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WITNESS
is the preeminent international
organization that trains human rights advocates and organizations in the use of
video as a complementary tool in human rights campaigns. Video advocacy,
as defined by WITNESS, is the process of using digital video and related online
technologies in strategic and targeted campaigns to open the eyes of the world
to human rights violations, and to secure changes in policy or practice.
As it is relatively inexpensive and easy to use, video is a democratic medium
through which people can expose human rights violations, reclaim their
experience of events and affect needed change.
This
workshop will be the central event in an integrated Video Advocacy Project that
will support a sustained and growing regional movement to use video as a
powerful tool to challenge and change policies and projects driving forced
displacement. This Project will include the formation of a Displacement
Video Advocacy Network and Seed Fund to help ensure the sustainability of the
workshop’s objectives. The Network will be composed of individuals and
popular communications organizations committed to facilitating the completion
and viewing of powerful videos on forced displacement in targeted settings in
Asia. The Seed Fund will help strengthen relationships between
individuals and supporting organizations, and assist with the distribution of
the completed videos on forced displacement.
The Video Advocacy Workshop, Network and Seed Fund are closely linked with
IAP’s other work in Asia. The Video Advocacy Network will overlap with
the People’s Guide network of trainers,
and facilitate the creation of a video to complement this regional popular
education resource.
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