- Stories from Inside: Using Video to Expose COVID-19 in Prisons Incarcerated individuals are working with loved ones, journalists, and advocates to get their messages into the world by recording their phone and video calls, but some have already faced retaliation for speaking out about Covid-19.
- New Interactive Documentary, “The Deeper They Bury Me” Explores the Human Impact of Solitary Confinement Activist and prisoner Herman Wallace spent 41 years in solitary confinement. Now a new doc takes viewers on an interactive journey into Wallace's world.
- The Death of a Bahraini Prisoner The recent death of a Bahraini detainee puts spotlight on authorities' inhumane treatment of prisoners.
- Voices from Syrian Prisons A new initiative turns the experiences, fears, and dreams of Syrian prisoners into audio and video clips narrated in first person and uploaded to be shared with the world.
- Human Rights Video Weekly: Egypt, Bulgaria, South Africa and Indonesia This week, video captured of Egyptian armed forces violently attacking protestors, miners in South Africa rallying a year after the Marikana massacre, and more in human rights video from Bulgaria and Indonesia.
- Victims of the Latin American War on Drugs Make the Case for Reform Latin American drug policies have made no dent in the drug trade; instead they have taken a tremendous toll on human lives. In 2009, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) embarked on an ambitious project to document the real impact of Latin America’s “war on drugs” and to show its human cost through the video testimoniesof the victims themselves.
- What We’re Reading+Watching, July 26-30, 2010 This week we’re sharing ‘tweeted’ bits of news discussing copyrights issues, video of residents in China protesting a land seizure, the death of Khale Said possibly being related to the uploading of a video, the ACLU letter to Lindsay Lohan and how video can be contextualized to fit a news networks' needs. The last item is from our Board of Directors, Mallika Dutt, who is the founder and executive director of Breakthrough.
