- How Can U.S. Activists Confront Deepfakes and Disinformation? –December 2020 In the US, the 2020 presidential campaign has been called the “misinformation election.” But however significant the results may be, the problem of misinformation is much larger and more persistent than a single event. Recently WITNESS hosted a workshop on deepfakes and visual misinformation for activists and researchers based in the US, where […]
- Last Month in Video: September 2017 From Rio to Cairo's Mashrou' Leila concert and a Utah nurse's refusal to an unconstitutional blood draw, we review September 2017 in human rights video.
- 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.
- You captured police abuse on video. Now what? Before sharing a video of police abuse online, it's important to pause and consider how to release it in a safe, ethical and strategic way.
- Filming Police Abuse: A compilation of training resources and guidance to support anyone filming interactions with police or incidents of police abuse in the U.S.
- Does Filming Police Violence Make a Difference? A Survey of Recent Cases From Los Angeles to Rio de Janeiro, the West Bank, and Kingston, violent interactions between security forces and civilians are caught on camera. But many factors are at play when it comes to if, when, and how this footage is used in efforts for justice and accountability.
- Cuban Activism Amid Changing International Relations While restrictions on Cuban media make it difficult to know what the average Cuban thinks of the current policy changes underway, a growing network of independent bloggers, news outlets, and activists are documenting developments and filming stories and opinions that the state-controlled media ignores.
- Director Michèle Stephenson Discusses Impact and “American Promise” Our series of interviews featuring the filmmaking teams behind the the five winners of the 2014 BritDoc Impact Award for documentaries continues this week with an interview with Michèle Stephenson, director of American Promise.
- Can Video Help End Police Brutality? Does more video actually lead to justice for victims of police brutality? Will the presence of more cameras lead to less police brutality in the future?
- WITNESS Resources for Filming Protests and Police Conduct in Ferguson, MO As protests continue, citizen media is flowing out of Ferguson, Missouri. These WITNESS resources can help citizen witnesses film more safely, ethically and effectively.
- What We’re Reading: July 11 Edition This week we feature commentary on another side of the war in Syria, President Obama’s call for additional funds to curtail the flow of children from Latin America attempting to enter the US, and articles about video verification, safety for journalists and predicting the impact of advocacy media on social change.
- Moving Pictures at the Tribeca Film Festival Our good friends at the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation invited WITNESS to be a part of the Good Pitch at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. A commercial pitch forum brings filmmakers, funders and distributors together sort of parliamentary debate style.
- A Landmark Step Forward for America’s Seniors: The Elder Justice Act Over the course of the last decade, the Elder Justice Coalition has been fighting to secure passage of the Elder Justice Act. To support the passage of this landmark legislation and empower Americans to speak up about the growing crisis of elder abuse, the National Council on Aging (NCOA), WITNESS and 17 elder rights advocates from across the nation went into the homes of courageous American seniors to document their poignant stories about abuse, neglect and exploitation.
