STEVE CRAWSHAW is international advocacy director at Amnesty International in London. He was a foreign correspondent at "The Independent" from 1986 to 2002 and worked at Human Rights Watch in London and New York from 2002 to 2010. He is the author of "Goodbye to the USSR" and "Easier Fatherland: Germany and the 21st Century." JOHN JACKSON is Vice President of Social Responsibility for MTV Networks International. Previously, he led social justice initiatives internationally as Head of Campaigns at Christian Aid and was a founding member and Director of the Burma Campaign UK.
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