Area 1 is a VR experience that highlights the role of international finance institutions in the violent displacement of a local community in West Africa, emphasizing the need for financial accountability when legal mechanism fail.
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Building the Movement of Resistance to Oil: Alternative Visions in California
In 2018, community leaders from East and Central Africa traveled to California to learn about the impacts of oil production, and how local activists have defended their rights and championed green alternatives.
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Beneath the Surface: Women Lead the Fight Against Mining
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, […]
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Appealing for Mercy on Pakistan’s Death Row: The Story of Kanizan Bibi
Kanizan Bibi was 16 years old when she was arrested for murdering the wife and children of a wealthy neighboring family. Although there was scant evidence to place her at the scene of the crime, she eventually confessed to the […]
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Human Rights Tools and the Fight Against Big Tobacco
The tobacco epidemic continues to worsen globally– 1.1 billion people smoke around the world, and 20% of all deaths in the US are attributable to tobacco. To counter this growing challenge, anti-tobacco organizations like Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) […]
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The Justice Trap Presents: Perpetual Punishment
NMAP worked with Brooklyn Defenders Services to create The Justice Trap, which was envisioned as a multimedia platform combining interactive design and short documentaries featuring victims of unjust policies and practices. Animated by Molly Crabapple, we created this video to […]
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Forensic Photography
We created a video training series for Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) that will serve as a reference for clinicians, lawyers, judges, advocates and investigators regarding forensic investigations of sexual violence in East and Central Africa. The videos will strengthen PHR’s […]
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How to Obtain Meaningful Informed Consent
We created a video training series for Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) that will serve as a reference for clinicians, lawyers, judges, advocates and investigators regarding forensic investigations of sexual violence in East and Central Africa. The videos will strengthen PHR’s […]
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What is Informed Consent
We created a video training series for Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) that will serve as a reference for clinicians, lawyers, judges, advocates and investigators regarding forensic investigations of sexual violence in East and Central Africa. The videos will strengthen PHR’s […]
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Defending Gideon
In 1963, the Supreme Court, in Gideon v Wainwright, ruled that every criminal defendant is entitled to a lawyer. 50 years later, the United States has not lived up to the great promise of the Gideon case. NMAP produced this short […]
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Access for All: Challenging Disability Stigma in Georgia Social Media Ad
We produced two videos to support a disability rights organization in their advocacy for wheelchair accessibility in Tbilisi, Georgia. The goal of this video is to persuade the Mayor of Tbilisi to launch a pilot program of disability access on […]
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Access for All: Accessibility to Entrances
NMAP collaborated with ERTAD—a small, local disability rights organization in the Republic of Georgia focused on mobility—to emphasize the need for accessible entrances for the disabled. Through animation and photos of real buildings, this video demonstrates which types of entrances […]
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Access for All: Monitoring the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
NMAP collaborated with ERTAD—a small, local disability rights organization in the Republic of Georgia focused on mobility—to normalize the idea that people in wheelchairs are as powerful as “normal” people, to lay the groundwork for policy advocacy on everything from […]
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Access for All: Challenging Disability Stigma in Georgia
NMAP collaborated with ERTAD—a small, local disability rights organization in the Republic of Georgia focused on mobility—to normalize the idea that people in wheelchairs are as powerful as “normal” people, to lay the groundwork for policy advocacy on everything from […]
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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 […]
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NMAP’s Highlight Reel: Reframing Human Rights in 2017
Despite what made the headlines about the state of human rights, 2017 was full of stories of people everywhere standing up and saying no to corporate abuse; taking to the streets to protest government corruption; and calling out unjust criminal […]
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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 […]
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JPP Investigates: 17 and Sentenced to Die
Our 15-minute film, 17 and Sentenced to Die is a true-crime style doc about Iqbal Muhammed, a 17 year-old boy who was convicted of killing a man during an armed robbery, and has spent 15 years on death row in […]
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Words That Kill: David Ravelo
David Ravelo—a Colombian economist and human rights advocate—was actively involved in campaigns to curtail the power of paramilitary leaders. Because of his activism, Ravelo was accused by paramilitary leaders of the 1991 murder of the municipal officer David Núñez Cala. […]
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Guess My Age with JPP
Since reinstating the death penalty in 2014, Pakistan has executed at least six known juvenile offenders. While the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance prohibits sentencing juveniles to death, police officers are not required to examine evidence like birth certificates to determine […]
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