Forbes.com has an article about the new Witness HUB for videos from anyone to expose human rights abuses.
Seeing Is Believing
Megan Johnston 10.30.06Most human rights abuses go unseen. The venerable rock star Peter Gabriel aims to fix that.
"This is what Witness was born to do," says Gabriel, who founded the outfit in 1992. "Hopefully we can attract activism to those situations and get help for those people. But initially it’s trying to add the right to be heard and seen." Executive Director Gillian Caldwell adds, "We could be the YouTube of human rights."
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When video capability started showing up in cell phones two years ago, Gabriel got the idea for the Hub. "Peter had really been saying, ‘What about the cell phones?’ This has totally transformed the landscape for us, and we have to stay cutting-edge," Caldwell says. Witness advises video sleuths how to post anonymously to avoid government retaliation. "The Hub is absolutely critical," she says. "There is no incentive to risk your life uploading cell phone footage of human rights abuses onto YouTube."
