Videre Est Credere

What Videre Est Credere does

Videre Est Credere is a UK-registered charity and private company limited by guarantee (company no. 06706030, charity no. 1130375), founded in 2008 and headquartered at 4 Old Park Lane, London. Its mission is to centre and equip communities impacted by human rights abuses and environmental crimes to lead their own investigations and direct visual evidence gathering, with the results used for legal accountability, advocacy, and media exposure. The organisation operates a "Film, Verify, Expose" methodology in which locally embedded teams — drawn from affected populations — are trained in security protocols and equipped with custom-made video cameras and situation-specific communications tools, supplemented by witness testimony, environmental sampling, and open-source investigation. Verified evidence is distributed to UN investigative mechanisms (including OHCHR and Special Procedures), the International Criminal Court, civil society partners (Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Global Witness, Forbidden Stories), and major media outlets (BBC, Guardian, NYT, Reuters, Financial Times, Channel 4, Al Jazeera, CNN, AP). Videre currently maintains five active country teams across Sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia, Central and East Africa, and the MENA/Middle East regions, with partnerships in six additional cross-border contexts.

The organisation's business model is grant-funded and non-commercial. Revenue is derived almost entirely from voluntary contributions — primarily grants from private foundations (Wellspring, Open Society Foundations, Skoll, Oak, Sigrid Rausing Trust, Evan Cornish, Humanity United, Freedom House, Isocrates, Swedish Postcode Lottery), governments (USAID, US State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor), development organisations, and individuals channelled via CAF Donate. Operating costs are further reduced by pro-bono legal, storage, and infrastructure support from Clifford Chance, Doughty Street Chambers, TrustLaw, Advocates for International Development, and the Dropbox Foundation. As a charity, Videre applies no pricing model to its core services; instead it pursues donor engagement through its website, email newsletters, and direct outreach led by a Head of Development. The Senior Management Team and Executive Board govern funding decisions on a case-by-case basis under an explicit ethical funding policy.

The leadership team combines human rights, legal, security, and finance credentials: CEO Tim Hansen (former COO at Conciliation Resources, Operations Director at Reprieve), Senior Director of Strategy Jesse Roberts (ex-Global Witness, Institute for War and Peace Reporting), Senior Director of Programmes (15+ years of investigations experience across Africa, Asia, the Middle East), Director of Legal Accountability and Advocacy Catriona Murdoch (joined August 2025, ex-Global Rights Compliance, ranked in Chambers and Partners and Legal 500), Head of Finance and Compliance Dipen Sitaula (ex-Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity), and a Security Manager with 15+ years of humanitarian field security across Africa, Middle East, Asia, and Latin America.

Name

Videre Est Credere

Legal name

Videre Est Credere

Website

https://videre.org.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Videre Est Credere is a UK-registered charity founded in 2008 that equips grassroots activists in Sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia, and the MENA region to securely document, verify, and expose human rights abuses and environmental crimes through community-led visual evidence gathering for use by courts, UN mechanisms, and media.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Human Rights Documentation Services

NAICS

Human Rights Organizations (813311), Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations (813312)

akta.pro primary industry

Human Rights Monitoring, Documentation & Advocacy (BPADAGAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

Civil Liberties & Constitutional Rights Advocacy (BPAGAFAA)

Keywords

• Human rights documentation
• Evidence gathering services
• Civil society accompaniment
• Human rights investigations
• Accountability programming

Headquarters

HQ city

City Of London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Charitable Grants and Donations: Videre relies almost entirely on voluntary support to meet costs. Majority of funding comes from grants provided by private trusts and foundations, governments, development organisations and individuals. Funding decisions are made by the Senior Management Team and Executive Board on a case-by-case basis.
2. Pro-bono Services: The organisation receives pro-bono goods and services as gifts-in-kind from legal firms and other partners including Clifford Chance, Advocates for International Development, Dropbox Foundation, TrustLaw, and Doughty Street Chambers.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Videre Est Credere delivers field-based, community-embedded human rights evidence gathering, verification, and distribution services. It trains and equips local activists and civil society partners to document abuses and environmental crimes using visual evidence, witness testimony, and environmental sampling, then verifies and channels admissible evidence to courts, lawyers, policymakers, civil society, and media for legal, advocacy, and public-exposure purposes.

