- Looking Back at 2 Years of the Hub – Top 10 Most Covered (and Responded to) Issues December 2009 marks the Hub's official two-year anniversary and we're looking back at the most popular videos, issues, campaigns, and blog posts since our launch. There's a lot to cover - the Hub is now home to 3,000 videos on a range of human rights issues from all around the world.
- 2 years of the Hub: a look back December 2009 marks the Hub’s official two-year anniversary and we’re looking back at the most popular videos, issues, campaigns, and blog posts since our launch. There’s a lot to cover – the Hub is now home to 3,000 videos on a range of human rights issues from all around the world. Since 2007, more than […]
- DIY video and human rights I’ve just arrived back in New York after three thought-provoking days at the 24/7, DIY Video Summit, a great event put together by Mimi Ito and a team of organizers and curators at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at USC. The panels and discussions streamed live in Second Life and were webcast, and they should […]
- Caught On Camera: Human Rights Videos on GV [via GV/WITNESS] [Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online] You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s been Saddam, Saddam, Saddam, in recent weeks, but GV has covered other human rights videos that deserve a bit of limelight – so, in this regular new feature, I’m going to round up the best of those […]
- 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, […]
- Activists in Argentina use videos to denounce increasing institutional violence WITNESS hosts another training in Argentina and supports activists denouncing institutional violence.
- Access to Transportation Denied in Many of Brazil’s World Cup Cities While the country invested large amounts of money into the mega sporting event, critics say it did not do the same for the nation's transportation infrastructure.
- Ignored by Brazilian Government, Activists Take Police Violence to Inter-American Commission The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights hosts a public hearing on police violence used by Brazilian authorities during popular protests ongoing in the country since June 2013.
- How a Small Brazilian Community Fought Big Powers and Won After 20 years resisting eviction from their homes-- even as the threat level reached Olympic heights this year-- the Rio community of Vila Autodromo wins a concession from the Mayor. Eviction is off the table. Viva a Vila!
- Whose Media Is It?: How Police Requests for Unreleased Footage Blur the Line Between News and Evidence A near 6-month battle between British news broadcasters and the police has recently concluded: last December’s court decision that ordered television companies including BBC, ITN, and Sky News to surrender to police hours of unaired footage from the violent October 19th Dale Farm eviction, was thrown out. Journalists are now hailing the decision as a landmark victory in the fight for news neutrality and confidentiality.
- Video Documents Land-Grabbing in Rural Cambodia In an earlier post, I shareda clip from a video advocacy training in Cambodia. The first practical training exercise took place in Siem Reap province, where one of the trainees, the Venerable Luon Sovath, grew up.
- Outsourcing our food: “Land grabs” and the food on your plate This week the World Bank is hosting an online consultation with global civil society based on its controversial report released last week: “Rising Global Interest in Farmland: Can It Yield Sustainable and Equitable Results?"
- Update on The Hub and WITNESS’ New Online Strategy For those of you who participated in WITNESS' Hub project (thank you!) and for all of you in the "Video for Change" community interested in online human rights video, I am writing this post to explain what's happening with the Hub and WITNESS' new online strategy.
- Live Streaming Resistance: A Replicable Video Advocacy Model During April in the United States, 92,432 homes were repossessed. Only one homeowner got a weeks' worth of news coverage. Read how he used video and why his model is worth replicating...
- What really happened in the Burma internet “shut off”? [via John Palfrey] Next Monday, December 10, is International Human Rights Day, and it seems a good moment do our bit to make sure we don’t forget Burma. COHRE (the Center on Housing Rights and Evictions) has posted two reports – one on Displacement and Dispossession: Forced Displacement and Land Rights in Burma (pdf) and the other naming […]
