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The 2014 Human Rights Citizen Video – Year in Review
Police brutality, forced evictions, political protests and migrant abuse. A look back at 2014's human rights struggles through citizen footage. What videos did we watch, and what impact did they have?
WITNESS
December 10, 2014
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Data and Storytelling: Crisis Mapping For Human Rights Solutions
WITNESS' Alexandra Zaretsky learns that maps are not merely a way to freeze objects, people, and places at a specific moment in time. Rather, in the hands of this visionary community working on maps to enable social good, they can be so much more.
WITNESS
December 2, 2014
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Video as Evidence: Adding Detailed Information to Your Video
Adding information about who, what, when, where to your video makes it easier to verify the content, therefore giving it a better chance to secure justice for human rights abuse.
Kelly Matheson
November 19, 2014
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Video as Evidence: Filming The Aftermath of a Human Rights Incident
Film the aftermath of a human rights incident can be vitally important to investigations. This is the second installment in the "Video as Evidence" blog series from WITNESS.
Kelly Matheson
October 24, 2014
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Music Monday – Marathon for Human Rights Edition
The Music Monday - Marathon for Human Rights Edition are song picks from the WITNESS marathon team of runners and why they ran for human rights.
WITNESS
August 4, 2014
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What We’re Reading: July 19 Edition
The future of cinema, passwords and digital security, the implementation of police cameras in law enforcement agencies across the nation and much more.
WITNESS
July 19, 2014
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Video Advocacy Training for HIV/AIDS Activists and Sex Workers at #AIDS2014
WITNESS will train activists serving those living with with HIV/AIDS, sex workers and sexual violence survivors how to conduct safe and effective video interviews for advocacy at the international AIDS conference.
WITNESS
July 18, 2014
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Music Monday – LGBT Pride Edition
Happy LGBT Pride! This week's Music Monday playlist combines some new, some old, and well known artists to help bring 'pride' to your work day music listening.
WITNESS
June 23, 2014
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What We’re Reading: 25th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Crackdown
June 4th marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most discussed events of recent Chinese history: the massacre at Tiananmen Square in Beijing of pro-democracy protesters.
Matisse Bustos Hawkes
May 30, 2014
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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.
WITNESS
May 9, 2014
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Peace for Whom? Life Inside Rio’s Occupied Maré Favela
The Maré favela complex is home to 130,000 people and an army pacification force who are there to protect the residents according to the Brazilian government. But unease and reports of abuse abound.
WITNESS
May 8, 2014
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3 More Days to Support These Knight News Challenge Applications
The Knight Foundation’s Knight News Challenge is currently underway. We share a shortlist from among the 667 projects seeking to strengthen the Internet for free expression and innovation.
Sarah Stein Kerr
April 15, 2014
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Human Rights Video Weekly: Remembering Father Frans, Ukraine Clashes, Ethnic Violence in Myanmar
Dutch priest Father Frans is murdered in Homs, Syria on Monday, dynamics change in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, and ethnic violence escalates in Myanmar, affecting international aid workers.
WITNESS
April 8, 2014
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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.
WITNESS
April 7, 2014
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Human Rights Video Weekly: Brazil, Papua New Guinea, and Mexico
From the Papua New Guinean police force, to the heart of Mexico's cartel territory, to the occupied favelas of Rio de Janeiro, we share recent citizen videos from these locations and more.
WITNESS
April 1, 2014
