• Color of the Ocean
    Mar 15, 2012

    A conflicted border guard and a desperate African migrant face off in Color of the Ocean, a thriller that's playing at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London. With HRW's Jude Sunderland and host Amy Costello.

  • Senegal's Gay Men Suffer Violence
    Nov 29, 2010

    Being gay in Senegal has become more difficult following the prosecution of a group of men accused of having sex with men. Gay men have also been the victims of violence on the streets. But reporter Jori Lewis finds that this kind of abuse and discrimination has not always been the norm in the West African country.

  • Talibés in Senegal
    Apr 15, 2010
    Some 50,000 children attending urban residential Quranic schools, or daaras, in Senegal are subjected to conditions akin to slavery and forced to endure often extreme forms of abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Moved from their villages in Senegal and Guinea-Bissau, the children, known as talibés, are forced to beg for up to 10 hours a day.