- Mapping the Dead in Ethiopia Mapping the Dead is a public database tracking Oromo people killed in Ethiopia by security forces. This is the second post in our Curate for Justice series.
- Curating citizen media for human rights? Review these critical questions before designing a platform for curating eyewitness footage of human rights abuses.
- National Day of Action for Trans Women of Color We are committed to exposing the impact and imminent dangers posed to transgender and gender nonconforming communities by prevailing cultural biases, institutional discrimination, religious bigotry, and, especially, the Trump administration’s hateful rhetoric and policies.
- Watching Western Sahara: Six Months of Eyewitness Videos A look at human rights in Western Sahara through six months of footage from the ground.
- 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.
- 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.
- Analysis of Eyewitness Video Data Shows Climate of Hatred Toward Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People The WITNESS Media Lab shares initial findings from a new project focused on curating and analyzing data from videos of violent acts against transgender and gender nonconforming people that have been captured and shared for entertainment.
- How to Film the Police in the U.S. A new tipsheet prepares you to act as an eyewitness to police violence. Good witnessing can de-escalate a situation, help someone confronted by police, and provide valuable documentation for advocacy and justice.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Watching Protests in Western Sahara Online videos document protest tactics by Sahrawi activists and repression by Moroccan authorities.
- 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.
- Ethical Wednesdays: Additional Resources on Ethics and Eyewitness Footage We wrap our blog series on the ethics of using eyewitness footage with a list of recommended resources from a diverse range of disciplines.
- Ethical Wednesdays: When Eyewitness Footage Cannot be Verified One of the greatest risks of using eyewitness videos in reporting is not understanding the full story behind the footage. Is it authentic? Has it been manipulated or misinterpreted? What happened before and after? In many cases, we lack complete information about the video’s content and context. How can we balance competing needs to verify footage and expose potential abuse?
