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Keep fighting; keep filming

This month marks three years since Eric Garner was murdered by the NYPD. This month, Black Lives Matter turned four years old. And this month marked four years since a jury of almost all white women...

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Youth Speak Truth: Reclaiming the story of Mike Brown, Jr.

“He said he was going to change the world, he was going to shake the world and the whole world was going to know his name. And now they do.” – Triniya Walker, younger sister of Mike Brown, Jr. Today...

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Filming Protests: Charlottesville and Beyond

On August 12, violence erupted between rallying far-right white nationalists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, North Carolina; a white supremacist drove a car into a group of...

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Rio’s favelas score victory against military police abuses

Despite mounting evidence of the failure of the “war on drugs”, authorities in Rio continue to increase police and military presence in the city’s favelas.   Predictably, violence has only gotten worse...

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Last Month in Video: September 2017

Contributions by: Pali Makam, Dalila Mujagic, Dia Kayyali, and Jackie Zammuto. From Egypt to Burma, people are capturing human rights abuses and life changing events, and they’re doing it with their...

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Last Month In Video: 2017, a year of extremes

With contributions from Sam Gregory, Dia Kayyali, Palika Makam, and Dalila Mujagic 2017 was a challenging year for most of the world, and the exceptions (Trump, white supremacists, nationalists in...

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Last Month In Video: From Rio to Catalonia and beyond

From Rio to Catalonia, people are capturing human rights abuses and life-changing events, and they’re doing it with their cell phones.  Our Last Month In Video series covers video news each month,...

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Last Month in Video: Cameras got smarter. Will we?

With contributions from Priscila Neri. From Florida to Pakistan, people are capturing human rights abuses and life-changing events, and the subsequent video footage is powerful. That’s why our Last...

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Police Violence Against Local Teens is Caught on Camera in Rio de Janeiro

By Victor Ribeiro and Dalila Mujagic. A video containing footage of a brutal police incident went viral amongst social media users in Rio de Janeiro. The footage shows Lapa Presente officers — a unit...

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Fighting impunity for attacks at women’s marches

With contributions from Meghana Bahar, Pali Makam, Izzy Pinheiro and Jackie Zammuto.  From Ukraine to Malaysia, people are capturing human rights abuses and life-changing events, and the subsequent...

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Deadly, deadlier: Rio favela under fire by joint Police-Army forces

Last week Rio de Janeiro military police joined lethal forces with the Brazilian Army for a counter-narcotics operation in the favela of Maré in the northern part of Rio. The joint forces committed...

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Cracolândia: A Public Health Crisis Treated with State-Sponsored Violence

Originally published in Portuguese. Brazil currently faces the world’s largest crack epidemic, with an estimated 1 million crack users. Sharing a border with 10 countries, Brazil is a prime transit hub...

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Occupying Dhaka

In early August 2018, a wave of mass protests seized the city of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Sparked by the deaths of two young school children by a speeding bus, students, mostly attending high...

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Promoting and Defending the Right to Record

Secrecy breeds impunity. But the ability to record the police and military can expose human rights abuses to the world. International human rights law confirms the right of everyone, not just the...

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Who Can We Trust?

I am a young, black, first generation American woman from New York City. Following the indictment of George Zimmerman and the murders of Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Akai Gurley by the...

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The Right to Record in Africa – Law versus Reality

The Nigerian police force has a popular phrase which you will find displayed in most police stations. It says: The Police is your friend. But the average Nigerian does not know this to be true. The...

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In Africa, Fear of State Violence Informs Deepfake Threat

—December 9, 2019 The technology behind deepfakes is the same wherever you are in the world. But as WITNESS continues with a series of workshops on deepfake preparedness globally—first in Brazil and...

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Want to Record The Cops? Know Your Rights

While not any sort of panacea for police violence, videos of police officers in the US killing unarmed Black men like George Floyd, Oscar Grant and Eric Garner have undeniably been an essential part of...

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The role of video evidence in Nigeria’s #EndSARS movement

20 October 2020 On October 3, a video showing the extra-judicial killing of two civilians by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police, sparked outrage on social media. It led to more...

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The Role of Video and the Right to Record in Exposing Systemic Racism

WITNESS has responded to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights’ call for submissions to inform her report on systemic racism and violations of the international human rights of Africans...

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The Power of Video in 2020: Police Brutality in Africa

Author: Loui Mainga In 2020, debate on increased visibility of police abuse gathered momentum in Africa following their heavy-handedness under the guise of enforcing COVID-19-related restrictions and...

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Ugandan Elections: ‘We Made Sure the Cameras Kept Rolling for Safety’

Preceding the widely discredited Ugandan presidential elections of January 14 2021, the main opposition candidate Mr Robert Kyagulanyi “(popularly known as “Bobi Wine”)” urged his supporters to use...

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Behind The Scenes: Visions for Immigrant Justice

Our partners at the Rio Grande Valley Equal Voice Network recently released two videos that we are proud to have collaborated on. These videos paint a vision for a more just world for the immigrants...

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From Capture to Justice

Published October 20, 2021. Protesting in Nigeria is an act of extreme courage. There have been countless moments in Nigeria’s history when the government responded with brutal force to peaceful...

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Protest. Resist. Exist. #RightToRecord, A Sacred Covenant to Protect.

For an optimal reading experience via your mobile phone, rotate your screen horizontally, to landscape mode. This blog post marks the official launch of WITNESS’s global campaign ‘Right to Record:...

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