WITNESS Workshop in Paraguay Focuses on Video and Forced Evictions

WITNESS conducted a 3-hour video advocacy workshop at the IV Americas Social Forum in Asunción, Paraguay, from August 11-15 2010. The training focused on the use of video in advocacy on forced evictions carried out in the name of development.

 
Together, workshop participants analyzed three case studies:
 
- The Endorois community's use of video as evidencehttp://hub.witness.org/rightfulplace
 
- The work of LICADHO in Cambodia http://hub.witness.org/en/users/licadho,helping communities at risk of eviction use video to defend their rights
 
- The story of how communities in Guerrero state, Mexico, used video to mobilize and organize their resistance to the La Parota damhttp://www.internationalrivers.org/node/4652
 
Read more: http://blog.witness.org/forced-evictions-in-focus-at-the-americas-social-forum