- Video as Evidence: Turning Citizen Video into Justice Citizen video rarely meets the high bar set for video as evidence. A new guide from WITNESS aims to help.
- Voices of Dignity: A Story of Struggle for Women’s and Victims’ Rights Yoladis Zúñiga and Petronila Mendoza survived an attack of right-wing paramilitaries on their villages, in which women and girls were raped, homes burned and a number of people killed, including their husbands.
- Dam-Affected Communities in Mexico Take Government to Peoples’ Tribunal On November 5-6, many of our local partners fighting forced evictions in Mexico will travel to the small town of Temacapulín, in Jalisco state, to tell their stories to an international panel of judges representing the Mexico chapter of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal (PPT).
- Join WITNESS For An Online Dialogue On Archiving Human Rights I'm excited to announce that starting today (May 16) through May 22 my fellow archivist Yvonne Ng and I will be co-hosting an online dialogue hosted by New Tactics in Human Rights titled Archiving Human Rights for Advocacy, Justice and Memory.
- How To Film Protests: Video Tip Series for Activists at Occupy Wall Street, in Syria and Beyond The thousands of human rights-related videos being created and shared - from raw documentation of human rights violations in Syria to the Occupy protests and the range of police abuse and misconduct therein - illuminate the role that citizen video is playing to not only inform us but also to motivate us to take action.
- أفضل الممارسات: توثيق الإصابات والجرحى هذه المدونة هي الأولى في سلسلة من المدونات في اللغة العربية تهدف إلى تبادل ما لدينا من المواد التدريبية مع الجمهور المتحدث باللغة العربية - انظر إلى المدونة الأساسية فيأفضل ممارسات الفيديو من أجل التغيير , موجود أيضا في اللغة الإنجليزية. يرجى توزيع الممارسات مع الشبكات الخاصة بك و يرجى مساعدتكم على تطويرها من خلال ترك تعليقاتك في هذه المدونة أو بطريقة ارسال لنا عن طريق التويتر إلى:٠
- New Video for Change Best Practices Series Since the start of the Arab Spring, we’ve witnessed a dramatic shift in how activists are using video to impact change in their communities.
- أفضل ممارسات الفيديو من أجل التغيير .هذه هي التدوينة الأولى من سلسلة تدويناتنا التي تعرض أفضل ممارسات الفيديو من أجل التغيير
- Elections in Egypt and the DRC: Hope for A Better Future Today is very special to the African continent with two major election days taking place in Egypt and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In these two big African countries, WITNESS has two very active campaigns.
- 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Featured in WITNESS Award-Winning Documentary We were very happy to hear about the three newest recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize last Friday, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Tawakkul Karman, and Leymah Gbowee. We extend congratulations to them all.
- Gender Justice Activists Integrate Video for Advocacy As I’m writing from a buzzing room in Nairobi, Kenya, there are five groups of women’s rights activists editing interviews that they’ve conducted as part of a ten-day video advocacy training. Through WITNESS’ new partnership with Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice, this is the second comprehensive training that we’ve conducted (see a video report from our first training with a group from Northern Uganda) to support a push for an end to gender-based violence.
- Presumed Guilty: Documentary Puts Mexican Legal System on Trial Toño Zúñiga was just your average aspiring rapper and break dancer who made a living running a small electronics repair stand.
- Archival access: ethics, rights, obligations Access is a primary archival value, driven by many things: legal or organizational mandates, copyright, available technology and resources, a deep-seated belief that access to information is the foundation of a free and educated society, and, in fact, a right. With human rights materials the challenges are particularly acute, sometimes pitting personal safety, security and […]
- October is American Archives Month… 10 things to read/do/think about: 1. Read Archives and Justice: A South African Perspective by Verne Harris. 2. Check out this upcoming NY Archivists Roundtable workshop: Digital Asset Management and Institutional Repositories: Case Studies Addressing the Development and Implementation of Systems. November 10, 2008. One of the presenters is David Rice, Channel 13’s Digital Archivist. […]
- SAA2008: Meaning, Justice and John Dean I started the day with “What, Why, How? Archival Meaning in a R/Evolutionary Age” which featured three excellent papers exploring meaning, purpose and collective identity for archivists. I especially liked Scott Cline’s paper which explored what he called “archival being” the core values of which are faith, radical self-understanding, intention, and integrity; and illustrated via […]
