Tag: conflict

• DRC: Video testimonies of rape

  [Cross-posted from the WITNESS Hub Blog.] I generally read my news online, but sometimes you can feel the impact of a story so much more when you’re holding it in your hands. During a brief layover in London on the way to Athens for a conference (on which more in the coming days), I bought…

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  05/12/2008

  Human rights, Journalism, Video, Work

  conflict, DRC, giles foden, Hub Blog, rape, responsibility to protect, testimony, WITNESS, women

• Saddam execution video re-ignites death penalty debates worldwide

  [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

  Human rights, Journalism, Technology, Video, Work

  cellphone, conflict, deathpenalty, execution, globalvoices, Hub Blog, iraq, mobile, online video, pilot, projects, saddam, sousveillance, WITNESS

• Video exposes child-soldier’s identity

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] If you’ve seen the guidelines for this site, you’ll know that there are types of footage that we wouldn’t post, and circumstances surrounding the shooting of particular videos that mean we wouldn’t even link to them. Today’s post is about one of those…

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  20/10/2006

  Human rights, Journalism, Technology, Video, Work

  anonymisation, children, childsoldiers, conflict, ethics, globalvoices, Hub Blog, informedconsent, infowar, online video, pilot, projects, propaganda, sri lanka, WITNESS