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An International Collaboration Brings Western Sahara into Focus
Watching Western Sahara is a collaborative video curation platform created to curate and contextualize eyewitness footage of human rights in the occupied territory of Western Sahara. WITNESS’s Madeleine Bair and FiSahara’s María Carrión explain how and why the collaboration came to be.
July 5, 2016
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Curating Eyewitness Videos for Data on Transphobic Violence
What do online videos, their views, and comments, tell us about the climate of hate and violence against transgender and gender nonconforming people?
June 3, 2016
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Guest Blog: Meet Two Sahrawi Media Activists
A dispatch from the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, where media activists traveled to train on human rights documentation.
April 29, 2016
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Activist Brahim Saika Dies in Detention & Sahrawis Take to the Streets
The death of a Sahrawi activist fuels protests in Western Sahara and southern Morocco, and renews attention to the treatment of Sahrawi political prisoners.
April 20, 2016
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Launching Watching Western Sahara
A new project aims to bridge the gap between footage of abuse taken by at-risk activists and the international audiences who can use it.
April 18, 2016
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Watching Protests in Western Sahara
Online videos document protest tactics by Sahrawi activists and repression by Moroccan authorities.
March 23, 2016
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Curating Online Videos to Monitor Human Rights in Western Sahara
As UN diplomats relaunch talks between Western Sahara and Morocco, a new WITNESS Media Lab project will curate footage from the disputed territory.
March 11, 2016
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Ethical Wednesdays: Additional Resources on Ethics and Eyewitness Footage
We wrap our blog series on the ethics of using eyewitness footage with a list of recommended resources from a diverse range of disciplines.
January 27, 2016
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Ethical Wednesdays: Graphic Footage
When footage contains distressing and traumatic imagery, how can you share it with your audience effectively, responsibly, and ethically?
January 20, 2016
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Ethical Wednesdays: When Eyewitness Footage Cannot be Verified
One of the greatest risks of using eyewitness videos in reporting is not understanding the full story behind the footage. Is it authentic? Has it been manipulated or misinterpreted? What happened before and after? In many cases, we lack complete information about the video’s content and context. How can we balance competing needs to verify footage and expose potential abuse?
January 6, 2016
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Ethical Wednesdays: Protecting At-Risk Eyewitnesses
Documenting protests, human rights abuses, or breaking news can put eyewitnesses at risk. How can reporters, activists, and human rights monitors use eyewitness footage without endangering the people who created them.
December 16, 2015
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Ethical Wednesdays: Who’s Behind That Footage? Credit, Transparency, and Eyewitness Videos
Eyewitnesses who film or circulate human rights videos may have a personal, professional, or political motivation. The latest in our series on the ethics of using eyewitness videos explores the reasons and methods of crediting the people behind the footage.
December 9, 2015
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Ethical Wednesdays: When Media is Created by the Perpetrators of the Abuse
Is there an ethical way to use footage documenting abuse when it is filmed by perpetrators themselves?
November 25, 2015
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New Online Resource Focuses on Activist Safety and Preventing Arrest in Iran
We speak with United for Iran about their new resource "Safe Activism," a guide for Iranian activists on how to avoid or minimize the impact of an arrest.
November 17, 2015
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Ethical Wednesdays: Minimizing Risks to those Filmed
The first of our weekly blog series focusing on the ethics of using eyewitness videos in human rights reporting and advocacy.
November 11, 2015
