The Hub

Address: http://hub.witness.org

Description: The Hub is a “participatory media site for human rights.” It is a fully-interactive fully-multimedia site where users can upload, view, comment on, and share videos, audio, photos, and text concerning human rights issues. Content on the Hub is provided by individuals, human rights groups, networks, and organizations. Users can also connect with groups or create their own group to address a human rights issue. It is a highly-secure site and the confidentiality of users is guarded jealously so users do not have to worry about retaliation. This website is an amazing tool for students because it personally involves them in human rights issues around the world. Adult English language learners will find this site especially useful because human rights issues in their home countries are often a topic of intense interest.

Authorship: A consortium of human rights groups including Amnesty International and others.

Publishing Body: The Hub/Witness (a human rights watch group with affiliated groups)

Point of View or Bias: Point of view strongly against human rights violators

Referral to Other Sources: Links to human rights groups and their published reports

Verifiability: Links to sources from organizations

Currency: Updated hourly

Accessibility: WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) reports 16 accessibility errors. There are many instances of hidden content, missing labels and inaccessible event handlers. Also, there are many instances of flash and javascript content that screenreaders will be unable to handle.

- cc 2009 Jonan Donaldson

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