01 Nov New Series Launch! Eyes on ICE: Documenting Immigration Abuses
ICE | WITNESSNew series examines role of video in exposing immigration abuses and advocating for immigrant communities against aggressive ICE tactics.
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30 Oct Mapping the Dead in Ethiopia
Update | WITNESSMapping the Dead is a public database tracking Oromo people killed in Ethiopia by security forces. This is the second post in our Curate for Justice series.
12 Sep Curating citizen media for human rights?
Update | WITNESSReview these critical questions before designing a platform for curating eyewitness footage of human rights abuses.
22 Aug DO YOU CURATE EYEWITNESS REPORTS TO DOCUMENT HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES? WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
Update | WITNESSIf you have created or used a platform tracking open-source reports of a particular human rights issue, we want to hear from you.
26 Jul Watching Western Sahara: Six Months of Eyewitness Videos
Update | WITNESSA look at human rights in Western Sahara through six months of footage from the ground.
20 Jul Tools & Strategies to Verify Online Videos from Western Sahara
Update | WITNESSWhen online videos do not contain enough information to corroborate where and when they were recorded and or help viewers understand what they show, online tools and practices can help viewers learn more about what they are watching.
05 Jul An International Collaboration Brings Western Sahara into Focus
Update | WITNESSWatching Western Sahara is a collaborative video curation platform created to curate and contextualize eyewitness footage of human rights in the occupied territory of Western Sahara. WITNESS’s Madeleine Bair and FiSahara’s María Carrión explain how and why the collaboration came to be.
28 Jun ANALYSIS OF EYEWITNESS VIDEO DATA SHOWS CLIMATE OF HATRED TOWARD TRANSGENDER AND GENDER NONCONFORMING PEOPLE
Update | WITNESSThe WITNESS Media Lab shares initial findings from a new project focused on curating and analyzing data from videos of violent acts against transgender and gender nonconforming people that have been captured and shared for entertainment.
03 Jun Curating eyewitness videos for data on transphobic violence
Update | WITNESSWhat do online videos, their views, and comments, tell us about the climate of hate and violence against transgender and gender nonconforming people?
29 Apr Guest Blog: Meet Two Sahrawi Media Activists
Update | WITNESSA dispatch from the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, where media activists traveled to train on human rights documentation.