InfoCompanions » videocamera http://www.infocompanions.com Brain spasms of an enthusiast who loves to live at the intersection of business, innovation, process and technology Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:37:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Fighting injustice with a videocamera http://www.infocompanions.com/fighting-injustice-with-a-videocamera/ http://www.infocompanions.com/fighting-injustice-with-a-videocamera/#comments Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0000 Himanshu Sharma http://www.infocompanions.net/?p=81 and activist Peter Gabriel starts his talk by sharing the painful, personal story behind his own investment in human rights causes. He relates some of the terrible stories he’s encountered throughout his extensive travels, and explains how these stories inspired him to create the human-rights group WITNESS, which distributes digital cameras to ordinary citizens so they can document injustice and abuse.

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About Peter Gabriel:
In 1988, Peter Gabriel embarked on the Amnesty International Now! tour. During his travels, Gabriel encountered people with horrific stories to tell: stories of torture, murder and abuse that had been denied and forgotten by those in power. Gabriel became convinced of the profound need to shine a spotlight into these unseen corners of the world.

In 1992, he co-founded the watchdog group WITNESS, which arms ordinary people with digital cameras, enabling them to create and distribute films about the states of their own lives, transforming individual stories of abuse and violation into powerful tools for justice. His tireless advocacy has helped build WITNESS into one of the world’s great engines of citizen journalism.

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