Haga clic aquí para leer la publicación del blog en español. Introduction Disappearances committed by state and non-state actors are one of Mexico’s most pressing issues. According to official figures, there are more than 100,000 missing persons in Mexico. The majority of these cases (80%) have been documented since 2007 due to the use of…
Introducción Las desapariciones cometidas por agentes estatales y no estatales son uno de los problemas más acuciantes de México. Según cifras oficiales, hay más de 100,.000 personas desaparecidas en México. La mayoría de estos casos (80%) se han documentado desde 2007 debido al uso de las fuerzas armadas para combatir las actividades relacionadas con el…
Most published open source research consists of user-generated content which has been verified, with analysis corroborating the date, time and location of capture. Once solved and explained, the process of geolocation can seem intuitive. Yet what’s less visible and less widely discussed are the moments of doubt during any challenging geolocation task and the instances…
In mid-October 2019, protests erupted across Chile in response to a fare increase on public transport. Regular protests continued for months as protesters’ demands expanded to include calls for a more just society in which the state guarantees basic rights such as those to health, water, quality education and social security. State security forces—primarily the…
In September 2019, Huthi forces in Yemen attacked the Aramco Biqayq oil facility in Saudi Arabia using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or “drones”. Amnesty International saw this event, and other Huthi cross-border attacks on Saudi Arabian civilian infrastructure, as potentially indicative of a new dimension to Huthi campaigns and a possible violation of international humanitarian…
As recent university graduates, we had exciting plans for the new year, the new decade. We hoped to secure jobs, to travel and more in 2020. These plans came to halt with the COVID-19 pandemic. Like others, we found ourselves in lockdown: alone at home with social media, and confronted by the longstanding tragedies of…
A first step in a community’s recovery after a traumatic event, such as an armed conflict, mass disaster, or pandemic, is to account for and identify all the lives lost in the tragedy. In many cases these individuals are buried in mass graves that may be either unmarked or deliberately concealed. The discovery and documentation of mass graves has long been a difficult yet critical component of securing justice. After any mass fatality event, it…
Both digital and physical spaces have been occupied by the protests against excessive police violence taking place across the USA. Across partisan lines, US residents have gathered to mourn the killing of George Floyd, for which a police officer has been charged with murder, and to call for justice and racial equality. Whether you are…
In October 2019 mass protests erupted in Baghdad and across southern Iraq. Amnesty’s Crisis Evidence Lab was asked to use open source techniques to support the organization’s Iraq research team to investigate the crackdown against protesters. This soon included videos of the most gruesome deaths: protesters being killed with 40mm military-style grenades embedded in their…