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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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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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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Too Young to Consent and Too Young to be Judged
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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The Michael Komape Campaign: The Struggle for Quality Infrastructure in South African Schools
Infrastructure inadequacies, scarce resources, and overcrowding are defining characteristics of countless schools that serve learners across South Africa. In response to these challenges, in 2010, Equal Education, a South African movement of learners demanding quality and equality in education, launched […]
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Stopping Demolitions in Lagos
The water-dwelling slum community of Makoko-on-Water was under threat of demolition by the Lagos government. NMAP partnered with the Social and Economic Rights Action Center to develop a media advocacy strategy to help them protect the community. We produced two […]
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Organizing Victims of Demolitions in Lagos
This video tells the story of one of Social and Economic Rights Action Center’s long-standing client communities – the people of Maroko, a town in Lagos that was illegally demolished by the Lagos State government over 20 years ago. The […]
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Justice for Maroko
In July, 1990, more than 300,000 people were forcibly evicted from their homes in the town of Maroko, Lagos State, Nigeria. Over the last 25 years, the Maroko community has sought recognition of and remedies to address the serious violations […]
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Innocent and Sentenced to Die: Wrongful Incarceration on Nigeria’s Death Row
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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Innocent and Condemned 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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The Fight Against Child Marriage: Girls in Their Own Voices
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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Gender Justice Uncovered Awards 2013
Women’s Link Worldwide’s Gender Justice Uncovered Awards highlights the fact that in every country, regardless of its political system, culture or religion, what judges say has a tremendous influence on the day-to-day lives of people. Whether focused on reproductive rights, […]
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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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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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