WITNESS uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations.
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- Founded:
- WITNESS was founded in 1992 by musician and activist Peter Gabriel and the Reebok Human Rights Foundation as a project of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First).
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Basic Info
- Founded:
- WITNESS was founded in 1992 by musician and activist Peter Gabriel and the Reebok Human Rights Foundation as a project of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First).
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- http://www.witness.org
http://hub.witness.org - Company Overview:
- In 1992, not long after video of Rodney King being assaulted by four Los Angeles police officers catalyzed interest in the use of video for concrete human rights change, WITNESS was born. Today, WITNESS is an independent nonprofit organization with offices in Brooklyn, New York, and human rights partners based around the world.
- Mission:
- WITNESS uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. We empower people to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools for justice, promoting public engagement and policy change.
- Products:
- WITNESS works with human rights groups through two initiatives: Core Partnerships, which are intensive 2-3 year collaborations built around specific issues, and the broader Seeding Video Advocacy initiative which consists of shorter term trainings conducted worldwide.
WITNESS also manages the Hub (http://hub.witness.org) -- the world's first participatory media site for human rights. Through the Hub, individuals, organizations, networks and groups around the world are able to bring their human rights stories and campaigns to global attention and to mobilize action to protect and promote human rights.
We also collect, document, preserve and provide access to audiovisual human rights media in the support of advocacy, prosecution of justice, truthtelling, and the historical record via the WITNESS Media Archive. The Archive currently holds over 3000 hours of video from human rights defenders around the world.