Witness In The News

  • Teen Perserveres After Her Petition to Iowa's Environmental Protection Agency is Rejected

    May 16, 2012 - Citizen Action Monitor

    Glori Dei Filippone, the 13-year-old from Des Moines, is part of the iMatter movement to hold U.S. state and federal governments accountable for implementing plans to restore a clean environment.

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  • ObscuraCam and Other WITNESS Tools Featured in GenderIT

    May 12, 2012 - GenderIT blog

    The blog which looks at internet policies and technology from a feminist perspective reviews some of ObscuraCam's features and that of other WITNESS tools on effective and safe filming.

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  • Judge Deliberates on Whether to Save Earth's Atmosphere

    May 11, 2012 - OpEdNews.com

    Olson’s co-counsel Philip Gregory brought to Friday’s hearing something that was otherwise missing in hours of technical debate: honest passion. Gregory made a moral as much as a legal case on behalf of the rights of the plaintiffs, a row of several teenagers seated in the front row of the courtroom.

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  • U.S. Government Not Doing Enough to Curb Climate Change

    The author, Zoe Johnson, is an 11th grader at The Urban School of San Francisco. She is a member of the iMatter movement and a Plaintiff in Alec v. Jackson, which advocates have dubbed the “Atmospheric Trust Litigation.”

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  • Vice Magazine's "Motherboard" Interviews Intern Chris Rogy About His Work at WITNESS

    May 4, 2012 - Motherboard
  • Montana Newspaper Covers the iMatter Climate Change Legal Case

    May 4, 2012 - Bozeman Daily Chronicle

    The article "Montana attorney, student lead climate change lawsuits" features John Thiebes who was the subject of this iMatter Trust video.
     

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  • TRUST Arizona Makes Favorite Climate Video List

    May 4, 2012 - Tck Tck Tck

    TRUST Arizona, one in the series of videos on young people fighting climate change in the U.S. makes the favorite climate change videos on the global campaigning website TckTckTck.

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  • ObscuraCam Covered in The New York Times

    The "ArtsBeat" blog details activities by the collective Activist Archivists to build capacity in the Occupy Wall Street movement and train activists to use ObscuraCam.

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  • NASDAQ Highlights iMatter Campaign (Again!) and Jaime Lynn Butler's Story

    April 30, 2012 - NASDAQ
  • As Police Departments Prepare for May Day, Tips on Being a Good Citizen Journalist

    April 30, 2012 - AlterNet

    AlterNet features our "How to Film Protests" video series with tips relevant to Occupy Wall Street protesters, activists in Syria and beyond.

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Awards

2011 Banff World Media Award for Excellence for Socially-Responsible Media

WITNESS attended the 2011 Rockies Gala to receive the first-ever Award of Excellence for Socially-Responsible Media at the Banff World Media Festival.

2011 SIPA Global Leadership Award

 
SIPA’s Global Leadership Award recognizes WITNESS for its work of empowering citizens to publicize and end human rights abuses through video.
 

 

2004 - 2008 Social Capitalist Award

 
Fast Company named WITNESS one of 45 recipients of a Social Capitalist Award for five straight years.
 

2004 - 2008 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship

 
The Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship supported WITNESS’s work in documenting human rights abuses on an international scale.
 

2007 New York Times Company Nonprofit Excellence Award

 
The New York Times recognized WITNESS with its Excellence in Communication Award for its use of open source technology, transparent communication among partners and its Performance Dashboard, which uses metrics to measure the organization’s results and features reviews of its key activities.
 
New York Times Company Nonprofit Excellence Awards

2007 National Academy of TV Arts and Sciences Humanitarian Award

 
The National Television Academy awarded its first-ever Humanitarian Award to WITNESS for its use of video and online technologies to document and expose human-rights violations around the world. The award honors television professionals and non-profit organizations for programming that advances the common good.
 
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Humanitarian Award

2007 One World Media Award

 
The One World Broadcasting Trust recognized WITNESS with a New Media award for its work in launching The Hub. The Trust called the site a “benchmark” for all organizations seeking to bring social change through media and technology. 
 
OneWorld Media Award for New Media

2007 American Express Building Leadership Award

 
The American Express Building Leadership Award seeks non-profit organizations that place emphasis on the cultivation of internal staff, board and volunteer leadership. WITNESS received the 11th Building Leadership Award for its excellence in these areas, as well as its mission to provide hands-on video training for grassroots organizations in pursuit of basic human rights around the world.
 
2007 American Express Building Leadership Award

2006 Webby Award Official Honoree

 
Established in 1997, the Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences recognized WITNESS as a Webby honoree in for utilizing the web and visual media to create a lasting social impact.
 
The Webby Awards

2005 Schwab Social Entrepreneur

 
The Schwab Foundation searches for leading social entrepreneurs around the world. In 2005, Schwab named Gillian Caldwell, who served as WITNESS’ Executive Director for ten years, one of 40 Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs.
 
Schwab Entrepreneur

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