Henry is an award-winning journalist who recently trained in a special DTP human rights and advocacy program for migrant and refugee community leaders in Australia. Interested in the intersection between law and media, and their use as a force for good, Henry currently works for a politics and foreign policy think tank and as a freelance journalist with Australian TV Network, SBS.

"It was a real privilege to work with DTP and to meet such a wonderful group of community leaders and experts... This is a two-way process because, with each opportunity to discuss using media to empower communities, I also learn from those communities. It’s an invaluable experience."

Pervez is the founder and executive director of Bangladesh’s Films 4 Peace (F4P) Foundation, a leading national peacebuilding organisation based in Bangladesh, committed to fostering a peaceful society through innovative and artistic activism, strategic communications, and research.

"DTP is very close to my heart. My first international training was DTP in Timor-Leste, where I learned how video could defend human rights and document evidence for human rights violations. I realized I was born for using video to defend human rights and chosen for this role.”

DTP alumni shared International Women's Day activities in New York, Indonesia, Cambodia, Nepal and Bangladesh.

Nenden Sekar Arum N shares Digital Rights Situation Report 2022 describing lack of universal Internet access, assaults on privacy, gender discrimination and censorship.

Pratima Gurung made a presentation on Indigenous women and climate change at a CSW side event celebrating Women’s Day.

Emmanuel “Manu” Peni and the campaign against the Frieda River mine and to Save the Sepik features in ABC’s Foreign Correspondent The Second Amazon: PNG’s Sepik River.

DTP alumnus Justin Mohamed appointed Australia’s inaugural Ambassador for First Nations Peoples.

Tirtha Prasad Saikia shares call from Indigenous peoples of North-East India for Indian government to revoke approval for dams and mines negatively impacting on climate and the livelihoods of entire communities.

Tharindu Jayawardhana shares news that police used dangerous expired tear gas munitions on protesters in 2022 demonstrations.

DTP alumna Sumitha Shaanthinni Kishna shares news that employer’s conviction for exploiting and not paying domestic workers was upheld on appeal but the sentence reduced.

FORUM-ASIA Report: “Threads of Injustice: Investigating the precarious working conditions of garment workers in selected Export Processing Zones in Sri Lanka” READ THE REPORT

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Issue #169 March 2023

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