WITNESS
Empowering Human Rights Defenders Through Video '90
WITNESS trains and supports grassroots human rights groups to use video in their advocacy campaigns.
"Witness empowers people to record injustice as it happens and makes us all eyeWITNESSes to Human Rights Violations."
This presentation will feature recent works from WITNESS's human rights partner organizations around the world
- including BOOKS NOT BARS, on the growth of the prison industry in the U.S. and NO PLACE TO GO, on villagers driven from their homes by the Burmese military, as well as RULE OF THE GUN IN SUGARLAND on indigenous rights and impunity in the Philippines and an excerpt from the documentary OPERATION FINE GIRL: Rape Used as a Weapon of War in Sierra Leone, which investigates the strategic use of rape against women during the decade-long war in Sierra Leone -
It will be followed by a Q&A with WITNESS program staff.
