WITNESS empowers human rights organizations around the world to incorporate video as an advocacy tool in their work. Rooted in the power of personal testimonies and in the principle that a picture is worth a thousand words, WITNESS and its partners’ videos have been used

Tactic Information

Intervention type: 

Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building capacity

Objective: 

To strengthen grassroots movements for change by training them to create and use video evidence before courts and the United Nations

Sector initiating tactic: 

Civil society

Sector intended to affect: 

Civil society

Since 2000, the Human Rights Observatories Network has worked with youth groups in various regions of Brazil, inspiring them to learn about human rights and to learn how to report on and to monitor their communities’ access to rights.

Tactic Information

Intervention type: 

Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions - Building awareness

Objective: 

To train young people to monitor human rights.

Sector initiating tactic: 

Civil society

Sector intended to affect: 

Civil society