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Respect for human rights is implicit in everything we do. With camera in hand, the vulnerable and marginalised can be better equipped to access their rights because, through making a film, they can debate, discuss, develop their ideas on what change they want, how they will get it and what is necessary action now. Here are some examples.
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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

Violence No Longer a Social Norm in “Safescaping” Communities

Phil Borges and his crew interviewed the InsightShare team and trainees participating in our PV M&E Initiative in Guatemala for his documentary on prevention of violence against women, commissioned by the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, administered by UN Women.

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Themes: Community Action, Human Rights, Youth
Category: Capacity Building, Monitoring & Evaluation

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

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

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

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
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Kono Communities Affected by Mining

Sierra Leone

The residents of the Kimberlite township in Kono District, Sierra Leone, have been relocated to make way for a lucrative diamond mining concession.

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Themes: Health, Human Rights
Category: Advocacy, Community Consultation
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Boajibu

Sierra Leone

The town of Boajibu in Kenema district experienced a great deal of destruction during Sierra Leone's civil war, and has since declined from its former affluence.

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Themes: Community Action, Health, Human Rights
Category: Advocacy, Community Consultation
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Gender Equity in Sport for Social Change

Morocco

This film was produced using participatory video techniques during the Nike sponsored 'Gender Equity in Sport for Social Change' conference which took place in Casablanca in May 2007.

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Themes: Human Rights, Sports for Change
Category: Advocacy, Community Consultation, Training