- Suicide or Escape? Fact Checking Reporting on Migrant Abuse in MENA How media misreported a Snapchat video of migrant worker abuse, and how we can do better
- Trapped in the Gulf: Exposing Migrant Abuse This post is part of the WITNESS Media Lab’s new project, “Perpetrator Video in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)”. This project examines how human rights advocates and journalists can turn the proliferation of eyewitness and perpetrator video into more ethical and effective storytelling and documentation of human rights abuse in the MENA. Follow along each […]
- Saudi Arabia: A Crackdown on Undocumented Foreign Workers The night of November 9, clashes broke out between Saudi authorities, civilians, and immigrants—predominantly Ethiopian—in Riyadh and carried on for several days resulting in hundreds of arrests, dozens of injuries, and reported deaths.
- Corporal Abuse of Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia Rarely does documentation surface of the prevalent and tacitly acknowledged abuse migrant workers experience in Saudi Arabia, making this video circulating the internet particularly significant.
- The Cost of A Border Surge? 5,000 Dead and Counting A new documentary shows the human cost of immigration through the stories of migrants' remains found in the Sonoran desert, and through those who work to identify them.
- New Documentary Explores Migrant Child Labor in the United States Last Thursday, WITNESS was invited to The Paley Center for Media for a screening of a special segment of NBC's Dateline, titled America Now: Children of the Harvest.
