02 Apr Promoting and Defending the Right to Record
Right to Record | diakThe Right to Record is not always protected. In many places it’s outright denied. Our new project explores how this right is being promoted and defended by people, laws and institutions around the world.
01 Apr How Could States’ Wiretapping Laws Affect Your Right to Film Law Enforcement?
Right to Record, United States, Update | ericWiretapping laws were intended to protect people’s privacy in the United States, but in some cases they’ve been used to challenge the right to record the police.
22 Feb Rio goes live: video activism and human rights in Brazil
MEU | eric Image: Brazilian politicians livestreaming while campaigning and breaking a Marielle Franco sign. Current Rio governor on the right and a now-elected deputy breaking the sign. By Adriano Belisário As mobile phone access and Internet bandwidth increased in this decade, video streamings became an important part
21 Feb What Journalists Should Know Before Reporting on Border Communities
ICE | palikaMichelle Serrano, Texas-native and Comms Strategist for the Rio Grande Valley Equal Voice Network, shares tips for journalists reporting on immigration issues and how they impact communities on the US-Mexico border.
01 Feb Call-outs in live streamings: learnings and practices
MEU | eric Mobil-Eyes Us is a project of WITNESS and the WITNESS Media Lab to explore potential new approaches to livestream storytelling for action. We look at technologies, tactics and storytelling strategies to use live video to connect viewers to frontline experiences of human rights issues they
06 Nov Introduction to Mobil-Eyes Us
MEU | ericMobil-Eyes Us is a project of WITNESS and the WITNESS Media Lab to explore potential new approaches to livestream storytelling for action. We look at technologies, tactics and storytelling strategies to use live video to connect viewers to frontline experiences of human rights issues they
31 Oct Reporting on Immigration: Journalists and Activists in Conversation
ICE | izzyWatch our panel conversation exploring how journalists and advocates can work together to safely and ethically amplify immigrant voices.
30 Oct Eyes on the Border: Training Immigrant Communities to Document Abuses
ICE | palikaThis post recaps the WITNESS US teams Eyes on the Border video documentation and advocacy trainings with directly impacted communities in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas
25 Oct Suicide or Escape? Fact Checking Reporting on Migrant Abuse in MENA
Uncategorized | ericThis post gives background information about migrant workers’ abusive conditions under the kefala system of many of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.