Our Deputy Program Director, Tanya Karanasios will represent WITNESS at the event hosted by the International Center for Transitional Justice and MediaStorm.
WITNESS’ senior archivist, Yvonne Ng, will be participating in two upcoming webinars on archiving.
WITNESS is excited to announce a generous two-year, $500,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation which will go to powering up our critical work supporting activists, civic witnesses, and social movements across the U.S. to better utilize digital video and tools to expose abuses, strengthen and elevate counter narratives from vulnerable communities, uphold human rights values, and mobilize for change.
Over the past few months, WITNESS has been working on widening its reach in the Asia-Pacific region by providing trainings in several countries and by boosting our presence on social media.
WITNESS is pleased to announce lawyer Tara Vassefi as a Video as Evidence Legal Fellow. Tara will be examining various jurisdictions in the Middle East and North Africa for how they consider video as evidence.
We are excited to announce that WITNESS’ Mobil-Eyes-Us project was recently awarded a grant from the New Media Ventures Innovation Fund!
Our new video “Archive!”, shows you how you can preserve and archive video evidence that can help expose and verify human rights abuses.
Through an analysis of eyewitness video, the report looks at the climate of hate against the LGBTQ community in the U.S. and aims to address data shortfalls surrounding the prevalence of transphobic violence.
The network helps shape policies and provide resources and trainings to journalists, reporters and organizations using eyewitness media in their reporting.
Columbia University’s Public Interest Law Fellow and public interest lawyer, Lizzie O’Shea joins WITNESS as the first Video as Evidence Fellow.