruff Ryders, October Films, Fine Line Films and Reader's Digest. ODDCAST |
