Videre est Credere (Videre) is a human rights organization that equips oppressed communities in hard-to-access areas with cameras, technology, and training to safely and effectively collect video evidence to expose violence, human rights violations, and other systemic abuses.
[4] It creates a global network of activists able to film and document the abuses and human rights violations of violent regimes.
[8] It also claims to use a number of techniques unusual to the NGO industry such as "data storage and communication encryption to counter-surveillance.
Fruchtmann, the former husband of Annie Lennox and a successful filmmaker, had the idea of giving old video equipment to human rights defenders.
Uri Fruchtmann, John Sauven, Katy Cronin, Fiona Napier and Terry Gilliam serve on its board of trustees.