Seeing Human Rights: Video Activism as a Proxy Profession

As video becomes an important tool to expose injustice, an examination of how human rights organizations are seeking to professionalize video activism.

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, Sandra Ristovska examines how human rights organ...