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Human Rights Video Weekly: Vietnam, Syria, and Kenya
This week we bring you videos documenting the forced evictions of farmers in Vietnam, an update on a barrel bomb attack in Syria, and documentation of the continued roundup of Somali and other immigrants in Kenya.
WITNESS
May 14, 2014
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Peace for Whom? Life Inside Rio’s Occupied Maré Favela
The Maré favela complex is home to 130,000 people and an army pacification force who are there to protect the residents according to the Brazilian government. But unease and reports of abuse abound.
WITNESS
May 8, 2014
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What We’re Reading, May 2 Edition
From YouTube clampdowns to a new verification app to human rights in Western Sahara and Algeria, here's what we're reading.
WITNESS
May 2, 2014
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Worst Corporation in the World: Vote for FIFA!
Brazilian human rights activists, fighting massive forced evictions and redevelopment for the 2014 World Cup, nominate FIFA for the worst corporation in the world award. Read, share and vote.
Priscila Néri
January 14, 2014
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WITNESS and Amnesty International Release a New Toolkit for Housing & Land Rights Activists
With 15 million people at risk of forced evictions annually around the world, we have released a multimedia resource kit for activists, social movements and communities fighting evictions.
Jackie Zammuto
December 12, 2013
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Media Advisory: Peter Gabriel and Isha Sesay Host 2013 Focus For Change Benefit for WITNESS
WITNESS' annual benefit takes place Thursday December 5, 2013. Interested members of the press need to RSVP to cover the event. Details in the advisory.
Matisse Bustos Hawkes
November 10, 2013
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Evict Them! In 5 Easy Steps
A new animated video aims to make the human rights issues inherent in forced evictions more accessible.
WITNESS
October 4, 2013
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Dear Mandela: Putting a Documentary to Work
Impact does not happen in a straight line: you make the film, show it, and things change. We spent four years shooting Dear Mandela, but it wasn't until we finished that we fully understood where our audience would be.
WITNESS
February 6, 2013
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Video Advocacy at a Crossroads: 2012’s Dangers & 2013’s Solutions
Video is increasingly at the nexus of opportunity and danger for human rights activists. Video helps activists to document, confront, circumvent, and lobby against oppressive authorities—but it also allows those authorities to stalk them. Here's what we think will happen in 2013.
WITNESS
January 22, 2013
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A Big Year For WITNESS
A changing world needs a changed vision: committing to support the millions who can transform the human rights landscape with video.
Yvette Alberdingk Thijm
January 11, 2013
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VIDEO: Meet Elisângela, the Other Face of Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Legacy
Elisângela wasn't home when they arrived. Her 17-year-old daughter called her cellphone, frantic, to break the news: "There are several men from the municipal government here at our door; they're saying they're going to demolish our house." Elisângela raced home to try to negotiate, to no avail. In a few hours, the home she and her family had spent years building was now a pile of rubble.
Priscila Néri
June 21, 2012
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Thoughts and Reactions on The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Report on Funding Trends in Human Rights and International Justice
Many of our donors and peers have been asking for the WITNESS take on the report, “Human Rights and International Justice: Opportunities and Challenges at an Inflection Point,” commissioned by The Atlantic Philanthropies and written by Jonathan Fanton and Zachary Katznelson.
Sara Federlein
March 29, 2012
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New Video the Government of Rio de Janeiro Doesn’t Want You to See
Roughly 170,000 people are either at risk, or have already been subjected to, forced evictions throughout the 12 Brazilian cities gearing up to host the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games.
Priscila Néri
December 14, 2011
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What do the World Cup and Olympics Have to do with Human Rights Violations?
Sometimes, quite a bit. Did you know that in Beijing alone, over 1.25 million people were forcibly displaced from their homes to make way for Olympics-related development in the lead-up to the 2008 Games?
Priscila Néri
October 20, 2011
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World Habitat Day Is About People: Their Struggles, Their Strategies
As I shared in an earlier post, Global Networks Unite on Forced Evictions, WITNESS, our partner the Habitat International Coalition and 6 other networks working on housing and land rights have organized World Habitat Days - six weeks (16 September - 31 October) to bring attention and activism to forced evictions, land grabbing and activists at risk.
WITNESS
October 3, 2011