Founded in 1992, WITNESS works out of New York and fights to make people aware of the highly topical issues related to the respect of human rights. Sensational cases have been brought to light by its active members with video images showing clear and undeniable evidence of sexual violence against women during the Sierra Leone civil war, the inhuman living conditions in Paraguayan lunatic asylums or forced labour in Burma, all of which have been documented and made public by WITNESS during its 15 years of activity, years in which it has struggled to document and divulge situations that have been kept hidden by so many.
