GBV Archives - WITNESS https://www.witness.org/tag/gbv/ Human Rights Video Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:17:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 76151064 WITNESS hosts panel at United Nations: Women & Technology https://www.witness.org/witness-hosts-panel-at-united-nations-women-technology/ Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:17:15 +0000 https://www.witness.org/?p=1334872 This past Tuesday, March 17, WITNESS participated in the United Nation’s 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, a two week conference that brings together women’s rights activists from around the world.

UN panel_women and tech_bukeniWITNESS’ Senior Program Manager, Bukeni Waruzi, organized a panel, Women and Technology: Effective documentation of sexual violence and empowering survivors, which showcased the various ways technology is being used to protect and advocate for women’s rights.

Bukeni, who has led WITNESS’ work around Gender-Based Violence (GBV) including the development of our guide on how to interview survivors of GBV, moderated the panel that included:

Esther Wambui Kimbani, Young Women’s Leadership Institute, Kenya

Mandivavarira Mudarikwa, a lawyer with Legal Resources Center, South Africa

Dafne Sabanes Plou, The Association for Progressive Communication, Argentina

Click to view slideshow. Bukeni began by discussing WITNESS’ collaboration with lawyers in Zimbabwe following politically motivated violence against women. Esther shared how video has been used to expose cases of GBV committed against minors in the areas of East Africa that the Young Women’s Leadership Institute works in. Mandivavarira talked about the evidentiary value of video when seeking justice for acts of sexual violence or hate crimes in South Africa. Dafne shared how The Association of Progressive Communication is working to counter digital violence against women, and how video storytelling has been used to empower survivors of GBV.

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]]> 1334872 Feministing Covers Release of WITNESS' Guide on Interviewing Survivors of Gender-Based Violence https://www.witness.org/feministing-covers-release-of-witness-guide-on-interviewing-survivors-of-gender-based-violence/ https://www.witness.org/feministing-covers-release-of-witness-guide-on-interviewing-survivors-of-gender-based-violence/#respond Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:24:04 +0000 http://w.witness.org/?p=1256 Feministing, the influential feminist blog and community, highlights WITNESS’ recently released guide, Conducting Safe, Effective and Ethical Interviews with Survivors of Sexual and Gender-based Violence, with an interview with the guide’s author, Rose Anderson.

Says Rose about WITNESS’ motivation to write the guide:

Through our experience training and working with activists around the world, it has become clear that there is a need for guidance on filming interviews with survivors in a safer, more effective and ethical way. Poorly–conducted interviews that do not respect the rights and dignity of survivors have the potential to harm interviewees- which goes against the number one-rule in human rights video: doing no harm.

You can read Feministing’s review of the guide, and further comments from Rose, at feministing.com.

Updates on issues surrounding our work on Gender-Based Violence can be viewed on the WITNESS Blog.

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