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Video in Action: WITNESS Case Studies

WITNESS and its partners have collaborated on numerous advocacy campaigns, many of which have produced notable victories. These achievements, often the end result of years of unrelenting advocacy, demonstrate the ways in which significant progress can be made by exposing injustices to the right audiences. The following case studies outline the diversity of issues and regions where WITNESS partner videos have made a difference.

 
Slavery in Rural Brazil

Eradicating contemporary slavery in rural Brazil

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IDPs in Burma
Internally displaced people in Burma struggle for safety and a free and democratic country
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Child Soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Calling for justice and an end to the impunity in Eastern DRC that has led
to some thirty thousand children being recruited and used as child soldiers
in the DRC, some as young as eight years of age; an estimated 30 to 40 percent are girls. 
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Torture and Feminicide in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua
Advocates to end the widespread murders of women and the systematic use of torture as an investigatory tool in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua, also calling for immediate action on Neyra and David's cases as a starting point.
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Educational Rights for Romani Children in Bulgaria
Advocating for integrated education for Romani children in Bulgaria
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Doble Injusticia: Feminicidio y tortura en Ciudad Juarez y Chihuahua
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Abuses in California Youth Prisons

Advocating for disbandment of the failed California youth prison system

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Landmines in Senegal
Advocating for assistance to landmine survivors in Senegal
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Juvenile Justice in the U.S.

Juvenile justice and racial discrimination in the United States prison system

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Trafficking, Indentured Servitude in Saipan
Clothing manufacturers based on the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, exempt from certain U.S. minimum wage laws, exploited Chinese and Filipino women brought to the island to work in clothing factories denying them wages, forcing them to work in unsafe conditions, and work overtime without additional pay.
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Child Abduction in India

Arbitrary detention and extrajudicial killing in Manipur, India

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International Trafficking of Women

Trafficking of women from the former Soviet Union

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Mental Disability Rights in Croatia
Advocating for the right of people with mental disabilities to live in the community
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Mental Disability Rights in Mexico
Inhumane treatment of people in state-run institutions in Mexico
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Mental Disability Rights in Paraguay
Inhumane treatment of people with mental disabilities in Paraguay
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