In their words
Testimonials
From colleagues, critics, and viewers — on Rory's work and on the programming Globalvision has produced over four decades.
From a head of state
…My hope is that others will join Rights & Wrongs in the future in publicizing what I consider to be a crucial factor in the lives of all human beings — human rights… and that more people will join and cooperate with Rights & Wrongs in the future to let the world know about this important subject.
From a colleague
I have known Rory O'Connor for over forty years. From the early 1990s, when he gave me my first international TV reporting assignment, to the early 2000s, when we participated in various independent reporting collaborations, often covering current events in remote locations with few resources for live broadcast. In the late 2010s, I hired Rory to step in as interim Supervising Producer and then Senior Consulting Producer on a nationally-syndicated, public affairs program which ran for seven seasons on American public television.
As an assignment editor, Rory was a motivating presence. He draws on his long experience in news to inspire reporters, prod producers, and prepare hosts to produce original content, with the highest possible level of accuracy, on deadline. As an expert visual storyteller, he brings out the best in his editors and post-production staff. As a consultant, Rory is both a sympathetic listener and an encouraging guide. He has a deft way of offering support and encouragement alongside timely reminders and prompts.
If you're looking for someone to be at your side as you undertake virtually any media venture, I recommend Rory wholeheartedly.
From a collaborator
I've had the privilege of working closely with Rory O'Connor for three decades. Together we have crafted documentaries, exposés, and long-form investigative reports in the most hostile environments — from war zones to human rights crises to the halls of international justice. Throughout it all, Rory has demonstrated not only exceptional journalistic rigor, but a rare depth of moral clarity and purpose.
As a journalist, filmmaker, and president of Globalvision, Rory brings creativity and discipline to every project. He has an extraordinary ability to envision the bigger picture while never losing sight of the human stories at the center. His work doesn't just inform — it compels, challenges, and endures.
Rory is, without question, a pioneer in human rights journalism. His commitment to truth, accountability, and storytelling at the highest level sets a standard that few can match. It was, is, and ever shall be an honor to collaborate with him.
Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television
What the critics say
A show about human rights around the world that manages to be informative and astonishingly entertaining as well. Raw, gritty and powerful… high-risk television with an edge.
Rights & Wrongs brings vision and urgency to issues in an unvarnished but altogether professionally crafted news package.
A New York-based company, Globalvision, is putting cameras in the hands of local residents on six continents who will provide footage for a program covering human rights. The stories will be reported from the inside out. Tibetans taping Tibetans. South Africans taping South Africans.
Rights & Wrongs shakes the cobwebs of apathy from my brain. This National Geographic of human rights abuses evokes the sense of outrage I used to feel before there was TV, which has done such a good job pacifying people while suffering goes on all over the world… It's news you don't see elsewhere on TV stations. Until a better one comes along, I'll buy Rights & Wrongs as the best definition of a TV magazine.
More than anything else, that is what the television broadcast Rights & Wrongs is about: important truth. The broadcast has as its whole name Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television. It roams the world to explore issues of human rights… Here is a broadcast filled with the kind of information people need to know.
Rights & Wrongs is energetic, inventive, intelligent, the most refreshing and informative news program I've seen in a long time… Always organizing the facts into an analysis, the show, unlike almost all other television news shows, makes you think; it enlivens rather than numbs you.
Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television
What the viewers say
The accuracy of the reporting, direct presentations of those on location, and interesting commentary by the host made it the most valuable presentation of world news that I experienced since its beginning in April. Keep up the excellent work. I would expect that a program of such exemplary calibre would continue for years.
I was pleasantly surprised when I saw your program Rights & Wrongs. I would like to congratulate you on this excellent series. This is the type of programming that I would like to see expanded.
Your first Rights & Wrongs was a very powerful program. The segments on El Salvador and the use of independent journalists' material gave a great sense of immediacy and urgency. Good luck with the continuing series.
I was quite taken by the stark appropriateness of the reporting to the turbulent world of our time-compact globe. The music video among the ruins of the Sarajevo Olympic stadium was a post-modern nightmare with hope along the edges.
Rights & Wrongs is absolutely the best TV program I've ever seen — so compact and dealing with the important issues today. Thank you.
Congratulations on your show Rights & Wrongs. It is a real breakthrough…