The Philippines is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for human rights defenders. Women activists are frequently targeted for their participation in resistance struggles, and as of May 2018, seventeen women defenders have been killed since the current president, […]
Read more
Resistance Cinema: Experimentation with VR for Grassroots Advocacy
For the last two and a half years, NMAP has been developing our Beneath the Surface video series to connect and empower rural communities facing mining projects. During a 2016 Guinea screening trip for the series, our team created a 360-degree virtual […]
Read more
Beneath the Surface: Human Rights and Mining Overview
NMAP created this animated explainer about the impacts of mining and what a community’s rights and avenues of resistance are in relationship to mining projects. This video was produced to test storytelling approaches and genres with focus group communities in […]
Read more
Beneath the Surface: The Impacts of Mining
NMAP created the Beneath the Surface series to inform rural communities facing mining about their rights, and empower them with legally sound strategies for protecting themselves. Each video in the series features a relevant story from different communities around the […]
Read more
Beneath the Surface: Negotiating the Environmental Impact Assessment
For this indigenous community in Bolivia, promises of running water and electricity offered by a mining company never materialized. Instead, the community was subjected to environmentally destructive mining practices and explosions that threatened their livelihood—Brazil nuts. The community leaders decided […]
Read more
Beneath the Surface: Community-Based Organizations and Displacement in Zimbabwe
This video is part of our Beneath the Surface series that was created to inform communities around the world of their rights and ways in which they can protect themselves from exploitation through sharing past experiences of communities. In this […]
Read more
Beneath the Surface: Community Mapping and Resistance to Mining
When the Ghanaian government granted an Australian mining company the right to mine for gold in Upper West Region of Ghana, the community of Tanchara was suddenly under threat. The mining spoiled Tanchara’s water and land, stripping the members of […]
Read more
Beneath the Surface: Baseline Data Collection and Environmental Monitoring in Nigeria
After two Shell oil spills in the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s Bodo community suffered collapsed ecosystems and chronic environmental damage. No one was held accountable, so the community took matters into its own hands. Through baseline data and environmental monitoring, Bodo […]
Read more
Beneath the Surface
In partnership with the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) and New York University School of Law’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (NYU), we are creating a platform that connects communities that have already been […]
Read more