- Fact from Fiction: Curbing Mis/disinformation in African Elections Co-authored by Temiloluwa Alalade During election season, voters are inundated with campaign materials intended to sway their votes. To engage with information meaningfully voters should have a basic understanding of digital and media literacy as well as critical thinking skills. Experts in Kenya warn that disinformation in elections may increase electoral violence globally. Election–related misinformation […]
- Human Rights Absent as US, Africa Leaders Talk Economics Since Human rights activists and civil society organizations had no seat at the US-Africa Leaders Summit. We offer some tools, tactics and tips for human rights defenders operating in Africa.
- A Zimbabwean Election Observer’s First Hand Account of the 2013 Vote An election observer witnesses a mostly peaceful process, but one rife with irregularities and frustrations for voters
- This Week in Human Rights Video: Zimbabwe Election Results and Eviction of Bedouin Israelis Tune in this week for an update on
- Video Tips for Activists and Citizens Documenting Zimbabwe’s Election Videos circulating ahead of Zimbabwe's election on Wed depict a concern among civil society that Mugabe's ZANU-PF party will obstruct the process of free and fair elections. We share a tips for documenting elections safely and effectively for activists and citizen journalists.
- As Zimbabwe’s 2013 Elections Approach: A Call for an End to Torture The 2008 elections left many with permanent physical and psychological scars.
- From Syria to Burma: 2012 in Citizen Human Rights Video Only six words accompany the video. But they are just enough background needed for the one minute and seven seconds it depicts: “ROHINGYA MUSLIM VILLAGE IN ANDI VILLAGE 2.”
- Celebrate Women’s History Month and Support our Partners This month, we’ve been looking back at WITNESS’ past work with grassroots partners on women’s rights as part of our ongoing celebration of the International Women’s Day Centenary and Women’s History Month.
- YouTube and WITNESS Honor International Women’s Day Today, March 8th, is International Women's Day- the centenary celebration in fact. In honor of this day WITNESS joined YouTube to curate four videos to spotlight on their homepage until noon ET.
- Interview: Activist on Root Causes of Forced Evictions in Zimbabwe My colleague Ryan Schlief and I are here in warm and sandy Dakar attending the 2011 World Social Forum along with about 75,000 other people from over 130 countries. We traveled all this way to meet with key allies in our forced evictions campaign, learn more about how activists around the world are using video in their advocacy on forced evictions, and brush up on our (very) rusty French.
- Gender-Based Violence in the Context of Armed Conflict and Political Repression WITNESS recently made a decision to focus a concentrated level of support to networks of human rights defenders working to challenge gender-based violence that occurs during and after armed conflict and under political repression (for more detail on this, see our previous blog post on the new network campaign strategy).
- tyrannybook: The Facebook of Human Rights Violators and Those Who Watch Them Earlier this month, Amnesty International Portugal launched tyrannybook, a new social media site designed to spotlight some of the world's worst human rights violators.
- Zimbabwe: Smuggled DVD brings union protest beatings to light [via GV/WITNESS] [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] This video reached me late last night via Ethan Zuckerman. At nearly ten minutes, it’s longer than the other videos we’ve put up, but I strongly recommend you watch it. It includes footage of the Zimbabwean police and security intelligence services breaking up […]
