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Names: Ristovska, Sandra, author.
Title: Seeing human rights : video activism as a proxy profession / Sandra Ristovska.
Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2021. | Series: Information policy | Based on the authors dissertation (doctoral)--University of Pennsylvania, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: LCSH: Human rights advocacy. | Video recordings--Political aspects. | Video recordings--Social aspects.
Contents
List of Figures
Screenshot, eyewitness video from Unlawful Police Killings Undermine Law Enforcement in Brazil, HRW, July 7, 2016, https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/video/2016/07/07/unlawful-police-killings-undermine-law-enforcement-brazil.
Screenshot, You Have the Right to Remain SilentCalifornia Bill Strengthens Miranda for Kids, HRW, August 17, 2016, https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/08/18/us-california-bill-protect-youth-miranda-rights#.
CCTV footage analysis, The Murder of Pavlos Fyssas, Forensic Architecture, September 21, 2018, https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/the-murder-of-pavlos-fyssas.
Screenshot, Syrias Torture Centers Revealed, HRW, July 2, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lr-dcHOtzo.
Screenshot, Syrias Torture Centers Revealed, HRW, July 2, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lr-dcHOtzo.
Screenshot, Boko Harams Female Fighters, Amnesty International, April 13, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwskRNFCAN8&feature=emb_logo.
Screenshot, Assessing the Source, Citizen Evidence Lab, Amnesty International, n.d., https://citizenevidence.org.
Screenshot, YouTube ID Identification, Citizen Evidence Lab, Amnesty International, n.d., https://citizenevidence.org.
Screenshot, Citizen Video Assessment, Citizen Evidence Lab, Amnesty International, n.d., https://citizenevidence.org.
ICTY Courtroom 1, n.d., http://www.icty.org/en/about/registry/courtroom-technology.
ICTY video booth recording a trial in Courtroom 1, n.d., http://www.icty.org/en/about/registry/courtroom-technology.
ICTY Courtroom 1 public gallery, n.d., https://www.icty.org/en/content/virtual-tour-courtroom-i.
Screenshot, Scorpions video shown at the ICTY, June 1, 2005, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=norSzT312L8.
Screenshot, Scorpions video shown at the ICTY, June 1, 2005, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=norSzT312L8.
Screenshot, Scorpions video shown at the ICTY, June 1, 2005, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=norSzT312L8.
Screenshot, ICTY timeline, n.d., http://www.icty.org/en/in-focus/timeline.
Screenshot, First Life Sentence by the Appeals Chamber, ICTY, November 30, 2006, http://www.icty.org/en/in-focus/timeline.
Screenshot, Guilty Plea for the Shelling of Dubrovnik, ICTY, December 4, 2003, http://www.icty.org/en/in-focus/timeline.
Screenshot, A Duty to Protect: Child Soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, WITNESS, June 2, 2008, http://hib.witness.org/DutyToProtect.
Screenshot, Burundi: Suspected Mass Graves of Victims of 11 December Violence, Amnesty International, January 29, 2016, https://www.amnestyusa.org/files/burundibriefingafr1633372016english2.pdf.
Amnesty (International Movement for Freedom of Opinion and Religion), First Annual Report 19611962.
Amnesty Denmark Paraguay campaign, 1972. The poster in the middle says, Amnesty International / a movement to fight persecution and protect human rights; the poster on the left says, Dd efter tortur [dead after torture]: Juan J. Farias1969, Juan Benitez1967, G. Gamaria1968 i Paraguay [in Paraguay]. From Amnestys Asset Bank (unrestricted use), May 16, 2011, https://adam.amnesty.org/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=133434&index=0&total=1&view=viewSearchItem.
Screenshot, North Korea: Accounts from Camp Survivors, HRW, February 17, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZby_vxrJ0Q.
Screenshot, North Korea: Accounts from Camp Survivors, HRW, February 17, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZby_vxrJ0Q.
Screenshot, Gaza Platform Findings, Amnesty International, July 10, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIEH91fu0Gw&t=1s.
Screenshot, LGBT Students Bullied in Japan, HRW, June 10, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVUyw8Pob68.
Screenshot, You Must Know About Me: Rights, Not Violence for Sex Workers in Macedonia, WITNESS and the Healthy Options Project Skopje, December 8, 2009, https://vimeo.com/207838742.
Screenshot, Nolwandles Story, Amnesty International, July 25, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7n1Ks3exko.
List of Tables
Human Rights Collectives: A Brief Overview
Innovative Journalism Overlapping with Human Rights Spaces: A Brief Overview