Transnational Storytelling: Human Rights, WITNESS, and Video Advocacy

Gregory, Sam

doi:10.1525/aa.2006.108.1.195

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“…raise money for political and relief efforts.' Sam Gregory (2006) expands on this point by noting that human rights advocacy film tends to utilize two main discourses: legal (including national and international human rights laws) and transnational (including both transnational empathy and solidarity). These discourses privilege policy advocacy and generate support for human rights by placing issues in what he terms the 'global morality market'.…”

Section: Reading and Watching The 'New Woman'mentioning

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Feminism and its ‘other’: representing the ‘new woman’ of Bangladesh

Chowdhury

2010

Gender, Place & Culture

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This essay examines women's oppression and organizing against gender violence in contemporary Bangladesh through the lens of television. I argue that the telefilm Ayna (The Mirror, 2006), written and directed by popular film actor and women's rights activist Kabari Sarwar, offers a window into the changing social and economic landscape of contemporary Bangladesh and the complex negotiations of power and inequality across gender, class and community. Furthermore, it offers an opportunity to unpack the social messages underlying development and modernization initiatives, the new kinds of alliances as well as dependencies engendered by them, and their multiple and uneven consequences. An investigation of the representations of competing and contradictory notions of women's subjectivity and agency in this telefilm allows us to understand how these intersect with shifting notions of local/global patriarchies, feminist solidarity and women's empowerment in Bangladesh today. Further, this essay illuminates the disjunctures between representations of the 'new woman' circulated through development and certain feminist advocacy narratives with women's lived realities of oppression, and survival.

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Section: Reading and Watching The 'New Woman'mentioning

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Feminism and its ‘other’: representing the ‘new woman’ of Bangladesh

Chowdhury

2010

Gender, Place & Culture

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“…Similarly, if a discussion takes place in one issue arena, such as in a national or in the EU parliament, then a counter-debate can occur in online media. For example, victim narrative videos have proven that the social media can create opportunities to disseminate information on important social issues that rarely get attention in the traditional mainstream media, though this in itself does not promise that there will be any political change [60,61]. Therefore, the innovative use of communication tools can also lead to changes in the distribution of information.…”

Section: Power Politicsmentioning

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Public Discourse on Human Trafficking in International Issue Arenas

Meriläinen

Vos

2015

Societies

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Abstract:The purpose of this study is to better understand how the complex problem of human trafficking is addressed in international debates. How the discussion about human trafficking develops and how it is debated ultimately influences how the decision-making process unfolds. In order to understand the formation of public policy and laws, therefore, it is important to study the debate that occurs prior to decision making. This analysis focuses on the narratives used by major, well-established human rights and political actors that argue for necessary actions to be undertaken-such as the formation of new policies and laws in the European Union-as an attempt to protect citizens of the EU and other regions in the world from becoming victims of trafficking networks. Our research examines how the topic of human trafficking is framed and how this framework is intertwined in the debate with other social problems. We focus on how human trafficking is discussed by two well-established human rights Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Amnesty International (Amnesty) and Human Rights Watch (HRW), in addition to the European Parliament (EP). The research questions for this study include: (1) In what context is human trafficking discussed by the three actors? (2) How do these actors frame the definition of human trafficking in their presentations? To answer these questions, we have conducted a systematic content analysis of documents that include official statements and research reports of the NGOs, as well as resolutions and recommendations of the EP. Altogether, 240 documents were analyzed in detail. These findings indicate that the two human rights organizations, Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, along with the European Parliament, all address human trafficking as an important social problem, albeit to varying degrees. Each OPEN ACCESSSocieties 2015, 5 15 actor has a different method of correlating human trafficking with many other social problems, thereby emphasizing different causes and effects. In our analysis, we examine the concept of framing and, in particular, responsibility framing in order to understand the causal relationships between actors and events. The findings of this study suggest that the formation of various social policies and laws in the international political forum are deeply affected by the dynamic interrelatedness between the political issues, actors, and form and content of the debates about human trafficking that precede the formation or revision of a policy and law.

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“…12 Animation has been seen as a potential tool for advocacy since UNICEF used it in the late 1960s. 13 Since real-life images can fatigue or even desensitize the viewer when they have been exposed to similar images very often, organizations have turned to animation to create more captivating and engaging visual material for advocacy.…”

Section: Conceptionmentioning

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From unwanted pregnancy to safe abortion: Sharing information about abortion in Asia through animation

Krishnan¹,

Dalvie²

2015

Reproductive Health Matters

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Although unsafe abortion continues to be a leading cause of maternal mortality in many countries in Asia, the right to safe abortion remains highly stigmatized across the region. The Asia Safe Abortion Partnership, a regional network advocating for safe abortion, produced an animated short film entitled From Unwanted Pregnancy to Safe Abortion to show in conferences, schools and meetings in order to share knowledge about the barriers to safe abortion in Asia and to facilitate conversations on the right to safe abortion. This paper describes the making of this film, its objectives, content, dissemination and how it has been used. Our experience highlights the advantages of using animated films in addressing highly politicized and sensitive issues like abortion. Animation helped to create powerful advocacy material that does not homogenize the experiences of women across a diverse region, and at the same time emphasize the need for joint activities that express solidarity.

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Transnational Storytelling: Human Rights, WITNESS, and Video Advocacy

Cited by 58 publications

References 8 publications

Feminism and its ‘other’: representing the ‘new woman’ of Bangladesh

Feminism and its ‘other’: representing the ‘new woman’ of Bangladesh

Public Discourse on Human Trafficking in International Issue Arenas

From unwanted pregnancy to safe abortion: Sharing information about abortion in Asia through animation

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