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Regular updates of underreported human rights issues recorded by activists and advocacy groups around the world. Check out the latest footage and share your thoughts.

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Daily updates of verified human rights video recorded by citizen witnesses. From Angola to Sri Lanka, elections to refugee crises, follow Citizen Watch for breaking footage from the citizen's point of view.

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For more information about the videos below, see this article on the WITNESS blog: http://blog.witness.org/2014/09/community-reporters-docum...

Tips on how to document and distribute powerful human rights video - for activism, journalism, advocacy and evidence. This playlist can help you film powerful videos safely and effectively. For more resources visit http://www.witness.org/how-to.

witness.org | This six-part video series provides practical tips and insight from activists, survivors and experts on interviewing techniques, creating appropriate questions, safety and security, and the effects of trauma on survivors. The video series accompanies our written guide on "Conducting Safe, Effective and Ethical Interviews with Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence." (http://gbv.witness.org/resources/).

The idea to produce these guides came from WITNESS' experiences with activists and partner organizations working to end sexual and gender-based violence globally. Their feedback made it clear that there was a need for guidance on how to conduct these interviews. Documenting stories of survivors can be difficult for a number of reasons including: societal stigma and shame; the threat of retribution by the perpetrator or institutions that wish to bury these stories; and, poorly conducted interviews can lack respect for the rights and dignity of survivors. All of these have the ability to expose survivors to further hardship or risks to their personal safety. Our hope is that these guides will help filmmakers, activists and advocacy organizations record interviews with survivors more safely, ethically and effectively.

Learn more about WITNESS' Gender-Based Violence campaign at gbv.witness.org. Share your thoughts and feedback with us at training@witness.org.

Thank you to the many individuals and organizations who supported the production of this video series!

INTERVIEWEE CREDITS
Alain Kabenga: Activist/Survivor, Men of Hope Association
Elana Newman, Ph.D.: Professor at University of Tulsa, Research Director/ Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
Faisal Khan: College Coach & Teacher/Survivor
Fungisai Maisva: Researcher
Kate Rush-Cook: Activist/Survivor
Katherine Hull: VP of Communications, RAINN
Katlyn Lewicke: Activist/Survivor
Lisa Jackson: Filmmaker and Producer
Melissa Bermudez: LICSW and Training Manager, RAINN
Mora Fernández: Activist/Survivor
Nancy Schwartzman: Filmmaker/Activist/Survivor
Otim Patrick: Filmmaker/Activist, Refugee Law Project - School of Law, Makerere University
Refik Hodzic: Director, Communications ICTJ
Rutendo Munengami: Activist/Survivor
Tiphanie Crittin: Researcher/Project Officer, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights