WIRED magazine recently published an article by WITNESS’ Program Director, Sam Gregory, on how mobile livestreaming is changing the very nature of human rights witnessing.
Senior Attorney and Program Manager, Kelly Matheson, is in Ukraine this week to lead a three day training on Video as Evidence for Human Rights defenders in Kyiv.
Join us, March 18, as WITNESS and other human rights activists participate in a US State Department panel: Citizen Witnesses Documenting Human Rights.
As more citizen video makes its way into the news cycle, we offer some tips for journalists and others to better verify what is real.
As citizen video is increasingly being used in courts, what does that mean for those that shoot it, and what does it mean for journalists and others who try to verify it.