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Suicide or Escape? Fact Checking Reporting on Migrant Abuse in MENA
How media misreported a Snapchat video of migrant worker abuse, and how we can do better
Raja Althaibani
October 26, 2018
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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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No Means No: the Yaquis Uphold the Right to Their Lands
Despite the unequivocal rejection by Loma de Bácum authorities of Sempra Energy’s proposed pipeline project, as well as a federal judicial decision barring pipeline construction on Yaqui territory in Bácum, Sempra Energy continued to build its pipeline through 9 miles of their farmland.
Dalila Mujagic
September 24, 2018
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The Right to Record Recognized at the United Nations
Last month, the United Nations Human Rights Council promoted the right to record explicitly in resolution A/HRC/38/L.16 — WITNESS explains what this means for activists and human rights defenders around the world.
WITNESS
August 2, 2018
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Deepfakes and Synthetic Media: Survey of Solutions against Malicious Usages
For updated information on our work in this area please visit wit.to/Synthetic-Media-Deepfakes. This includes an updated version of this survey. This is the second in a series of blogs on a new area of focus at WITNESS around the emerging and potential malicious uses of so-called “deepfakes” and other forms of AI-generated “synthetic media” and […]
Sam Gregory
July 30, 2018
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Deepfakes and Synthetic Media: What should we fear? What can we do?
For updated information on WITNESS work in this area please visit wit.to/Synthetic-Media-Deepfakes This is the first in a series of blogs on a new area of focus at WITNESS around the emerging and potential malicious uses of so-called “deepfakes” and other forms of AI-generated “synthetic media” and how we push back to defend evidence, the truth […]
Sam Gregory
July 30, 2018
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Fighting impunity for attacks at women’s marches
From Ukraine to Malaysia, demonstrators at International Women's Day marches continue to face attacks without accountability. This is Last Month in Video, March 2018 edition—with updates from the Alton Sterling police shooting, police collusion in Sri Lanka, and border patrol abuse in California.
WITNESS
April 11, 2018
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You Are Power: The Women and Organizations Who Inspire Us
In honor and in celebration of International Women's Day 2018, WITNESS' regional teams highlight the women and organizations who inspire us.
WITNESS
March 7, 2018
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Video As Evidence in the Middle East & North Africa
WITNESS and PILnet answer questions on the past and future of video as evidence, and how their collaboration on the Video As Evidence in the Middle East & North Africa report came about.
WITNESS
February 22, 2018
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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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Video Evidence and the Case for the Rohingya
How eyewitness video and digital evidence verification work together to corroborate violence and destruction in Burma.
Meghana Bahar
October 5, 2017
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Curating citizen media for human rights?
Review these critical questions before designing a platform for curating eyewitness footage of human rights abuses.
WITNESS
September 12, 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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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.
Dalila Mujagic
June 8, 2017