By Guest Blogger | November 30th, 2011 In commemoration of the global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign, we are highlighting activists and organizations who are using the power of video in their campaigns to address gender-based violence through a series of guest posts. Read previous posts in this series.
By Amy Hill Amy is the Co-Founder and current Director of Silence Speaks. She is a digital video instructor/producer and public health consultant whose twelve-year history of involvement with women’s health and violence prevention program and policy initiatives led her in 2000 to found the initiative. She is currently finalizing the Voices for Justice digital stories.
From the moment I met Bandana Rana in 2008, I sensed that we would work together. She runs SAATHI Nepal, which has for nearly twenty years been challenging violence and injustice against women at all levels of Nepalese society. We talked about the importance of bringing stories told by survivors into human rights dialogues, about [...]
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By Sam Gregory | September 27th, 2011 Sameer Padania, the lead author/researcher of our “Cameras Everywhere” report spoke recently at “The Power of Information” conference in London, organized by the Indigo Trust, the Institute for Philanthropy and the Omidyar Network. His presentation focused particularly on some of the ways donors can better integrate support for technology and human rights into their work – in line with some of our analysis and recommendations in our report.
As a teaser for his presentation here’s one of his slides:
Read more about his presentation on Sameer’s blog (and watch his overall summary of the human rights panel here). Below is a summary of the recommendations for funders we make in our report:
Governmental, foundation and private donors play a critical role in conducting and supporting research, activism and advocacy on issues related to human rights and technology. To increase impact, their funding need to become more transparent, accessible, [...]
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By Sam Gregory | November 22nd, 2010 The Ethical Engagements of Human Rights Social Media: Spreadable, Contagious, Viral, Malleable, Fluid, Ubiquitous, Dangerous?
The explosion of digital media on human rights pushes us all to rethink how documentary film ethics apply in a more networked, social media-driven era.
This summer at the Visible Evidence conference in Istanbul I had the opportunity to share ideas with leading documentary film academics on how WITNESS is thinking about ethical dilemmas with human rights social media. This is part of our efforts to contribute to a new consensus understanding on how we handle the growing ubiquity of human rights video, and accompanying concerns about safety, authenticity, contextualization and effectiveness (for more background on this see this recent ‘Cameras Everywhere‘ article).
I share below an excerpt of a paper that I co-wrote with Professor Patricia R. Zimmermann of Ithaca College, focused on some key principles underlying changing ethical norms in human rights social media. [...]
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By Matisse Bustos Hawkes | July 23rd, 2010 This week we’re sharing more ‘tweeted’ bits of news and resources including a guide to mobile phone video journalism, a discussion about the ethics of video in the “YouTube era,” an award given to our partners at HOPS in Macedonia, a new audio archive of the world’s language, and a new shareable video and education campaign about how cosmetics are made, packaged and sold:
from @PriscilaNeri: NPR: The Tricky Ethics Of Video In A YouTube Era: http://n.pr/crM6zA – see @witnessorg‘s take on #humanrights concerns: http://bit.ly/161bY ViKras HOPS wins HIV/AIDS & human rights award at the #aids2010 Vienna conference ! Their video co-production w/ WITNESS http://bit.ly/7ay3WC from @gracelile: RT @longnow Building an Audio Collection for All the World’s Languages: http://bit.ly/9q86nF and from WITNESSchris: Love it: @freerangestudio & @storyofstuff‘s new #storyofcosmetics is up: http://storyofstuff.org/cosmetics/ #video4change from former staffer @SameerPadania: RT @mobileactive: BBC guide for mobile journalists: “Pocket-size video journalism” http://ow.ly/2fhjt #mobilemedia (via [...]
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By Sameer Padania | June 21st, 2010 This is the second in an occasional blog series about human rights video. We are pleased to be collaborating with Steve Grove, Head of News & Politics at YouTube on the series. The original post, written by Sameer Padania (former Hub Manager at WITNESS) and Steve, appeared on YouTube’s blog. As always, we welcome your comments and feedback.
Last week we started a blog series with YouTube, highlighting the role that online video is playing in human rights advocacy. And though activists around the world have shown how powerful YouTube can be as a tool to raise awareness of human rights violations, this kind of work opens up new risks, online and offline. This post is designed to help you maximize the effect of your human rights videos while protecting those you’re trying to help — and ensuring your videos don’t get taken down from YouTube.
Before you even start [...]
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