- Menggunakan Video Sebagai Alat Perjuangan Keadilan Lingkungan Ditulis oleh Dalila Mujagic dan Meghana Bahar. Blog ini adalah hasil terjemahan dari versi asli berbahasa Inggris. Tulisan ini didedikasikan untuk leluhur kita, bumi, semesta dan segala isinya, yang untuk kita selalu mengingat yang memberi kehidupan. Dengan memberi hormat kepada leluhur, kita juga memberi hormat kepada ibu bumi. WITNESS meluncurkan panduan terbaru ‘Video sebagai Alat […]
- Use Video in the Fight for Earth Justice Written by Dalila Mujagic and Meghana Bahar. This post is dedicated to our ancestors, human and other-than-human, who remind us that to constantly re-root ourselves into the soil is to decolonize justice. We honor the wildness of Mother Earth whom the ancients strove to eternally water. In their memory, we continue the fight for Earth […]
- Stop Violence Against Defenders of Indigenous People Those of us who subscribe to and are members of various community media collectives in Abya Yala, gathered in the network CORAL (Colectivxs Reunidos de América Latina), express our concern and outrage over the recent acts of violence that occurred in the sister Republic of Ecuador and the null protection of the State for those who […]
- Filming for the Rights of the Papuan People and Land Since a takeover in the 1960s, West Papua has faced relentless human rights abuse and environmental damage as Indonesia plunders its resource-rich land. The region is host to the American and British-owned Freeport mine, the largest gold mine in the world, which has effectively poisoned the local river system and reduced a sacred mountain to […]
- Using Video to Fight Forced Evictions in the U.S. Forced evictions on stolen land during a global pandemic? That’s a reality facing nearly 30-40 million people in the U.S. who can’t pay their rent. Forced evictions have been happening on these lands since colonizers first arrived, terrorizing and displacing Indigenous communities. Today’s eviction crisis is only the latest in generations of compounding crises of […]
- The Hunt for Digital Evidence of the Rohingya Genocide In documenting historical records of destruction or grievous danger to a peoples over time, digital trails are a human rights crusader’s best–sometimes most accurate–source of evidence. And yet at the same time, such data can fall into the wrong hands, putting the lives of the persecuted, and those fighting for their rights, at grave risk. […]
- Video Evidence and the Case for the Rohingya How eyewitness video and digital evidence verification work together to corroborate violence and destruction in Burma.
- This Neighborhood in Colombia Says “No” to Evictions Residents of the La Cascada neighborhood are currently resisting evictions and demanding government intervention to address the issue of deteriorating housing in a holistic way.
- El barrio de la Cascada dice no a los desalojos La Cascada es un barrios donde actualmente los habitantes se encuentran resistiendo a los desalojos y exigiendo la intervención del gobierno para solucionar de forma integral el problema de deterioro de las viviendas.
- Documenting Rio’s Resistance: Interview with ‘State of Exception’ Director Jason O’Hara In his new film Canadian documentary filmmaker Jason O’Hara takes on forced evictions and mega-events, working collaboratively with Rio’s communities to tell stories of resistance and document human rights abuses since 2010.
- In China, Victims Protest Forced Evictions Through Suicide Urbanization and economic growth are rapidly increasing in China, but often at the cost of people’s right to land. Some citizens are taking the drastic step of attempting suicide.
- Brazil’s Urban Occupations Demand Their Government Recognize Housing as a Human Right Activists in Brazil have been occupying land and abandoned buildings for more than 20 years. They use multiple tactics including legal action to try to win legal deeds to land and property and pressing the government to recognize the right to housing for all.
- Stopping Bulldozers: Fighting Forced Evictions with Video From citizen journalists in India to audiovisual artists in Colombia, people are using WITNESS resources to strengthen their grassroots work in the fight against forced evictions and to empower more to get involved.
- Access to Transportation Denied in Many of Brazil’s World Cup Cities While the country invested large amounts of money into the mega sporting event, critics say it did not do the same for the nation's transportation infrastructure.
- 3 Years After a Forced Eviction, Only Empty Promises and Rubble Where Homes Once Stood In addition to the Santos family, 93 others are evicted from a community in Rio de Janeiro for an infrastructure project ahead of the 2014 World Cup, however three years after the eviction the project remains unrealized.
