Clean and sober for five years, Tammy is the mother of seven and proud grandmother of two. “I’m an ex-addict that is struggling every day to try to get myself together,” explains Tammy. She had steered her life back on track after years of treatment and hard work, but a relatively small issue threatened to turn… Read More Brooklyn Community Bail Fund: Giving Low-Income Individuals a Chance in Court
By Abby Goldberg & Nili Blanck In 2012, Women’s Link Worldwide successfully worked with human rights groups and women survivors from indigenous communities, specifically the Ixil Maya, to frame the widespread sexual violence of the Ríos Montt administration in Guatemala as an element of genocide—a monumental achievement. We captured their story on film.… Read More N-Map Premieres: Truth & Justice for the Women of Guatemala
Abby Goldberg & Nili Blanck En el 2012, Women’s Link Worldwide trabajó con grupos de derechos humanos y mujeres de comunidades indígenas, específicamente el Ixil Maya, para enmarcar como genocidio la violencia sexual generalizada de la administración de Ríos Montt. El caso fue un logro monumental y N-Map capturó esta historia en película. (For… Read More Verdad y Justicia Para las Mujeres de Guatemala
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
We are excited to announce the launch of a new legal information platform: www.clarovideo.org. New York City courts face a debt collection crisis. In 2008, at the height of the recession, filings for consumer debt lawsuits peaked at over 300,000. That’s almost a third of a million cases in just one city! The volume… Read More Clarovideo.org – A New Online Resource to Empower Consumers in NYC’s Courts
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
Welcome to the N-Map blog! The New Media Advocacy Project is transforming human rights and social justice work by using everyday technology, like video and internet social networking, to help public interest lawyers and advocates win their cases and improve the lives of their clients. This blog will serve a few functions – first, it… Read More Merging the Worlds of Legal Advocacy and New Media
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