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	HU OSA 392
Fonds 392:	Video recordings of WITNESS

Date(s) 1996-2004

Extent and medium

Estimated total:
6 Archival boxes
234 DVD-ROMs
Currently processed:
237 DVD-ROM, 2 linear meters

Name of creator(s) WITNESS and its partners

Archival history

In 2005, WITNESS (New York) has deposited a selection of 234 DVDs, approximately 200 hours of documentary and raw footage recordings in OSA Archivum to be available for academic and research purposes within the institution. Witness uses video and online technologies to disclose human rights violations around the world (www.witness.org).

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer WITNESS, New York

Scope and content

WITNESS was founded in 1992 by musician and activist Peter Gabriel and the Reebok Human Rights Foundation as a project of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First). WITNESS uses video and online technologies to disclose human rights violations around the world.

This collection contains video recordings of WITNESS partners as well as 52 documentary films produced by WITNESS. The WITNESS Partners collection contains footage from various partners and partner organizations such as Jimmy Briggs, The Association for the Defense of Human Rights in Congo, Institute of Human Rights and Development in Africa, The Revolutionary Association of the Women in Afghanistan, Arab Association for Human Rights, and various others. The collection includes raw footage of refugee camps, mass graves, exhumation procedures, media briefings, interviews, etc. The WITNESS documentary collection consists of documentary, training and promotional films uncovering human rights violations and promoting worldwide protection of human rights.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• HU OSA 392-1 Activist films, 1996-2004
  • HU OSA 392-1-1 Documentary films and promotional videos, 1996-2004
• HU OSA 392-2 WITNESS partners' raw footage, 1992-2002
  • HU OSA 392-2-1 Association for the Defense of Human Rights (ASADHO), 1996
  • HU OSA 392-2-2 WITNESS interviews, 1996-2002
  • HU OSA 392-2-3 Institute of Human Rights and Developement in Africa, 2002
  • HU OSA 392-2-4 Rencontre Africaine pour La Défense des Droits de l'Homme (RADDHO), 1996-2003
  • HU OSA 392-2-5 Solidarité pour la Promotion Sociale et la Paix (SOPROP), 1999
  • HU OSA 392-2-6 Voice of the Voiceless, 1993
  • HU OSA 392-2-7 Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), 2001-2002
  • HU OSA 392-2-8 Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), 1992-1996
  • HU OSA 392-2-9 Arab Association for Human Rights (HRA), 1999
  • HU OSA 392-2-10 Jimmie Briggs, 1999-2001
  • HU OSA 392-2-11 Nah We Yone ["It Belongs to Us"] - Support to Sierra Leonian refugees, 2000-2002
  • HU OSA 392-2-12 Women's Caucus for Gender Justice (New York), 1999-2000
  • HU OSA 392-2-13 WITNESS Kosovo Project, 1998-1999

Conditions governing access Open to researchers

Conditions governing reproduction Copyright held by producers

Language/scripts of material

Albanian, Arabic, Dholuo, English, French, Fulah, Krio, Manipuri, Numana-Nunku-Gbantu-Numbu, Persian, Serbian, Spanish, Tagalog, Wolof

Physical characteristics and technical requirements DVD ROMs

Finding aids

• Related OSA Reference Information Paper available. (RIP 9: Human Rights)

Existence and location of originals

• www.witness.org

Related units of description

• HU OSA 350 Records of the International Monitor Institute (IMI), 1990-2002
• HU OSA 350-1 Europe, 1990-2001
• HU OSA 350-3 Africa
• HU OSA 350-1-1 'Balkan Archive', 1990-2001
• HU OSA 350-4-1 Middle East
• HU OSA 350-3-1 Rwanda

Note

Keywords: Africa
Congo
Sierra Leone
Mauritania
Rwanda
Middle East
Afghanistan
Israel
Kosovo
former Yugoslavia
human rights
refugee camps
ethnic cleansing
genocide
child soldiers
rape
mass garves
exhumations

Date(s) of descriptions

System of arrangement and preliminary processing by Zsuzsa Zádori 2005; processed and described by Anna Kövecsi, April 2008.
Online version updated 17 November 2009