WITNESS is a human rights organisation that uses video to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations.

We created this toolkit to help you to use video more effectively in human rights and advocacy work. It's designed for human rights activists and advocates, filmmakers, journalists and citizen journalists around the world.

"After Filming" prepares you and the people you're working with to:

- assess whether footage is reliable
- edit effectively and ethically
- distribute your video or film for maximum impact

The other parts of the toolkit cover what to do to prepare for filming, and how to film safely and effectively.

For more video related to human rights, visit us at http://www.witness.org, and join the community at the Hub: http://hub.witness.org.

If you'd like to translate this video into your language, please send us a message...

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WITNESS is a human rights organisation that uses video to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations.

We created this toolkit to help you to use video more effectively in human rights and advocacy work. It's designed for human rights activists and advocates, filmmakers, journalists and citizen journalists around the world.

"During Filming (2)" prepares you and the people you're working with to:

- film an interview
- get additional footage
- protect the people you film

The other parts of the toolkit cover what to do to prepare for filming, and how to use your film or footage after you've shot it.

For more video related to human rights, visit us at http://www.witness.org, and join the community at the Hub: http://hub.witness.org.

If you'd like to translate this video into your language, please send us a message...

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This video is a part of the YouTube Reporters' Center. See more videos on how to report the news - and share your ideas - at http://www.youtube.com/reporte rscenter

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WITNESS is a human rights organisation that uses video to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations.

We created this toolkit to help you to use video more effectively in human rights and advocacy work. It's designed for human rights activists and advocates, filmmakers, journalists and citizen journalists around the world.

"During Filming (1)" helps you prepare yourself and the people you're working with how to:

- decide what and how to film
- get good sound
- use a mobile phone to film

The other parts of the toolkit cover what to do to prepare for filming, and how to use your film or footage after you've shot it.

For more video related to human rights, visit us at http://www.witness.org, and join the community at the Hub: http://hub.witness.org.

If you'd like to translate this video into your language, please send us a message...

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This video is a part of the YouTube Reporters' Center. See more videos on how to report the news - and share your ideas - at http://www.youtube.com/reporte rscenter

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The police and local government officials are involved in targeted killings of alleged drug dealers and petty criminals, street children, and others. There is a lack of any effort by the authorities to investigate the killings and bring those responsible to justice.

http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/ 2009/04/06/you-can-die-any-tim e

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Peter Gabriel, the musician and activist, on Friday implored Mexican President Felipe Calderon to show "real political will, muscle and budget" in investigating the hundreds of unsolved murders of young women in the border town of Ciudad Juarez.

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On Wednesday, March 11, 2009 the United Nations' Commission of Narcotic Drugs held its 52nd session in Vienna, Austria, just10 years after Kofi Annan's pledge to have a "drug free world" by 2008. Representatives from around the world attended the conference voicing support and opposition to the centuries old "war on drugs."

Working with Witness and the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, we cut together excerpts from "Dare to Question? Using Video to Take on UN Drug Policies" and other testimonials appealing to the United Nations to reconsider its hardline policies combating the cultivation and use of illicit drugs.

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For 16 years, WITNESS has harnessed the power of video to advance human rights. In honor of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10th, we've put together a short video with different WITNESS staff talking about images that opened their eyes to human rights abuses around the world.

Now we want to hear from you:

What image opened your eyes to human rights? Was it an image or video that gave you hope, or did it show you how much further we needed to go and inspire you to take action?

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To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights we asked you to answer "What image opened your eyes to human rights?" Here is a sample of some of the video responses we received. Thanks to all who responded in text, video, blog posts, comments, etc.
Learn more about the people featured in this video and the images they discuss here: http://hub.witness.org/en/node /11734

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Thank you for responding to the question we asked in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights! Please continue the conversation here and to learn more about the videos that we included in our video and WITNESS' work to use video to create change, visit the WITNESS Hub.

Thanks!

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More here: http://hub.witness.org/lubanga -trial
The trial of Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is set to start on January 26, 2009.

In addition to being the first trial in the ICC's history, it is also the first time that video has played an integral role helping bring charges against a warlord. Lubanga is accused of enlisting and conscripting children under the age of fifteen to fight in his army during the Congolese civil war.

