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Sharing Truth
Two weeks ago I participated in a remarkable event, called Sharing Truth, an international forum convened in Vancouver under the auspices of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada.
March 16, 2011
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Community Complaint Leads to World Bank Conceding Role in Forced Evictions
The municipality of Phnom Penh is not only forcibly evicting communities from land, it is also removing 90% of the city’s major lake to build luxury apartments and hotels. To do this, water and silt are being pumped into Boeung Kak Lake, purposefully flooding nearby homes in several feet of murky water and causing other homes to collapse into floodwater. Approximately 20,000 people are effected.
March 12, 2011
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The Secure Smart Camera App for Human Rights Video
Earlier this year we announced our “Cameras Everywhere” initiative which hopes to address some of the changes happening around human rights video online and on mobile phones. The tools for creating and distributing video are becoming more wide spread and more accessible.
March 9, 2011
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Actions against land-grabbing in Cambodia shared in Africa
At an international conference for African communities facing land-grabbing, LICADHO presented a video showing how communities in Cambodia are resisting forced evictions and land grabbing. The three-day conference, Land grabbing in Africa – Dangers and Challenges, was hosted by Caritas Senegal in cooperation with other groups like, FIAN - that is FoodFirst Information and Action Network.
February 21, 2011
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Thousands At Risk of Losing Their Homes in Accra, Ghana
This week, WITNESS, and other land and housing rights organizations, signed a public statement demanding a stop to the planned forced eviction of thousands in Ghana’s capital city Accra. The signature campaign was organized here at the World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal.
February 10, 2011
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Using Video to Strengthen Northern Uganda’s Recovery Plan
We are incredibly excited to be working with the Greater North Women's Voices for Peace Network (GNWVPN) as part of our new partnership with the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice. In December, my colleagues Bukeni Waruzi, Ryan Kautz and I traveled to Kampala, Uganda to train 7 women from the GNWVPN. Read more about that training here.
February 4, 2011
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Calling Volunteers to Translate How-To Videos for Activists
We have been watching events unfold in Egypt through hundreds of videos and photos of people standing-up for freedom and caring for the injured to violent battles and a police van rushing through crowds of citizens, hitting and sending some of them feet in the air. If there ever was a doubt about the power of video to document and shine a spotlight on abuses, I think we can agree that doubt has been shattered.
February 3, 2011
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New Information on Khaled El-Masri
A recently discussed cable released by WikiLeaks shows that American officials exerted pressure on Germany not to enforce arrest warrants against C.I.A. officers involved in the 2003 kidnapping of Khaled El-Masri.
December 10, 2010
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What do we wish each other on Human Rights Day 2010?
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is profiling over a dozen human rights defenders, including the Venerable Luon Sovath, on Human Rights Day, 10 December, this year.
December 9, 2010
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Women Gather for Historic March and Speak Against Violence in War Torn Eastern Congo
As a Congolese human rights advocate from South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC), and WITNESS staff member, I traveled to Bukavu, a province in the eastern DRC, to participate at in a historic women-led march where women were demanding peace and justice.
November 23, 2010
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Joshua Cooper on the Universal Periodic Review of the U.S.
Recently, we brought you a report on the first comprehensive review of the U.S. human rights record on an international stage and shared how video was incorporated, for the first time, as part of the Universal Periodic Review process.
November 22, 2010
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How (Not) to Change the World: Lessons from PopTech 2010
“Sustainability and transparency are buzzwords” that no longer have any meaning. That’s what Ned Breslin, CEO of Water for People said from the stage of the this year’s Poptech conference.
November 18, 2010
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The TESTIFY! Project: U.S. Voices at the Universal Periodic Review
Yesterday we brought you a video report from Eric Tars highlighting the work being done around the UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the U.S. human rights record in Geneva, Switzerland. Today, we will highlight how video was incorporated, for the first time, as part of the Universal Periodic Review process. The U.S. Human Rights […]
November 3, 2010
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The Documentation Affinity Group: Embedding Archive in Activism
The Documentation Affinity Group (DAG) is a small international peer-to-peer network of local action groups originally established by six NGOs in 2005 to consider the role of documentation in protecting and promoting human rights worldwide.
November 3, 2010
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U.S. Human Rights Record Under Review by the U.N.
This week marks the first comprehensive review of the U.S. human rights record on an international stage. On November 5, 2010 the UN Human Rights Council will question the U.S. about its past human rights record under a process known as the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
November 2, 2010
