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Gender-Based Violence in the Context of Armed Conflict and Political Repression
WITNESS recently made a decision to focus a concentrated level of support to networks of human rights defenders working to challenge gender-based violence that occurs during and after armed conflict and under political repression (for more detail on this, see our previous blog post on the new network campaign strategy).
Sam Gregory
June 18, 2010
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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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Community-led Approaches to Data Collection on Gender-Based Violence
This blog highlights community-led approaches to data collection on sexual and gender-based violence in the United States.
Jackie Zammuto
November 29, 2021
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Eyes on Internet Shutdowns: Documenting for Human Rights
This is the first of a series of posts to mark the official launch of WITNESS’ 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 […]
Meghana Bahar
September 1, 2021
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The Right to Record in Africa – Law versus Reality
The Nigerian police force has a popular phrase which you will find displayed in most police stations. It says: The Police is your friend. But the average Nigerian does not know this to be true. The high levels of police violence coupled with the absence of accountability has sparked social movements such as #EndSARS and […]
Adebayo Okeowo
October 28, 2019
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Rio goes live
Image: Brazilian politicians livestreaming while campaigning and breaking a Marielle Franco sign. Current Rio governor on the right and a now-elected deputy breaking the sign. By Adriano Belisário As mobile phone access and Internet bandwidth increased in this decade, video streamings became an important part in the political dispute: such as in the beginning with […]
WITNESS
February 22, 2019
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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.
Meghana Bahar
October 22, 2018
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4 tips to have co-present and active audiences in livestreams
By Clara Medeiros and Adriano Belisário Livestreams are one of the most engaging types of content on the Internet, and Mobil-Eyes-Us, a WITNESS initiative, builds up this content to help activists engage their audience deliberately so that they become more active, useful and “co-present” when they are needed. We had the chance to observe, test, […]
WITNESS
September 17, 2018
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Immersive Witnessing: From Empathy and Outrage to Action
There are challenges and opportunities in virtual reality, live and immersive media for social good. New WITNESS projects aim to channel this empathy into meaningful action.
Sam Gregory
August 2, 2016
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Guest Blog: Meet Two Sahrawi Media Activists
A dispatch from the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, where media activists traveled to train on human rights documentation.
WITNESS
April 29, 2016
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Getting the Truth Out: Restorative Justice for Victims of Police Violence in the United States
March 24th is the international day for ‘The Right to The Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and For The Dignity of Victims,’ a day to remember victims of systemic human rights violations and stress the importance of the right to truth and justice. To mark this day we corresponded with Dave Ragland, Co-founder and […]
Jackie Zammuto
March 24, 2016
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Curating Online Videos to Monitor Human Rights in Western Sahara
As UN diplomats relaunch talks between Western Sahara and Morocco, a new WITNESS Media Lab project will curate footage from the disputed territory.
WITNESS
March 11, 2016
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Dispatch from Brazil: If killed by police, guilty by default … unless there’s video?
Every year thousands of people in Brazil are murdered by the police, yet only 0.8% of the cases are ever investigated or brought to justice.
Priscila Néri
September 4, 2015
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Community-Based Approaches to Archives From the Black Lives Matter Movement
Archivist Yvonne Ng discusses new initiatives out of Ferguson, Baltimore and Cleveland to collect and preserve records of police abuse and protest movements.
Yvonne Ng
September 2, 2015
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Citizen Videos Capturing Police Violence at Protests in Brazil Used as Evidence
Citizen video has become a critical resource in the struggle to ensure rights and in cases to prosecute police violence in Brazilian cities.
WITNESS
July 10, 2014