Published on Mar 10, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish
After years of denying any wrongdoing, Peru has reopened investigation into forcible sterilisation of women, what human rights groups say was a crime against humanity.
During the 1990s, more than 300,000 women were pressured into being sterilised by the government.
Doctors and nurses under Alberto Fujimori’s administration, between 1996 and 2000, were assigned monthly quotas and given bonuses based on the number of sterilisations they performed.
Al Jazeera’s Latin America Editor Lucia Newman reports from Anta on the women’s quest for justice.
Russia has one of the highest teen suicide rates in the world. The official figure is three times higher than the global average, but some say the real picture may be worse.
Al Jazeera’s Neave Barker travelled to Saint Petersburg
Nov. 1, 2011 – Nearly 150 years ago Charles Darwin used photographs to study how humans use their expressions to show emotion. Now scientists at Cambridge University are using videos, and the power of the internet, to update his experiments. They believe the results could help them develop emotionally-aware computers capable of understanding their users’ emotions. Stuart McDill reports.
Watch a variety of people feign a variety of emotions. Illustrates a range of nonverbal communication.
Spinner: Nifty video director Carl Burgess plundered the Getty Image archives for commercial B-roll stock footage. For creepy smiles and catchy beats, check out Ratatat’s new video.
Also a justification for showing multimedia in the classroom.
Host Ira Glass reveals that he didn’t initially believe anything could be gained by bringing “This American Life” to television. It wasn’t until he started to see early location footage that he realized something: actually seeing the people interviewed added an entirely new emotional dynamic that radio couldn’t achieve on its own.