Product overview

Videre Est Credere offers a human rights evidence-gathering methodology and investigative service rather than a traditional software product. Its core offering consists of field-based visual evidence gathering, analysis, verification, and distribution services delivered through trained community-based teams. The organisation provides end-to-end support encompassing: training partners on security protocols and filming techniques and supplying situation-specific technology and communications tools; hands-on mentoring during evidence capture; rigorous verification and distribution of findings to courts, lawyers, policymakers, civil society, and media; and impact monitoring with adaptive programming. These activities are not delivered as discrete commercial software products but as a structured programme of investigative and accompaniment services focused on human rights documentation in hostile environments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Evidence Gathering and Documentation Services A structured programme enabling affected communities and civil society partners to document human rights abuses and environmental crimes through visual evidence gathering, witness testimony, and environmental sampling, with rigorous verification to ensure admissibility in legal proceedings. Intended for grassroots activists, human rights defenders, civil society organisations, and international accountability mechanisms.
• Security Training and Equipment Provision Training partners and field teams on rigorous security protocols, filming techniques, and evidence verification, alongside the provision of custom-made video cameras and situation-specific technology and communications tools for evidence capture in hostile environments.
• Verification and Distribution of Evidence Rigorous verification of gathered information and distribution of verified evidence to courts, lawyers, policymakers, civil society, and media for legal proceedings, advocacy, and public-exposure purposes.
• Impact Monitoring and Adaptive Programming Monitoring how gathered information is used, and tailoring efforts to those best placed to deliver tangible impact for local communities, with programme adaptation based on learnings.

Quantifiable outcome

• Direct evidence of genocide enabling international action and establishing patterns for arrest warrants and prosecutions
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

22 partnerships are on record, tiered supporting, minor and core.

• Clifford ChancesupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPro-bono legal services provider to Videre
• Dropbox FoundationsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvides pro-bono storage and technology services to Videre
• TrustLawsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPro-bono legal resources and support to Videre
• Doughty Street ChamberssupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPro-bono legal services and barristers supporting Videre's work
• Advocates for International Development (A4ID)supportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvides pro-bono legal development services to Videre
• Al JazeeraminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMedia partner receiving and publishing Videre's evidence and investigations
• Human Rights WatchcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational human rights organisation partnering with Videre for evidence gathering and advocacy
• Amnesty InternationalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGlobal human rights organisation that has validated Videre's evidence work
• BBCminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMedia outlet receiving and broadcasting Videre's investigative content
• Channel 4minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMedia partner for Frontline documentaries using Videre's evidence
• The GuardianminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMedia partner publishing Videre's investigative work
• New York TimesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMedia outlet publishing Videre's investigations
• ReutersminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNews agency partner for Videre's evidence and reporting
• CNNminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMedia partner broadcasting Videre's investigations
• Associated PressminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNews agency partner for Videre's evidence
• Financial TimesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMedia outlet publishing Videre's investigative content
• International Criminal CourtcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAccountability mechanism that trusts and uses Videre's evidence for proceedings
• UN Human Rights (OHCHR)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUN body that receives and utilises Videre's evidence for investigations
• UN Special ProcedurescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUN special rapporteurs and experts who trust Videre's evidence for mandates
• Global WitnessminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCampaigning organisation on natural resource exploitation partnered with Videre
• Forbidden StoriesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJournalism network that continues work of killed journalists, partnered with Videre
• AirwarsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTransparency watchdog monitoring civilian harm, with board overlap with Videre

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Syrian Network for Human Rights: Independent documentation network that systematically records human rights violations in Syria through field-based networks, producing court-admissible evidence. Closely comparable methodology for evidence collection in hostile environments.
• Forensic Architecture: Research agency at Goldsmiths, University of London that investigates state and corporate violence using open-source and spatial evidence. Comparable on investigative methods (video, OSINT, spatial analysis) for international accountability processes.

Broad incumbents

• Amnesty International: Largest global human rights organisation with a broad advocacy, research and crisis-response portfolio. Comparable as a customer of Videre's evidence, and as a larger incumbent covering the same thematic space with overlapping methodologies.
• International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH): Federation of 188 national human rights organisations that supports documentation, advocacy and litigation before international mechanisms. Comparable as a downstream recipient/partner of evidence supplied by Videre and operates across overlapping geographies.

Direct peers

• WITNESS (formerly Witness.org): Global NGO that partners with grassroots groups worldwide to use video and technology for human rights documentation. Closely comparable to Videre on community-led video evidence methodology, training, and human rights advocacy.
• Mnemonic: Digital evidence organisation that helps human rights defenders collect, verify and preserve digital and video evidence for use in justice processes. Highly comparable on evidence-verification methodology, partner training, and ICC/UN-aligned use cases.
• Global Witness: Investigative organisation exposing environmental and human rights abuses connected to natural resource exploitation. Senior Videre leadership began careers there; directly comparable on environmental crime investigations and conflict minerals work.
• Airwars: Transparency watchdog that monitors and investigates civilian harm claims in conflict-affected nations using open-source investigations. Directly comparable on open-source and field evidence of conflict harm, with executive board overlap to Videre.
• Front Line Defenders: International organisation dedicated to the protection of human rights defenders — provides security, training and grants. Directly comparable target customer base for Videre (at-risk HRDs) and overlapping security-training programme.
• Human Rights Watch: International human rights organisation that conducts investigations into abuses and produces research and advocacy output. Customer and operational partner of Videre and a directly comparable evidence-based human rights organisation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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