Video4Change Network Updates, March 2021
This month, members of the Video4Change Network joined the celebrations for International Women’s Month, the works of some are highlighted in this second Network update of 2021.
Blog Highlights
New Network Member Spotlight: Refugee Law Project
The Refugee Law Project is an organisation in Uganda running a large Media for Social Change program and planning a 2021 film festival to showcase the work of its video trainees.
New Network Member Spotlight: Biru Terong Initiative
Vivian Idris is the founder of the Biru Terong Initiative based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Biru Terong is one of six Video for Change organisations that recently joined the Video4Change Network, each of which will be featured on the website in the coming weeks.
We need to build solutions for #disinformation that are at the scale of problem and don’t further disadvantage vulnerable populations - some ideas on how to here: https://blog.witness.org/2020/05/authenticity-infrastructure/ #skollwf
APPLY NOW! The 16th Summer School in Cinema Human Rights and Advocacy Summer School is now accepting applications.
Developed jointly by @picture___people and @gchumanrights
🌟Learn more and apply: https://www.picturepeople.org/summer-school 🌟
#CHRASchool #HumanRights #MediaActivism
We're excited about the #ClosingtheDistance Between Fact & Fake: #Disinformation Solutions session at the @SkollFoundation World Forum on April 13. @AdebayOkeowo will be speaking on the panel!
Sign up and we’ll see you there: http://skoll.wf/schedule
#SkollWF
How can verifiable photos and videos be combined with satellite imagery and #opensourceinvestigations to seek #justice? Learn more: https://www.eyewitness.global/Using-verifiable-footage-to-fight-for-adequate-housing-in-Ukraine #OpenSource #Ukraine
How has covid-19 affected #universaljurisdiction cases? Learn more from @Trial's latest review. #internationaljustice https://twitter.com/Trial/status/1381519228667371531
More than 3,50,000 tea garden workers in #WestBengal work to ensure you get your daily hot cuppa.🍵
And yet, such a significant number of people have been neglected for decades and denied their basic rights.
Our Community Correspondent Puja Thakur reports
https://youtu.be/_94kSecn0O4
Ongoing engagement meeting between Kakamega Tea Farmers and relevant County Government officials from the Assembly & Executive. The objective is to establish why the tea factory has not been constructed since 2015 and yet every year millions are set aside for its construction.
In 2019, #Indigenous Leaders formed the Pan African Living Cultures Alliance, whose mission is to safeguard communities’ #bioculturalrights, support #intergenerational transmission, preserve #Indigenouslanguages & promote traditional governance of natural resources.
Filming #HumanRightsViolations can be dangerous. Prioritize your safety & security, and follow these guidelines for filming your #video evidence of the #MyanmarCoup. https://twitter.com/WITNESS_Asia/status/1379733000670171138
InformAction's Community Action Team in Mombasa stages a flash mob demonstration against the Kenya government after it reimposed Covid-19 measures in a partial lockdown and new curfew. They protested massive job loss with growing debt and runaway corruption #WatchDiscussAct
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