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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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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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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Toxic Pesticides: The Threat to Punjabi Farmers
Punjab’s agrarian economy relies on the daily, hard work of its farmers, but the continued use of toxic pesticides banned in the United States and Europe poses a threat to Punjabi lives. These pesticides are sold to countries with weak […]
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The Cerro de Oro Hydroelectric Plant: A Latent Threat
In partnership with Accountability Counsel, we produced two short videos that demystify the process of using international accountability mechanisms to confront multinational corporations that threaten human rights. Both videos use the case of a hydroelectric plant in Oaxaca, Mexico to […]
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Student Fraud Relief: Tasha’s Story
When the Corinthian colleges told their students empty promises and robbed them of their time and money, thousands of students were left with invalid certificates, unemployed, and debt. NMAP partnered with Public Counsel, the largest pro bono law firm in […]
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Student Fraud Relief: Nathan’s Story
When the Corinthian colleges told their students empty promises and robbed them of their time and money, thousands of students were left with invalid certificates, unemployed, and debt. NMAP partnered with Public Counsel, the largest pro bono law firm in […]
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Student Fraud Relief: How to Apply for Federal Loan Forgiveness
In 2015, Department of Justice found that Corinthian College Inc, the company that owned Everest, WyoTech, and Heald colleges, had routinely lied to their students in order to drive up enrollment rates. For this reason, the US DoE offers federal […]
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Tackling the Accountability Gap
NMAP partnered with the Eurpoean Center for Constitutional and Human Rights to support their work holding multinational pesticide producers legally accountable when their products harm people and the environment. Rather than taking a product off the market when its found […]
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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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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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