Video4Change Network Blog

2018 marks the 20-year anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Hopefully, you have visited our beta version of the Video for Change and Impact Cookbook. Recently, we have started to take the Impact Cookbook to a new phase. All contents are being revisited, updated and improved.

If we are to build a workforce with the resilience to deal regularly and effectively with traumatic imagery, where the endpoint isn’t necessarily burning out, then we need to institute best practices. We need to hold spaces to share experiences. To give ourselves survival kits. And maybe to cry a little too.

Members of the Video4Change (V4C) Network share what the Network is about, where they find common ground, and what are its future plans.

When activists get together, often it’s less like a conference and more like a family reunion, so intense are the shared experiences. And so it was at the recent two-day gathering of the Video4Change Network in Colombo, and also at the sessions we organised and...