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The ICC’s Lubanga Trial Nears Close: Will Child Soldiers Receive Justice? The Lubanga trial is coming to an end as the prosecutors, victims' representatives and the defense counsel make their closing statements in the submission of evidence phase before the trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC). WITNESS August 30, 2011
Crowd-Sourcing Surveillance: When Does Little Brother Get Too Big? On June 16, riots swept downtown Vancouver after the Vancouver Canucks lost the Final of the NHL’s Stanley Cup. The online response to the riots—a public campaign to name and shame rioters followed by a heated discussion regarding whether naming and shaming constitutes vigilantism or community policing—still rages. WITNESS July 5, 2011
Choosing Timing, Outreach and Platforms for Successful Online Fundraising Thanks to incredible response from our supporters, WITNESS' spring fundraising challenge has reached and exceeded our goal! To date, Project: FOCUS has raised $73,948 (that's 106% of the $70,000 goal) and checks are still coming in. Miyoko Brunner June 16, 2011
Can You Raise Money and Awareness at the Same Time? While nonprofits certainly need support in ways other than monetary contributions, we cannot accomplish our goals if we don’t have the funding. We love our spring fundraising campaigns because they provide an opportunity for WITNESS supporters of all levels to contribute based on their capacity and have their support multiplied. WITNESS June 1, 2011
How To Run a Successful Online Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaign Last week we launched WITNESS’ annual "Spring Challenge," a primarily online-based, peer-to-peer fundraising initiative. This is our fourth campaign and every year our approach has shifted with the ever-changing philanthropic environment (and the ever-expanding digital world). Miyoko Brunner May 10, 2011
Celebrate Women’s History Month and Support our Partners This month, we’ve been looking back at WITNESS’ past work with grassroots partners on women’s rights as part of our ongoing celebration of the International Women’s Day Centenary and Women’s History Month. Yvonne Ng March 29, 2011
March Video Sale: Support Women’s Rights Last week, I highlighted two videos that are part of our ongoing celebration of the International Women’s Day Centenary and Women’s History Month. Throughout March we are looking back at WITNESS’ past work with grassroots partners on women’s rights by spotlighting five videos, available in our Web Store (DVD) and on ReFrame (video-on-demand). Yvonne Ng March 22, 2011
Measuring Impact in Human Rights Work: A Look at WITNESS’s Dashboard WITNESS has just published it's annual performance dashboard covering 2010. We publish a dashboard twice a year that shows how we measure the impact of our work, both in qualitative and quantitative terms. This is important to the entire WITNESS team since we want to be sure that our efforts and passion travel in the right direction. WITNESS March 21, 2011
Cameras Everywhere: Our New Leadership Initiative Here at WITNESS we're in the midst of exciting development on all our new programmatic initiatives. One of these is our 'Cameras Everywhere' Leadership initiative, which we'd like to introduce in this blog. Sam Gregory January 19, 2011
My year in review… It was only a little over a year ago that I joined WITNESS. I was freelancing and one of the assignments I had was working with Matisse, our Communications Manager, to help produce web pages and the e-newsletter for the organization. WITNESS December 21, 2010
A TED Conference Dedicated to Women and Men? Last week I attended the first ever TEDWomen conference in Washington DC, held in partnership with the Paley Center for Media. The main question underlying TEDWomen was “How are women and girls shaping the future?” WITNESS December 15, 2010
Mike Volpi Shares Why He Supports WITNESS As a new member of the board, I am incredibly excited about being able to contribute to WITNESS and its cause. WITNESS is an innovative organization at heart. The notion of using video to raise awareness and create action around human rights issues in the world was novel when WITNESS started – and even today, the organization continues to leverage technology to create and deliver it’s messages to people around the world – especially decision-makers. WITNESS November 26, 2010
The Ethical Engagements of Human Rights Social Media 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. Sam Gregory November 22, 2010
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. WITNESS November 18, 2010
Pump Up Your End-of-Year Fundraising Using Online Video We've teamed up with See3 Communications, the interactive media and marketing experts for nonprofit and causes, for a series in how to use video creatively and effectively for fundraising online. We're pleased to host the first post in this series, authored by See3 CEO Michael Hoffman. WITNESS October 6, 2010