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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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Voice of the Batwa

Uganda

'Voice of the Batwa' was planned and filmed by members of the Batwa people during a Participatory Video project facilitated by InsightShare. Part of this film was aired on Ugandan television as well as being screened to local and national politicians, donors and NGOs.

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

Avec Nous PHOTOSTORY

This is a visual record of the Participatory Video process behind the production 'Avec Nous' - a powerful film giving voice to women and men, mothers and fathers, midwives and community activists in Burkina Faso.

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Themes: Health
Category: Advocacy, Human Rights Based Approach
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Kisoro District Regional Commissioner Speaks about the Batwa

Uganda

This short clip shows the Kisoro District Regional Commissioner make concrete commitments to help improve the situation for the Batwa people of South West Uganda, in particular helping them with land claims and rights to education.

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

AIDS Support Group

In 2005, InsightShare used participatory video as a tool for working with an HIV-positive community group in M'deka, Malawi. The 3-day project was carried out in partnership with the Malawi branch of GOAL, an Irish non-governmental organisation (NGO) that has been setting up these groups as a way of helping HIV-positive people support one another and change attitudes in the community with regard to knowing/communicating one's status.

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Themes: Community Action, Health, Human Rights
Category: Advocacy, Capacity Building, Human Rights Based Approach

Play Your Part

Tanzania

‘Play your Part’ is a Participatory Video made by the Tanzanian White Ribbon Alliance to address issues of Safe Motherhood in Tanzania. The film has been shown at national and international conferences and on Tanzanian television.

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Themes: Health
Category: Advocacy, Human Rights Based Approach

Play Your Part PHOTOSTORY

This Photostory describes the Participatory Video process behind the video ‘Play your Part’ made by the Tanzanian White Ribbon Alliance to address issues of Safe Motherhood in Tanzania.

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Themes: Health
Category: Advocacy, Human Rights Based Approach

Empowering Communities Through PV

Article published by IFIP (International Funders for Indigenous Peoples) as part of the Sharing Circle newsletter (Volume 7, Issue 1) in the summer of 2006.  Features an interview with Nick Lunch (Co-Founder & Co-Director) of InsightShare during the IFIP Annual Conference and the 5th UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.  Article by Catherine Setchell

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