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WITNESS is an international organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights. Every day, activists and citizens risk their lives to expose the truth. WITNESS is a leader of a global movement that uses video to create human rights change.

A LIBRARY OF FREE RESOURCES FOR VIDEO ACTIVISTS, TRAINERS AND THEIR ALLIES. 21 VIDEOS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD. What is Video Metadata? A brief explanation of metadata and safety tips for activists. Deconstructing Digital Video for Activists. Understanding codecs, frame sizes, frame rates, and more. Planning to Preserve Video for Human Rights. Develop a plan so your video is safe and usable tomorrow or in 15 years. 44 GUIDES AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD.

What We Learned in our 3 Years Curating Human Rights Videos. The WITNESS Media Lab is dedicated to unleashing the potential of eyewitness video as a powerful tool to report, monitor, and advocate for human rights. We believe that the next stage of human rights documentation and advocacy will be powered by videos created and shared by eyewitnesses. Our work addresses the challenges of finding, verifying, and contextualizing those videos. Use This App to Film the Police Or Not.

Chaque jour, des militants et des citoyens risquent leur vie pour faire connaître la vérité. Nous contribuons à assurer que leurs efforts ne soient pas en vain.

15 million people are forcibly evicted each year. WITNESS works to incorporate video advocacy into local and global campaigns for housing and land rights with international and local partners in Brazil, Cambodia, Egypt, India and Mexico. Evict Them in Five Easy Steps. Download All Toolkit Guides And Videos. Guides, Multilingual, Toolkit. Como terminar una comunidad de 140 años en 15 días.

The next morning I went to report to the police and they told me - you are too old to be raped. Victim from the Congo video Our voices matter , June 2012. This is my first time I come to a training and feel that I am leaving with handsome knowledge, feel capable to do what I have I learnt.

WITNESS collaborates with activists, human rights lawyers and international justice organizations to enhance the evidentiary value of video captured in the field. Video as Evidence Field Guide. To Better Document Human Rights Abuse. For Filmers, Investigators and Researchers. Tara Vassefi Joins WITNESS As Video As Evidence Legal Fellow.

WITNESS engages technology companies, creates new tools, and supports digital policies that help human rights advocates safely, effectively, and ethically use video to document abuses and expose them to the world. We work on tools that help citizen media creators add context and veracity. To their media, protect. Those that they film, and use live video. In ways that are more immersive and impactful. For the video activists we work with.