- Maziar Bahari on Solitary Confinement, Freedom of Expression, and the Future of (Citizen) Journalism Maziar Bahari speaks to WITNESS about the new film "Rosewater" which tells the story of his solitary confinement and torture in an Iranian prison.
- Citizen Video and Togo’s Elections Tomorrow, after multiple delays, months of protests, and the threat of a boycott, citizens in Togo will take their discontent to the polls as they vote in legislative elections. Citizen witnesses are filming the lead up and results.
- Setting a Global Standard for Human Rights and Technology Companies In a world with more than five billion mobile phone subscribers and where 48 hours of video footage is being uploaded to YouTube every minute, the challenges navigating the nexus of human rights and technology are too complicated for any single company or human rights activist to manage on their own.
- Writers share videos from the Hub at PEN World Voices Festival We’re very pleased to be a part of 3 events at this year’s PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, held annually in New York City. I’ll be moderating the first event on Apr 30 and is for high school students (details here) and includes authors Uzodinma Iweala, Amanda Michalopoulou, Patricia McCormick, Kashmira Sheth, and […]
