Linx Productions: Video Archive

DFID Emergency Aid

Linx Productions — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:12:59

The Department for International Development (DFID) leads the UK's relief effort following a humanitarian emergency or natural disaster in a developing country. DFID has three warehouses: in the UK, Dubai and Miami, where we store around 40,000 blankets, 3-4,000 winterised tents, 20,000 collapsible water jerry cans and 40,000 tarpaulins. These are the items that are usually most needed immediately following a disaster.

We also have vehicles, communications and office equipment ready for immediate deployment should they be needed anywhere in the world.

At any time of the day or night the Duty Officer is alerted to emergencies either automatically, or through the DFID office or Embassy in the affected country. Depending upon the location and scale of the emergency, a Response Team may be mobilised and the DFID Operations room opened. In most cases, and always for large scale emergencies such as the Tsunami and the Pakistan earthquake, we send an assessment team to the area to get first-hand information about the emergency e.g. the number of people affected, the scale of the damage, humanitarian relief needs, and ensure we send the right assistance. Where appropriate, as in the Pakistan earthquake, we also aim to have identified Urban Search and Rescue Teams on the way to be able to start working in the disaster region within 18 to 24 hours.

Shows: At Kemble Air Base, Gloucestershire, England - DFID's UK warehouse - stockpiles of emergency supplies and vehicles being checked and made ready for airlift.

For further information about DFID's work, visit the DFID website at www.dfid.gov.uk

For all media enquiries, please call DFID Press Office +44 207 023 0600 (24 hour number).

Giftwrap

Linx Productions — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:22:33

Please note that a preview video is only available for download.

UN.GIFT Emma Thompson PSA - 60 seconds

Linx Productions — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:31:55

60 second version

(30 Second version and B-Roll available in our Video Archive)

Linx Productions has produced this Public Service Announcement on behalf of www.ungift.org

The PSA is copyright-free, and available for use by television broadcasters and video webcasters.

It features the Academy Award-winning British Actress, Emma Thompson, in close-up, mouthing the words of a variety of human trafficking victims.

UN.GIFT Emma Thompson PSA - 30 seconds

Linx Productions — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:36:06

30 second version

(60 Second version and B-Roll available in our Video Archive)

Linx Productions has produced this Public Service Announcement on behalf of www.ungift.org

The PSA is copyright-free, and available for use by television broadcasters and video webcasters.

It features the Academy Award-winning British Actress, Emma Thompson, in close-up, mouthing the words of a variety of human trafficking victims.

UN.GIFT Unaware PSA - 60 seconds

Linx Productions — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:13:33

60 second version

(30 Second version and B-Roll available in our Video Archive)

Linx Productions has produced this Public Service Announcement on behalf of www.ungift.org

The PSA is copyright-free, and available for use by television broadcasters and video webcasters.

The theme - a man walks through a market place, not realising the human trafficking crimes that are going on around him. Forced labour, and sexual slavery.

UN.GIFT Unaware PSA - 30 seconds

Linx Productions — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:13:43

30 second version

Linx Productions has produced this Public Service Announcement on behalf of www.ungift.org

The PSA is copyright-free, and available for use by television broadcasters and video webcasters.

The theme - a man walks through a market place, not realising the human trafficking crimes that are going on around him. Forced labour, and sexual slavery.

OSCE: On the Frontlines of Peace

Linx Productions — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:22:51

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OSCE: On the Frontlines of Peace

Linx Productions — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:23:03

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Focus: Crossing The River Pyanj

Linx Productions — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:26:29

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Focus: Cyclone Gafilo

Linx Productions — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:23:34

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UN.GIFT Human Trafficking B-Roll Part 1 Feb 2008

Linx Productions — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:09:20

Video Provided by the International Labour Organisation (ILO)

1. Brussels, Belgium, Feb 2002 - Police Raid Red Light District

Shows: Belgian police patrol red light district; policeman says girls trapped into prostitution are afraid to tell the police because the traffickers may harm their families back home; prostitutes in windows; policeman interviews prostitute; policeman says x-rays of the bone structure of one girl showed she was just 13-years-old; policeman says that the law used to be too loose, but now they would close the area down if they found such a young girl

