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Seeing Human Rights: Video Activism as a Proxy Profession
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2021), xiii, 271 pp.
"Visual imagery is at the heart of humanitarian and human rights activism, and video has become a key tool in these efforts. The Saffron Revolution in Myanmar, the Green Movement in Iran, and Black Lives Matter in the United States have all used video to expose injustice. In Seeing Human Rights, San
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Human Rights in Survival Mode: Rebuilding Trust and Supporting Digital Workers in the Philippines
Cambridge, MA: Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy; Asia Foundation (2021), 63 pp.
"This report summarizes powerful research on the Philippines’ human rights sector in “survival mode” under Rodrigo Duterte’s violent regime. Historically known as the most active civil society in Asia, the Philippines human rights movement has faced an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy whil
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Reporting Business and Human Rights: A Handbook for Journalists, Communicators and Campaigners
Key Guides
UNDP (2021), 116 pp.
"This handbook is broadly divided into three sections: this first focuses on understanding business and human rights, its themes and topics. The second part looks at the practicalities of reporting business and human rights stories: from finding ideas and spotting stories through to the process of r
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Archives and Human Rights
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxi, 330 pp.
"Why and how can records serve as evidence of human rights violations, in particular crimes against humanity, and help the fight against impunity? Archives and Human Rights shows the close relationship between archives and human rights and discusses the emergence, at the international level, of the
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Living Archives: An Introductory Toolkit for Civil Society Organizations in the Creation of Human Rights Oral Archives and Organizing Their Documentation
Key Guides
Global Initiative for Justice Truth & Reconciliation (GIJTR) (2021), 151 pp.
"This document was developed as an instrument to support civil society organizations (CSOs) in Colombia in the development of oral archives and in the organization of their archival collections. It draws from the experience of GIJTR partners International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC) and
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Human Rights Guidance for the Mobile Industry
London: GSMA (2020), 23 pp.
"The aim of this document is to provide an introduction for companies to consider the relevance of the following issues for their operations, as well as inspiration and resources to begin to formalise their management of human rights. It is recognised that many of these issues cannot be solved by on
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Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation, and Accountability
Key Guides
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020), xvi, 360 pp.
"Video Unavailable": Social Media Platforms Remove Evidence of War Crimes
New York: Human Rights Watch (2020), 94 pp.
"Social media platforms are taking down “terrorist and violent extremist content” more and more quickly, often in response to the demands of governments, but in a way that prevents the content from being used to support investigations into serious crimes, including war crimes. “Video Unavailab
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#Faith4Rights toolkit
Faith for Rights (2020), 116 pp.
RFA In-Depth Interviews: Uyghur Experiences of Detention in Post-2015 Xinjiang
Radio Free Asia (RFA) (2020), 40 pp.
"This report presents the results of in-depth interviews conducted with eight individuals with recent direct experience inside detention facilities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Findings are based on four face-to-face and four remote interviews conducted between November 201
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Lése-majesté and journalism in Turkey and Europe
"This chapter deals with lèse-majesté laws and their impact on the exercise of freedom of political expression and journalism from the perspective of international human rights law. In doing so, it addresses the chilling effects of the application of a particular crime of lèse-majesté, namely
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Die fotografische Inszenierung des Verbrechens: Ein Album aus Auschwitz
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 303 pp.
"1944 entstanden im Vernichtungslager Auschwitz-Birkenau eine Vielzahl von Fotografien, die zumeist den SS-Fotografen Bernhard Walter und Ernst Hoffmann zuzuordnen sind. Erhalten blieben die Bilder in Form eines Albums im Besitz der Holocaust-Überlebenden Lili Jacob, die es auf Vermittlung Serge Kl
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Advanced Digital Technology and Genocide and Mass Atrocities Prevention
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 557-577
"There is no doubt that technology has improved the ability to document war crimes and human rights abuses, even in otherwise inaccessible locations. The world now sees, often in close to real-time, atrocities that would have been lost to the world only a handful of years ago. But does knowing neces
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Memória e direitos humanos: Desafios contemporâneos
Porto Alegre: Editora Fi (2019), 262 pp.
Pistas para investigar la desaparición y búsqueda de personas: Diálogos con la ausencia
Bogotá: Consejo de Redacción (2019), 208 pp.
"Sin desconocer el esfuerzo del periodismo por contar las historias, cabe reconocer que se han cometido errores en el cubrimiento, de ahí la importancia de los periodistas, ya que el peso que tiene cada pequeña noticia, escrita o leída, puede convertirse en una pieza clave en la reconstrucción d
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Films for Dignity
In: Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change
Singapore: ISEAS (2019), pp. 307-314
"In 2013 I became the co-organizer of the Human Rights, Human Dignity Film Festival in Yangon. We organized the festival for a simple reason - we were very suspicious of the political reform process initiated by the Thein Sein administration, the transformed military government. Like many of our fel
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