Video Shows a Year's Worth of Human Rights Abuse Captured by Citizen Journalists Andri Antoniades - TakePart
go to original January 12, 2014

Human Rights Channel: 2013 Year in Review (The Human Rights Channel on YouTube)

Monitoring human rights abuse is a responsibility that's increasingly falling into the hands of private citizens. User-generated content is already changing the way we think and collaborate across the web, but it's capable of creating more than great art - it also has the power to tell the truth behind some of the most critical issues facing global populations today.

WITNESS is an organization that uses citizen-filmed footage to shine a light on human rights violations internationally. The video below, culled from clips posted on its Human Rights YouTube channel, boils down some of the most crucial events of 2013 into one harrowing five-minute compilation. The clips it contains were verified by Storyful, a social media–based news agency.

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