Identity Statement

Reference Code

HU OSA 392-2

Title

WITNESS Partners' Raw Footage

Date(s)

1992 - 2002

Description Level

Subfonds

Extent and medium (processed)

190 DVD-ROM, 1.9 linear meters

Content and Structure

Scope and Content (Abstract)

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. This collection of raw footage and b-roll films documents grave violations of human rights around the world. It contains interviews with those involved, site visits, exhumations, damage reports and other footage documenting human rights violations. Most footage is in original local language, rarely in English and French.

Accruals

Not Expected

Conditions of Access and Use

Conditions governing access

Open to researchers

Languages

Albanian, Arabic, Dholuo, English, French, Fulah, Numana-Nunku-Gbantu-Numbu, Persian, Serbian, Spanish; Castilian, Wolof

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

DVD ROMs

Description Control

Archivist's note

Processed by Zsuzsa Zádori and Anna Kövecsi, 2005 - 2008.