The widespread recruitment and use of child soldiers in the DRC is without parallel in Africa. Tens of thousands of child soldiers have been recruited as combatants by all parties to the conflict, which has been described as Africa's world war. Children make up the majority of combatants in the conflict, which has claimed over five million lives.

In this video, Bukeni Waruzi - WITNESS' Program Coordinator for Africa & Middle East and a native of the DRC - talks about his work on this issue since he was a still student living in the South Kivu Province, Eastern DRC, until today, as he gets ready to travel to The Hague to attend the opening of the Lubanga Trial at the ICC.

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In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where civil war has taken more than four million lives, children as young as six are routinely recruited by militias and taught to kill. It is estimated that children, most between 8 and 16 years old, make up 60% of combatants in the region.

A Duty to Protect tells the story of Mafille and January, two girls who were recruited into the military at thirteen and ten years of age respectively. Mafille is a demobilized girl soldier whose experience of violence and secual exploitation cause her deep emotional scars. January is a girl soldier whose bravado veils her suffering, and whose characater and perceptions personify the complexity of the conflict and the views of the local population. This unique video also looks at the effects of the recruitment and use of child soldiers on their families and the broader community, concluding that the people of eastern D.R.C. wish for peace and justice in their region.

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This video is available in English ("A Duty To Protect") here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =FIWIQ4Wt4o8

En République Démocratique du Congo (R.D.C.), les enfants font la majorité des combattants dans une guerre qui a causé près de quatre millions de morts. A travers les voix des enfants soldats, UN DEVOIR DE PROTECTION examine la complexité de la guerre, les difficultés auxquelles sont confrontées les filles soldats entre autre le viol et l'exploitation sexuelle ainsi que l'importance de la Cour Pénale Internationale (CPI) de mettre fin à l'impunité qui règne à L'Est de la R.D.C. La vidéo donne des recommandations spécifiques pour renforcer la CPI et appelle l'engagement de la communauté internationale pour mettre fin au recrutement et l'utilisation des enfants soldats. Un Devoir de Protection a été produit par WITNESS et AJEDI-Ka/Projet Enfants Soldats.

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WITNESS is a human rights organisation that uses video to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations.

We created this toolkit to help you to use video more effectively in human rights and advocacy work. It's designed for human rights activists and advocates, filmmakers, journalists and citizen journalists around the world.

"Before Filming" helps you prepare yourself and the people you're working with to:

- identify the goal of your video
- link your video to action
- understand consent

The other parts of the toolkit cover what to do when you are filming, and how to use your film or footage after you've shot it.

For more video related to human rights, visit us at http://www.witness.org, and join the community at the Hub: http://hub.witness.org.

If you'd like to translate this video into your language, please send us a message...

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This video is a part of the YouTube Reporters' Center. See more videos on how to report the news - and share your ideas - at http://www.youtube.com/reporte rscenter

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WITNESS is a human rights organisation that uses video to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations.

We created this toolkit to help you to use video more effectively in human rights and advocacy work. It's designed for human rights activists and advocates, filmmakers, journalists and citizen journalists around the world.

"During Filming (1)" helps you prepare yourself and the people you're working with how to:

- decide what and how to film
- get good sound
- use a mobile phone to film

The other parts of the toolkit cover what to do to prepare for filming, and how to use your film or footage after you've shot it.

For more video related to human rights, visit us at http://www.witness.org, and join the community at the Hub: http://hub.witness.org.

If you'd like to translate this video into your language, please send us a message...

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This video is a part of the YouTube Reporters' Center. See more videos on how to report the news - and share your ideas - at http://www.youtube.com/reporte rscenter

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WITNESS is a human rights organisation that uses video to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations.

We created this toolkit to help you to use video more effectively in human rights and advocacy work. It's designed for human rights activists and advocates, filmmakers, journalists and citizen journalists around the world.

"During Filming (2)" prepares you and the people you're working with to:

- film an interview
- get additional footage
- protect the people you film

The other parts of the toolkit cover what to do to prepare for filming, and how to use your film or footage after you've shot it.

For more video related to human rights, visit us at http://www.witness.org, and join the community at the Hub: http://hub.witness.org.

If you'd like to translate this video into your language, please send us a message...

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This video is a part of the YouTube Reporters' Center. See more videos on how to report the news - and share your ideas - at http://www.youtube.com/reporte rscenter

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