Tag: Hub Blog
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Twitter defeats newspaper gagging order
[Cross-posted from the WITNESS Hub Blog] Here’s a remarkable video showing a Twitter revolt in action: It shows how the terms #trafigura, #carterruck, #dumping, #scandal and other Twitter hashtags gathered pace last night and this morning as news of a secret injunction gagging The Guardian newspaper emerged. The paper had intended to report the name…
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HRWIFF 2009 – Festival Round-up
[Cross-posted from the WITNESS Hub Blog.] WITNESS has a proud history of participating in, supporting and even awarding prizes at film festivals, but we’ve never tried to cover a film festival before here on the Hub. So it was with a little trepidation that we asked the good people over at the Human Rights Watch International Film…
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Xinjiang: Protests continue into third day
[Cross-posted from the WITNESS Hub Blog.] Xinhua is reporting that more than 150 people have died in the clashes in Urumqi since 5th July, and more than 1,000 have been injured. Riot police have been deployed to quell the protests, which began over the perceived mishandling by local authorities of a fight at a toy factory…
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Multimedia Reporting – Behind the scenes at a MediaStorm workshop
[Cross-posted from the WITNESS Hub Blog.] As part of our work at WITNESS we conduct trainings preparing advocates to be able to shoot, edit and distribute video for effective human rights advocacy (watch some participant interviews). We’ve also created a set of short videos that take you through the basics of creating video for human rights advocacy. …
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
[Cross-posted from the WITNESS Hub Blog.] Here’s a Guardian video (and news story) from a couple of weeks ago which offers some useful insights for those working to document and expose police brutality and misconduct worldwide, and to those within police forces charged with investigating such misconduct and developing policies for transparency and accountability. Two female protesters…
Sameer Padania 