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Witness
EEAF is pleased to screen videos provided by Witness.
EEAF is pleased to screen videos provided by Witness.
WITNESS (www.witness.org) uses video and online technologies to open the
eyes of the world to human rights violations. WITNESS empowers people to
transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools for justice,
promoting public engagement and policy change. WITNESS envisions a just,
equitable world in which all individuals and communities are able to defend
and uphold their human rights.
WITNESS embodies the values of partnership, shared learning, and
adaptability in the face of change. The approach reflects WITNESS's
commitment to catalyzing change, and its knowledge that real impact comes
from igniting the power, passion and potential of individual activists and
frontline human rights organizations. Only by taking risks, responding to
local needs, and bringing together various perspectives can WITNESS
revolutionize global human rights. Guiding WITNESS's work is its commitment
to an open-source philosophy. WITNESS embraces a growth strategy focused on
the broad, non-proprietary dissemination of its methodology. WITNESS
encourages others to use and adapt its model for building video advocacy.
This means sharing innovations through partnering, distributing resources
freely, and relying on open-source technology and Creative Commons licensing
to ensure access.
WITNESS's goal is to fully align its practices with the
principles it fights for, and to pursue strategies with the greatest
leverage in promoting systemic social change.
VIDEO FOR CHANGE
Partner
Core Partner Program: WITNESS partners with 12-15 human rights
organizations for a period of one to three years, to train and support the
organization to use video as a key component of their advocacy work. The
goal of the partnership is to foster a campaign-specific relationship,
designed to create high visibility and impact using video. WITNESS invites
groups to apply to this program on a rolling basis and new partners are
selected carefully, based on the strength of their human rights work,
clarity of their advocacy focus and the ability of video to enhance their
campaigns. For more information visit:
www.witness.org/partners.
Train
Seeding Video Advocacy Program: Short-term trainings for networks of human
rights defenders along with training materials and methods to 'seed' best
practices in video advocacy around the globe. For more information visit:
www.witness.org/training.
Video Advocacy Institute (VAI): An immersive two-week training course on
integrating video into human rights advocacy campaigns for 25-30 human
rights activists from around the world. VAI focuses on experiential
learning through skills exercises, dialogue, and case studies. For more
information visit:
www.witness.org/vai.
Connect
The Hub: A global channel for human rights, where anyone anywhere with
access to the internet can upload, view, share, and connect with others
around media that can serve as a catalyst for policy change. To get involved
visit:
http://hub.witness.org.
Preserve
WITNESS Media Archive: The WITNESS Media Archive at
www.witnessmediaarchive.org collects, documents, preserves and provides
access to audiovisual human rights media in the support of advocacy,
prosecution of justice, truth-telling, and the historical record. The video
collection comprises over 3,000 hours of video from human rights defenders
around the world.
To learn more visit
www.witness.org.
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