2. South Italy Coast, 2002 - Coastguard Intercept Illegal Immigrants

Shows: Coastguard helicopter patrol; migrants on speed boat; migrants run ashore; police intercept and interview migrants

3. Tokyo, Japan, 2005 - Red Light District advertises Western girls

Shows: vs red light district; advertisements for Western hostesses; exteriors of hostess clubs

4. Romania, 2005 - Street Children especially vulnerable to human trafficking

Shows: young girls cleaning car windows; vs very young children begging for money from passing vehicles

5. Peru, 2005 - Forced labour is common in illegal lumber camps

Shows: vs trees being felled; workers resting; vs lumber yards; logs transported on river

6.Burkino Faso, 2005 - Bus station used as transit point for child trafficking

Shows: vs bus station; heavily-laden buses; anti-trafficking agency posters; vs buses

UN.GIFT Human Trafficking B-Roll Part 2 Feb 2008

Linx Productions — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:53:01

Video Provided by the IOM, OSCE, and Microsoft

1. International Organization for Migration (IOM) - Haiti, 2008, Trafficked Children

Shows: street scenes; children in slums; child labourers in rural area

2. Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) - Spain, Recent, Trafficked children freed by police

Shows: Police storm building; arresting traffickers; examin passsports and other documentation; examine seized computer records from traffickers

3. Microsoft, Manila, Philippines, recent - Visayan Foundation teaches vulnerable children about trafficking. Visayan Forum www.visayan.formum is supported by Microsoft

Shows: Manila skyline; Philippines flag; vs slum district; street kids playing; exterior Visayan Forum school; children learning about human trafficking on computers; Visayan Forum logo; girls being taught about the rights of domestic workers;

AKAA 2007 VNR

Linx Productions — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:45:19

EMBARGO

Not for publication or broadcast until 5^th September 2007

Story:

NINE PROJECTS RECEIVE 2007 AGA KHAN AWARD FOR ARCHITECTURE

On 4 September 2007, at a ceremony to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, His Highness the Aga Khan will announce the nine recipients of the 2007 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.This year marks the 30^th anniversary of the Award, which was founded in 1977, and the completion of the 10^th cycle of the programme.

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture has a triennial prize fund of US$ 500,000, making it the world’s largest architectural award. The rigor of its nomination and selection process has also made it, in the eyes of many observers, the world’s most important architectural prize. Awarded projects have ranged from the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur to a primary school in Burkina Faso.

During the current cycle of the Award, 343 projects were presented for consideration, and 27 were reviewed on site by international experts. An independent Master Jury selected nine Award recipients that are notable for having attained the highest standards of architectural excellence while reflecting the values of their specific environments.

“The essence of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture is to examine, analyse, understand, and try to influence the dynamic of physical change in Islamic societies,” His Highness the Aga Khan has remarked. “Our attempt and aspiration is to try to have the humility, but also the competence, to understand what is happening and to seek to influence it so that future generations can live in a better environment.”

The nine projects selected by the 2007 Award Master Jury are:

Samir Kassir Square, Beirut, Lebanon

Rehabilitation of the City of Shibam, Yemen

Central Market, Koudougou, Burkina Faso

University of Technology Petronas, Bandar Seri Iskandar, Malaysia

Restoration of the Amiriya Complex, Rada, Yemen

Moulmein Rise Residential Tower, Singapore

Royal Netherlands Embassy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Rehabilitation of the Walled City, Nicosia, Cyprus

School in Rudrapur, Dinajpur, Bangladesh

With its emblematic high-tech architecture, the University of Technology Petronas provides an inspiring structure for progressive education in this rapidly developing nation.The Award will be presented to the architects, Foster + Partners and GDP Architects, and the Petronas Corporation (the Petronas Towers won an Award in the 2004 cycle).

In 1979, the representatives of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities held a historic meeting under United Nations auspices to create a master plan for the Rehabilitation of the Walled City of Nicosia. A collaborative and sustained effort, the project has been successful in reversing the city’s physical and economic decline, using architectural restoration and reuse as the catalyst for improvement to the quality of life on both sides of this divided city.The representatives of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities will share the award with the Nicosia Master Plan team.

The Samir Kassir Square is a restrained and serene urban public space that skilfully handles the conditions and infrastructure of its location in a city that has undergone rapid redevelopment. The Award will go to Vladimir Djurovic, the pre-eminent landscape architect working in Lebanon today.

