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Tips for Citizens Documenting Hong Kong’s Protests
WITNESS shares tips for citizens about how to more safely and effectively use video to document Hong Kong's protests.
Jackie Zammuto
October 2, 2014
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The Power of Citizen Witnesses – and How WITNESS is Strengthening Their Impact
From creation, sharing, management of your video, to preservation and usage, and with an eye to the ethical questions, WITNESS is thinking holistically about how best to support the millions of citizen witnesses to human rights abuse.
Sam Gregory
September 23, 2014
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Preserving Videos from Ferguson for Justice and Accountability
Basic tips that activists can take towards properly preserving the authenticity and context of human rights videos, strengthening the likelihood that the videos could someday be used as evidence in the fight for justice and accountability.
Jackie Zammuto
September 5, 2014
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Ensuring That More Videos Mean More Rights
WITNESS Executive Director Yvette Alberdingk-Thijm reflects on current events and the importance of video as a tool to document human rights abuses and advocate for justice.
Yvette Alberdingk Thijm
August 29, 2014
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List of Free or Low-cost Tools and Resources for Video Activists
This list of free or low-cost tools and resources for video activists is curated from participants who joined our Live Video Archive #AskMeAnything event on our Facebook page.
WITNESS
August 14, 2014
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WITNESS Resources For Filming Human Rights Situations in Gaza and Israel
These resources, available in English and Arabic, aim to help citizen witnesses capture and share footage of human rights abuses and preserve their footage for use at a later date.
WITNESS
August 13, 2014
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Syrian and Venezuelan Activists Exchange Field Notes
Activists filming on the ground in Venezuela and Syria share experiences and exchange field notes on how to use video as effective documentation.
WITNESS
June 20, 2014
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Everything Needs to Change, So Everything Can Stay the Same: Challenges to Keeping Online Video Accessible
Keeping a website online and continuously accessible to the public, whether its a human rights archive or a piece of art, is not merely a question of keeping the power switch on. Our senior archivist discusses some ways to prepare for the inevitable challenge of tech obsolescence.
Yvonne Ng
June 5, 2014
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Insights on the Use of Memes for Social Justice Campaigns
A guest post by The Civic Beat's Ben Valentine about social change memes in global contexts.
WITNESS
May 29, 2014
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What We’re Reading, May 9 Edition
From human rights in Syria to the Central African Republic, with stops in digital archiving and tools for verifying video along the way.
WITNESS
May 9, 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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3 More Days to Support These Knight News Challenge Applications
The Knight Foundation’s Knight News Challenge is currently underway. We share a shortlist from among the 667 projects seeking to strengthen the Internet for free expression and innovation.
WITNESS
April 15, 2014
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The Video-For-Change Africa Network is Born!
WITNESS is pleased to announce the formation of the Video for Change Africa Network, a network for video activists to share their knowledge, materials and challenges with others working for social change in Africa.
WITNESS
March 11, 2014
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Why WITNESS Is Going to RightsCon 2014
Sam Gregory, program director at WITNESS discusses what sets this conference apart and what we hope to accomplish there.
Matisse Bustos Hawkes
February 28, 2014
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Human Rights Tech and the 10-year Anniversary of Martus!
Program Director Sam Gregory discusses human rights tech, InformaCam and the 10 year anniversary of human rights documentation tool, Martus.
WITNESS
November 26, 2013
