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Western Sahara
  • Watching Western Sahara: Six Months of Eyewitness Videos A look at human rights in Western Sahara through six months of footage from the ground. WITNESS July 28, 2016
  • Tools & Strategies to Verify Online Videos from Western Sahara When online videos do not contain enough information to corroborate where and when they were recorded and or help viewers understand what they show, online tools and practices can help viewers learn more about what they are watching. WITNESS July 20, 2016
  • An International Collaboration Brings Western Sahara into Focus Watching Western Sahara is a collaborative video curation platform created to curate and contextualize eyewitness footage of human rights in the occupied territory of Western Sahara. WITNESS’s Madeleine Bair and FiSahara’s María Carrión explain how and why the collaboration came to be. WITNESS July 5, 2016
  • Guest Blog: Meet Two Sahrawi Media Activists A dispatch from the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, where media activists traveled to train on human rights documentation. WITNESS April 29, 2016
  • Activist Brahim Saika Dies in Detention & Sahrawis Take to the Streets The death of a Sahrawi activist fuels protests in Western Sahara and southern Morocco, and renews attention to the treatment of Sahrawi political prisoners. WITNESS April 20, 2016
  • Launching Watching Western Sahara A new project aims to bridge the gap between footage of abuse taken by at-risk activists and the international audiences who can use it. WITNESS April 18, 2016
  • Watching Protests in Western Sahara Online videos document protest tactics by Sahrawi activists and repression by Moroccan authorities. WITNESS March 23, 2016
  • Curating Online Videos to Monitor Human Rights in Western Sahara As UN diplomats relaunch talks between Western Sahara and Morocco, a new WITNESS Media Lab project will curate footage from the disputed territory. WITNESS March 11, 2016
  • This Week on the Human Rights Channel: Western Sahara, Spain, Ukraine Advocacy groups use raw footage to spotlight the repression of anti-drilling protests in Western Sahara and violation of migrant rights the Spanish enclave of Melilla. Plus, citizen and activist videos document the continued destruction of Donetsk. WITNESS October 23, 2014
  • Despite Challenges, 37 Western Saharan Activists Attend WITNESS Training Sudanese activist and WITNESS trainee Nahla Mohaker reflects on her experience training Western Saharan activists at FiSahara 2014. WITNESS June 3, 2014
  • Human Rights Video Weekly: Police Operations in Brazil, Detention of Refugees in Kenya, Protests in Western Sahara This week we bring you the first in a series of dispatches from Brazil, as well as footage from Kenya and Western Sahara, and the latest from the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. WITNESS May 6, 2014
  • What We’re Reading, May 2 Edition From YouTube clampdowns to a new verification app to human rights in Western Sahara and Algeria, here's what we're reading. WITNESS May 2, 2014
  • Sahrawi Human Rights Activists Receiving WITNESS Training at FiSahara Film Festival WITNESS and other organizations will provide training to activists ahead of the Western Sahara International Film Festival (FiSahara), which takes place April 29-May 4 in the Sahrawi refugee camps in a remote corner of Southwestern Algeria, deep in the Sahara Desert. WITNESS April 17, 2014
  • Human Rights Video Weekly: Venezuela & The Verification Challenge Just as citizen reporting and social media can illuminate human rights abuse, they can also facilitate the spread of misinformation, as we're seeing in videos circulated from Venezuela's protests recently. WITNESS February 25, 2014
  • A Sahrawi Woman Dragged & Beaten by Moroccan Authorities Moroccan security forces crack down on Sahwari independence protesters in Western Sahara, including a human rights activist, Leila Lili. WITNESS February 18, 2014

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