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  • Arsip yang Bernilai: Read the English version here.  Blog ini menandai peluncuran kampanye global WITNESS “#ArchiveLife: Melestarikan Memori Kolektif melalui Pengarsipan Video”. WITNESS meluncurkan Panduan Aktivis untuk Pengarsipan Video yang memenangkan penghargaan pada bulan Juli 2013, hampir 11 tahun yang lalu. Sejak itu, kami telah mendukung dan belajar dari jaringan di seluruh dunia dalam proyek pengarsipan video. Hal […] May 31, 2024
  • တန်ဖိုးအနဂ္ဂ ထိုက်တန်သော အခန်းများ Read the English version here WITNESS ၏ “#ArchiveLife – ဗီဒီယိုရုပ်သံမော်ကွန်းမှတ်တမ်းတင်ခြင်းမှတဆင့် လူ့အဖွဲ့အစည်း၏ သမိုင်းဖြစ်စဉ် အမှတ်ရမှုများကို ထိန်းသိမ်းစောင့်ရှောက်ခြင်း” ကမ္ဘာလုံးဆိုင်ရာလှုပ်ရှားမှုအစီအစဉ် စတင်ခြင်းကို အထိမ်းအမှတ်ပြု၍ ဤဘလော့ဂ်ဆောင်းပါးကို ရေးသားတင်ပြပါသည်။ လွန်ခဲ့တဲ့ ၁၁ နှစ်နီးပါးကာလဖြစ်တဲ့ ၂၀၁၃ ခုနှစ် ဇူလိုင်လမှာ WITNESS က “တက်ကြွလှုပ်ရှားသူများအတွက် ဗီဒီယိုရုပ်သံမော်ကွန်းမှတ်တမ်းတင်ခြင်း လမ်းညွှန်” ကို ထုတ်ဝေဖြန့်ချိခဲ့ပြီးတော့ ဂုဏ်ပြုဆုချီးမြှင့် ခံခဲ့ရပါတယ်။ ထိုအချိန်ကတည်းက စပြီးတော့ ကျွန်ုပ်တို့ဟာ ဗီဒီယိုရုပ်သံမော်ကွန်းတင်ခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ လှုပ်ရှားမှုအစီအစဉ် များအတွက် ကမ္ဘာတဝှမ်းက မိတ်ဖက်များကို ပံ့ပိုးပေးခြင်းနှင့် သူတို့ထံကနေ လေ့လာသင်ယူခြင်းများကို ဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။ အဲ့ဒီထဲမှာ Berkeley Copwatch နှင့် ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့တဲ့ ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့၏ တာဝန်ယူတာဝန်ခံမှုဆိုင်ရာ ပြည်သူ့အချက်အလက် မှတ်တမ်းဘဏ်၊ El […] May 21, 2024
  • Vaults Full of Values This blog post marks the official launch of WITNESS’s global campaign “#ArchiveLife: Preserving Collective Memory through Video Archiving”. WITNESS launched its award-winning Activists’ Guide to Archiving Video in July 2013, almost 11 years ago. Since then, we have supported and learned from partners from around the world on video archiving projects. These include, the People’s […] May 2, 2024
  • Protest. Resist. Exist. #RightToRecord, A Sacred Covenant to Protect. For an optimal reading experience via your mobile phone, rotate your screen horizontally, to landscape mode. This blog post marks the official launch of WITNESS’s global campaign ‘Right to Record: Protest. Resist. Exist’. Read in Arabic, Portuguese and Spanish. Watch our recently concluded live huddle with members of our partner network, V4C, and WITNESS staff […] November 23, 2022
  • Eyes on Internet Shutdowns: Documenting for Human Rights This is the first of a series of posts to mark the official launch of WITNESS’s global campaign on internet shutdowns, that highlights community strategies for documenting human rights abuses during a shutdown. Visit the campaign homepage to stay updated about new resources. This blog post is available in Spanish, Arabic and Farsi. In an impassioned […] September 1, 2021
  • Cyber-Violence against the Marginalised in Sri Lanka Digital community spaces serve as important tools for Sri Lankan women and the LBT community. A recent research study conducted by Groundviews reveal that deep-rooted misogynistic attitudes driven by hate and fear drive cyber-violence against the marginalised. September 6, 2019
  • Combating Gender-Based Tech Violence: Groundviews, Sri Lanka Part 1 of 2 Exactly a year ago, on 5th March 2018, we watched as flames engulfed Digana, in the heart of Kandy. We saw quiet, multi-ethnic suburban localities swept up by a wave of anti-Muslim wrath. On 6th March 2018, the Sri Lankan government responded by blocking access to Facebook, Whatsapp and Viber, on […] March 8, 2019
  • Occupying Dhaka Inspiring widespread activism on social media, a nation-wide youth-led movement for road safety emerged across Bangladesh and in cyberspace, as students in Dhaka drove the city to a standstill. October 22, 2018
  • 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. […] November 29, 2017
  • Video Evidence and the Case for the Rohingya How eyewitness video and digital evidence verification work together to corroborate violence and destruction in Burma. October 5, 2017
  • Recording Resistance We interviewed British filmmaker Max Stahl about his role in documenting and preserving footage of the Santa Cruz Massacre, and how his visual account helped propel Timor-Leste back into the world spotlight. November 11, 2016