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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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Images of Horror: Whose Roles and What Responsibilities?
Recent examples of graphic images circulating online point to critical questions for commercial social media platforms, news outlets and citizens.
Sam Gregory
September 18, 2014
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Metadata is Powerful, and the NSA Knows It
We believe in the positive power of metadata, but citizens won't use it until they are in control of their own content.
Morgan Hargrave
September 15, 2014
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Effective Collaboration Between Journalists and Citizens When Using Citizen Video
Human Rights Channel Curator Madeleine Bair authors a two-part blog series on ways in which citizens and journalists can work together to capture and curate user-generated content.
Sarah Stein Kerr
August 15, 2014
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Human Rights Video from Brazil, Ukraine, Israel and Palestine
From the Human Rights Channel this week: a Brazilian activist seeks political asylum; the difficulty of verifying citizen video from the Israel/Palestine conflict; how social media is being used in the investigation of flight MH17’s downing.
WITNESS
July 23, 2014
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Citizen Videos Used as Propaganda Tools in Israel-Palestine Conflict
The use of citizen video as a propaganda tool by both sides in the conflict leaves viewers manipulated and confused.
WITNESS
July 22, 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.
Sarah Stein Kerr
April 15, 2014
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As World Cup Stadiums Go Up, Brazilians’ Homes Are Torn Down
Video from human rights groups and activists is shifting the attention to forced evictions carried out in the lead up to the World Cup.
WITNESS
April 8, 2014
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WITNESS at SXSW 2014: Talking Media, Mobile, Technology and Human Rights
Details for the two panels WITNESS is participating in and our suggestions a few more to check out at this year's conference.
Sam Gregory
March 7, 2014
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The Human Rights Video Weekly: Drones Strikes in Yemen, Slavery in India
Rare video from Yemen where a drone attack killed members of a wedding party in December; a community correspondent in India helps free men and women from slave labor.
WITNESS
March 5, 2014
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How An Eyewitness Mode Helps Activists (and Others) Be Trusted
Individuals and social networks can both benefit from functionality that would allow video uploaders to add metadata, enhancing the trustworthiness of their media.
Sam Gregory
March 3, 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 Video Weekly: Venezuela & The Verification Challenge
Just as citizen reporting and social media can illuminate human rights abuse, they can also facilitate the spread of misinformation, as we're seeing in videos circulated from Venezuela's protests recently.
WITNESS
February 25, 2014
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2013 in Human Rights Citizen Video
In 2013, the Human Rights Channel curated nearly 2300 videos from 100 countries. Collectively, they reveal not only *what* citizen journalists filmed this year, but *how* that video was seen and used.
WITNESS
December 23, 2013
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The Human Rights Video Weekly: Activist Kidnapped in Syria, Live Streaming Indigenous Community’s Standoff with Police in Brazil
Our last weekly update from the Human Rights Channel for 2013 features citizen video from Syria, Brazil, and Ukraine.
WITNESS
December 16, 2013
