Digital activists expose abuse

The power of online video to document human rights abuse and raise international awareness was the subject of a panel discussion on technology and social change convened at the United Nations on Monday as part of celebrations commemorating Human Rights Day. The BBC reports.

"The power of visual images can go a long way in making people wake up," Jenni Wolfson of the human rights group Witness told the audience of NGO representatives and UN officers. "It won't allow perpetrators to say that abuses didn't happen, won't allow them to say they didn't know what was going on."

Human rights organisations are now trying to harness this technology to benefit the victims while minimising the advantage to the abusers."

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