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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.
Kelly Matheson
October 2, 2014
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Activists Documenting Gender-Based Violence in South Africa Face Challenges
A WITNESS training shares approaches to ethical filming of survivors of gender-based violence and discusses challenges faced by activists in South Africa.
Sara Federlein
September 12, 2014
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Video Advocacy Example: Waking in Oak Creek
Waking in Oak Creek profiles the powerful community and law enforcement response to the 2012 hate crime shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin. The film is part of the Not in Our Town Campaign which aims to end hate crimes and build safe and inclusive communities for all.
Sarah Stein Kerr
September 3, 2014
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AIDS2014 Conference: Despite Progress, Stigma and Discrimination Still Persist
Bukeni Waruzi conducted several trainings with sex workers and LGBTI activists to use video to document and prevent abuses.
WITNESS
September 2, 2014
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Video Advocacy Training for HIV/AIDS Activists and Sex Workers at #AIDS2014
WITNESS will train activists serving those living with with HIV/AIDS, sex workers and sexual violence survivors how to conduct safe and effective video interviews for advocacy at the international AIDS conference.
WITNESS
July 18, 2014
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WITNESS and Amnesty International Release a New Toolkit for Housing & Land Rights Activists
With 15 million people at risk of forced evictions annually around the world, we have released a multimedia resource kit for activists, social movements and communities fighting evictions.
Jackie Zammuto
December 12, 2013
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InformaCam Rises to the Knight News Challenge
The same information that journalists and judges use to verify a human rights video is what repressive regimes use to identify and target activists. How can video activists stay credible and safe? ...with InformaCam.
WITNESS
February 1, 2013
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Using a Film to Nail a Dictator
Efrain Ríos Montt is going to trial. The brutal Guatemalan dictator is the first head of state to be prosecuted for genocide in genuine proceedings in his own country. And my video evidence helped send him there.
By Guest Blogger Pamela Yates
WITNESS
January 31, 2013
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Is This For Real? How InformaCam Improves Verification of Mobile Media Files
There is currently a deluge of media coming from the world’s mobile devices for potential use as evidence or trusted sources for journalists. WITNESS and the Guardian Project are working to provide a mechanism, InformaCam, to verify and authenticate this footage.
WITNESS
January 15, 2013
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Participate and Rise on Feb. 14, 2013 to End Violence Against Women Worldwide
One in three women worldwide will face rape or gender-based assault in her lifetime. "One Billion Rising," released in September, portrays a diverse set of women facing different types of attacks, effectively showing that any woman, in any country, and any social situation could become part of this statistic. But it also shows them symbolically standing up, and uniting with women across the world to oppose this wave of violence.
WITNESS
November 7, 2012
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Blog Action Day: The Power of We at WITNESS
We're an organization based on the concept of partnership. In fact, last Thursday we held our annual gala fundraiser in New York City and its theme was "Co-Lab: Celebrating 20 Years of Collaborative Activism."
Matisse Bustos Hawkes
October 15, 2012
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The Venerable Luon Sovath Wins Prestigious Martin Ennals Award
I am incredibly honored to announce that the Venerable Luon Sovath from Cambodia has just been presented the Martin Ennals Award - an award given by 10 major human rights organizations to recognize those working at great risk for human rights.
Ryan Schlief
October 2, 2012
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The ICC Renders Its First Sentence: Is Justice Served for Congolese Child Soldiers?
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has rendered it’s first ever sentence in the case of Mr. Thomas Lubanga, a Congolese warlord and leader of UPC (Union Patriotique Congolais). Lubanga was convicted, as co-perpetrator, on three counts of war crimes including enlisting and conscripting of children under the age of 15 and using them to participate actively in hostilities in the Ituri region, in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between September 2002 and June 2003.
WITNESS
September 25, 2012
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Personal Reflection on Human Rights Values and the Anti-Muslim Video
I'd like to share my views on the recent events as a human rights advocate who has used/is using video for human rights change - particularly recently in North Africa and the Middle East; as an African; and as a Christian.
WITNESS
September 19, 2012
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Video Advocacy Example: Waste and Recycling Workers’ Rights in Los Angeles
Every American produces garbage. The issue of what happens to this waste is relevant to all of us. Before watching this video, it had never occurred to me that waste plant workers in the U.S. are encountering human rights abuses on a daily basis.
WITNESS
June 26, 2012
