Blog Action Day 2009
Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world's bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global...
View ArticleBlog Action Day: 10 Videos on Climate Change + Human Rights
It's Blog Action Day 2009 and 13000 bloggers (and the number keeps growing) from 155 countries are joining forces to spark a global conversation about climate change. We're participating by...
View ArticleHonest Truths: What are the Ethics of Making Documentaries?
The indispensable folks at American University's Center for Social Media have published a new report: Honest Truths: Documentary Filmmakers on Ethical Challenges in Their Work. The report addresses...
View ArticleAYM '09: Panel Discussion on Using Viral Video To Effect Change: Part 2
Panel Discussion on Using Viral Video to Effect Change with Kelly Niknejad, Tehran Bureau (United Kingdom); Ari Wallach, Creator, The Great Schlep; Jason Liebman, Co-founder, Alliance of Youth...
View ArticleAYM '09: Panel Discussion on Using Viral Video To Effect Change: Part 1
Panel Discussion on Using Viral Video to Effect Change with Kelly Niknejad, Tehran Bureau (United Kingdom); Ari Wallach, Creator, The Great Schlep; Jason Liebman, Co-founder, Alliance of Youth...
View ArticleTurning Information into Action: 10 Tactics Coming Up
COMING SOON: A project from Tactical Tech, which includes 35 interviews with human rights advocates from around the world and features 10 tactics for turning information into action. 10 tactics for...
View ArticlePlease Don't Say My Name (Trailer)
Please Don't Say My Name is an audio-documentary featuring the stories of Burmese refugees in Malaysia. Journalist Karen Zusman spent a year and a half getting to know her interviewees and recording...
View ArticleInterview: WITNESS Media Archive Manager Grace Lile
These interview segments with WITNESS Media Archive Manager Grace Lile, conducted by Hub/Archive intern Teague Schneiter, highlight the importance of thinking of archives in a human rights context....
View ArticleInterview: Founder of Khmer Legacies Socheata Poeuv
This interview was conducted by Hub/Archive Intern Teague Schneiter (October 2nd, 2009 at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut) with Socheata Poeuv, founder of Khmer Legacies- a Cambodian...
View ArticleKhmer Legacies: A grassroots video project for transitional justice
Socheata Poeuv, a visiting fellow at the Yale University Genocide Studies Program, is the founder and director of Khmer Legacies, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the history of the...
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Spotlight: The Role of Archives in Human Rights
October 27th marks World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, started in 2005 by UNESCO in order to help "build global awareness of the various issues at stake in preserving audiovisual heritage." Not so...
View ArticlePledge On Camera: How Anti-Genocide Student Activists are Ushering-In a New...
UPDATE 11.10.09: Watch this video report-back from lobby day, which features how STAND activists ushered-in a new era of video advocacy! Video is not only the medium of our time, it is the primary...
View ArticleHow U.S. Students are Creating History on the Hill and Making "Never Again" a...
UPDATE 11.10.09: Watch this video report-back from lobby day, which features how STAND activists ushered-in a new era of video advocacy! As I write today, despite international media coverage and...
View ArticleNovember 9th: Make "Never Again" a Reality: STAND Lobby Video for Pledge2Protect
This fall, WITNESS has partnered with STAND, student-led division of Genocide Intervention Network, to help its nearly 1,000 high-school and university chapters integrate video to support...
View ArticlePledge2Protect: Largest Lobby Day in Genocide Prevention History - and with...
UPDATE 11.10.09: Watch this video report-back from lobby day, which features how STAND activists ushered-in a new era of video advocacy! This past weekend I've been with over 800 youth anti-genocide...
View ArticleWitness Benefit Dinner
Peter Gabriel, CNN's Christiane Amanpour, and Susan Sarandon co-hosted the 5th annual benefit dinner and concert for WITNESS. The event included performances by Cyndi Lauper and Citizen Cope, among...
View ArticleHunger Inquest
In the run up to the November World Summit on Food Security, the Hunger Inquest film seeks to uncover the causes of 1 billion people going hungry, asking whether this disaster is due to natural causes,...
View ArticleEVERY WOMAN HAS A STORY, EVERY STORY CAN CREATE CHANGE
2009 WITNESS Focus for Change Video. Highlighting WITNESS' use of video to end violence against women www.witness.org
View ArticleWITNESS & STAND Partnership Spotlight: Pledge on Camera
On November 9th, over 800 youth anti-genocide leaders from around the United States gathered in Washington D.C. to lobby their Senators and Representatives - carrying videos made especially for them....
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What Can Civil Society Learn from Evgeny Morozov’s Critique of Web 2.0?
It's easy to get excited about the potential power of the internet to fight government impunity, curb human rights abuses, and induce democratic reforms in authoritarian states. New Media experts like...
View ArticleVideos that opened our eyes to human rights in 2009
Last year we asked people to tell us what images had opened their eyes to human rights. The responses were fascinating and a true testament to the power of visual imagery to capture the consciousness...
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Looking Back at 2 Years of the Hub - Top 10 Most Viewed Videos
December 2009 marks the Hub's official two-year anniversary and we're looking back at the most popular videos, issues, campaigns, and blog posts since our launch. There's a lot to cover - the Hub is...
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Looking Back at 2 Years of the Hub - Top 10 Most Mentioned Issues
December 2009 marks the Hub's official two-year anniversary and we're looking back at the most popular videos, issues, campaigns, and blog posts since our launch. There's a lot to cover - the Hub is...
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Looking Back at 2 Years of the Hub - Top 10 Most Read Blog Posts
December 2009 marks the Hub's official two-year anniversary and we're looking back at the most popular videos, issues, campaigns, and blog posts since our launch. There's a lot to cover - the Hub is...
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Looking Back at 2 Years of the Hub - Top 10 Most Covered (and Responded to)...
December 2009 marks the Hub's official two-year anniversary and we're looking back at the most popular videos, issues, campaigns, and blog posts since our launch. There's a lot to cover - the Hub is...
View Article*Service update to the Hub Community*
Over the past few weeks, we've become aware of a problem on our servers that affects uploading and viewing some videos on the Hub. We want to take this opportunity to apologize to our community of...
View ArticleUpdate: Technical Issues on the Hub
Three weeks ago my colleague Sameer posted an update regarding some technical problems we've been having on the Hub.We've been working to address those issues and as a result have been working to move...
View ArticleVIDEO: 10 tactics for turning information into action
Say you suspect the president of your country is using the Presidential airplane to go shopping and sightseeing in Paris instead of for official state purposes. Or say your government has blocked...
View ArticleInternational Women's Day - Using Video to Stop Violence
Up to 60% of women will experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetimes. Whether in the form of domestic violence perpetrated by an intimate partner, mass rape used as a weapon of war, or...
View ArticleReflecting on International Women's Day
In WITNESS' history we have partnered with women around the world. This is a thank you to all the women who are our partners in change. Every day at WITNESS is a day that begins and ends with women....
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