Unpublished Newswire

In the fall of 1964, the producers of a national television newsmagazine called This Hour Has Seven Days started a revolution at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. According to the manifesto with which the program began its first broadcast, the new program would “probe hypocrisy,” right “public wrongs,” “grill . . . prominent guests,” and, in the process, create “journalism of . . . such urgency that it will become mandatory viewing for a large segment of the nation.” The CBC’s top executives in Ottawa were immediately alarmed....

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world.— Eleanor Roosevelt One person. One name. I learned that from the people of Djorlo. In 2006, as genocidal violence in Sudan’s Darfur region spilled into neighbouring Chad, I spent several weeks with an Amnesty International research team travelling along the Chadian side of that troubled border, documenting the impact of a string of brutal attacks against isolated villages that had left a macabre trail of death, destruction, and fear...