The Rehabilitation of the City of Shibam is part of a project that focuses on the preservation of this unique place as a living community, with architectural restoration integrated into the creation of new economic and social structures. The Award recipients are the Yemeni government and its cultural agencies, the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and the community of Shibam.

Koudougou’s Central Market introduces simple improvements to a traditional material – stabilised earth – to create an important space for civic exchange and economic opportunity, helping enhance and strengthen a mid-sized town in Burkina Faso. The Award will be shared by the Koudougou Municipality, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), and the principal architect, Laurent Séchaud.

With its reliance on local knowledge and experience, the Restoration of the Amiriya Complex in Yemen saw the revival of lost techniques of building and ornamentation. The project represents a milestone in the protection of cultural heritage in Yemen. The Award will be presented to the project directors, renowned Iraqi archaeologist and restorer Selma Al-Radi and her Yemeni counterpart, Yahya Al-Nasiri.

Within the constraints of a developer-driven brief, the Moulmein Rise Residential Tower uses innovative techniques and detailing that combine new principles for tropical design and improvements for high-rise living. Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell, partners at the Singapore firm WOHA Architects will receive the Award.

The guiding principle in the construction of the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Addis Ababa was a respect for place while addressing the functional requirements of a working embassy, resulting in a contemporary structure that fully engages its local environment. The Dutch architects Dick van Gameren and Bjarne Mastenbroek will receive the Award, together with the Ethiopian architects at the firm ABBA Architects.

Hand-built in four months by the local community and volunteer architects from Germany and Austria, the School in Rudrapur, Bangladesh, makes use of easily available local materials to create a new model for school construction that is beautiful, simple and humane. The architects Anna Heringer and Eike Roswag will share an award with the craftsmen and volunteers who assisted in the building, and the Bangladeshi NGO for sustainable rural development, Dipshikha.

The 2007 Master Jury placed an emphasis on the meaningful collaborations and exchange of ideas – between architects, craftsmen, governments, international development agencies, clients and users – that were a defining feature of the winning projects (please see Statement of the Master Jury).

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture was established by the Aga Khan in 1977 to identify and encourage building concepts that successfully address the needs and aspirations of Muslim societies. The Award recognises examples of architectural excellence in all the places where Muslims live, in the fields of contemporary design, social housing, community improvement and development, historic preservation, reuse and area conservation, as well as landscape design and improvement of the environment.

The Award is governed by a Steering Committee chaired by His Highness the Aga Khan. The current members of the Steering Committee are Omar Akbar (Executive Director, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation); Jacques Herzog (Partner, Herzog & de Meuron Architects, Basel); Glenn Lowry (Director, The Museum of Modern Art, New York); Mohsen Mostafavi (Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Cornell University, New York); Farshid Moussavi (Partner, Foreign Office Architects, London); Hani Rashid (Partner, Asymptote Architecture, New York); Modjtaba Sadria (Professor, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations-AKU, London); and Billie Tsien (Partner, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, New York). Farrokh Derakhshani is the Director of the Award.

The Awards are selected by an independent Master Jury appointed by the Steering Committee for each three-year Award cycle. The Master Jury members for the 2004-2007 cycle are Homi Bhabha (Professor, Harvard University); Okwui Enwezor (Curator; Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President, San Francisco Art Institute); Homa Farjadi (Principal, Farjadi Architects, London); Sahel Al-Hiyari (Principal, Sahel Al-Hiyari and Partners, Jordan); Shirazeh Houshiary (Artist); Rashid Khalidi (Professor, Columbia University, New York); Brigitte Shim (Partner, Shim Sutcliffe Architects, Toronto); Han Tümertekin (Principal, Mimarlar Tasarim Danismanlik Ltd, Istanbul); and Kenneth Yeang (Principal, Llewelyn Davies Yeang, UK and Hamzah & Yeang, Malaysia).

Ceremonies to announce the winning projects and mark the close of each triennial cycle have been held in settings selected for their architectural and cultural importance to the Muslim world: Shalimar Gardens in Lahore (1980), Topkapi Palace in Istanbul (1983), Badi’ Palace in Marrakech (1986), the Citadel of Saladin in Cairo (1989), Registan Square in Samarkand (1992), Karaton Surakarta in Solo (1995), the Alhambra in Granada (1998), the Citadel of Aleppo (2001) and the gardens of Emperor Humayun’s Tomb in Delhi (2004).

