Join Amnesty International’s Digital Verification Corps (DVC) and Amnesty International Switzerland for a two-day event to discuss open-source and other new methodologies for documenting human rights violations. The event is taking place on Thursday 19 and Friday 20 September at Impact Hub in Geneva. The event offers a blend of workshops and panel discussions. Participants will…
Click here to read the article in English. En junio de 2022, publicamos junto al Crisis Evidence Lab de Amnistía Internacional, los resultados de un nuevo modelo para apoyar la búsqueda de fosas clandestinas en México utilizando tecnologías de análisis geoespacial. Desarrollamos esta herramienta para respaldar los esfuerzos de búsqueda de personas desaparecidas en el…
Haga clic aquí para leer la publicación del blog en español. In June 2022, Data Cívica, Elementa DDHH, the Human Rights Center of Universidad Iberoamericana and Centro Geo published, with Amnesty International’s Crisis Evidence Lab, the results of a new approach to support the search of clandestine graves in Mexico using geospatial technologies. We developed this tool…
In September 2023, Amnesty International’s Crisis Response Programme hosted the fourth edition of the Digital Verification Corps Summit in Berlin, Germany, in close collaboration with the Hertie School of Governance. The Digital Verification Corps (DVC) is a network of six universities (University of California Berkeley, University of Cambridge, University of Essex, Universidad Iberoamericana, Hertie School…
Amnesty International has documented how the Iranian authorities’ relentless onslaught against weekly protests by thousands of protesters and worshippers from Iran’s Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan province, escalated on Friday 20 October 2023, as security forces resorted to severe beatings and unnecessary use of tear gas and water cannons, and carried out mass arbitrary arrests, enforced…
Amnesty International’s Crisis Response Programme gathered compelling evidence documenting the use of white phosphorus artillery shells by the Israeli army in densely populated civilian areas in Gaza, many of which may be considered unlawful indiscriminate attacks. Following the attacks on civilians in Israel by Hamas and other armed groups on 07 October, the Israeli army…
Berlin-based university Hertie School is the newest member of the Amnesty International Digital Verification Corps (DVC) – a network of universities that collaborate with Amnesty International in ground-breaking and rigorous human rights research. The Hertie School is the sixth member of the DVC globally, and the first one in the European Union. Other members…
As Amnesty International’s Archivist, I was delighted to be asked by the Crisis Evidence Lab to discuss the impact of vicarious trauma from an archive and recordkeeping perspective. Our archive holds the collective institutional memory of the Amnesty International – International Secretariat (AIIS), dating back to the organization’s foundation in 1961. The collection includes records…
Join Amnesty International’s Evidence Lab and its partners for a one-day event to discuss open-source and other new methodologies for human rights fact-finding. The event is taking place on 15 September 2023 at bUm – Raum für solidarisches Miteinander. The one-day event offers a blend of workshops and panel discussions. Participants will have the opportunity…
This blog post is also available in French here. In this blog, we’ll discuss the challenges of verifying video evidence from the recent repression of protests in Dakar, and detail how the Evidence Lab was able to geolocate a potential extrajudicial execution by the Senegalese police. Dakar rises: potential extrajudicial executions in the capital The…
Cet article de blog est disponible en anglais ici. Cet article détaille les difficultés posées par la vérification des preuves vidéos de la récente répression des manifestations à Dakar, et montre comment l’Evidence Lab a pu géolocaliser une potentielle exécution extrajudiciaire commise par la police sénégalaise. Dakar rises : potentielles exécutions extrajudiciaires dans la capitale…