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New Year Brings Broken Promises in Cambodia
WITNESS partner LICADHO has been documenting with video forced evictions and land grabbing throughout Cambodia. LICADHO is also a part of WITNESS' global campaign on forced evictions.
January 12, 2012
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Rethinking the Mobile Workflow for Human Rights Video
By Nathan Freitas and Bryan Nunez Unfolding Approaches for Mobile Protest Coverage Activists all over the world have turned to mobile phones to organize, coordinate and document their struggle. Images and videos shot on mobile phones have been the standard for what revolution looks like in the public imagination. We have seen iconic moments, captured […]
December 22, 2011
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TRUST: Alaska Youth Call on Our Governments to Restore our Atmosphere
With the international climate talks wrapped in Durban, South Africa the reviews are mixed. World leaders touted their success in reaching the Durban Platform, but observers outside the negotiations are much more skeptical.
December 21, 2011
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16 Days: Personal Stories and Video Used In Global Campaign To End Gender-Based Violence
Over the past few weeks, we've featured several guest posts during the international 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence to highlight the use of video and technology by activists and organizations around the globe in the fight against gender-based violence.
December 9, 2011
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The Mozilla Festival and the Importance of a Free and Open Internet
Last month, WITNESS was invited to participate in the Mozilla Festival held at Ravensbourne University in London. The festival brought together some of the Mozilla community’s best developers and put them in the same room as some of its most innovative online content creators to collaborate hands on to create new features and build actual working demos. The cry of "Less Yack, More Hack!" served as reminder to keep things concrete and tangible and not to veer off into the theoretical as so often happens at conferences.
December 1, 2011
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Elections in Egypt and the DRC: Hope for A Better Future
Today is very special to the African continent with two major election days taking place in Egypt and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In these two big African countries, WITNESS has two very active campaigns.
November 28, 2011
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Celebrate Thanksgiving by Supporting Our Youth Fighting For a Healthy Atmosphere
As we gather to spend time with families and friends this Thanksgiving, and share stories from the past and hopes for the future, I want to take a moment to share a story about a group of remarkable youth who are taking action to ensure a healthy future for us all. I have been traveling across the United States over the past few months with our partner, the iMatter Campaign, and have met extraordinary youth who are taking big steps to protect our atmosphere and our collective future.
November 21, 2011
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Top 10 Tips for Filming #Occupy Protests, Arrests & Police Conduct
We have seen some great videos coming out from the Occupy movement around the country - from documenting mass actions to capturing police misconduct and abuse. Many courageous filmmakers, first timers and experienced professionals, are using best practices to record what is happening, and it is paying off. See this most recent example of video being used to help hold a Dallas officer accountable for shoving a protester off a ledge:
November 14, 2011
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Video Advocacy Example: Bullying, Social Media & Suicide
Teen suicide in the United States has been on the rise. One cause is that teenagers have been increasingly bullied in school and through the use of social media. There are so many ways kids can post what is going in in their lives, whether it is via Twitter, Facebook, Google +, or a YouTube video.
November 2, 2011
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What Do You Want to Learn from Video Activists in the Middle East and North Africa?
For most of us, the epicenter of video for change work that we’ve seen throughout 2011 has been in the Middle East and North African region (MENA). The Arab Spring has illuminated the reality of what “Cameras Everywhere” looks like, and what the power of instant video capturing and sharing can yield to inform and mobilize for truly incredible social change.
October 19, 2011
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Ugandan Women Use Video to Advocate for Psychosocial and Livelihood Support
I'm pleased to share a new video from our partners the Greater North Women's Voices for Peace Network (GNWVPN) in Uganda, and the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice. Our partnership with these organizations is part of our larger campaign aimed at ending gender-based violence in the context of armed conflict.
October 13, 2011
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World Habitat Day Is About People: Their Struggles, Their Strategies
As I shared in an earlier post, Global Networks Unite on Forced Evictions, WITNESS, our partner the Habitat International Coalition and 6 other networks working on housing and land rights have organized World Habitat Days - six weeks (16 September - 31 October) to bring attention and activism to forced evictions, land grabbing and activists at risk.
October 3, 2011
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WITNESS Launches an Online Toolkit to Create Effective Advocacy Videos
Are you using video to support your advocacy work, or are you thinking of using video? Fantastic. We are excited to share our newest training resource, which we think will help you - the Video Advocacy Planning Toolkit.
September 29, 2011
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Youth Use Video to Demand U.S. Government Protect the Atmosphere and Their Future
I manage our U.S. partnerships at WITNESS. This year I've had an important opportunity to combine my passions for human rights and the environment while working to produce films with youth across the country and support an unprecedented legal effort. Through our partnership with the iMatter Campaign, I've traversed the country meeting and working with youth that have already been affected by climate change and are standing up to ask the ruling generation for change.
September 28, 2011
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Inside the Media Archive: our Cataloging Manual now available online
Inside the Media Archive is an ongoing, occasional behind-the-scenes look at the practices, methodologies, tools, and resources the WITNESS Media Archive has developed and implemented to manage our collection of human rights video documentation.
September 26, 2011
