Deadline Hollywood - 8 hours 20 min ago
EXCLUSIVE: The Human Rights Watch Film Festival recently announced it’s closing down, and the future of Hot Docs remains uncertain at best. But there's some hopeful news for the troubled film festival space: the return of the Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York. The longest running nonfiction film festival in the U.S. reemerges May […]...
The Guardian - 10 hours 14 min ago
Three UN experts warn proposed harmony laws' may contravene international human rights standards new laws proposed by rightwing and far-right regional coalition governments to "whitewash" the Franco dictatorship could contravene international human rights standards, UN experts on truth, justice, forced disappearances and killings have warned Spain. Two years ago, Spain's socialist-led government introduced a Democratic Memory law designed to bring "justice, reparation and dignity"...
Newser - 20 hours 20 min ago
A European court on Thursday upheld Italy's right to seize a prized Greek statue from the J. Paul Getty Museum in California, reports the AP , rejecting the museum's appeal. The European Court of Human Rights determined that Italy's years-long efforts to recover the "Victorious Youth" statue from the Malibu-based Getty...