10 Jan Production Tips for Legal Video Advocacy Projects
Legal Video Advocacy | Jackie ZammutoThese tips for advocates, filmmakers and legal teams can help simplify the legal video advocacy production process.
19 Dec Legal Video Advocacy: A Small Step Towards Decarceration
Legal Video Advocacy | Jackie ZammutoWITNESS’ Legal Video Advocacy Program offers trainings and resources for advocates, lawyers and incarcerated individuals interested in using video to help reduce client sentences, and advocate for decarceration through clemency and parole.
12 Nov LIVESTREAM: Your Cameras, Your Rights
Right to Record | Jackie ZammutoAs part of our ongoing campaign around the Right to Record, our global team hosted a conversation about how this right is practiced around the world, and how it impacts people using their cameras to defend human rights. Watch on Facebook to and join
11 Nov Eyes Beyond the Border: Using Video to Defend Migrant Rights
ICE | palikaThis post recaps the WITNESS US team’s recent video evidence and advocacy trainings with immigrant rights defenders and attorneys in Tijuana, Mexico.
10 Sep Police Body Cameras Won’t Solve Our Problems
Right to Record, United States | Jackie ZammutoFollowing the police killings of Michael Brown Jr. and Eric Garner in 2014, many people advocated for the widespread adoption of police body cameras as a solution to ending systemic police abuse and increasing transparency. Yet, they haven’t been effective. Now, more than five years later, we look back at our initial predictions, take stock in what we’ve learned and offer recommendations for moving forward.
11 Jul How You Can Help the Humanitarian Crisis at the US-Mexico Border…And Beyond
ICE | Jackie ZammutoWhen images of Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter, Valeria were published recently, we were outraged. We were heartbroken. The situation at the US-Mexico border is a crisis: a humanitarian crisis. Because of the government’s stronghold on the narrative — coupled with a militarized lack of
25 Jun Juan’s Story Part 2: Using Video as Evidence in Immigration Proceedings
ICE | WITNESSGathering Surveillance Video Footage of an Encounter with Immigration Enforcement and Converting it into Supporting Evidence for a Proceeding
24 Apr Storytelling in livestreamings: the Favela da Skol case in Brazil
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
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.