video for change Archives - WITNESS https://www.witness.org/tag/video-for-change/ Human Rights Video Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:35:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 76151064 Join Us: Using Video as Evidence for Indigenous Rights https://www.witness.org/join-us-using-video-as-evidence-for-indigenous-rights/ Mon, 19 Nov 2018 03:45:04 +0000 https://www.witness.org/?p=2195623 UPDATE: Registration for this training is now closed. 

Join us on Tuesday, November 20, from 3-5 p.m. for a special training on how to use video as evidence in court to fight for indigenous rights.

This training is part of the World Indigenous Law Conference that brings together lawyers, judges, academics, Knowledge Keepers, policy experts, community leadership, community advocates, and students to talk about the implementation of Indigenous Law into western contemporary legal systems and highlight Indigenous Laws that already exist in Indigenous communities and Nations.

The training will take place at the Waterfront Ballroom at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada.

For more on our Video as Evidence work, click here.

 

]]> 2195623 WITNESS Discusses Video and Justice with The Atlantic https://www.witness.org/witness-discusses-video-and-justice-with-the-atlantic/ Mon, 13 Aug 2018 19:42:16 +0000 https://www.witness.org/?p=2194570 We are extremely pleased to announce that our Executive Director, Yvette Alberdingk Thijm was recently interviewed at the 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival by The Atlantic.

In the video titled, “How Video Can Create a Just Society,” Yvette spoke about the importance of filming injustice and knowing how to handle video and use it for justice.

“There’s a real need to understand how video can help people prove what happened… You have a right to film,” she said.

To watch the video, click here.

]]> 2194570 WITNESS’ Executive Director Yvette Alberdingk Thijm on TED.com https://www.witness.org/witness-ted-com/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:45:02 +0000 https://www.witness.org/?p=2193391 At the 2017 Skoll World Forum’s TEDxSkoll our executive director Yvette Alberdingk Thijm was invited to speak on the theme of “truth”. We’re honored to announce that her TED talk has now been published on TED.com to be shared more widely. In her TED talk, Yvette addresses the question: Could smartphones be the most powerful weapon for social justice? With citizens around the world armed with cameras, videos and photos chronicling human rights violations are rising, and the power of distant witnesses is just beginning.

Watch and share it here.

Through her leadership of WITNESS, Yvette develops strategies and exclusive technologies to help activists and eyewitnesses ensure each video brings us one step closer to justice. WITNESS, is a global network of activists that helps anyone, anywhere use the power of video and technology to protect and defend human rights.

Yvette believes in the potential of citizen media to level the playing field for marginalized communities and tell stories of truth that contradict the self-serving narratives of the powerful. With millions of people as potential civic witnesses, video can be an important source of data about violations, disprove false narratives, be used as evidence, or expose patterns of exclusion. WITNESS works in collaboration with activists and ordinary citizens creating tools, strategies, and solutions to bolster the credibility of alternative voices, support the strategic use of civic media to create concrete change and make it possible for millions to be safe, ethical, and effective witnesses for human rights.

]]> 2193391 WITNESS Co-Hosts Video for Change Workshop at CheckCon 2017 https://www.witness.org/witness-workshop-checkcon-2017/ Tue, 18 Apr 2017 21:39:15 +0000 https://www.witness.org/?p=2192310 WITNESS is joining a group of inspiring organizations in Beirut for this year’s CheckCon, a 3-day event that aims to bring together 80+ grassroots media collectives, digital technology enthusiasts, professional journalists, and media students & scholars from across the Arab region to reflect on the experiences, successes, challenges and lessons learned since 2011.The conference builds on five years of work on the Check project in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, the US and the UK, and brings together everyone who has contributed to the project since 2011, including speakers and participants from Check partners’ network.

The Check Project has worked to build online tools, support independent journalists, and develop media literacy training resources that aim to improve the investigative quality of citizen journalism and help limit the rapid spread of rumors and misinformation online.

Our MENA Sr. Program Coordinator Raja Althaibani will speak on a panel with our partners at Syrian Archive  along with Bellingcat and Meedan. This panel will be followed by a workshop covering:

  • Un/ Framing Syria : Citizen content and conflict mediation in the digital age
  • Experiences from the field: Using Video for Change in the MENA
  • Archiving the Syrian War
  • Fact-checking video narrative of conflict: Analyzing airstrikes in Syria and Iraq

CheckCon’s free, public Unconference takes place on Saturday, April 22nd. Register here.

For more information on the conference and to view the full 2017 program, click here.

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