TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What caused the Rwandan Genocide? | Susanne Buckley-Zistel
For one hundred days in 1994, the African country of Rwanda suffered a horrific campaign of mass murder. Neighbor turned against neighbor as violence engulfed the region, resulting in the deaths of over one-tenth of the country's...
PBS
How Rwanda, once torn by genocide, became a global anti-AIDS leader
Rwanda emerged from its genocide in 1994 to build one of the most successful AIDS responses in Africa and is now working mightily to halt mother-to-child HIV transmissions. They're doing it with a creative mix of science, technology and...
PBS
Rohingya Mother Remembers Her Rapists Every Time She Holds Her Baby
It's a horrific byproduct of the Rohingya flight to Bangladesh: babies who are the product of rape, born to refugees who were assaulted by the Myanmar military. Compounding the trauma, their community views the women as dishonored....
TED Talks
TED: Everyday objects, tragic histories | Ziyah Gafić
Ziyah Gafić photographs everyday objects—watches, shoes, glasses. But these images are deceptively simple; the items in them have been exhumed from the mass graves of the Bosnian War. Gafić, a TED Fellow and Sarajevo native, is...
TED Talks
Tara Houska: The Standing Rock resistance and our fight for indigenous rights
Still invisible and often an afterthought, indigenous peoples are uniting to protect the world's water, lands and history -- while trying to heal from genocide and ongoing inequality. Tribal attorney and Couchiching First Nation citizen...
TED Talks
TED: The danger of silence | Clint Smith
We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't, says poet and teacher Clint Smith. A short, powerful piece from the heart, about finding the courage to speak up...
TED Talks
Clint Smith: The danger of silence
We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't, says poet and teacher Clint Smith. A short, powerful piece from the heart, about finding the courage to speak up...
TED Talks
Jacqueline Novogratz: Inspiring a life of immersion
We each want to live a life of purpose, but where to start? In this luminous, wide-ranging talk, Jacqueline Novogratz introduces us to people she's met in her work in "patient capital" -- people who have immersed themselves in a cause, a...
TED Talks
TED: The hidden reason for poverty the world needs to address now | Gary Haugen
Collective compassion has meant an overall decrease in global poverty since the 1980s, says civil rights lawyer Gary Haugen. Yet for all the world's aid money, there's a pervasive hidden problem keeping poverty alive. Haugen reveals the...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How one of the most profitable companies in history rose to power | Adam Clulow
During the 17th century, the Dutch East India Company cornered the booming spice market and pioneered trade routes between Asia and Europe. It is widely considered the most profitable corporation ever created. But such success came with...
Crash Course
Race, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Landscape: Crash Course Geography
Sometimes culture can seem invisible like when we're surrounded by signals that tell us we're with others who are like us, but if we live or travel somewhere where the traits that define social norms are not our traits, culture can...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: History's deadliest king | Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
In 1904, Chief Lontulu laid 110 twigs in front of a foreign commission. Every twig represented a person in his village who died because of King Leopold's brutal regime in the Congo. His testimony joined hundreds of others to help bring...
Crash Course
The Holocaust,Genocides, and Mass Murder of WWII: Crash Course European History
During World War II, Nazi Germany undertook the imprisonment and summary execution of many of its own citizens, and citizens of the nations they occupied. One of the groups that came under assault was the European Jewish population. More...
Curated Video
What Is the Book of Esther in the Bible?
Howcast - Learn about the Book of Esther in this Howcast video with Reverend Dr. Timothy Coombs.
Curated Video
USAID chief responds to allegations of US support for 'genocide' in Gaza
USAID chief responds to allegations of US support for 'genocide' in GazaSource: Johns Hopkins University
Curated Video
Keir Starmer's remarks on genocide in Croatia and Gaza
What were Keir Starmer's remarks regarding genocide in Croatia and Gaza?
Curated Video
Pro-Palestine protests at G20 summit in Brazil
Protesters took the streets near the G20 summit in Brazil, calling upon world leaders to get a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon.
Curated Video
UK activist’s Gaza hunger strike reaches two-week mark
Lizzie Greenwood’s hunger strike over the UK’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza is nearing the two-week mark.
Curated Video
US support for Israel: Arab American voters demonstrate in Michigan
Protesters gather in Dearborn, Michigan, the largest Arab-majority city in the US, opposing US support for Israel's wars in Gaza and Lebanon
Curated Video
Kamala Harris’s last-ditch push to convince voters angry over Gaza war
The final stages of Kamala Harris’s campaign for the US presidency have included a push to win over voters angered by the war on Gaza.
Curated Video
Family forcibly displaced 14 times during Gaza war
Palestinian woman Sabreen Lushan knows all about the anguish of forced displacement in Gaza.
Curated Video
The stories of Gaza’s victims from Israel’s year of killing
These are some of the victims of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Curated Video
Israel assaults Beirut with overnight airstrikes as offensive in Lebanon continues
Israel continued its attack on Lebanon on Saturday night, launching several airstrikes on the capital Beirut. Journalist Trent Murray reports that these strikes were the heaviest that Lebanese on the ground have seen since Israel...
Curated Video
Tanya Talaga explores her family history in new CBC documentary
Tanya Talaga's docuseries The Knowing follows her family's eight-decade search for family matriarch Annie Carpenter, revealing a story deeply intertwined with Canada’s residential school system. You can see it Wednesday on CBC and CBC Gem.