The Voice Of Your Rights

The Voice Of Your Rights / 14ymedio, Generation Y
Posted on April 4, 2016

14ymedio, Yoani Sanchez, Generation Y, 4 April 2016 — What to do when
you have a loudspeaker in your hand? Since 2007 when I started my blog
Generation Y, this question has haunted me. Often the visibility does
not benefit those who need it most and the protective umbrellas provided
by access to international organizations only reach a few. To occupy the
microphone to broadcast only your own speech is a wastefulness that is a
monologue more than an informative work. The Voice of Your Rights, the
new interview program I will host on the Deutsche Welle Latin American
TV program seeks to bring the megaphone to those who need it most.

With 40 episodes filmed in Panama City, the new space hosts a guest list
essential for those who want to know our region and learn about the
stories of its people. Environmental activists, women who fight against
femicide, human rights organizations that denounce prison overcrowding
and groups addressing child labor from all viewpoints are some of the
themes that will be addressed by the people with whom I will share the
studio in the coming weeks.

My role in this program, which has as its protagonists those who are
trying to open a window where the door is closed, is not only for a
professional challenge in my career as a journalist, but part of a
personal commitment to the most silenced in every society. The cameras
and the power of audiovisual media will serve to make their projects
more effective and their lives less dangerous.

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