>> hello and welcome to global 3000. human dignity as the basis for freedom, justice and peace in the world -- that's what the universal declaration of human rights laid out more than half a century ago. december 10 is human rights day. we scrutinized how serious some governments are about protecting their citizens. here's what's coming up. victims of police violence speak out in india. when the anger becomes greater than the fear, mexicans protest against corruption. we visit the school for

orangutans on sumatra. the idea behind this year's human rights they is that every day should be one. a glance at amnesty international's latest report on torture makes this sound like wishful thinking. at least 79 states see regular occurrences of torture. around half of these have signed the convention against it. one of those states is india. in the world's largest democracy entire communities live in fear , of police. we've spoken out a woman who chooses to speak out despite the suffering she has endured. a warning -- some of the following images are disturbing. >> soni sori was a school teacher when she was arrested. she barely survived. she says the police officers beat her, gave her electric shocks, and sexually abused her. later, doctors discovered stones

inside her body. >> i could kill one of those officers if i ever met them again. they're still walking around free after everything they did to me. they have a great life and i have to fight for every crumb of bread. >> soni sori has been free for a year -- on bail. we travel with her through the jungle. here in the car we can talk freely. she believes her phone is being tapped. her nine-year-old daughter doesn't go to school for fear of the police. she stays close to her mother almost everywhere she goes. >> if i'm not at home, she calls me up and says, are you ok, mommy? she wants to know if the police have done something to me again.

>> soni sori shows us her village. she's taking a great risk by appearing with us. her father lives in constant fear. her mother died while sori was in jail. her husband was also tortured and is no longer alive. she is constantly under surveillance. the friendly-looking man with the scarf and drinking tea is a police officer. it took just 5 minutes for him to show up here. soni sori lives in the central indian state of chattisgarh. attacks by maoists rebels are common here. police are under pressure to apprehend the perpetrators, and officers who make many arrests are often promoted. sometimes they beat confessions out of suspects. people confess to crimes they never committed or implicate others. sori refused to do that. the police pinned eight crimes on her. she's been acquitted six times. they've managed to silence her brother, but she keeps fighting back.

>> i'm not afraid of the police. if they put me under pressure, they'll have problems. to be honest, they should be afraid of me. >> because she continues to speak out, she's known across india. that's helped to protect her. the public normally never learns about cases like hers. many don't even consider such police brutality to be a crime. most victims sign whatever papers are put in front of them and the cops have solved another crime. and it's not just a local issue. videos of such torture scenes can be found on the internet, though it's hard to verify the footage. we show some to satwant singh manak. he lives in punjab, northern india. he's seen images like this before and say it gets much worse than this. manak was once a police officer

himself. >> this kind of torture is very common. holding people down and beating them. that's nothing. far worse things happen. people are given electric shocks in the ears or in the genitals. >> manak once wore his uniform with pride. but he's no longer an officer, not after what he has seen. >> a young man is lying on the ground, face down. they secured his legs and then pulled him up by his arms. over and over, long into the night. he had severe internal injuries. his bones were broken. the man died. then they cut open his body, filled it with stones and dumped his corpse in the water. >> manak refused to take part in the torture. so they beat him up and threw him out of the police force.

it was hard on his family, but satwant sing manak could no longer just silently stand by. >> if i'd have tortured people, too, i'd be a highly decorated officer today. i'd be a top dog. >> he's documented many cases of police brutality and handed them over to the justice system. after 20 years he's finally , being heard by india's supreme court the more research we do, the more horrifying stories we uncover. like how harjeet singh recently hanged himself rather than face another police interrogation. just 16 years old, he was arrested for petty theft. only a few hundred rupies were involved. his parents are in despair, as they couldn't prevent their son's suicide. the doctor brought them a copy of the autopsy report, which clearly shows that their son was tortured.

the injuries, the cuts on his legs, they're all listed. but although they hold the evidence in their hands, the parents don't intend to take action against the police. >> what can i say? we've settled everything. my son is dead. and the police gave us -- >> don't tell them! >> what she tried to stop him saying is the police paid them off -- 250,000 rupees, or 300 euros, for the dead son -- on condition they not breathe a word. neighbors tell us about the deal. the police won't comment on the case or give us an interview. they don't want people to learn that medieval-style torture is still being used in modern-day india. >> amnesty also reports cases of torture in the u.s. of the and

europe, but the fear of abuse by authorities is nowhere greater than in brazil and mexico. in 2006, then-president felipe calderon declared war on mexico's drug cartels. at least 60,000 people have died since in the ongoing battle against organized crime. politicians and police often themselves stand accused of walking with the drug gangs. we caught up with alejandra ancheita. she tells us about her struggle. >> she is this your's winner of the martin ennals award, which honors human rights activists. in mexico, human rights defenders are at risk. >> we just documented as a part of the national women's human rights defenders that during this year we have 309 attacks only against female human rights defenders.

