Tag: testimony
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Today survivor testimony is almost exclusively video testimony. Even if this change seems like a minor one (in sync with that from radio to TV and Internet), what matters is the act of witnessing in the communicative context of the electronic media: The visibility bestowed by video ensures the formal “audiencing” of the survivors and…
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Israel: Soldiers “break the silence”
[Originally published here on the WITNESS Hub Blog.] I spent part of today talking to a military expert about the military’s changing role in ending mass atrocities, and it made me think hard about what role the experiences of soldiers might play in a human rights-focused space like the Hub – on which, more soon. …
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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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CHAMP bloggers at the AIDS conference
[Originally published here on the WITNESS Hub Blog.] Our colleagues Sam Gregory and Bukeni Waruzi are at the AIDS Conference in Mexico City this week, and they drew our attention to some short interviews and videos coming out via CHAMP‘s AIDS2008.com site, including these videos: Here, Cameron Lefevre documents an action with the message “The US Fails On…
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World Refugee Day – Zimbabwe, South Africa and Iraq
[Originally published here on the WITNESS Hub blog.] There are 16 million refugees and 51 million internally displaced people worldwide, according to the UNHCR’s latest figures [pdf]. That number is so extraordinary, so egregious, that I find it personally difficult to absorb – but this World Refugee Day, there seems to be much more imagery available showing…
Sameer Padania 