Update From the Field: Supporting Equal Education’s Advocacy for Quality & Equality in South African Schools

N-Map recently partnered with Equal Education (EE), a movement of learners, parents, teachers, and principals working to improve the infrastructure of public schools in South Africa. The team filmed at schools in the Eastern Cape—one of the country’s poorest and most isolated provinces—to document the environment in which students there learn. Our footage will be… Read More Update From the Field: Supporting Equal Education’s Advocacy for Quality & Equality in South African Schools

April 3, 2015August 5, 2015 abbygoldberg2 Comments

A First Look into Our Upcoming Advocacy Film in Georgia

By Elizabeth Summers During N-Map’s shoot in Georgia this May, we interviewed a man named Boris underneath a newly built ski lift in a small town in the Upper Caucasus mountains. The Georgian government expropriated Boris’s ancestral property to build the ski lift, and he never received any compensation from the government. Boris used to… Read More A First Look into Our Upcoming Advocacy Film in Georgia

July 25, 2013March 28, 2016 New Media AdvocacyLeave a comment

Nigeria Field Post #3: Political, Legal, and Environmental Rights

This third, and last, field report from Nigeria, focuses on the political, legal, and environmental issues that Adam and I learned about during meeting with Nigerian NGOs last month. While I write about just three examples of Nigeria’s challenges in these areas, they provide a window into some of the most pressing problems that the… Read More Nigeria Field Post #3: Political, Legal, and Environmental Rights

June 4, 2013March 28, 2016 abbygoldberg1 Comment

Nigeria Field Report #2: Freedom from Violence and Persecution

by Abby Goldberg This post follows the previous update on Adam and my trip last month to Nigeria. We learned about many challenging human rights issues that local groups are facing. Some of the major challenges we were told about involve the struggle for freedom from violence and persecution, including the issues listed below that… Read More Nigeria Field Report #2: Freedom from Violence and Persecution

May 11, 2013March 28, 2016 dsharnakLeave a comment

Field Report for Nigeria #1: Two Underlying Issues

by Abby Goldberg Last week, N-Map Executive Director Adam Stofsky and I traveled to Nigeria as part of a year-long project supported by the MacArthur Foundation. Our goal is to explore how N-Map can support the work of local groups in Mexico and Nigeria to advance human rights through the integration of tactical video… Read More Field Report for Nigeria #1: Two Underlying Issues

May 2, 2013March 28, 2016 dsharnak1 Comment

N-MAP in Tbilisi, Georgia

N-MAP took five days during our Caucuses trip last month to travel to Tbilisi, Georgia to work on do some additional related shooting for our Armenia work, and to begin shooting on new projects with Open Society Georgia Foundation grantees. Tbilisi is a stunning city at the crossroads of the ancient Silk Road, and we… Read More N-MAP in Tbilisi, Georgia

March 19, 2012March 28, 2016 jfletchLeave a comment

Innovative Advocacy in Armenia

N-Map’s team just returned from an epic two-week production trip to the Caucsues, where we worked with a number of courageous local NGOs on a variety of advocacy campaigns. For our first trip to the region, we were very ambitious. We worked on four different campaigns and conduct four trainings for civil society and NGO… Read More Innovative Advocacy in Armenia

February 29, 2012March 28, 2016 New Media AdvocacyLeave a comment

Update: Punjab Impunity Videos

We’re hard at work finishing up our videos for Ensaaf, on accountability for mass violence committed against Sikhs in Punjab in the 1980s and 1990s. Here are a few of the videos. More to come.

October 21, 2011March 28, 2016 New Media AdvocacyLeave a comment

N-Map Goes to the Caucases

N-Map was invited by the Human Rights and Governance Grants Program at the Open Society Institute to go to Armenia participate in a communications training for the Foundation’s grantees there. It was a really fantastic experience. We presented to about 20 of OSI’s grantees on video advocacy and met some courageous and creative human rights… Read More N-Map Goes to the Caucases

July 14, 2011March 28, 2016 New Media AdvocacyLeave a comment

N-Map Blog – 2010 in review

It has been a very eventful year, and I thought it would be nice to post some quick reflections on the N-Map blog’s first year. I’ve tried to make this blog a portfolio of N-Map’s work and best ideas, favoring quality over quantity. I would say that this went very well for the first half… Read More N-Map Blog – 2010 in review

January 17, 2011March 28, 2016 New Media AdvocacyLeave a comment