- Women Gather for Historic March and Speak Against Violence in War Torn Eastern Congo As a Congolese human rights advocate from South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC), and WITNESS staff member, I traveled to Bukavu, a province in the eastern DRC, to participate at in a historic women-led march where women were demanding peace and justice.
- Kicking off the World March of Women in Bukavu, DRC This is a second post in a series I'm doing from the World March of Women in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo. For some more background to my trip and the training I conducted last week please watch this short video on the WITNESS website and read my previous blog post.
- Video Advocacy at the World March of Women in Bukavu, DRC Last week I traveled to Bukavu in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo where the third annual World March of Women is taking place now through Monday, October 18th. I had hoped to be able to share video from the march and a training I'm conducting here but Internet access and electricity has been sporadic, thus making video uploads impossible.
- Precarious Progress: Women Peacemakers Conference Last week from September 29-October 1, I was able to attend the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice’s “Precarious Progress: UN Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security” working conference aimed at examining the progress made by recent UN Security Council Resolutions regarding women and armed conflict.
- Introducing our New Partner: Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice In light of our announcement this week at the Clinton Global Initiative regarding our new campaign on gender-based violence in the context of armed conflict, we wanted to provide more information on our new partner and a few of our proposed activities
- What We’re Reading + Watching, August 2 – 9, 2010 This week we tweeted:
- What We’re Reading + Watching, July 8-16, 2010 In this round-up we're featuring more items to watch than read- a few examples of videos being used for change, satellite imagery being harnessed to identify tribal lands belonging to American Indians, some disturbing news from the International Criminal Court about the Thomas Lubanga trial, a link to video from our allies at Breakthrough and an article on gender justice.
- WITNESS at Human Rights Watch International Film Festival 2010: Backyard (El Traspatio) Last Tuesday, June 22nd we, WITNESS’ new external relations interns, were given the glorious opportunity of attending the New York premiere of Backyard (El Traspatio) at the Human Rights International Watch Film Festival.
- Gender-Based Violence in the Context of Armed Conflict and Political Repression WITNESS recently made a decision to focus a concentrated level of support to networks of human rights defenders working to challenge gender-based violence that occurs during and after armed conflict and under political repression (for more detail on this, see our previous blog post on the new network campaign strategy).
- WITNESS’ Commitment to the Power of Networks One of the main decisions WITNESS made in our recent strategic review was to work more with, and learn more from networks where the cumulative efforts of using video at local, regional, and international levels can create tremendous change.
