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Why YouTube’s Blurring Tool Matters and Why Other Platforms Should Have One Too

Since 2012 YouTube has been notable among online video-sharing platforms in offering an option to blur faces on your videos to protect…

Feb 25, 2016

Why YouTube’s Blurring Tool Matters and Why Other Platforms Should Have One Too

Feb 25, 2016

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See, Hear… Act?: Co-Present Storytelling and Action

Take a moment and think about the last time you took action for a social justice issue you cared about. It was probably signing a petition…

Oct 9, 2015

See, Hear… Act?: Co-Present Storytelling and Action

Oct 9, 2015

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Seeing Aylan Kurdi, Adam Ward and Alison Parker

At WITNESS we see hundreds of images of distressing events and we know that there are millions of images of horror out there in the world…

Sep 3, 2015

Seeing Aylan Kurdi, Adam Ward and Alison Parker

Sep 3, 2015

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How Can Hyperlapse Videography Be Used for Human Rights?

Hyperlapse is a videography approach that combines timelapse with motion, often with a first-person perspective — so that in a matter of…

Feb 3, 2015

How Can Hyperlapse Videography Be Used for Human Rights?

Feb 3, 2015

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Do We Need a Dedicated Repository for Human Rights Media?

I’ve been discussing frequently with my WITNESS colleagues the question of whether the human rights community would benefit from a shared…

Jan 30, 2015

Do We Need a Dedicated Repository for Human Rights Media?

Jan 30, 2015

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The Power of Citizen Witnesses — and How WITNESS is Strengthening Their Impact

The power of the citizen witness was where we began. WITNESS was founded in the aftermath of the Rodney King incident in 1991, when an…

Sep 23, 2014

The Power of Citizen Witnesses — and How WITNESS is Strengthening Their Impact

Sep 23, 2014

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Images of Horror: Whose Roles and What Responsibilities?

In the last month, many people in the US and worldwide have been exposed to videos showing grotesque acts of violence, notably the killings…

Sep 18, 2014

Images of Horror: Whose Roles and What Responsibilities?

Sep 18, 2014

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How An Eyewitness Mode Helps Activists (and Others) Be Trusted

Would today’s George Holliday, the documenter of the beating of Rodney King, have a human rights app?

Mar 3, 2014

How An Eyewitness Mode Helps Activists (and Others) Be Trusted

Mar 3, 2014

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Co-presence: A New Way to Bring People Together for Human Rights Activism

This summer as a ‘Future for Good’ Fellow at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California, I’ve been thinking about what might…

Sep 23, 2013

Co-presence: A New Way to Bring People Together for Human Rights Activism

Sep 23, 2013

Sam Gregory

Sam Gregory

Program Director WITNESS (http://witness.org): video + tech for human rights; WEF YGL; Fellow, IFTF, on future of activism; teach Harvard Kennedy

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