- This Neighborhood in Colombia Says “No” to Evictions Residents of the La Cascada neighborhood are currently resisting evictions and demanding government intervention to address the issue of deteriorating housing in a holistic way.
- This Week on the Human Rights Channel: Kenya, Colombia, South Africa, and Nigeria This week we focus on anti-terrorism crackdowns in Kenya, and attempts by campesinos in Colombia to escape local violence between paramilitaries and government forces. We're keeping our eyes on retribution for forced evictions in South Africa, as well as the recent reports of war crimes in Nigeria.
- Human Rights Video Weekly: Cambodia, Colombia, Kenya and Egypt Hundreds of thousands of Cambodian migrants flee Thailand, victims of Columbia's ongoing conflict share their stories and Kenyan activists are jailed for speaking out.
- Stopping Bulldozers: Fighting Forced Evictions with Video From citizen journalists in India to audiovisual artists in Colombia, people are using WITNESS resources to strengthen their grassroots work in the fight against forced evictions and to empower more to get involved.
- Groups in Colombia Use Video to Fight Evictions Interviews from Medellín's housing and land rights activists and community leaders about the forced evictions taking place in and around the city and how they are using video to preserve the memory of places that are disappearing and to document human rights violations.
- Grupos en Colombia usan video frente a desplazamientos Entrevistas con activistas de derechos a la vivienda y líderes comunitarios de Medellín sobre los desalojos forzosos que están ocurriendo y cómo usan el video para preservar la memoria de lugares que desaparecerán y documentan violaciones a los derechos humanos.
- Mapping Our Materials: The Forced Evictions Advocacy Toolkit Goes Global Highlights from Brazil, Burma, Colombia, Egypt, Philippines and Scotland on how the Forced Evictions Advocacy Toolkit is being used by activists, artists and communities. Part one of a two-part series.
- Human Rights Video Weekly: Colombia, Egypt, and Syria This week we bring you video from five continents on issues ranging from police brutality to refugee issues and economic rights.
- This Week in Human Rights Video: Citizen Video Prompts Independent Investigations into Attacks in Syria and Colombia Citizen video from Syria documents the use of chemical weapons and the UN team arriving to investigate the attack. The campesino strike continues in Colombia and a new report documents cases of human rights abuses of strikers.
- This Week in Human Rights Video: 5-Year-Old Detained by Israeli Defense Forces The detention of a 5-year-old highlights a widespread practice- the detention of children by Israeli forces and citizen videos show ethnic tension in Central Russia
- Colombia’s Rural Farmers Take Media Into Their Own Hands In rural areas of Colombia where mainstream press dares not go, citizens have formed their own news agency, Prensa Rural, to report on human rights issues
- This Week in Human Rights Video: Police Torture in Bahrain and Why Brazilians are Protesting This month's Citizen Watch also includes: violence in Guinea, a raid on a prominent human rights organization in Russia, and disturbing reports of chemical weapons used in Syria.
- On World Refugee Day, Displaced People Share Their Own Stories Over 40 million people are displaced worldwide due to conflict, persecution and natural or man-made disasters, but refugees are making their voices heard.
- Voices of Dignity: A Story of Struggle for Women’s and Victims’ Rights Yoladis Zúñiga and Petronila Mendoza survived an attack of right-wing paramilitaries on their villages, in which women and girls were raped, homes burned and a number of people killed, including their husbands.
- Victims of the Latin American War on Drugs Make the Case for Reform Latin American drug policies have made no dent in the drug trade; instead they have taken a tremendous toll on human lives. In 2009, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) embarked on an ambitious project to document the real impact of Latin America’s “war on drugs” and to show its human cost through the video testimoniesof the victims themselves.
