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WITNESS and Storyful Announce New YouTube Channel For Human Rights WITNESS is pleased to announce The Human Rights Channel, a new channel on YouTube. In collaboration with Storyful, the channel is a platform to tell breaking stories through the lenses of citizen journalists that will change the way we view, share and engage human rights video. Sam Gregory May 24, 2012
Video for Change Best Practices: Sharing and Uploading Human Rights Videos Regardless if you are uploading unedited or edited footage, it is essential to provide the following information so your footage can be found and coordinated with other footage. WITNESS April 10, 2012
Video for Change Best Practices: Filming in Teams for Evidence When filming protests, demonstrations and events, consider filming in teams to make sure you have multiple angles, perspectives and aspects recorded. WITNESS April 6, 2012
Kony 2012: Juggling Advocacy, Audience and Agency When Using #Video4Change "Kony 2012" is now the most rapidly disseminated human rights video ever. In six days it reached an aggregate 100 million views – faster than other pop culture phenomena like Susan Boyle (9 days), Rebecca Black (45 days) and ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ (445 days). Sam Gregory March 17, 2012
Videos Critique (Un)Democratic Election and Educate Voters in Yemen Earlier this month, I spent some time in Yemen's capital, Sana'a. Last year I spent four months covering the pro-democracy movement that has forced the three decade old despot, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to hand over power to his deputy and current vice president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Raja Althaibani February 27, 2012
Universal Subtitles Video Editing Workflow: Working With the Subtitle Track Universal Subtitles is an online subtitling/captioning tool for web videos. My colleague Bryan Nunez commented on the potential uses of the service in this post. Martin Tzanev February 14, 2012
Top 10 Tips for Filming #Occupy Protests, Arrests & Police Conduct We have seen some great videos coming out from the Occupy movement around the country - from documenting mass actions to capturing police misconduct and abuse. Many courageous filmmakers, first timers and experienced professionals, are using best practices to record what is happening, and it is paying off. See this most recent example of video being used to help hold a Dallas officer accountable for shoving a protester off a ledge: WITNESS November 14, 2011
Yahoo! and YouTube Share Learning on Business Practices to Protect Human Rights Content Online The latest in the Carnegie Council’s lunchtime workshops for Ethics in Business took place on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 in New York and brought together a range of business stakeholders to discuss the unique challenges that currently face the ICT sector. WITNESS October 4, 2011
Video Advocacy Example: In Syria, Exposing Official Lies Through YouTube Last week, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights stated that over 2600 people have died as a consequence of repression of protests in Syria. The Syrian government claims that far fewer have died, and that the balance is split between government forces and armed protestors. Sam Gregory September 20, 2011
Video Advocacy Example: ‘Yo Me Declaro’ Campaign for Human Rights Defenders In the human rights world we often talk about HRDs or 'human rights defenders' - but this is more than just an an acronym or a piece of jargon. Human rights defenders of every type play a key role in protecting, promoting and upholding the human rights of all of us. And they're not just the people who work in NGOs like WITNESS or our partners. Sam Gregory July 28, 2011
Crowd-Sourcing Surveillance: When Does Little Brother Get Too Big? On June 16, riots swept downtown Vancouver after the Vancouver Canucks lost the Final of the NHL’s Stanley Cup. The online response to the riots—a public campaign to name and shame rioters followed by a heated discussion regarding whether naming and shaming constitutes vigilantism or community policing—still rages. WITNESS July 5, 2011
Choosing Timing, Outreach and Platforms for Successful Online Fundraising Thanks to incredible response from our supporters, WITNESS' spring fundraising challenge has reached and exceeded our goal! To date, Project: FOCUS has raised $73,948 (that's 106% of the $70,000 goal) and checks are still coming in. Miyoko Brunner June 16, 2011
Watch: Cameras Everywhere – Presentation at Re:Publica 2011 A couple of weeks ago I presented at Re:Publica, the largest social media conference in Germany. Since the conference gives a generous 50 minutes to its speakers I had the opportunity not only to talk about WITNESS and our work in general (first 10 minutes or so), but also to explain in some depth the video advocacy challenges and opportunities surfaced by events in the Middle East and North Africa as well as some of the emerging questions in our Cameras Everywhere initiative. Namely, how do human rights values and practicalities intersect in the new ubiquitous video moment? Sam Gregory May 12, 2011
Human Rights Video, Privacy and Visual Anonymity in the Facebook Age The successful nationwide organizing and subsequent protests in Egypt to oust the 30-year regime of President Hosni Mubarak have in part been facilitated by Facebook. But as media and technology commentators and human rights activists alike are noting, using Facebook for activism is fraught with risks. Sam Gregory February 16, 2011
Reflecting in the moment on Egypt and ‘video for change’ From the moment WITNESS was founded our vision has been to tap into the power of the video camera in the hands of everyone who wants to expose injustice and create positive change, from human rights defenders to committed citizens. Sam Gregory January 30, 2011