VOCA: Singer Peter Gabriel's Efforts to Expose Human Rights Abuses

Airdate: Friday 21 April 2006, at 8:30 p.m. on PBS.
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VOCA: Singer Peter Gabriel's efforts to expose human rights abuses here and abroad by capturing them on camera. This time on NOW.

Musician and human rights activist Peter Gabriel is empowering people to document human rights abuses in their own backyards and bring them to the world's attention. His organization, WITNESS, is based in Brooklyn, but has electronic eyes in more than 60 countries, acting under the motto "see it, film it, change it." On Friday, Gabriel opens up to David Brancaccio about his horror at abuses as far away as Burma and as close as California, and how his efforts have led to real change.

"I think it appalls you at first when you start seeing what people actually do in the world. But I find some of the people you meet, that are fighting the abuses, extraordinary," says Gabriel. Are we bearing enough witness to the world? This time on NOW.