January 2012
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INSIGHTSHARE - Video for change →
INSIGHTSHARE is a leading organization in using participatory video as a tool for empowering individuals and communities.
INSIGHTSHARE’s social projects use video tools and equipment in their interventions.
The so called participatory video - projects focus on the participation of crisis-affected communities (e.g. refugees) in producing and discussing videos that concern them and their...
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WatchBecause some things are just extraordinary.
“We joined forces with an amazing group of people to create this viral public service announcement (PSA). The original purpose of this film was to raise awareness on the Burmese peoples ongoing peaceful protests against their military government’s notorious human rights violations. When Cyclone Nargus hit, causing untold loss of life and...
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WatchAttention, Motion Graphic Designers- this is how you use your skills for the bigger picture.
Support growing human rights groups all over the world.
Why?
Every citizen has the right to a human rights group in their country. It is these local groups that make a great difference with the help of the Declaration. The Declaration can be the basis on which indigenous human rights activists and...
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Filmaid International
Communities in crisis need knowledge and empowerment. FilmAid provides both, to millions of people suffering the effects of war, poverty, displacement or disaster. Films provide a way to reach many people at once, overcoming literacy boundaries, bringing forth information where it is needed and inspiring hope where it is lacking. Since 1999, FilmAid has worked in partnership with other global...
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Mediasocialchange.net - A Blog to Follow →
”(…) media anthropology is beginning to have a theoretical impact as its practitioners continue to produce ground-up theorising on the production, circulation and appropriation of media. One key area to which anthropologists have much to contribute is the elusive relationship between media and social change – a subject of great public interest, yet one in which futuristic hyperbole...
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WITNESS- See it, Film it, Change it
WITNESS is an international nonprofit organization that uses the power of video and storytelling to open the eyes of the world to human rights abuses. It was co-founded in 1992 by musician and human rights advocate Peter Gabriel, Human Rights First and the Reebok Human Rights Foundation.
WITNESS empowers human rights defenders to use video to fight injustice, and to transform personal stories...