- The Ties That Bind Us In the Fight to Expose Human Rights Abuse In her monthly message, WITNESS' executive director looks back on human rights stories from October and reflects on how our work resonates as more and more of us fight to expose human rights abuses.
- Oral History and the Law: Boston College’s Woes At WITNESS, the importance of negotiating informed consent within human rights video is paramount. By helping interviewees recognize the reach that their testimony may have in today's digital age, both intended and unforeseen consequences quickly become part of the greater conversation. Education is the key.
- Osama Bin Laden is Dead but the “War on Terror” Lives On This week marked the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. President Obama marked the event by making an unannounced trip to Afghanistan to sign a treaty with President Karzai establishing post-war relationship.
- Reckoning With Torture: A Call for Citizen Video Participation Last week, director Doug Liman—whose blockbuster features include The Bourne Identity, Fair Game, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and Swingers—sent out this call for citizen-shot footage for his next movie, Reckoning With Torture:
- 10 Years of Guantanamo Bay: A Human Rights Nightmare Tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of the first detainees being brought to Guantánamo Bay in the Bush administration's "war on terror." Amnesty International is organizing a day of action to call for the detention center's closing.
- Guantánamo Bay archive project Another interesting project announced recently, also with a significant web component, is the Guantánamo Bay Detention Center Archive. The archive was conceived by Mark Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz, attorneys representing several Guantánamo detainees as well as professors of law at Seton Hall University; and co-directed by Michael Nash, director of NYU’s Tamiment Library. […]
