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Protect human rights defenders’ identities with the updated YouTube blurring feature
YouTube has released an updated blur feature—in under 4 minutes, you can learn how to use this tool as part of the steps you take to protect identity.
WITNESS
October 31, 2017
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Mapping the Dead in Ethiopia
Mapping the Dead is a public database tracking Oromo people killed in Ethiopia by security forces. This is the second post in our Curate for Justice series.
WITNESS
October 30, 2017
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Last Month in Video: September 2017
From Rio to Cairo's Mashrou' Leila concert and a Utah nurse's refusal to an unconstitutional blood draw, we review September 2017 in human rights video.
WITNESS
October 10, 2017
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Last Month in Video: August
When WITNESS was founded in 1992, we wanted to get cameras in people’s hands. This wasn’t an easy task- at the time, cameras weren’t in every household, they weren’t cheap, and it wasn’t instinctive for people to reach for their camera. Now, video is everywhere, and it’s being made by everyone with a cell phone. […]
WITNESS
September 8, 2017
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Introducing YouTube’s Updated Blurring Feature
Edited to add: Learn how to use this tool in less than 4 minutes with our updated how-to video! From Syria to Charlottesville, it’s not a safe time to be a human rights defender. It’s not a safe time to be associated with the fight for human rights at all. But fighting for human rights […]
WITNESS
August 30, 2017
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Youth Speak Truth: Reclaiming the story of Mike Brown, Jr.
“He said he was going to change the world, he was going to shake the world and the whole world was going to know his name. And now they do.” – Triniya Walker, younger sister of Mike Brown, Jr. Today marks three years since Mike Brown, Jr., known affectionately to his family as “Mike Mike”, […]
Pali Makam
August 9, 2017
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Keep fighting; keep filming
This month marks three years since Eric Garner was murdered by the NYPD. This month, Black Lives Matter turned four years old. And this month marked four years since a jury of almost all white women acquitted the man who killed Trayvon Martin of second-degree murder. Racism in the United States has been forced out […]
WITNESS
July 25, 2017
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Media Activists: WITNESS and Guardian Project Have Your Back
Do you believe that video and technology can support human rights? WITNESS does. We’ve seen first-hand the power of video in supporting and securing human rights. But these days, cameras are everywhere, and so are videos of human rights abuses. This video can be safe, ethical, and effective. But sometimes, documentation gets lost in the […]
WITNESS
July 12, 2017
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#EyesOnICE: Legal Issues and Security when filming Immigration Officials
Resources and responses to questions around filming Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) safely, ethically, and effectively.
Pali Makam
July 3, 2017
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Can video bring down impunity?
WITNESS joins TRIAL International for a training on fighting impunity by using video to prosecute international crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
WITNESS
June 8, 2017
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Activists in Argentina use videos to denounce increasing institutional violence
WITNESS hosts another training in Argentina and supports activists denouncing institutional violence.
WITNESS
May 11, 2017
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Set your phone to ProofMode
Why Proof? You see a wide pink sky and bushes in a relatively nondescript landscape. You hear an explosion in the background. The camera shakes as a man repeats, strangely calm, “Allahu akhbar.” A few seconds later, an explosion rocks the ground in front of the person filming, and the camera falls, sideways, to the […]
WITNESS
April 27, 2017
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Expose human rights abuses, not the people who survive them
You’d probably never heard of him last week, but his face has gone viral this week. Dr. David Dao, the man who was dragged off of United Airlines flight #3411 on Sunday, was trying to get home to see patients. Instead, he ended up getting violently dragged off of a flight—to provide space for United crewmembers.1 […]
WITNESS
April 12, 2017
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WITNESS is going to RightsCon! (Updated with new sessions)
WITNESS is attending RightsCon in Brussels next week and we’re participating in a variety of talks and workshops. RightsCon focuses on the intersection of tech and human rights—right where WITNESS lives. Here’s where you can find us: Wednesday, March 29 On Day 1 of RightsCon we’re part of the ‘Beyond Dystopia: The Future Of Human […]
WITNESS
March 24, 2017
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The fight for the land continues one year after the assassination of Berta Cáceres, and so do the threats
By Laura Salas, Translation by Facundo Ercole Leer en español I’ve been a warrior because I’m from a town which is full of warriors. Berta Cáceres, founder of the Concejo Cívico Popular de Honduras (COPINH) [Honduras Popular Civic Council], has become an icon in the fight of hundreds communities across the Mesoamerica and the rest […]
WITNESS
March 3, 2017