>> her organisation is also helping indigenous communities protect their land in disputes with multinational corporations who want to set up wind farms in southern mexico. but the mexican people's main concerns are the drug cartels terrorizing the country, and are also concerned about corrupt politicians and police officers. in this year alone, there have been over 7000 murders connected to organized crime. >> mexico has a pretty serious history of corruption and inpunity. the mexican government has to really understand that rhetoric is not enough. >> in mexico, 90% of reported crimes are never solved. those who refused to cooperate with the drug cartels often become victims. thousands of citizens have formed vigilante groups.

in some parts of mexico they , even have the government's blessing, if only for the short term. >> you will be not able to see a chance for human rights in mexico. but it is important to remember that human rights, it is not only related to the access to justice. but, on the other hand, it is very important to remember that the other pillar of human rights is people organizing themselves and demanding their rights. it is a citizenship exercise. >> as many as people are 26,000 believed to have disappeared in mexico, including the 43 kidnapped students from iguala. it's thought they were stopped by police on their way to a demonstration and then turned over to members of a drug cartel. three of the drug dealers later arrested said they'd taken the students to a garbage dump, shot

them and burned their remains. ,the first of the students was identified on the weekend. >> society in mexico is just tired of the situation. and it is now not only about the students in iguala. but it could be also about my son, about my brother, about my neighbor. so everybody -- we are all on the same journey. and we just realize that we have to organize society that can overcome the fear and demand our rights, because we have the human right to live without violence. >> the fate of the missing students has been a wake-up call for mexicans. hundreds of thousands took to the streets, demanding president enrique peña nieto resign.

some even set fire to government buildings. mexicans are fed up with their politicians' empty promises. the fate of the missing students threatens the control of mexico's power elite. >> these young students in iguala were studying to become teachers. they stood up for change and , that made them targets. in the us, a network of special schools wants to educate another generation of young people willing to stand up to the status quo. students in the knowledge is power program mostly come from families with poor backgrounds. the teachers in them are some of the best america has to offer. this is what power can look like when these two groups face off in the classroom. >> 7:30 a.m. in harlem, new york. the day gets off to an early start for pupils at kipp schools. they've got a lot of learning to do if they want to have a chance

of attending college. the 6th graders have math class. many students are african american or latino. most come from low-income families. kipp schools are often oversubscribed, so enrollment is determined by a blind lottery. kipp foundation for 9 years. he knows the importance of a good education. >> if you want to create a great school and you want to provide transformational education for kids who are literally going from a starting point where they're below grade level to a well above grade level - teachers are it. so the correlation between great teaching and outstanding results is unbelievably high. >> so teachers here often resort to unconventional methods to motivate their students. >> when you accuse someone of doing something when you did not do, you know -- >> the kids need to work hard, so it helps if their parents reinforce that idea at home. >> they always tell me to keep

on studying, because they didn't get the chance to study and graduate college. but at least i can, and make the difference. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our ceo, mr. richard barth. [applause] >> richard barth pays regular visits to the kipp schools. there are now more than 160 spread over 20 states. >> so it's just me against you? >> here he's taking on 8th graders during a math lesson. >> i did not major in math, ok? the biggest question i have right now, mr. lee, is do i get credit for putting my name? do i get, like, partial credit? may the best person win. >> pupils first work on the problems individually, then discuss them in groups. but richard barth has to figure them out on his own. he grew up in a middle-class family and later studied at harvard. but math was never his favorite

subject. >> i haven't done math like this in a long time. i've got the addition and subtraction down. but this is -- i should have stopped at question one. >> early on, barth realized that, in the us, children from low-income families have little chance of pursuing higher education. but these 8th graders have beaten him. >> before i came to this school, my old school was really bad. my mom didn't really like that i went to that school. so she found out about kipp. once she put me in this school i changed dramatically. behavior and grades-wise, like epically. >> so keep it up. i'd like to come back again. maybe with a little more prep, knowing what you're studying, i'll do slightly better. have a great day, everyone. [applause]

i'm glad it was only three questions. kids can do whatever you ask of them. we just have to ask them to do more than we knew or more than we thought they could do. and that's what we're seeing again and again. kids will rise to the challenge. the kids are incredible. for the last 25 years, i've been lucky enough to be in this work. >> once a child has been admitted, their siblings automatically qualify for a place at the school. for many families, it's like winning the lottery. the kipp schools receive government funding, like other charter schools in the us. but they also rely on philantrophic donations. securing them is a major part of richard barth's work. he feels kipp schools play an important role in promoting equal opportunity in education. >> still, in this country, where you're born largely dictates whether you're going to have the opportunity to attain a great education. eight out of 10 children growing up in the top income quartile get a college degree.

