Peter Gabriel's YouTube for human rights

17 November 2008 | 7:58 - By Stefano Boscutti

Peter Gabriel's human-rights group Witness embraces social media, creating a YouTube for unseen atrocities.  With camera-equipped cell phones, ordinary people suddenly have the means to document their lives and share evidence of rights violations.

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The Hub is an offshoot of Witness, the Brooklyn-based human-rights nonprofit that Gabriel started in 1992 after learning the extent of abuses worldwide while headlining a concert tour sponsored by Amnesty International.  "What I found extraordinary was that people could suffer in this way and have their stories completely buried," he says.  "But it seemed like whenever there was video evidence, it was very hard to deny and bury and forget."  See it.  Film it.  Change it.

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/130/in-your-eyes.html
http://hub.witness.org/

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New New Media looks at how our mediascape is exploding to bits. How the latest technology and the internet are changing the way we live, work and play. How the latest media is shaping us all.

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