NMAP Partnered with the National Innocence Project, the Northern California Innocence Project, and the Innocence Project – New Orleans to develop a short documentary telling the story of exoneree, John Thompson, to use on their national anti-death penalty “roadshow.” Thompson, […]
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Breaking the Grip of Predatory Lending in Mississippi
Payday lending establishments in Mississippi charge a 572% interest rate for very short-term loans to low income people to help them cover their basic expenses until their next paycheck. This has the effect of sucking large amounts of income away […]
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Fighting Native American Poverty: Gaming Rights
Since the Tule River Tribe of California secured their gaming rights, they’ve been able to build a sustainable economic future for their tribe. NMAP partnered with the Tribe to tell their story in order to help other tribes work with […]
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Fighting for Native American Water Rights
The Tule River Tribe of California had their access to water—from the river that is the tribe’s namesake—stolen from it a hundred years ago. A group of downstream farmers and ranchers, along with government conspirators, negotiated away the Tribe’s rights […]
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Fight the Outbreak: Holding the UN Accountable for Cholera in Haiti
NMAP partnered with the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) to produce a video on UN accountability in the spread of cholera in Haiti. In 2010, a group of UN peacekeeping troops from Nepal introduced Cholera into Haiti’s […]
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Faces of Death Row: Innocent Men Sentenced to Die in Nigeria
To bring an end to the use of the death penalty in Nigeria, NMAP partnered with the Legal Defense and Assistance Project (LEDAP), a leading Nigerian criminal justice NGO, to create a media advocacy campaign for legislative reform to outlaw […]
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Advocating for Justice in Haiti’s Prisons
We collaborated with the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti and Partners in Health to support their efforts to address the human rights and health issues created by excessive pre-trial detention in Haitian prisons. Our two partner organizations established […]
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After the Quake: Protecting Haitian Women in Displacement Camps
In the aftermath of Haiti’s earthquake, we worked with the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti to create two videos featuring the voices of Haitian women who experienced violence in internally displaced persons camps. One video was shown in […]
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Separate and Unequal: Health Care Disparities in New York City
NMAP partnered with New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and Bronx Health REACH to produce two videos to highlight disparities in health care services for people with private insurance and those on Medicaid—a disparity that often falls along lines […]
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Fighting the School to Prison Pipeline: A Miami Community Learns from its Youth
NMAP partnered with the Advancement Project and its local grassroots partner in Miami, Power U, to use the voices of youth to challenge the school to prison pipeline in Miami. Miami’s schools had been cracking down hard on youth in […]
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Fighting the School to Prison Pipeline: Restorative Justice in Denver
NMAP partnered with the Advancement Project and its local grassroots partner in Denver, Padres & Jóvenes Unidos, to use the voices of youth to challenge the school to prison pipeline in Colorado. After Columbine, the State of Colorado cracked down […]
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Ending Impunity in Punjab
Over 25,000 Sikhs were disappeared by the Indian government during the 1980s and 1990s, but not a single perpetrator has been held accountable. Ensaaf is documenting every single case of disappearance, and drafting a report that covers every story. N-Map […]
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Empowering the Rural Poor to Fight Evictions
NMAP collaborated with Nigeria’s Social and Economic Rights Action Center to tell the story of a successful negotiation between the Lagos government, Chinese investors, and Nigerian villages, over the taking of the villagers’ land for a massive development project. Instead […]
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The Fight Against Child Marriage: Education is Our Future
NMAP worked with two northern Nigerian women’s human rights groups, Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA) and Isa Wali Empowerment Initiative (IWEI), and their partners to produce three videos that take new approaches in the fight against child marriage. […]
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After the Storm: Addressing Mississippi Housing Issues Five Years After Katrina
We produced this video for the Mississippi Center for Justice five years after the storm devastated the Gulf Coast. This video was designed to show the Mississippi legislature and the public outside of Mississippi how policy failures—including ignoring relatively easy […]
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Counting Executions: Using Data to Break Down Arguments for the Death Penalty
Produced in partnership with Justice Project Pakistan, Counting Executions uses animated data to to take on common arguments for the death penalty in Pakistan. The video is part of the #BringItBack campaign, which sheds light on the human and social […]
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Corruptistan: Returning Stolen Money to the Real Victims of Grand Corruption
NMAP partnered with the Uzbek-German Forum on Human Rights to tell the story of the real victims of corruption in one of the most notorious mafia-states in the world. In Uzbekistan, corrupt government officials maintain an abusive regime financed by […]
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Training Georgian Civil Society
NMAP was asked by East-West Management Institute (EWMI)—a development organization and funder—to produce a set of videos for their GPAC program designed to educate local civil society groups in the Republic of Georgia about advocacy techniques. To do this, we […]
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Combating Violence Against the LGBT Community in Georgia
In response to violence against LGBT rights protesters in Tbilisi in 2013, we helped Identoba—a leading LGBT rights group in Georgia—create a set of video-PSAs to educate the public about violence against LGBT people and to advocate against it. One […]
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Defending Yourself in Consumer Debt Court: Default Judgement
We collaborated with a coalition of legal services organizations, including Feerick Center for Social Justice, to create a set of short animated explainer videos to help low-income, unrepresented litigants defend consumer debt cases brought against them in New York City’s […]
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