Video Evidence

Video evidence before a national court, regional body, or international tribunal: Your unedited, or edited, footage can be used as a source of evidence in a court of law. But, in order for it be used, you must accurately record as much surrounding information and context as possible -- e.g. time and date of footage, name of videographer, location of recording etc. WITNESS provides information on how to film in an effective way for evidence in our book Video For Change, but please note that national law varies on the admissibility of this evidence, and it is not always easy to use.

Watch this video about how our partners CEMIRIDE, a Kenyan organization representing the indigenous Endorois community in their long legal struggle to return to their lands, used video as an evidentiary submission at the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights: