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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 […]

Series: Beneath the Surface | Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Subject(s): Business and Human Rights, Land and Environment

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 […]

Series: Beneath the Surface | Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Subject(s): Business and Human Rights, Land and Environment

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 […]

Series: Beneath the Surface | Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Subject(s): Business and Human Rights, Land and Environment

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 […]

Series: Beneath the Surface | Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Subject(s): Business and Human Rights, Land and Environment

Gender Discrimination in Georgia: If Men Could Get Pregnant

Article 42, one of the Republic of Georgia’s premier human rights organizations asked us to help them change attitudes on pregnancy in the workplace to help lay the groundwork for their advocacy for stronger pregnancy discrimination laws. We produced this […]

Region: Eurasia
Subject(s): Civil and Political Rights, Women's Rights

Advancing Justice Through Expert Testimony in Haiti

NMAP Partnered with the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti to educate the Haitian bar about use of expert witness in rape prosecutions. Haiti’s penal code and criminal procedure have not been updated since 183. Haitian judges, prosecutors, and […]

Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Subject(s): Civil and Political Rights, Criminal Justice, Women's Rights

Accountability During Haiti’s Earthquake

We produced a set of videos with Partners in Health and the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti in connection with Haiti’s 2010 earthquake. These videos were designed to expose the fact that despite raising $2.5 billion and heavily […]

Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Subject(s): Civil and Political Rights

Justice in Armenia: Access to Palliative Care

We worked with the Public Health Program at Open Society Foundations to support an Armenian campaign about palliative care. Because of fears about drug trafficking, access to pain relief medication in Armenia was very limited— in particular, oral drugs were […]

Region: Eurasia
Subject(s): Civil and Political Rights

Calling on Developers to Create Green Low-Income Housing

NMAP partnered with Enterprise Green Communities to help them develop a call to action to make all affordable and low-income housing green by 2020. Poor quality housing creates dangerous health conditions for people in low-income communities, and green housing largely […]

Region: United States
Subject(s): Land and Environment

Calling for Green Low-Income Housing Policies

Region: United States
Subject(s): Land and Environment

72 Hours: Countdown to Execution

Produced in collaboration with Justice Project Pakistan and animator Maaz Maudood for the #BringitBack campaign, this video is an emotional journey through the final 72 hours before an inmate’s execution. The #BringItBack campaign sheds light on the human and social […]

Series: Bring It Back | Region: Asia
Subject(s): Criminal Justice

Stadium Zacatapec

NMAP partnered with acclaimed Mexican think tank, El Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad A.C. (IMCO) to produce five videos that focus on wide-ranging corruption and misappropriation of taxes. The videos accomplish this by demonstrating everyday citizens’ attitudes towards corruption, showing […]