A monograph on the 2007 Award will be published by I.B. Tauris & Co in September 2007. The book, Intervention Architecture: Building for Change includes concise descriptions and illustrations of the nine winning projects, an introductory essay by Homi K. Bhabha, as well as contributions from Omar Akbar, Homa Farjadi, Sahel Al-Hiyari, Shirazeh Houshiary, Mohsen Mostafavi, Farshid Moussavi, Modjtaba Sadria, Brigitte Shim, Billie Tsien and Kenneth Yeang.

About His Highness the Aga Khan and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture

His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (Spiritual Leader) of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, marked the beginning of his Golden Jubilee year on 11th July 2007. Fifty years ago, at the age of 20, the Aga Khan succeeded his grandfather, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan, as the 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims. The Aga Khan provides spiritual guidance to a community of 15 million living in some 25 countries, mainly in West and Central Asia, Africa and the Middle East, as well as in North America and Western Europe. As Spiritual Leader of the Ismaili Muslims, the Aga Khan has emphasised the view of Islam as a thinking, spiritual faith, one that teaches compassion and tolerance and that upholds the dignity of man, Allah’s noblest creation. The Aga Khan is a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) through his cousin and son-in-law, Ali, the first Imam, and his wife Fatima, the Prophet’s daughter.

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture is part of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC), which has a wide range of activities aimed at the preservation and promotion of the material and spiritual heritage of Muslim societies. As the cultural agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), the Trust leverages cultural heritage as a means of supporting and catalysing development. Its programmes include the Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme (HCP), which works to revitalise historic cities in the Muslim world, both culturally and socioeconomically. Over the last decade, it has been engaged in the rehabilitation of historic areas in Cairo, Kabul, Herat, Aleppo, Delhi, Zanzibar, Mostar, northern Pakistan, Timbuktu and Mopti. The Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia (AKMICA) supports the efforts of Central Asian musicians and communities to sustain, further develop and transmit musical traditions that are a vital part of their cultural heritage. The Museums Project coordinates the development of a number of museum and exhibition projects, including two ongoing museum projects in Cairo and Toronto. The Trust also supports the Muslim arts and architecture departments of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as well as www.ArchNet.org, a major online resource on Islamic architecture.

The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is a group of private development agencies working to empower communities and individuals, often in disadvantaged circumstances, to improve living conditions and opportunities, especially in Central and South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. AKDN agencies work for the common good of all citizens, regardless of their gender, origin or religion. Its underlying impulse is the ethic of compassion for the vulnerable in society. Its annual budget for social and cultural development activities is US$320 million. The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), an AKDN development agency that makes long-term investments in fragile economies on a for-profit basis, has annual revenues of over US$ 1.5 billion. Profits are used to fund further development projects.

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture

PO Box 2049

1211 Geneva 2

Switzerland

Facsimile: (41.22) 909.72.92

Telephone: (41.22) 909.72.00

E-mail: akaa@akdn.org

Website: www.akdn.org/architecture

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UNODC 2007 World Drug Report

Linx Productions — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:07:02

Voiced report highlighting key elements of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 2007 World Drug Report.

Mixed voicetrack on Ch-1 and Natsot on Ch-2. Additional B-roll available in our Video Archive

Shows:

Amsterdam, June 2007 - man smoking marijuana

Colombia, May 2007, cocaine addicts

Vienna, June 2007- UNODC Executive Director, Antonio Maria Costa, says world drug situation is stabilising

Colombia, May 2007 - aerials coca plantations
cocaine factory being burned
coca being desttroyed

Caribbean, May 2007- Colombian warship intercepts cocaine

Caribbean, May 2007 - British warship intercepts cocaine

Morocco, 2005 - police intercept trucks of cannabis, burn drugs

Straits of Gibraltar, 2005 - Spanish National Guard chases cannabis smugglers

Vienna, June 2007- Costa says Africa is under attack from drug traffickers

Africa, recent - scenes of unrest and poverty

Amsterdam, June 2007 - cannabis being bought and used

Vienna, June 2007- Costa says cannabis doesn't make people mellow, it makes them sick

Amsterdam, June 2007 - drug users

Vienna, June 2007- Costa calls for drugs to be dealt with as a health problem.

