- An Interview with Pamela Yates About the Impact of “Granito” Part of a series featuring the 2014 BritDoc Impact Award winners, we interview Pamela Yates about Granito which investigates how archival footage was used as evidence to bring an indictment against a former Guatemalan dictator.
- Video, Storytelling and Human Rights in Rwanda, 20 Years After the Genocide How video is being used increasingly in Rwanda to discuss human rights issues.
- On #Rwanda20YRS Anniversary, Genocide Survivors Tell Their Own Stories Originally published on the WITNESS Hub blog in 2009 this interview with Voices of Rwanda founder Taylor Krauss speaks to the power of personal testimony and the importance of memory and archives.
- No Fire Zone: A Documentary with Serious Impact After watching the documentary "No Fire Zone" ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting held in Sri Lanka this year, David Cameron released a tweet demonstrating just a fraction of the impact this important film has had.
- The Case for Justice: Why Transitional Justice Matters in Today’s World Without accountability for massive human rights abuses, societies coming out of conflict or dictatorship have little chance of building sustainable peace. This is the main principle of transitional justice, a set of measures used to seek redress for legacies of mass atrocity or state repression. Focusing on situations in Egypt, Uganda, Colombia and the Congo, “The Case for Justice” illuminates the crucial, but often misunderstood process facing countries across the globe.
- Video Advocacy Example: Rwandan Women Tell Stories of Genocide’s Legacies In Rwanda, between April and June of 1994, an estimated 800,000 Tutsis were killed in the span of just 100 days. Years after the brutal genocide, Intended Consequences revisits the country, asking the difficult question, how does a woman care for her child when it's the son or daughter of the man who raped her?
- New Documentary Film Aims to Prevent Another Genocide Michael Kleiman and Michael Pertnoy co-directed The Last Survivor. To find a screening of the film near you or to host a screening of your own, visit the website for more information.
- Reimagining the Archive: Rethinking Archival Practice and Theory The tone was set on Friday evening with Rick Prelinger’s animated keynote presentation, in which he spoke about the dynamic nature of moving image archives as sites of creation, participation, artistic practice, and activism rather than as places where content goes to die.
- It Gets Better: Collective and Individual Voice in Video Advocacy Recently a number of public figures in the USA have added their voices to the "It Gets Better" campaign, which aims to share hopeful messages with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth who may be wondering if life will always be bad.
- Using Archival Description to Foster Accountability I first became interested in records documenting the Khmer Rouge period in Cambodia a decade ago, when I was working as the arts and culture web producer for the Asia Society Museum in New York. For the museum’s website, I interviewed the director of a troupe of classical Cambodians dancers who were touring the U.S.
- Srebrenica: A Forensic Reconstruction Now on Exhibit at Open Society Archive In July 1995, over 8,000 Muslim men and boys were systematically slaughtered on grounds of ethnicity in and around Srebrenica in roughly 72 hours by units of the Bosnian Serb Army.
- Update on STAND Partnership: Obama Administration Creates New Position President Obama creates a new post to better equip the United States in its efforts to prevent genocide and mass atrocities.
- Voices of Rwanda video testimony project Our series of video interviews relating to archives and human rights continues on the Hub, with Taylor Krauss, founder/director of Voices of Rwanda.
- Memory and Justice: ICTJ launches new website The International Center for Transitional Justice has recently launched a new website, called Memory and Justice. The site includes a database of information about selected memory sites - public memorials, sites of memory/conscience, and similar accountability projects - and is also intended as a space for highlighting and engendering discussion “about the emerging field of memorialization as a form of accountability for past atrocity.”
- Khmer Legacies: Interview with Socheata Poeuv The Hub is currently featuring a video interview with Socheata Poeuv, a visiting fellow at the Yale University Genocide Studies Program. Poeuv is the founder and director of Khmer Legacies, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the history of the Cambodian genocide by recording video testimonials of its survivors.
