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Oct 29, 2020, 6 tweets

Welcome and thanks for joining us for today’s tweet chat on archiving for human rights with Ayanda K of (@_Videre) and @ng_yvonne of (@witnessorg).

Before we proceed, we would like to briefly introduce Ayanda and Yvonne.

#HumanRightsArchiving

Ayanda serves as an Archiving Coordinator for VIDERE. She has over a decade of experience in cataloguing, storing & preserving visual human rights documentation. Additionally, she has collaborated with various stakeholders to ensure human rights documentation has impact both in..

the short & long term. Ayanda holds a Master’s degree in Human Rights and has additional training in security and visual analysis.

Yvonne Ng is an audiovisual archivist and has been part of the WITNESS team since 2009. In collaboration with WITNESS regional leads, she trains and supports partners on collecting, managing, and preserving video documentation for human rights advocacy and evidence.

Yvonne currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), on the Advisory Boards of the Memory Lab Network and Documenting the Now.

Today, we will be talking about

“Archiving for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights”

Please use #HumanRightsArchiving for all replies and questions.

Thank you Ayanda and Yvonne for taking the time to join us today.

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