• Women’sNet: Digital Storytelling

By women who have experienced violence

This project shares personal experiences of surviving violence using digital storytelling, an approach which allows people to use animation, photos, music, and live video to tell first-person stories. These were then distributed to human rights advocates, policy-makers, and service and aid workers. 

TOOLS USED: video cameras, digital animation, digital video editing software, YouTube, blip.tv. 

LINKS TO LEARN MORE:

Digital Stories

Women'sNet website

• Blank Noise

By women against urban street harassment in India

This project explores the issue of sexual harassment of women by combining personal storytelling with public actions. Women tell their stories by sending garments that they wore when harassed, blog together during a 'blogathon' about what happened to them, post photographs of places where they were harassed, and tell stories of how they reacted to street harassment. 

TOOLS USED: Blogspot.com, Facebook, Flickr.

LINKS TO LEARN MORE:

Blank Noise blog

• A Duty to Protect: Justice for Child Soldiers in the D.R.C.

By Ajedi-Ka PES/Child Soldier Project and WITNESS

This documentary film represents the personal stories of child soldiers. After the release of the video, the international criminal court brought charges against those in the Congolese military who had enlisted child soldiers. 

TOOLS USED: video cameras, digital video editing software, website.

LINKS TO LEARN MORE:

Ajedi-Ka website