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The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights
London; New York: Routledge (2017), xix, 520 pp.
"The Companion is the first collection to bring together two distinct ways of thinking about human rights and media, including scholarship that examines media as a human right alongside that which looks at media coverage of human rights issues. This international collection of 49 newly written piece
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Travel Guide to the Digital World: Cybersecurity Policy for Human Rights Defenders
London: Global Partners Digital (2016), 106 pp.
"This guide aims to help correct the imbalance in capacity and expertise between human rights defenders and cybersecurity professionals and policy-makers. At the heart of the guide is an attempt to address perhaps the fundamental barrier: the absence of clear definitions and agreed terms. It will do
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Video as Evidence: Field Guide
Key Guides
Witness (2016), 200 pp.
"The goal of the Field Guide is to provide methods for filmers to use so that their videos can be as valuable as possible in exposing abuse and bringing about justice. This resource will help ensure that more cameras in more hands can lead to more exposure and greater justice. Activists producing fo
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"This series aims to help human rights defenders develop the tools, skills and knowledge they need to engage effectively in cyber policy debates. The series is structured around five modules. The first four each focus on a different aspect of cyber policy - human rights, cybersecurity, regulatory fr
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Citizen Media Research and Verification: An Analytical Framework for Human Rights Practitioners
Cambridge: University of Cambridge (2016), 35 pp.
"This paper examines the role of open source research in human rights fact-finding and seeks to address a gap in the current literature, which lacks a human rights perspective, is dominated by journalistic approaches, or focuses on specific tools. It focuses on citizen media, the visual subset of op
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Video as Evidence: Mini Guides
Witness (2016), 32 pp.
"We assume you know how to do human rights research but wish to expand on your knowledge of how to use digital data and online media for documentation purposes. This is a broad introduction that will set you on the right path to asking your own questions and seeking your own solutions. We aim to ins
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Manual de derechos humanos para comunicadores y comunicadoras
Santiago de Chile: Instituto Nacional de Derechos Humanos (INDH) (2016), 90 pp.
The Value of Freedom of Expression and Information on Countries' Human Rights Performance: A Cross-National Longitudinal Study
Deep Insights
Mass Communication & Society, volume 19, issue 3 (2016), pp. 352-376
"The current study explores the influence of communication variables on human rights protection. The effects of international and domestic mass communication and digital media were assessed among global social, economic, and political factors. The statistical analyses on a sample of 101 nation state
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Eritrea: From Liberation to Oppression
Hamburg: Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW) (2016), 167 pp.
"This publication will contribute to ensuring that the breadth of human rights violations in Eritrea becomes known, and that the issue of human trafficking migrates more strongly upwards into the public eye." (Back cover)
Reporting Human Rights
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2016), xiii, 219 pp.
Opening the News Gates? Humanitarian and Human Rights NGOs in the US News Media, 1990-2010
Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 3 (2016), pp. 315-331
"This study examines whether changes in the media, political, and civic landscapes give leading non-governmental organizations (NGOs) increased news access. Using longitudinal content analysis (1990-2010) of a purposive sample of US news outlets, it compares the prevalence, prominence, and story loc
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Safeguarding Human Rights on the Net
Council of Europe (2016), 6 pp.
"Revelations on mass online surveillance and regular reports on abuses of the rights to privacy and free expression clearly show the need to effectively protect human rights on the net. The Council of Europe works with governments, the private sector, civil society and other actors to shape the Inte
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Eritrea: Von der Befreiung zur Unterdrückung
Hamburg: Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW) (2015), 152 pp.
Human Rights Film Festivals: Activism in Context
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xiii, 248 pp.
"This book explores how human rights developed as a language located in history, space and time, and how the festivals continue with this tradition by adapting it for local audiences. The tensions produced by human rights' search for universality and the located-ness of the festivals are explored in
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Journalism and Human Rights: How Demographics Drive Media Coverage
Lodon et al.: Routledge (2015), 166 pp.
"This book is the first collection of original research to explore links between demographics and media coverage of emerging human rights issues. It covers cross-national reporting on human trafficking, HIV/AIDS, water contamination, and child labour; and same-sex marriage, Guantanamo detainee right
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Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur
Oakland: University of California Press (2015), xix, 341 pp.
"How do interventions by the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court influence representations of mass violence? What images arise instead from the humanitarianism and diplomacy fields? How are these competing perspectives communicated to the public via mass media? Zooming in on the
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ICTS and Human Rights Practice: A Report Prepared for the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions
Cambridge: University of Cambridge; Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR) (2015), 50 pp.
"This report provides a crucial and in depth look at ICT initiatives and trends across the key human rights practices of prevention, fact-finding, and advocacy, identifying both risks and opportunities. In prevention, ICTs can be harnessed to protect human rights defenders, to prevent violations in
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