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Activist Brahim Saika Dies in Detention & Sahrawis Take to the Streets
Activist Brahim Saika Dies in Detention & Sahrawis Take to the Streets
Editor’s Note: A version of this post was originally published on Watching Western Sahara Checkdesk, a collaborative platform for curated…
Madeleine Bair
Apr 20, 2016
Launching Watching Western Sahara
Launching Watching Western Sahara
Every day, activists in the occupied territory of Western Sahara protest abuses, economic exploitation, and discrimination they experience…
Madeleine Bair
Apr 18, 2016
Watching Protests in Western Sahara
Watching Protests in Western Sahara
by Madeleine Bair and Maria Carrión
Madeleine Bair
Mar 23, 2016
Curating Online Videos to Monitor Human Rights in Western Sahara
Curating Online Videos to Monitor Human Rights in Western Sahara
When UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, last weekend, he told the Sahrawi people that…
Madeleine Bair
Mar 11, 2016
How to Use YouTube’s New Blurring Feature to Protect Identities
How to Use YouTube’s New Blurring Feature to Protect Identities
This week YouTube released a new version of their custom blurring function. This feature allows users to blur select items in their videos…
Morgan
Feb 25, 2016
Why YouTube’s Blurring Tool Matters and Why Other Platforms Should Have One Too
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…
Sam Gregory
Feb 25, 2016
Ethical Wednesdays: Protecting At-Risk Eyewitnesses
Ethical Wednesdays: Protecting At-Risk Eyewitnesses
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series on WITNESS’s Ethical Guidelines for Using Eyewitness Videos in Human Rights Documentation and…
Madeleine Bair
Dec 16, 2015
Ethics
Ethical Wednesdays: Who’s Behind the Footage? Credit, Transparency and Eyewitness Videos
Ethical Wednesdays: Who’s Behind the Footage? Credit, Transparency and Eyewitness Videos
How can you not just share but contextualize eyewitness footage by providing information about the creators to your audience?
Madeleine Bair
Dec 9, 2015
Ethical Wednesdays: When Media is Created by the Perpetrators of the Abuse
Ethical Wednesdays: When Media is Created by the Perpetrators of the Abuse
Editor’s Note: This is the third post in a series on WITNESS’s Ethical Guidelines for Using Eyewitness Videos in Human Rights Documentation…
Madeleine Bair
Nov 25, 2015
Ethical Wednesdays: Minimizing Risks to those Filmed
Ethical Wednesdays: Minimizing Risks to those Filmed
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series on WITNESS’s Ethical Guidelines for Using Eyewitness Videos in Human Rights Documentation and…
Madeleine Bair
Nov 11, 2015
Images of Horror: Whose Roles and What Responsibilities?
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…
Sam Gregory
Sep 18, 2014
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