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How can I submit videos?

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If you have compelling human rights videos that you would like to submit for consideration, you will need to upload them on one of the numerous video sharing sites available on the internet. Here are some general guidelines on how you can submit your videos to us.

1. Review our guidelines:

Please read our guidelines for the Human Rights Video Hub Pilot to get an idea of the type of content we are looking for.

2. Review our security guidelines:

Before you upload your videos on the internet, make sure you read and understand the relevant security and privacy issues.

3. Uploading your videos:

You may upload your videos to any site on the internet, but please make sure that you read the Terms of Use or User Agreement very carefully.

WITNESS is a partner of the Internet Archive. The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization that was founded to build an ‘Internet library,’ with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Anyone can sign-up for an account and start uploading videos. Be sure to tag your videos with the words “WITNESS-HumanRights” so that your videos will be easier for us to find.

FreeFormed.org has kindly built us a cellphone upload site. Please visit http://www.freeformed.org/witness.php to find out how it works. Video submitted via this link will go to our Hub Editor for consideration.

4. Tag your human rights videos:

If you are uploading to other sites, please tag your videos “human rights” and/or any of these suggested tag categories:

Arbitrary arrest
Armed conflict
Business and human rights
Child soldiers
Children’s rights
Crimes against humanity
Death penalty
Detention
Disability
Disappearances
Discrimination
Education
Elections
Environment
Executions
Food
Forensic anthropology
Freedom of opinion and expression
Freedom of religion and belief
Genocide
Health
HIV-AIDS
Honor crimes
Housing
Human rights defenders
Impunity
Independence of the judiciary
Indigenous peoples
Internally displaced persons (IDPs)
International criminal court
Juvenile justice

Landmines and unexploded ordinance
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights
Marriage
Mass killings
Mercenaries
Migration
Minorities
Older persons
Police misconduct
Poverty
Prisons
Racial discrimination
Rape and sexual abuse
Refugees
Religion
Sanctions
Sanitation
Sexual exploitation
Sexual rights
Shelter
Slavery and forced labor
Small arms
Terrorism
Torture/ill-treatment
Trafficking in persons
Transitional justice
War crimes
Water
Women’s rights

5. Send us your links:

Once your video is online, fill-out the Human Rights Video Hub Editor contact form. Please make sure you have a url or embed code for your video available.