Global Voices & Witness

Global Voices is "a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society." It is available in a host of languages including: English - Bangla - Spanish - French - Portuguese - Chinese (Simplified) - Chinese (Traditional).

"Global Voices seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online - shining light on places and people other media often ignore."

We've just added their Gender Headlines feed to the right hand column... If you have a blog, you can easily do this too.

Another linked initiative is the Human Rights Video Hub which is slated for launch in the near future with the following goals:

• Provide the only global online destination for video content specifically related to human rights violations;


• Provide tools so people can educate and motivate others to act to end human rights violations and create community around their issues;


• Provide a unique online resource for human rights activists, citizens, journalists, and others to access information, resource footage for news stories, and get engaged;


• Help deter and reduce human rights violations through community-enabled advocacy using visual imagery as a catalytic force.

If you're interested in video as a tool for change then you may also want to check out their 'Video for Change': WITNESS' guide to effective video advocacy. And it is not only available in English:

La vidéo, un instrument du changement, la traduction en version française
«Видео ради перемен» на русском языке
Video para el Cambio, en español