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Recording Resistance
We interviewed British filmmaker Max Stahl about his role in documenting and preserving footage of the Santa Cruz Massacre, and how his visual account helped propel Timor-Leste back into the world spotlight.
Meghana Bahar
November 11, 2016
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Response to New York Magazine on “disaster-free” Rio Olympics
An estimated 70,000 people have lost their homes and at least 2,500 people, mostly in favelas, have been killed by the Rio police since the city first learned it would host the Olympics in 2009.
Priscila Néri
August 12, 2016
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On Human Rights Crimes and Hope
We remain committed to our partners and peers whose deep belief in dignity, in human rights, and in a just society give us hope and faith in humanity during terrifying moments like the recent attacks suffered by citizens of France, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and beyond.
Yvette Alberdingk Thijm
November 19, 2015
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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.
WITNESS
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.
WITNESS
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.
WITNESS
April 15, 2014
