Rebecca Sommer

Rebecca Sommer is a German artist, journalist, photographer, documentary filmmaker, and a human rights, nature rights and climate justice activist.[1] She works with international NGO's in special consultative status to the United Nations (ECOSOC) in participatory status with the Council of Europe, and civil society observer status to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).[2][3][4][5] She convened and co-founded in 2001 Earth Peoples in NYC,[6] a global network working together to promote natural and human rights, with special focus on Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth.

Sommer earns her living as an artist[7] in print and film,[8] and has worked as the editor-at-large for British magazines such as Scene,The Face, and Spirit and American magazines such as Black Book and Madison, while living in Germany, India, Great Britain, Brazil, South Africa and the United States.

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ Kinchen, David M. (4 September 2006). "German Human Rights Activist Rebecca Sommer Deserves Nobel Peace Prize for Work with Hmong Refugees". HNN.
  2. ↑ "Global Forest Coalition". GFC. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Climate Justice Now!". CJN!. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  4. ↑ http://incomindios.ch/
  5. ↑ http://earthpeoples.org/blog/
  6. ↑ "Earth Peoples". Earth Peoples. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
  7. ↑ "Artist". Rebecca Sommer. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
  8. ↑ "Sommerfilms". Sommerfilms. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
  9. ↑ "Himba Dance in Omuhonga, Kaokoland, Namibia (February 2012)". SommerFilms. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
  10. ↑ "Lobby Video: Discussions on the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples". Earth Peoples. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
  11. ↑ "Eliminated Without Bleeding". Khmer Krom Federation. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
  12. ↑ "2008 Finalist Certificate". NewYorkFestivals. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
  13. ↑ "Lowell Film Festival". The City of Lowell. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
  14. ↑ "Hunted Like Animals". SommerFilms. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
  15. ↑ "WorldFest". WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
  16. ↑ "Loveni jako zvěř / Hunted Like Animals". Native and Indigenous Film Fest. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
  17. ↑ "Shen Zhou International Film Festival". epochtimes. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
  18. ↑ "Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival". Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
  19. ↑ "The International Filmmakers Festival" (PDF). The International Filmmaker Festival. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
  20. ↑ "TRi Continental Film Festival". TRi Continental Film Festival. Retrieved March 2012.
  21. ↑ "Amnesty International Film Festival". Movies That Matter. Retrieved March 2012.
  22. ↑ "hary, a day in my Village in Vietnam". SommerFilms. Retrieved March 2012.
  23. ↑ "Danville International Children's Film Festival". Danville International Film Festival. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
  24. ↑ "KIDsFirst! Film Festival 2008". KIDsFirst! Film Festival. Retrieved March 2012.
  25. ↑ "The United Nations and Indigenous Peoples, Vol. 1". UNPFII - United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
  26. ↑ "Film & Video Awards: 2007 Finalist Certificate". New York Festivals. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
  27. ↑ "FFDPM 2008". Montreal Human Rights Film Festival. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
  28. ↑ "Oxford Brookes University Human Rights Film Festival". Oxford Brookes University. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
  29. ↑ "Human Rights Film Festival Aotearoa New Zealand". Human Rights Film Fest. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
  30. ↑ "Paroles d'Autochtones: Evénement Paroles d’autochtones Terres, terroirs et territoires". Musée des Confluences. 20 May 2009. Retrieved 26 December 2011.

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