New Fact-finding Methodologies The battle for Tripoli started in April 2019 when the commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), led by Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar, began its campaign to take western Libya. Civilians and their homes have been indiscriminately targeted by both the United Nations-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) and the Libyan National…
This blog post is written by Dominique Lewis, who co-led this project at the University of California, Berkeley Human Rights Center’s Investigation Lab on the Digital Verification Corps team. Dominique reports on the various methods and techniques that her team members used while investigating these human rights violations. This piece was first published here. Description…
By: Dominique Lewis Research published by Amnesty International in March 2019, The Hidden US War in Somalia, details how 14 civilians were killed and eight more injured in just five of more than 100 strikes carried out in the country in the past two years. These five incidents were carried out with Reaper drones and manned…
Amnesty International has found evidence of Egyptian security forces using French-supplied Sherpas and MIDS vehicles to violently crush dissent in the country between 2012 and 2015. Part of this research involved Amnesty International’s Digital Verification Corps – a network of volunteers trained in social media verification based at universities around the world. DVC members at…