8% or 10% of children growing up in the bottom income quartile get a college degree. this is happening at a time of globalization. this is happening at a time where the value in earnings, the distance in the value in earnings between a high school degree and a college degree is growing dramatically in america. the management team gathers for a meeting. the first kipp school was established 20 years ago in houston, texas. today pupils in the us attend a , 59,000 kipp school. over 90% of them graduate from high school and most of them go on to attend college. >> looking an orangutan closely in the eye is like a one-on-one lesson in darwinian theory. they are more strikingly similar to us humans than almost any of our other evolutionary relations . but the people of the forest, as they are called in malay, are an endangered species. sumatra's bukit tigapuluh national park is one of their last refuges. thanks to efforts from a few of

their human cousins, orangutan numbers there are slowly beginning to rise. >> i like orangutans because they're so much like us. their dna is practically the same as ours, and their behaviour is similar, too. for instance, the young ones vie for attention; they want to cuddle, they're defiant. they can also get angry. they're like us -- and that fascinates me. >> dora has waited the entire morning for this moment -- to get out of her cage and into the forest.

she's five years old and an orphan. she was kept illegally as a house pet for most of her life. around a year ago she was taken away from her owner. now her trainers take her into the forest every day for climbing practice. at this jungle school, dora learns the skills she'll need to survive in the wild. today, peter pratje from the frankfurt zoological society has come along to see how dora is progressing. >> at the reintroduction station, we've seen orangutans who've been kept caged up venture out onto branches as thin as the bars of their cages. their cages were stable and secure. so at first they climb up small

trees or hold on to tiny branches -- and often come crashing down. >> the next lesson is building a nest. orangutans that live in the wild build a new one each night as protection from parasites. but dora still prefers to use the ready-made one. meanwhile, back at the camp, fatima and her colleagues are preparing a meal fit for an orangutan. fruit wrapped in banana leaves and tied up with string. dora and her fellow orangutans need to learn that getting food requires some effort. >> in their cages, they get fruit from the forest once a day. it's not as attractive as cultivated fruit.

the wild varieties aren't as sweet or as juicy. they're relatively dry and hard in comparison. but we have to get them to eat it anyway. >> how to find food is one of the most important lessons the orangutans must learn. >> dora is learning to suck termites out of their nest. high in protein, the insects can prove a vital energy source during lean times. her trainers also demonstrate how to get the goodness out of a stem of rattan palm. >> orangutans eat rattan as an alternative, at times when there's no fruit in the forest. during the dry season they usually termites, rattan, and leaves, not fruit. >> bukit tigapuluh is one of sumatra's largest remaining rainforests. it provides food and a home to countless animal species.

protecting this unique environment has become peter pratje's life's work. >> of the orangutans still 6000 living in the wild here on sumatra, only 1600 live in protected areas. the future will depend on how well these sanctuaries are protected. that will prove decisive in determining whether the species is still around in the next millennium or whether it will die out. >> near the reintroduction station there are signs of logging and slash-and-burn land clearing. palm oil plantations, in particular, keep encroaching on woodland. some 2/3 of sumatra's rainforest has vanished over the last 50 years -- taking the orangutans' habitat along with it. so preserving the rainforest is now conservationists' top priority.

back at the jungle camp, a new orangutan has arrived. around 10 come here for training each year. >> we have a new orangutan. his name is ugo blanco and he was kept illegally. he's just 5 years old and needs training so that eventually he can survive on his own in the forest. >> dora's days of living in a cage are over. her trainers have decided that she's ready to be released into the jungle. animal-rights activists have reintroduced around 160 orangutans into the wild. even if dora seems a little hesitant, she's going to join her fellow primates in the forest and help to strengthen their population.

her release will take place deep in the forest. her trainers keep going until they find the perfect place. there's a source of water close by -- and they leave a bit of food handy. >> it went well. she's off to a good start. she climbed to the tree tops and stayed in the forest canopy. it's like when your kids finish high school. you're glad, but when they leave home to go to college, that is hard for parents. but it's what's supposed to happen and that's what counts. >> the conservationists will keep an eye on dora for a little while yet -- until they're sure she's putting into practice what she's learned at the jungle school. only then will she be able to

thrive and breed in the wild. >> i guess story shows us that we are not that close to orangutans after all. i for sure don't know anybody who can climb like that! and that brings us to the end of this week's edition of global 3000. don't forget, you can find us online anytime with all of our reports and plenty of additional information. and you can catch our next edition right here, same time, same place next week. until then, thanks for watching and bye-bye. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

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