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Every week we choose a video to display on our homepage as a development education tool. These videos outline an analysis of development issues, or demonstrate the work of an individual in contributing to the international development effort and the realisation of human rights.
Click on each picture to watch our previous video choices of the week...
August 2010
July 2010
June 2010
May 2010
April 2010
August 2010
Amartya Sen, eminent Indian economist and Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991 Nobel Peace Prize
philosopher, has written many significant works winner, has been under house arrest for almost
promoting the centrality of human beings in the 14 of the past 20 years. The Burmese military has
development process. He has been very refused to hand over power, despite her landslide
influential in the Human Development Reports victory as leader of the National League for
published by the United Nations Development Democracy in the 1990 Burmese elections.
Programme (UNDP). In this interview, he She advocates a non-violent approach to bring
discusses the importance of eduation, and the about political change and development
need to focus on providing primary education for opportunities for all people, stating that "we want to
all, without neglecting secondary and higher give our people the chance to elect the government of
level education. Sen asserts that "leaving their choice, a government that is accountable and
lots of people out of primary education is one transparent, through which people will be able to
of the gravest injustices one can think of". express and realise their vision of the kind of
country they want".
In 1976, Betty Williams and Mairéad Corrigan Kenyan evironmental and political activist Wangari received the Nobel Peace Prize for their work Maathai was the first woman in East and Central
as co-founders of the Community of Peace People, Africa to earn a doctorate degree. In 2004, she
an organisation dedicated to promoting peace in became the first African woman to receive the
Northern Ireland. In this speech, Betty Williams Nobel Peace Prize, "for her contribution to
talks about the dedication people such as Archbishop sustainable development, democracy and peace.
Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu In this speech, she asserts that "for us to live in
Kyi have towards building a more just and peaceful peace with each other, it is necessary for us to
society. She calls on every single person to contribute manage the limited resources we have on this
to this, saying that "every one of us can do something planet".
to make somebody's life a little better on a daily basis".
July 2010
This short biography depicts Nelson Mandela's leadership in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa including his imprisonment for almost 30 years. He was released in 1990, when the then President of South Africa, FW de Klerk, lifted the 30 year ban on the leading anti-apartheid party, the African National Congress. The first international Nelson Mandela Day was celebated on 18th July 2010, Mandela's 92nd birthday.
Liberian President Ellen Sirleaf Johnson answers Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and
ten questions posed by Time Magazine. As the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, asserts
first female president of an African country, she that, "we have an interconnected world as never
hopes she is empowering other woment to "reach before". She promotes a rights-centred approach to
whatever potenatial they want". She discusses addressing development problems and insists that
how Liberian leaders are working to bring about people at grassroots level must be listened to.
peace and development to the country.
June 2010
Jonathan Dimbleby, a BBC journalist who has
reported from Africa for four decades, presents
a positive picture, contrasting this with the negative
stereotypes often associated with the continent.
He visits 'Sole Rebel', a booming eco-product
footwear weaving initiative in Ethiopia.
Sir Ken Robinson talks about the importance Jeffrey Sachs, development economist,
of creativity and how it may be lacking in Director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University,
traditional education systems. This talk and Special Advisor to UN Secretary General
was presented at the TED annual conference Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development
in 2006. TED is a small, not-for-profit Goals, talks about the Millennium Villages
organisation that promotes 'Ideas Worth Project, the role of technology in combating
Spreading'. global poverty, climate change and the MDGs.
May 2010
United Nations Secretary General since 2007, This video, Education for All: Class of 2015, is from
Ban Ki-moon, endorses the 1 Goal: Education the Global Campaign for Education. The campaign,
for All campaign. The 1 Goal campaign is using founded in 1999, lobbies international governments
the power of football to garner attention and support and institutions to ensure that they keep their promise
for the Global Campaign for Education. of guaranteeing education for all children by 2015.
The Discovery Gospel Choir was Ireland's This video is a montage of the 2009 flagship Africa
first integrated gospel choir, founded in 2004. Day celebrations run by Irish Aid in the Iveagh
This clip shows them performing on the main Gardens, Dublin. Music by Kila. Irish Aid is the
stage at Africa Day 2010 in the Iveagh Gardens, Government of Ireland's programme of assistance
Dublin. to developing countries.
April 2010
Video by the Irish Coalition for the Global Campaign
for Education, encouraging the Irish public to call on
governments to ensure that all children worldwide are
in school by 2015. Add your name to the 1 Goal:
Education for All campaign.
