12 Feb JOIN TEAM WITNESS IN THE 2018 TCS NEW YORK CITY MARATHON!
News and Events | WITNESSWe are proud to be an official charity partner in the 2018 TCS New York City Marathon on November 4th—join us and run for human rights change!
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23 Jan Video as Evidence and the Arab Spring: Seven Years On
News and Events | WITNESSIn 2011, citizen video helped spark a movement across the Middle East and North Africa. Today the importance of documentation remains constant—but faces new challenges as we mark the 7th anniversary.
18 Jan WITNESS’ Executive Director Reflects on Operating Outside of Crisis-Mode
News and Events | WITNESSOur Executive Director Yvette Alberdingk-Thijm reflects on the lessons learned last year, our global team retreat, and how WITNESS will move forward in 2018.
19 Dec WITNESS’ Executive Director Yvette Alberdingk Thijm on TED.com
News and Events, Press | WITNESSYvette Alberdingk Thijm gave a TED talk on “truth” at the TEDxSkoll gathering in April 2017. Her talk was just added to the prestigious library at TED.com.
20 Nov WITNESS featured in Vimeo’s Video for Good Series
News and Events, Press | WITNESSIn our second appearance this year with Vimeo, we discuss the importance of video as an essential tool in the fight for human rights.
03 Nov Activists’ Guide to Archiving launched at Brazil’s National Archives
News and Events | WITNESSOn World Day of Audiovisual Heritage 2017, WITNESS launched the Activists’ Guide to Archiving in Portuguese at Brazil’s National Archives.
02 Nov Standing Rock and the future of drone activism and journalism
News and Events | WITNESS“Eyes in the Sky: Drones at Standing Rock and the Next Frontier of Human Rights Video,” a new report published, examines how activists and journalists used drones to document the protests by Native American tribes and other advocates against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
18 Oct Archiving as resistance: celebrating Archives Month 2017
News and Events | WITNESSWITNESS celebrates Archives Month 2017 with updates guides, tipsheets, and videos through the month of October.
13 Oct Voices of Mesoamerica Caravan hits the road
News and Events | WITNESSwe have joined the Voces de Mesoamérica Caravan, a collective of independent filmmakers, videographers, activists and media producers traveling to Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras through October 2017
22 Aug Do you curate eyewitness reports to document human rights abuses? We want to hear from you!
News and Events | WITNESSAround the world, activists, journalists, and human rights investigators are using citizen reports to monitor human rights violations. If you have created or used a platform tracking open-source reports of a particular human rights issue, we want to hear from you!