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13 March 2008

Video HUB: Protecting women activists' rights around the world

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · South Asia

Witness' The HUB Beta brings us three videos recorded at the "Human Rights for Women; Human Rights for All" event, where 3 strong women who defend other women´s rights speak about the International Campaign on Women Human Rights Defenders.

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15 June 2007

WITNESS/Global Voices Human Rights Video Hub wins One World Media award

Written by Georgia Popplewell · Human Rights, Digital Activism

Yesterday evening (June 14), the WITNESS/Global Voices Human Rights Video Hub pilot took the award for best New Media project at the One World Media Awards in London. As former Video Hub editor Sameer Padania writes in an e-mail this morning: "I know people say this all the time, but the award really does belong to the brave, committed, talented people on the ground - bloggers, human rights advocates, journalists, lawyers, filmmakers, citizens - who fought to bring these stories to light, and without whom we genuinely would have had nothing to say or show." (Visit this page to see the full list of winners).

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17 April 2007

Ethiopia: March to protest violence against women.

Written by Lova Rakotomalala · Sub-Saharan Africa, North America

A march was organized on April, 14th at Merkel square, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This march wanted to show that women were still at risk of random acts of violence and...

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13 March 2007

Guinea-Conakry: standing up to a power-hungry President

Written by Gavin Simpson · Sub-Saharan Africa

The technological revolution that enables ordinary citizens to capture and upload video footage on the web has been slow to take root in West Africa. Up to now we haven’t...

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4 March 2007

Forced evictions in Guatemala: whose land is it anyway?

Written by Gavin Simpson · North America, Latin America

Land ownership and occupation are complex and highly contentious issues in many parts of Latin America, and the tropical, resource-rich plains of northeastern Guatemala are no exception. On the one...

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14 February 2007

Caught On Camera: Human Rights Video on GV

Written by Sameer Padania · Middle East & North Africa, South Asia

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] This footage, filmed by Dinesh Wagle,...

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The Human Rights Video now has it's own website.

What was the Witness Video Hub Pilot?

From 2006-2007, Global Voices and WITNESS collaborated on a pilot project to monitor human rights citizen videos from around the world. In 2008, human rights group, WITNESS developed The Hub as central part of their own website, launching a community forum where people can upload videos, audio and photo, and add comments. Visit The Human Rights Video .