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WITNESS and Amnesty International Release a New Toolkit for Housing & Land Rights Activists With 15 million people at risk of forced evictions annually around the world, we have released a multimedia resource kit for activists, social movements and communities fighting evictions. Jackie Zammuto December 12, 2013
L6g49CARAAhP660rO9DCn4W3L: Email and Chat Encryption Basics for Activists Activists everywhere face the violations of their right to privacy especially in their online communications. We share basics of encryption that may help keep you, your networks and your communications safer. WITNESS October 16, 2013
New How-To Guide For Interviewing Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Tips for human rights activists, citizen journalists and others seeking to film interviews with survivors in a safe and ethical manner. WITNESS August 14, 2013
Being Social on Social Media Two interns with WITNESS' social media team learned not only how to effectively share information with our followers, but how to create a strategy for engagement. WITNESS August 13, 2013
Abuse by Viral Video: Break the Cycle with Identity Protecting Tools A viral video from Russia makes inadvertent accomplices of viewers and LGBT activists. How can the online community expose abuse while avoiding further harm? WITNESS August 1, 2013
Video Tips for Activists and Citizens Documenting Zimbabwe’s Election Videos circulating ahead of Zimbabwe's election on Wed depict a concern among civil society that Mugabe's ZANU-PF party will obstruct the process of free and fair elections. We share a tips for documenting elections safely and effectively for activists and citizen journalists. Jackie Zammuto July 29, 2013
Attention Human Rights Activists: Learn How to Archive Your Video with our New Guide Our new how-to guide for managing, storing, sharing and preserving digital video. Yvonne Ng July 23, 2013
10 Tips for Filming Protests – Turkish Version Now Featuring Images An image-based version of our "10 Tips for Filming Protests" in Turkish WITNESS June 13, 2013
An Open Source Approach to Translation The fact that 72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute is astonishing. And the immense amounts of footage shot and uploaded by citizens in places like Syria, Egypt and Chile reminds us that video is increasingly being used to expose human rights abuses. As more activists turn towards video for advocacy and evidentiary purposes, there is a critical need for accessible training resources that teach how to create and share videos safely, effectively and ethically. Jackie Zammuto December 12, 2012
Citizen Media + Video In Pakistan: A Conversation with Blogger Faisal Kapadia In July I had the pleasure of attending my second Global Voices Citizen Media Summit, this time in Nairobi, Kenya. The Summit is "a meeting of bloggers, activists, and technologists for public discussions and workshops about the rise of online citizen media movements worldwide." Matisse Bustos Hawkes October 23, 2012
هل تقوم بتصوير انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان في مجتمعك؟ إذا كانت إجابتك بنعم، استمر في القراءة This blog post serves as a living space for all of our Arabic language 'How-To' resources and guides. The resources below provide guidance on how film safely and effectively, and how to film for evidence and the media. Raja Althaibani September 26, 2012
Tips for Activists Using the YouTube Face Blur Tool Recently, YouTube launched a feature that allows blurring on videos uploaded to their site. It's a step we've pushed for from the commercial video-sharing platforms and social networks - as a way to enable easy, faster, more accessible options for preserving and enabling visual anonymity in a networked, visual age. WITNESS August 7, 2012
Behind-the-Scenes of Our 20th Anniversary Video The challenge: Make a video that encapsulates WITNESS and its work empowering human rights defenders to use video since 1992, set against a backdrop of global events from the last 20 years. Yvonne Ng June 22, 2012
كيف تصور الاحتجاجات:٥ أجزاء فيديو عن التصوير من أجل التغيير "أنا خادم لشعبى . أنامراسل. طالما يستمع الناس إلى قصتي، سأظل أعمل على إيصال رسالتي، مهما كانت العواقب." Raja Althaibani June 15, 2012
Anatomy of a Good Advocacy Video At WITNESS, we rotate facilitators at our weekly staff meetings. If assigned as facilitator, the person is responsible for doing some research and sharing a current advocacy video of interest. WITNESS May 10, 2012