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Seeing Human Rights: Video Activism as a Proxy Profession
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2021), xiii, 271 pp.
"Visual imagery is at the heart of humanitarian and human rights activism, and video has become a key tool in these efforts. The Saffron Revolution in Myanmar, the Green Movement in Iran, and Black Lives Matter in the United States have all used video to expose injustice. In Seeing Human Rights, San
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Reporting Business and Human Rights: A Handbook for Journalists, Communicators and Campaigners
Key Guides
UNDP (2021), 116 pp.
"This handbook is broadly divided into three sections: this first focuses on understanding business and human rights, its themes and topics. The second part looks at the practicalities of reporting business and human rights stories: from finding ideas and spotting stories through to the process of r
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The Impact of Disinformation on Democratic Processes and Human Rights in the World
Brussels: European Parliament, Directorate General for External Policies of the Union (2021), 54 pp.
"Disinformation undermines human rights and many elements of good quality democracy; but counter-disinformation measures can also have a prejudicial impact on human rights and democracy. COVID-19 compounds both these dynamics and has unleashed more intense waves of disinformation, allied to human ri
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The Human Rights Film Network: Festival resilience in the time of Covid-19
NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies, volume 10, issue 1 (2021), pp. 275-282
"[...] This article focuses on how human rights festivals across the world have creatively and resourcefully resisted and adapted to Covid-19. It analyses the impact of this crisis on festival organisations within their contexts and on the global outreach that was possible thanks to the connections
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Archives and Human Rights
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxi, 330 pp.
"Why and how can records serve as evidence of human rights violations, in particular crimes against humanity, and help the fight against impunity? Archives and Human Rights shows the close relationship between archives and human rights and discusses the emergence, at the international level, of the
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"Journalists alone cannot save journalism, and civil society activists and human rights defenders alone cannot defend civil space. This is why multi-stakeholder coalitions, as well as regional and international networks, constitute an essential pathway to identify and deliver solutions to the comple
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"Video Unavailable": Social Media Platforms Remove Evidence of War Crimes
New York: Human Rights Watch (2020), 94 pp.
"Social media platforms are taking down “terrorist and violent extremist content” more and more quickly, often in response to the demands of governments, but in a way that prevents the content from being used to support investigations into serious crimes, including war crimes. “Video Unavailab
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Die fotografische Inszenierung des Verbrechens: Ein Album aus Auschwitz
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 303 pp.
"1944 entstanden im Vernichtungslager Auschwitz-Birkenau eine Vielzahl von Fotografien, die zumeist den SS-Fotografen Bernhard Walter und Ernst Hoffmann zuzuordnen sind. Erhalten blieben die Bilder in Form eines Albums im Besitz der Holocaust-Überlebenden Lili Jacob, die es auf Vermittlung Serge Kl
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#Faith4Rights toolkit
Faith for Rights (2020), 116 pp.
Human Rights Guidance for the Mobile Industry
London: GSMA (2020), 23 pp.
"The aim of this document is to provide an introduction for companies to consider the relevance of the following issues for their operations, as well as inspiration and resources to begin to formalise their management of human rights. It is recognised that many of these issues cannot be solved by on
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Lése-majesté and journalism in Turkey and Europe
"This chapter deals with lèse-majesté laws and their impact on the exercise of freedom of political expression and journalism from the perspective of international human rights law. In doing so, it addresses the chilling effects of the application of a particular crime of lèse-majesté, namely
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RFA In-Depth Interviews: Uyghur Experiences of Detention in Post-2015 Xinjiang
Radio Free Asia (RFA) (2020), 40 pp.
"This report presents the results of in-depth interviews conducted with eight individuals with recent direct experience inside detention facilities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Findings are based on four face-to-face and four remote interviews conducted between November 201
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Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation, and Accountability
Key Guides
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020), xvi, 360 pp.
Memoria, verdad y justicia: Herramientas para comunicar desde los derechos humanos
Key Guides
Buenos Aires: Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos (APDH); World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) (2019), 127 pp.
"Esta guía no tiene por objetivo relatar los hechos de la historia, sino abordar distintos aspectos de utilidad para la cobertura periodística. Los diversos aspectos de la comunicación pueden resultar inabarcables, es por eso que esta guía no pretende ser exhaustiva pero sí señalar algunas cue
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African Cinema and Human Rights
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2019), x, 314 pp.
"Bringing theory and practice together, 'African Cinema and Human Rights' argues that moving images have a significant role to play in advancing the causes of justice and fairness. The contributors to this volume identify three key ways in which film can achieve these goals: documenting human rights
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Situación de los derechos humanos de los pueblos indígenas y tribales de la Panamazonía: Aprobado por la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos el 29 de septiembre de 2019
Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) (2019), 210 pp.
"En el presente informe, la CIDH pudo constatar cómo el incremento de las actividades extractivas en la Amazonía ha causado efectos de deforestación y ha creado tensiones por el uso de la tierra y sus recursos. En algunos países las actividades ilícitas se han fortalecido, posibilitando rutas d
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Advanced Digital Technology and Genocide and Mass Atrocities Prevention
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 557-577
"There is no doubt that technology has improved the ability to document war crimes and human rights abuses, even in otherwise inaccessible locations. The world now sees, often in close to real-time, atrocities that would have been lost to the world only a handful of years ago. But does knowing neces
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Memória e direitos humanos: Desafios contemporâneos
Porto Alegre: Editora Fi (2019), 262 pp.
