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Rural Women to Report Human Rights Violations Against Them Using Mobile Phones
The UmNyango Project will use SMS technology for rural women and men to access information to and report incidences of violence against women and children, as well as violations of women¹s right to land. This initiative will be tested out in Dondotha, KwaDlangezwa, KwaGcwensa, Limehill and Muden, and if successful, will be rolled out on […]
WITNESS
December 18, 2006
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Egypt: Bloggers open the door to police brutality debate [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] ‘Extraordinary rendition’ has passed into common parlance over the last year as human rights organisations have accused the US government of exporting suspects to be tortured in regimes like Egypt, Morocco and Syria. But while cases involving international suspects get the headlines, these […]
WITNESS
December 9, 2006
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Psiphon – A way around censored sites?
Released just this Dec 1st, psiphon is a human rights software project developed by the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies that allows citizens in uncensored countries to provide unfettered access to the Net through their home computers to friends and family members who live behind firewalls of states that censor. If […]
WITNESS
December 6, 2006
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China: Videos emerge of clashes between police and students in Jiangxi [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Hot on the heels of the Chinese government’s claim of a 22.1% reduction in “mass incidents” (read “protests”), here’s some more video of “mass incidents” from China, in case you missed this portion of John Kennedy’s latest Beijing bulletin: Backing up to China […]
WITNESS
November 24, 2006
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Egypt: Cairo's women speak out against violence [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] In the run-up to the annual global campaign for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, Egypt’s First Lady, Suzanne Mubarak, addressing a meeting of the Arab Women’s Organisation, issued a heartfelt plea: What shall we do to face challenges of discrimination, extremism […]
WITNESS
November 23, 2006
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Former Yugoslavia: Can video play a part in truth, justice and reconciliation? [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online – this post was written by Gavin Simpson] It fell to the controversial figure of Carla del Ponte, prosecutor at the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague, to lament the slow progress of justice in the Former Yugoslavia in a lecture she […]
WITNESS
November 6, 2006
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Mexico: The last moments of Bradley Roland Will [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Journalism seems like a precarious profession to practise in Mexico. It’s ranked by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) as one of the most dangerous places to be a journalist. The latest tragic example of this came on Friday 27th October, in the […]
WITNESS
October 30, 2006
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Boing Boing mentions the Human Rights Video Hub Pilot on GVO
BoingBoing.net posted a reader’s comments and link back to the Human Rights Video Hub Pilot on globalvoicesonline.org . Posted Oct 24, 2006
WITNESS
October 25, 2006
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Video exposes child-soldier's identity [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] If you’ve seen the guidelines for this site, you’ll know that there are types of footage that we wouldn’t post, and circumstances surrounding the shooting of particular videos that mean we wouldn’t even link to them. Today’s post is about one of those […]
WITNESS
October 20, 2006
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Zimbabwe: Smuggled DVD brings union protest beatings to light [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] This video reached me late last night via Ethan Zuckerman. At nearly ten minutes, it’s longer than the other videos we’ve put up, but I strongly recommend you watch it. It includes footage of the Zimbabwean police and security intelligence services breaking up […]
WITNESS
October 13, 2006
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US secret detentions: from hotel room to squalid prison cell [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online – this post was written by Gavin Simpson] When President George W. Bush confirmed in a speech last month that the CIA has been operating a programme of secret detentions on foreign territory, it was portrayed by the United States Government as part […]
WITNESS
October 5, 2006
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Iraq: Rare testimony of abuse by the Iraqi Security Forces [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Torture in Iraq, says the UN, is “out of control”, and “worse than it has been in the times of Saddam Hussein”. So it was especially timely for Brian Conley at Alive In Baghdad to e-mail us to say that he had an […]
WITNESS
October 3, 2006
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Tunisia: Opening prisons to the world [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] At this site, I’m trying to show videos that show or speak about human rights abuses, and – as in this Tunisian video – the impact of human rights abuses on ordinary people. I don’t speak Arabic, so how do I know what […]
WITNESS
September 27, 2006
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Eastern Europe: Video documents homophobia on the rise [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] The latest twist in the long-running saga of anti-gay violence and state oppression took place yesterday in Moscow, as an appeals court upheld the earlier lower court ruling to ban Moscow’s Gay Pride March in May 2006. The gay rights activists who brought […]
WITNESS
September 20, 2006
