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Video for Change Best Practices: Documenting Injuries and Casualties for Evidence
If you are filming in a situation where injuries and casualties are a part of the human rights violations you are documenting, the following tips are meant to help you record the information necessary for the use of your footage at a later date, perhaps for evidence.
WITNESS
April 9, 2012
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Video for Change Best Practices: Filming in Teams for Evidence
When filming protests, demonstrations and events, consider filming in teams to make sure you have multiple angles, perspectives and aspects recorded.
WITNESS
April 6, 2012
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Video for Change Best Practices: Filming for Human Rights Documentation and Evidence
Before you pick up a camera, be prepared with the right equipment and plan so you can film safely and effectively.
WITNESS
April 5, 2012
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In the News: Authenticating Video Footage as Evidence in Sri Lanka
Over the past two years, mobile phone footage of alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka has been at the center of a conversation regarding the evidentiary value of amateur video.
WITNESS
August 4, 2011
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Use Video in the Fight for Earth Justice
Written by Dalila Mujagic and Meghana Bahar. This post is dedicated to our ancestors, human and other-than-human, who remind us that to constantly re-root ourselves into the soil is to decolonize justice. We honor the wildness of Mother Earth whom the ancients strove to eternally water. In their memory, we continue the fight for Earth […]
WITNESS
April 21, 2023
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Use Video and Technology for the Defense of Earth and Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous communities and broader climate justice movements have long been confronting capitalism, colonialism, white supremacy, and related forces of exploitation and destruction. Indigenous-led resistance to these threats has woven ancestral wisdom with emerging tools and tactics– including audiovisual technology. Visuals evincing the deterioration of the planet have strengthened demands for urgent, globally coordinated responses to […]
WITNESS
April 22, 2022
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How To Batch Export Videos from Telegram
Updated October 2023 Telegram is a key platform for sharing audiovisual media that document human rights abuses – whether it is captured by officials, bystanders, journalists, activists, or perpetrators and their supporters. For example, it has been widely used by news outlets and officials in Ukraine to share information, by activists in Hong Kong to […]
Yvonne Ng
March 10, 2022
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Supporting Survivors of Gender-Based Violence: Documenting Evidence
Join us on International Women’s Day 2022 as we continue to spotlight our newest Video as Evidence guide ‘Using Video to Support Justice and Accountability for Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence’, along with many other resources that will assist you to safely and ethically document evidence of SGBV crimes for deeper justice and accountability. […]
WITNESS
March 8, 2022
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Turn to Video, Not Police In Addressing Anti-Asian Violence
Bystander and surveillance footage has helped expose the rising (and undercounted) violence against Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in the U.S. As we contend with the grief and rage spurred by these horrific incidents, we join those seeking answer to the urgent question: How do we keep each other safe? We know that police are […]
WITNESS
March 19, 2021
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Downloading Livestreams and Other Videos from Social Media
If you’re looking for how to film a livestream yourself, go here. Viewers around the world are witnessing in real-time as hundreds of thousands of people in Myanmar take to the streets to oppose the 2021 military coup. Activists’ and ordinary people’s livestreams on Facebook and other platforms are capturing mass protests, arrests, and violence […]
Yvonne Ng
March 8, 2021
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The Power of Video in 2020: Police Brutality in Africa
Author: Loui Mainga In 2020, debate on increased visibility of police abuse gathered momentum in Africa following their heavy-handedness under the guise of enforcing COVID-19-related restrictions and much later, the #EndSARS protest movement in Nigeria. Given the pivotal role social media is playing in exposing and bringing heightened awareness to police abuse, a number of […]
WITNESS
February 11, 2021
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Using Video to Protect Human Rights During Covid-19
On January 24, Chen Qiushi stood in Wuhan, the center of the Covid-19 outbreak in China, and spoke into his camera: “This epidemic happened because the State covered up the truth and facts”, reported the human rights lawyer and activist. “Through my camera, I want to deliver the voices of Wuhan to the world. If […]
Priscila Néri
April 13, 2020
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WITNESS Ally Livestreams His Own Detention – What The Video Teaches Us
|Leia em português aqui| Last night one of WITNESS’ longstanding allies, Raull Santiago, was detained along with two friends as he livestreamed an abusive encounter with Riot Police officers wielding assault rifles on a dark highway overpass in Rio. The officers lived up to their reputation and behaved exactly like you’d expect one of the […]
Priscila Néri
February 20, 2020
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Last Month In Video: From Rio to Catalonia and beyond
From Facebook's recent algorithm change to eyewitnesses capturing footage of police helicopters shooting into neighborhoods in Rio, and Catalonia's Skype president, here is Last Month in Video, January 2018 edition.
Dalila Mujagic
February 16, 2018
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Last Month In Video: 2017, a year of extremes
Video had a big role to play in 2017. From YouTube takedowns to fake news, police bodycams to a historic ICC arrest warrant, here's our last year in video review.
WITNESS
January 25, 2018