14 Aug WITNESS MARATHON RUNNER SPOTLIGHT SERIES: BRYCE ROE
News and Events | nkerbyWe are excited to present our third Team WITNESS runner spotlight. This month, audiovisual archivist Bryce Roe talks about video, her family, and marathoning!
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26 Jul Six Months of Online Videos Expose Civil Society Movements and Human Rights Concerns in Western Sahara
News and Events |An interactive platform compiles footage from a territory inaccessible to international media and rights monitors.
13 Jul Live streaming, video and police violence in the U.S.
News and Events | matisseLast week’s killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, and the attack on police in Dallas, once again thrust the role of eyewitness video in the spotlight. We provide resources and guidance for filming, sharing, curating and preserving video of police violence.
10 Jul WITNESS Trains on Video Advocacy at Sustainability and Corporate Accountability Summit in South Africa
News and Events | WITNESSWITNESS presented on the use of video in an advocacy campaigns at the 2016 African Coalition for Corporate Accountability conference in Pretoria, South Africa.
06 Jul Against Olympics Abuses, Activists Use Video to Fight Back
News and Events | matisseWITNESS has worked alongside Brazilian activists for more than five years to strengthen their use of video to document human rights abuses in the lead-up to the 2016 Olympics, and to advocate for justice.
20 Jun New WITNESS Media Lab project will track videos of violence against transgender people
News and Events | matisseThe project will source and analyze data from eyewitness videos of violence against transgender people. Our aim is to share this information to inform and create guidance for advocacy groups, journalists, law enforcement and tech companies to prevent re-victimization and end this discrimination.
16 Jun WITNESS Media Lab Announces Our First Google News Lab Fellow
News and Events | matisseInternational affairs student and data visualizer Niko Efstathiou joins us as the inaugural Google News Lab Fellow with the WITNESS Media Lab for Summer 2016.
15 Jun Double your support of WITNESS, now through June 30th
News and Events | matisseOur online spring fundraiser is now underway. Donate now through the end of June and a generous supporter will double it!
14 Jun WITNESS MARATHON RUNNER SPOTLIGHT SERIES: Alessandro Signore
News and Events |WITNESS is a proud Charity Partner of the TCS NYC Marathon! Between now and the race, we’ll be profiling members of Team WITNESS to share a bit about them and why they chose to run in support of WITNESS. This week, we’re spotlighting filmmaker Alessandro Signore.
08 Jun WITNESS Marathon Runner Spotlight Series: CAROLINA MACWRIGHT
News and Events |WITNESS is a proud Charity Partner of the TCS NYC Marathon! Between now and the race, we’ll be profiling members of Team WITNESS to share a bit about them and why they chose to run in support of WITNESS. First up is immigration lawyer and artist, Carolina MacWright.