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<tr><td style="padding-right: 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 36px"><img src="/lib/img/content/gallery_icon.jpg" border="0" alt="Images icon" width="35" height="36" /> </td> <td> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0pt"><a style="color: #7a3018" href="../../../../../files/pressroom/bushmen_press_pack/verdict_gallery/index.html">Images from the High Court in Lobatse</a></h3><p>Images from the High Court in Lobatse as the verdict is announced </p> </td> </tr>
<tr><td style="padding-right: 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 36px"><img src="/lib/img/content/word_icon.png" border="0" alt="Word icon" width=;35" height="36" /> </td> <td> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0pt"><a style="color: #7a3018" href="../../../../../files/news/ruling.doc"> Final court ruling</a></h3> <em>Microsoft Word document, 400 pages, 1.1MB</em><p>The full text of the ruling from the High Court in Lobatse, Botswana. This document has been scanned and the text digitally recognised: there may be some conversion errors. </p> </td> </tr>
<tr><td style="padding-right: 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 36px"><img src="/lib/img/content/word_icon.png" border="0" alt="Word icon" width=;35" height="36" /> </td> <td> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0pt"><a style="color: #7a3018" href="../../../../../files/pressroom/bushmen_press_pack/summary_of_issues.doc"> Summary of the issues</a></h3> <em>Microsoft Word document, 2 pages</em><p>An overview of the main issues in the court case, prepared by Gordon Bennett, the Bushmen's attorney. </p> </td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="padding-right: 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 36px"> <img src="/lib/img/content/word_icon.png" border="0" alt="Word icon" width="35" height="36" /> </td> <td> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0pt"><a style="color: #7a3018" href="../../../../../files/pressroom/bushmen_press_pack/roy_sesana_biography.doc">Biography of Bushman Roy Sesana<br /></a></h3> <em>Microsoft Word document, 1 page</em> <p>A biography of Roy Sesana, a Gana Bushman from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana and President of the First People of the Kalahari (FPK), the Bushman organisation. Mr Sesana is the lead applicant in the case.<br /> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-right: 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 36px"> <img src="/lib/img/content/word_icon.png" border="0" alt="Word icon" width="35" height="36" /> </td> <td> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0pt; line-height: 120%"><a style="color: #7a3018" href="../../../../../files/pressroom/bushmen_press_pack/witness_bios.doc">Biography of Bushmen witnesses and their expert witnesses </a></h3> <em>Microsoft Word document, 4 pages</em> <p>An outline of the main Bushman witnesses with brief biographies and descriptions of their testimony. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-right: 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 36px"> <img src="/lib/img/content/word_icon.png" border="0" alt="Word icon" width="35" height="36" /> </td> <td> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0pt"><a style="color: #7a3018" href="../../../../../files/pressroom/bushmen_press_pack/gordon_bennett_cv.doc">Biography of Gordon Bennett </a></h3> <em>Microsoft Word document, 2 pages</em> <p>A biography of Gordon Bennett, the Bushmen's attorney. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-right: 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 36px"> <img src="/lib/img/content/word_icon.png" border="0" alt="Word icon" width="35" height="36" /> </td> <td> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0pt"><a style="color: #7a3018" href="../../../../../files/pressroom/bushmen_press_pack/legal_precedents.doc">Legal precedents<br /> </a></h3> <em>Microsoft Word document, 2 pages</em> <p>The rights that indigenous people have under international law are partly a product of rulings given in many legal cases around the world. Each of these test cases has contributed to what is a continuously evolving area of international law. This document outlines some of the most important cases in recent decades. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-right: 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 36px"> <img src="/lib/img/content/word_icon.png" border="0" alt="Word icon" width="35" height="36" /> </td> <td> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0pt"><a style="color: #7a3018" href="../../../../../files/pressroom/bushmen_press_pack/case_in_numbers.doc">The court case in numbers<br /> </a></h3> <em>Microsoft Word document, 1 page</em> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-right: 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 36px"> <img src="/lib/img/content/word_icon.png" border="0" alt="Word icon" width="35" height="36" /> </td> <td> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0pt"><a style="color: #7a3018" href="../../../../../files/pressroom/bushmen_press_pack/summary_of_events.doc">Summary of events</a></h3> <em>Microsoft Word document, 4 pages</em> <p>A summary of events affecting the Bushmen during the main phase of the court case.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-right: 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 36px"> <img src="/lib/img/content/word_icon.png" border="0" alt="Word icon" width="35" height="36" /> </td> <td> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0pt"><a style="color: #7a3018" href="../../../../../files/pressroom/bushmen_press_pack/in_memoriam.doc">In Memoriam<br /> </a></h3> <em>Microsoft Word document, 1 page</em> <p>12% of the original applicants have died waiting for the court's judgement. This is a list of their names.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-right: 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 36px"> <a href="js"><img src="/lib/img/content/gallery_icon.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo icon" width="35" height="36" /></a> </td> <td> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0pt"><a style="color: #7a3018" href="../../../../../files/pressroom/bushmen_press_pack/gallery/">Image gallery<br /> </a></h3> <em>Downloadable JPEGs</em> <p>Images from the court case, including witness portraits, are available to download from the image gallery. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-right: 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 36px"> <img src="/lib/img/content/video_icon.png" border="0" alt="Video icon" width="35" height="36" /> </td> <td> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0pt"><span style="color: #7a3018">Court case video clip</span><a style="color: #7a3018" href="js"> </a></h3> <em>DV file, 3 mins</em> <p>Arthur Albertson, expert witness for the Bushmen, prepares to take the stand; the Bushmen's attorneys Gordon Bennett and Duma Boko confer outside the court during a recess; Bennett and Boko in discussion with Sidney Pilane, government attorney. </p><p>For access to the source DV files for broadcast, please <a href="mailto:film@survival-international.org">contact us</a>. <br /> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-right: 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 36px"> <img src="/lib/img/content/video_icon.png" border="0" alt="Video icon" width="35" height="36" /> </td> <td> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0pt"><span style="color: #7a3018">Court case video clip 2</span><a style="color: #7a3018" href="js"><br /> </a></h3> <em>DV file, 1 min</em><p>Bushman witnesses and a representative of Norway's Saami people during a break in hearings in the New Xade relocation camp.<br /></p><p>For access to the source DV files for broadcast, please <a href="mailto:film@survival-international.org">contact us</a>. <br /> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-right: 6px; vertical-align: top; width: 36px"> <img src="/lib/img/content/video_icon.png" border="0" alt="Video icon" width="35" height="36" /> </td> <td> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.2em; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0pt"><span style="color: #7a3018">Gope test mine video clip</span><a style="color: #7a3018" href="js"> </a></h3> <em>DV file, 15 secs</em> <p>Drilling rig and infrastructure at De Beers's test mine at Gope, a Bushman community inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. </p><p>For access to the source DV files for broadcast, please <a href="mailto:film@survival-international.org">contact us</a>. <br /> </p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
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The Bushmen won an historic legal victory on December 13, 2006. This media kit contains the full text of the court's ruling together with background information, photos and videos about the case.
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