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About WITNESS Media Archive
The mission of the WITNESS Media Archive is to collect, document and preserve audiovisual human rights documentation for posterity; to support the ongoing work of WITNESS partners; and to provide access to a broader community of advocates, researchers, filmmakers, and journalists, now and in the future. We believe that archives can and should play an important role in the support of human rights advocacy, prosecution of justice, and the preservation and access of important historical narratives.
The video collection comprises over 3000 hours of video from human rights defenders around the world. Footage includes witnes and victim testimonies, abuses caught on tape, interviews with key human rights defenders, evidentiary submissions, and footage of cultural events and daily life.
WITNESS Media Archive's recent content
It's Still Going On: Reproductive Rights Violations in Mexico
Running Time: 11:20 min.
Regions: Mexico
Issues: Reproductive rights
Kosovo and Beyond
Running Time: 9:30 min.
Regions: Kosovo – UN-Administered Territory
Issues: International criminal court, War crimes
Fueling Abuse
Running Time: 6:56 min.
...Regions: Myanmar
Issues: Corporations and human rights, Internally displaced persons, Slavery & forced labor
Ecuador's Black Plague
Running Time: 4:24 min
Regions: Ecuador
Issues: Corporations and human rights
The Death of Tyson: the Life and Times of a Zambian Street Kid
Running Time: 28:30 min.
Regions: Africa, Zambia
Issues: Children's rights, HIV-AIDS, Juvenile justice
Witness to Truth (Excerpts)
Running Time: 7 min.
A Video Report and Recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Sierra Leone
Regions: Sierra Leone
Issues: Child soldiers, Rape and sexual abuse, War crimes
Enchaines par Promesses: L'Esclavage Contemporain Dans Les Campagnes du Bresil (Extraits)
Running Time: 03:51 min.
The video above contains excerpts from "Bound by Promises."
Regions: Brazil
Issues: Slavery & forced labor
Shoot on Sight
Watch "Shoot on Sight" and contact Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon to demand UN Security Council action on Eastern Burma and to exert immediate pressure on the military junta in Burma to stop violence a...
Regions: Myanmar, Thailand
Issues: Internally displaced persons, Mass killings, Refugees
WITNESS Media Archive: Footage from Rio Negro Massacre
On March 13, 1982, eleven-year-old Jesus Tecú Osorio watched the torture, rape and slaughter of 177 women and children in his village, including most of his family....
Regions: Guatemala
Issues: Impunity, International criminal court, Mass killings
WITNESS Video Trip Report DRC 2008
Our colleagues Becky Lichtenfeld and Bukeni Waruzi travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo with Youssou N'Dour in September to work with local organizations and government officials and help cat...