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Participatory Video is a means of realising a rights based approach. InsightShare enables groups to define and discover their own homeknown rights and initiates homegrown campaigns for change. Here are some examples of Participatory Video projects integrating the Human Rights Based Approach.
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Climate Change Adaptation and Human Rights in Niger

In January 2011, a group of representatives from Nigerien non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on climate adaptation and human rights in Niger were brought together for a participatory video workshop. During the training, two short films were produced illustrating community based adaptation initiatives supported by UNDP in two respective villages in the Dakoro commune. This training was supported by UNDP/GEF Community-BASED adaptation (CBA) programme.

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Themes: Human Rights, Community Action, Climate Change
Category: Training, Human Rights Based Approach, Capacity Building

A Rights-Based Approach to Participatory Video: toolkit

'A Rights-Based Approach to Participatory Video: toolkit' has been assembled to provide the first few stepping stones for practitioners of participatory video to begin introducing a rights-based approach into their practice.  The toolkit (published on 11th June 2010) is FREE to download here as a dynamic PDF.

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Themes: Community Action, Human Rights
Category: Advocacy, Human Rights Based Approach, Training

UNDRIP animation

Worldwide

This short animation explains in a simple way UNDRIP (United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples).

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Themes: Indigenous Issues, PV Demo
Category: Human Rights Based Approach, Training

Human Rights animation

Worldwide

This animation explains in a simple way what our human rights are and how they are linked to climate change.

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Themes: Climate Change, Human Rights, PV Demo
Category: Advocacy, Human Rights Based Approach

Diary of a Participatory Advocacy Film Project

In August 2007, the government of Tanzania made a commitment to doubling the number of training places for skilled midwives, following a five-year campaign by the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood in Tanzania (WRATZ), which culminated in the first television screening of a participatory film, 'Play Your Part'.

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Themes: Health
Category: Human Rights Based Approach, Advocacy

Eng'eno Eishoi Ng'ejuk (Knowledge for the Young Generation)

Kenya

This is a shortened version of a film made by Maasai pastoralists, living near Oltepesi in Kenya, in March 2009.  It documents the devastating impacts of a seemingly endless drought across the region that killed livestock and people, threatened livelihoods and caused wide-spread suffering to many of the indigenous pastoralist communities.

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Themes: Climate Change, Indigenous Issues
Category: Advocacy, Human Rights Based Approach

Living On A Poisonous Stream

Indonesia

The residents of Permisan village near the Porong river in East Java have been harvesting fish from their ponds for generations, but since an environmental disaster at the Lapindo Brantas gas mining site in May 2006, the area has been suffering from vast eruptions of volcanic mud, which have buried nearby villages and displaced thousands of people.

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Themes: Community Action, Human Rights
Category: Advocacy, Human Rights Based Approach

Living on a Poisonous Stream PHOTOSTORY

The residents of Permisan village (East Java, Indonesia) have harvested fish from the ponds for generations, but since an environmental disaster at the Lapindo Brantas gas mining site in May 2006, the area has suffered vast eruptions of volcanic mud, burying nearby villages and displacing thousands. This Photostory describes the process by which the residents of Permisan created their film 'Living on a Poisonous Stream'.

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Themes: Community Action, Human Rights
Category: Advocacy, Human Rights Based Approach

Voice of the Batwa PHOTOSTORY

The Voice of the Batwa PHOTOSTORY is a detailed description of the process through which a group of Batwa, from various squatter camps in Uganda, created a powerful film documenting the discrimination and marginalisation they face.

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Themes: Bio-Cultural Diversity, Indigenous Issues, Natural Resource Management
Category: Advocacy, Human Rights Based Approach

PV for Community Action CASE STUDY: Indigenous Voices in Uganda

The Batwa are an indigenous people of the Great Lakes region of tropical Africa. Formerly hunter-gatherers, they were expelled from their ancestral forests to make way for conservation and tourism projects. They experience extreme racial discrimination from their neighbours, poverty, landlessness and unequal access to education and healthcare.

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Themes: Bio-Cultural Diversity, Human Rights, Indigenous Issues
Category: Advocacy, Human Rights Based Approach