Who is protecting the protectors? The fight for human rights

Human rights investigators don’t campaign from a keyboard. A new documentary shows the dangers they face in reporting abuse and atrocities, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

Who is protecting the protectors? The fight for human rights

There is a scene from Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman’s latest documentary which shows a tired, emotional but resolute Fred Abrahams facing his foe Slobodan Milosevic in court.

Abrahams is seen giving evidence against the former Serbian leader for war crimes that involved the “Serbian police and Yugoslav army purposefully targeting civilians” during a war whihc saw human rights abuses on all sides.

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