Human Rights Screening

On 30th April 2010 we visted the ritzy cinema, where they were screening a human rights documentry. The film consisted of 10 films advocating for human rights in a different way. Some of the issues covered were discrimination and child labour. One of the films was titled Liela, it was an animation fortelling story a family living in poverty.

The man who bought her promised to care and look after her, but instead he turned her into a donkey and used her to do all his hard work. One day the girl who was turned into a donkey write something in the sand, the local villagers saw this and were amazed. Then a wise old lady came and saw that the donkey was infact a girl. She then turned her back into a girl and she was reunited back with her family. And the man was then chased out of the village.The issue that was displayed in this short film was child labour.

I think the message conveyed was how children in poor countries are bought and forced to work like mules.I feel that is was effective to display the child as a donkey because it showed how they are treated wrongly and are exploited of their human rights.