Distribution by Region

Distribution by Organisation Type, Document Type, Region and Year

Testimony occurs mostly in documents published in Europe, followed by MENA, North America, Africa and Asia with comparatively smaller contributions. Overall, the top five contributors in terms of occurrences are NGO, NGO_Fed, IGO, Net and RC organisations.

NGO, NGO_Fed, IGO, Net and RC documents provide the greatest number of occurrences, primarily from activity reports published in Europe.

Testimony ...

• is (a)

  • component of humanitarian activities

  • humanitarian obligation

  • form of information

  • evidence

  • document

• is gathered by organisations

• is given by

  • victims

  • survivors

  • witnesses

• has legal classifications

  • sworn, unsworn

• is conveyed with media

  • video

  • written

  • live

• is presented

  • to overseeing bodies (court, senate)

  • to the public

  • as part of activity reports

  • by humanitarians

  • by affected populations

• has variable content

  • in-depth, general

• has a value / effect

  • moving, powerful

• relates to an event

  • first-hand

  • on-the-ground

• can include or be any entity

  • events

  • objects

  • sentiments

  • individuals

• has purposes / results, for

  • advocacy, self-advocacy

  • healing

  • collective history, accountability

  • proof of identity

  • impact reporting

  • understanding populations

  • engagement

• may be untrue

• may be ignored or invalidated by unscrupulous officials

• may be relied upon too heavily in court

• may delay case presentation

• requires training to collect

• may be difficult to collect

• may benefit from innovative methodologies, such as 'active memory'

• should be publicised

We are working to finalize the "testimony" component of our activities, which will enable us to provide a more comprehensive humanitarian response, combining aid and advocacy.

Testimony is one of our humanitarian obligations.

The evidence included testimony of 107 witnesses - more than half of them police officers.

Copies of testimony and other key documents are available at www.iaem.com/committees/governmentaffairs.

Its user-friendly interface and interactive map continue to integrate B'Tselem's video footage from the field with B'Tselem's more traditional forms of information (statistics, maps, testimonies , etc.).

• actor

  • victim testimony

  • survivor testimony

  • eyewitness, witness testimony

  • beneficiary testimony

  • expert testimony

  • client testimony

  • migrant testimony

  • children's testimony

• legal classification

  • sworn, unsworn testimony

• medium

  • video, documentary testimony

  • written

  • oral testimony

  • live (in-person) testimony

• overseeing body

  • congressional testimony

  • senate testimony

• content

  • in-depth testimony

  • general testimony

• value / effect

  • essential testimony

  • moving testimony

  • powerful testimony

• veracity

  • false testimony

• relationship to event

  • direct testimony

  • first-hand testimony

  • personal testimony

  • on-the-ground testimony

As NCA's role has partially been to communicate testimonies of the situation on the ground to Norwegian congregations, collaboration with Palestinian, Israeli and international actors has proved to be strategically noteworthy. 5 The Church of Norway (Council on Ecumenical and International Relations), the Christian Council of Norway and YMCA-YWCA Global.

Very often the victims have fear and are ashamed to stand in a law court or at a hearing giving testimony of how the case happened.

The young woman's testimony was a crucial element in the case against a number of cartel leaders.

The leaders' compelling testimony clearly influenced the Council and helped to galvanise a stronger international response to the crisis.

By giving an oral testimony of their experience, displaced people have the opportunity to speak out in their own words on issues which concern them, rather than having their needs and priorities interpreted by outsiders.

During the memorial prayers, the NMPDC team documented video testimonies from victims and survivors. Sharing such testimonies helped promote community and individual healing.

Dialogues were held in Mucwini (Acholi), Barlonyo (Lango), Ombachi (West Nile) and Obalanga (Teso), and demonstrated that truth-telling is possible and vital in fostering healing, provoking disclosure and as such enabling the collection of testimonies which in turn are critical for promoting a collective sense of history and future accountability.

For those who do not have any papers confirming their identity, testimonies and confirmations from others, for example fellow villagers, are used.

We have tried to supplement the statistics with stories and testimonies of people who have participated in Operation Mercy programmes and had their lives improved or transformed. We hope that this combination of numbers and narrative present a balanced view of Operation Mercy's overall impact.