NB: additional B-roll of the above content is available in our video archive

For media enquiries please contact:

Richard Murphy
UNODC Spokesman
Tel: +43 1 26060 5761
Mob: +43 699 1459 5761
richard.murphy@unodc.org

UDODC WDR 2007 Drugs B-roll

Linx Productions — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:07:27

Video from various parts of the world illustrating the production, consumption, and eradication of drugs. B-roll to match UNODC 2007 World Drug Report

1. Amsterdam, June 2007
Street scenes
Coffee shops
Various brands of marijuana on sale
Man smoking marijuana from a pipe
Man buying marijuana
Tramp

2. Colombia, May/June 2007
Aerials coca fields
Cocaine laboratory burned
Coastguard on patrol
Seized drugs onloaded onto patrol ship

3. Morocco, 2005
Police unload cannabis from truck
Officials burn seized drugs

4. Spain, 2006
Spanish National Police seize 800 kilos of hashish from light aircraft in Seville

5. Spain, 2005 (dramatic video)
Spanish Civil Guard helicopter chases drug traffickers in speed boat in Straits of Gibraltar
Traffickers throw drugs overboard to appear 'clean' when arrested

6. Helmand Province, Afghanistan, June 2007
Allied and Afghan trooops in gun battle with Taliban in poppy field
Soldiers patrol poppy field
Quad-bikes destroy poppies
Manual destruction of poppies
Farmers extract opium resin from poppies
Sunset in Helmand

UNODC WDR 2007 Costa B-roll

Linx Productions — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:07:55

Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, speaking at UNODC’s Vienna headquarters on June 15^th 2007.

He highlights several of the key themes of the UNODC 2007 World Drug Report, being launched 26/06/07

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1. On evidence that that the global drug problem is being brought under control

"The situation is being contained in the sense that it was a runaway train. It was a situation out of control that now is under control.

There is stability overall for the reduction, for the trafficking, for the abuse – whatever commodity we are thinking about; heroin, cocaine, amphetamines, marijuana."

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2. On Africa's vulnerability to drug traffickers seeking new supply routes

"Africa is under attack. Traffickers of cocaine from the West, of heroin from the East. Why? Because Africa is vulnerable. Many parts of Africa are out of control.

Poverty is endemic and massive."

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3. On how the latest strains of cannabis are making people sick

"Marijuana smokers are not just getting high, they are getting sick. Permanently sick.

The destructive potency of that drug is so high now –ten times bigger than it was when I was a kid- and it can do as much damage as the other narcotics".

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4. On the need to see drugs as a health problem as much as a crime issue

"I would like greater emphasis in dealing with drugs as a health problem. And therefore spending an adequate amount of money on health programmes – treating drug addiction as they would cancer or diabetes, or TB or any other illness."

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For media enquiries please contact:

Richard Murphy
UNODC Spokesman
Tel: +43 1 26060 5761
Mob: +43 699 1459 5761
richard.murphy@unodc.org

Blind Snowboarder

Linx Productions — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:18:12

Adil (Adi) Latif decided to raise money for the 2005 Asian earthquake victims by snowboarding on a glacier in Switzerland.

Two problems - Adi is a rookie snowboarder, and he is almost totally blind.

Accompanied by mountain guide Neil MacNab and snowboarding instructor Keith McIntosh, the Scotsman of Pakistani descent took a helicopter from Chamonix, France, to the Trient Glacier on the Swiss side of Mont Blanc, Europe's highest mountain.

His aim - to raise £14,000 (US$28,000) to help ActionAid provide relief to victims of the earthquake, tens of thousands of whom are still hungry and homeless.

For more information click here

Shows: Adi Latif explains venture; Neil McNab (mountain guide) describes the challenge; Gvs Chamonix town square; Adi sot re trepidation; Chopper arrives to pick team up; aerials Trient Glacier, Switzerland; Chopper flies off having deposited team; team hike up glacier; Adi on snowboard with instructor guiding him via radio headset; Adi stops and celebrates; Adi sot inviting others to do something remarkable to give children in quake zone a future.

Duration - 2' 10"