Category: citizen journalism

• Caught On Camera: Human Rights Video on GV [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online] It has been a bumper few weeks on GV for human rights video, so let’s get straight into it… Bandh of brothers… [via Neha] [YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvRLmupsVts] This footage, filmed by Dinesh Wagle, of United We Blog!, shows motorcycle riders being turned backed by members…

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  14/02/2007

  cellphone, citizen journalism, GV, Human rights, internet, Journalism, law, online video, protest, Technology, unions, violence, War & Conflict, WITNESS, women

• Saddam execution video re-ignites death penalty debates worldwide [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Over the past four months, we’ve tried to feature and contextualise videos we felt should be seen and debated by a wider audience. Today’s featured human rights video is something completely new. You may be one of the millions who have sought it…

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  07/01/2007

  africa, Caribbean, cellphone, Central Asia & Caucasus, citizen journalism, Death Penalty, East Asia, Governance, GV, Human rights, internet, Journalism, Latin America, law, mobile, online video, politics, REGION, religion, south asia, Technology, War & Conflict, WITNESS

• Egypt: Bloggers open the door to police brutality debate [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] ‘Extraordinary rendition’ has passed into common parlance over the last year as human rights organisations have accused the US government of exporting suspects to be tortured in regimes like Egypt, Morocco and Syria. But while cases involving international suspects get the headlines, these…

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  09/12/2006

  cellphone, citizen journalism, Cyber-Activism, Freedom of Speech, Governance, GV, Human rights, internet, Journalism, law, Middle East & North Africa, mobile, online video, police, politics, Prisons, protest, Technology, WITNESS

• Iraq: Rare testimony of abuse by the Iraqi Security Forces [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Torture in Iraq, says the UN, is “out of control”, and “worse than it has been in the times of Saddam Hussein”. So it was especially timely for Brian Conley at Alive In Baghdad to e-mail us to say that he had an…

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  03/10/2006

  citizen journalism, Freedom of Speech, Governance, GV, Human rights, law, Middle East & North Africa, military, Militia, North America, police, violence, War & Conflict, WITNESS

• Eastern Europe: Video documents homophobia on the rise [via GV/WITNESS]

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] The latest twist in the long-running saga of anti-gay violence and state oppression took place yesterday in Moscow, as an appeals court upheld the earlier lower court ruling to ban Moscow’s Gay Pride March in May 2006. The gay rights activists who brought…

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  20/09/2006

  cellphone, citizen journalism, Cyber-Activism, Freedom of Speech, Governance, GV, Human rights, law, lgbt, mobile, online video, police, protest, sexuality, Technology, violence, WITNESS