In April 2013, together with other agencies, we gathered testimony from people in these countries to understand their hopes and aspirations for peace as the African Union celebrated its 50th anniversary.

An innovative campaign, launched on the 2011 International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, asked women and men from around the country to share testimonies of violence in their lives and recommend ways to move towards a safer world. In three months, nearly 10,000 letters poured in, both electronically and through mailboxes in government offices, hospitals, markets and universities. About half described domestic or other forms of violence; some told horrific tales of "treatment by rape" to "correct" homosexuality. The campaign, sponsored by UN Women in partnership with the municipality of Quito and the German development cooperation agency, sparked widespread public debate–with news coverage reaching over 5 million people.

The chart below represents the distribution of testimony between 2005 and 2019 in terms of the number of occurrences and relative frequency of occurrences. It also allows you to view the distribution across Regions, Organisations and Document types.

"Honour killings have at last been forbidden by law, says Alia, but the law the enforced in very different ways and not particularly strictly. In a court-case, for example, one woman's testimony concerning honour-related violence is ignored if she testifies alone. Two female witnesses are needed to weigh against one of a man," she says. Inherited authoritarian culture and patriarchal attitudes are the biggest obstacle in relation to contributing to women's and young people's participation in Kurdistan, says Project Advisor in Norwegian People's Aid, Alia Rashid Amin.

The Palic Process was launched in 2004 by the OSCE. It brings together the judicial authorities of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and (now) Montenegro with the aim of enhancing inter-state co-operation in addressing war crimes investigations, prosecutions and trials. Issues include the recognition of the validity of testimonies and the protection of witnesses.

A bribed judge will often simply distort the testimony of witnesses in their summaries and give the corresponding judgement. Even if the verdict is inevitable the subsequent sentencing may bear little relation to the severity of the crime. What Makes a System Corrupt Judicial corruption in many respects is just another aspect of a weakly functioning state. In many countries politically motivated bodies appoint or promote judges according to their own requirements, so that the judicial system becomes just another arm of the executive.

Regional and international human rights protection systems have suggested that this impunity is largely due to the inadequacy of criminal investigations, including insufficient contextualization of the cases; the heavy reliance on the testimonies of witnesses rather than on other types of evidence; the erroneous legal qualifications or requalification of the crimes; and the use of mitigating circumstances to shorten prison sentences.

The Office of the Prosecutor also took a number of steps to reduce the time necessary to present cases in ongoing and upcoming trials by using more written evidence instead of live witness testimony and by trying to speed up the transition from pretrial to trial.

Two two-day training sessions were organized for fieldworkers, focusing on skillbuilding in testimony collection, the multiple uses of filmed testimony, the legal context for their documentation work, and sexual harassment training.

Risks and Obstacles • The dangerous situation in the Gaza Strip during the Israeli offensive. • Difficulties of accessing sites of incidents due to ongoing attacks. • Difficulties in obtaining testimonies from victims and eyewitnesses due to their psychological condition.

Developing an innovative methodology, the process of 'active memory' used to gather the various testimonies has had a powerful transformative impact on the women involved – contributing to healing, social reparation and reconciliation.

SI's testimony and especially the formalization of its fight against water-borne diseases... should be publicized by all its members and by all media.

The organization initiated a dramatic expansion of its use of video and photographic documentation by hiring a professional video coordinator, setting up a video editing room, and gathering new footage. B'Tselem now regularly produces video testimonies and short movies to accompany the publication of reports.

Donor testimonial "I have been associated with Save the Children for almost five years now and I am quite impressed with their work for children."

Backed up by success stories and testimonial letters read on our radio series about similar successful efforts at reducing violence and strife, these youth activists initiate and participate in peace rallies, job fairs, sports events and community reconstruction efforts.

Moreover, throughout the past year Palestinian human rights groups have raised concerns about occupation forces' willingness to deploy lethal force against unarmed, lightly armed or wounded Palestinians. These concerns are confirmed by the testimonials of witnesses and videos of extrajudicial killings of Palestinians by Israeli occupation forces.