06 November | MEU | eric | No comment
The WITNESS Media Lab is dedicated to unleashing the potential of eyewitness video as a powerful tool to report, monitor, and advocate for human rights.
We believe that the next stage of human rights documentation and advocacy will be powered by videos created and shared by eyewitnesses. Our work addresses the challenges of finding, verifying, and contextualizing those videos.
In collaboration with peers from the fields of advocacy, technology, and journalism, we develop solutions to ensure that footage taken by average citizens can serve as an effective tool for justice.
The WITNESS Media Lab is a project of WITNESS and the Google News Initiative.
RECENT PROJECTS
Perpetrator Video in the Middle East and North Africa
This project examines how human rights advocates and journalists can turn the proliferation of eyewitness and perpetrator video into more ethical and effective storytelling and documentation of human rights abuse in the MENA.
Profiling the Police
This collaboration between WITNESS Media Lab and El Grito de Sunset Park looks at over 300 hours of police abuse footage. In this project we share our learnings, tips and tools for organizing, analyzing and preserving human rights video collections to help ensure greater transparency and accountability.
EYES ON ICE: Documenting Immigrant Abuses
This project examines the challenges and possibilities of using video to document encounters with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement(ICE) in the U.S for justice.
EYES IN THE SKY: Drones at Standing Rock and the Next Frontier of Human Rights Video
This report examines how activists and journalists used drones to document the protests by Native American tribes and other advocates against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota.
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