By Steve Steim, N-Map’s Creative and Technical Director This Monday, March 14th, N-Map will be at SXSW Interactive hosting the panel “Strategic Storytelling: Video as Policy Changer.” Our panel will explore how advocates, lawyers, and artists can use legal strategy, innovative storytelling, and design to unravel the web of policies and practices that create an… Read More Join N-Map’s SXSW Conversation on Strategic Storytelling
2015 was a transformative year at N-Map. Our team of lawyers, advocates, and filmmakers worked across the globe to put the voices of people who have suffered human rights abuses at the center of advocacy and litigation. We completed 55 tactical media advocacy videos over the last year to support our frontline partners working in… Read More Support N-Map on Human Rights Day!
Highlighting the best panels on video, storytelling, and advocacy for SXSW 2016 by: Amy Zhang, Intern We’re thrilled to propose a panel for South by South West (SXSW), a ten day gathering of the brightest minds in music, film, technology, and, as you’ll see below, human rights and social justice movements. Our panel features Ed… Read More Our Panel Picks for SXSW 2016
To celebrate our 6th Anniversary, we put Adam in the hot seat. by Amy Zhang, N-Map Intern N-Map has had a busy six years. To celebrate our sixth anniversary, I sat down with N-Map’s founder, Adam Stofsky, to ask a few questions on how it all began, what we’ve learned along the way, where N-Map… Read More An Interview With Our ED
In Chiatura, Georgia, miners commute to the cliff top manganese mines in Soviet-era cable cars. As we boarded one of these cars during N-Map’s January shoot, our crew surveyed it anxiously. The cable cars are ancient and rusty—a wonder that they still function. As the car steeply ascended, our interview subject, Shota Gaprindashvili, spoke with… Read More 8 Steps to Effective Advocacy – A New Instructional Video Series
10 chosen grantee organizations use technology to fight crime, overcome government-sponsored censorship, and aid in disaster relief. NEW YORK, NY (March 10, 2014)—Ten non-profits in the U.S. and abroad have been named recipients of New Digital Age Grants, funded through a $1 million donation by Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt. The New Media Advocacy Project is… Read More NEW MEDIA ADVOCACY PROJECT (N-MAP) AWARDED “NEW DIGITAL AGE” GRANT BY GOOGLE EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN ERIC SCHMIDT
“As human rights defenders, we are not heroes, but intense citizens. Activism is living in an intense manner. But it is not enough, we have to implement a strategy. And film is just that: passion combined with strategy.” – Jesus Robles Maloof (@roblesmaloof) Last week, N-Map’s Adam Stofsky and Abby Goldberg participated in the 6th… Read More N-Map Presents at #DHFestMexico on Video as a Legal Tool
“Los defensores de derechos humanos, no somos héroes, somos ciudadanos intensos. El activimiso es vivir de una manera extrema. Somos ciudadanos que nos involucramos en nuestras comunidades. Pero no es suficiente, tenemos que implementar estrategia. Y el video es eso: la pasión con la estrategia.” – Jesus Robles Maloof (@roblesmaloof) La semana pasada, Adam Stofsky… Read More N-Map Presenta a #DHFestMexico sobre el Video como Herramienta Legal
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
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
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