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	HU OSA 392-2
Fonds 392:	Video recordings of WITNESS
Subfonds 2:	WITNESS partners' raw footage

Date(s) 1992-2002

Extent and medium 190 DVD-ROM, 2 linear meters

Name of creator(s) WITNESS and its partners

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer Witness New York

Scope and content

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

System of arrangement

• HU OSA 392-2-1 Association for the Defense of Human Rights (ASADHO), 1996
• HU OSA 392-2-2 WITNESS interviews, 1996-2002
• HU OSA 392-2-3 Institute of Human Rights and Developement in Africa, 2002
• HU OSA 392-2-4 Rencontre Africaine pour La Défense des Droits de l'Homme (RADDHO), 1996-2003
• HU OSA 392-2-5 Solidarité pour la Promotion Sociale et la Paix (SOPROP), 1999
• HU OSA 392-2-6 Voice of the Voiceless, 1993
• HU OSA 392-2-7 Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), 2001-2002
• HU OSA 392-2-8 Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), 1992-1996
• HU OSA 392-2-9 Arab Association for Human Rights (HRA), 1999
• HU OSA 392-2-10 Jimmie Briggs, 1999-2001
• HU OSA 392-2-11 Nah We Yone ["It Belongs to Us"] - Support to Sierra Leonian refugees, 2000-2002
• HU OSA 392-2-12 Women's Caucus for Gender Justice (New York), 1999-2000
• HU OSA 392-2-13 WITNESS Kosovo Project, 1998-1999
• HU OSA 392-2-14 Committee on the Administration of Justice (Northern Ireland)
• HU OSA 392-2-15 Casa Alianza (Covenant House)
• HU OSA 392-2-16 Asamblea Permanente de Derechos Humanos de Bolivia
• HU OSA 392-2-17 Joey Lozano

Conditions governing access Open to researchers

Language/scripts of material

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

Physical characteristics and technical requirements DVD ROMs

Existence and location of originals

• www.witness.org

Related units of description

• HU OSA 350 Records of the International Monitor Institute, 1980-2002
• HU OSA 350-1 Europe, 1990-2001
• HU OSA 350-3 Africa, 1990-2000
• HU OSA 350-1-1 Balkan Archive, 1990-2001
• HU OSA 350-3-1 Rwanda, 1990-1996

Note

Keywords: Human Rights
Africa, Middle East
Afghanistan
Democratic Republic of Congo
Rwanda
Sierra Leone
Refugee camps
Interviews
Jimmie Briggs
Taliban
Giant Buddhas of Bamiyan
"Unrecognized" Palestinian villages
International criminal justice

Date(s) of descriptions

System of arrangement and preliminary processing by Zsuzsa Zádori 2005; processed and described by Anna Kövecsi, April 2008.
Online version updated 19 April 2012