In data-informed investigations, storytelling is a way to organise and transmit information. However, stories are selective by design. At the end of an investigation, a dataset is able to tell, and therefore amplify, some stories and not others. Even a well-written methodology is a partial story of...

In investigations, digital 3D models become containers for organising evidence in time and space

January is traditionally the time when we reflect on the past year and often make overly ambitious plans for the year ahead. There are past projects and events that stand out, leading us to think more about how we should frame our work and what lessons to draw from it. One of those events for...

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%)...

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...

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Five videos portraying a gruesome series of events appeared online in early March. First published by Tigrai Media House, a media outlet affiliated with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), they depict the detention and eventual execution of a group of unarmed men purportedly in the Tigray...

This post is documentation of the RightsCon session titled ‘Using data ethically in humanitarian, human rights, and open source investigations,’ hosted by The Engine Room. The session was organized and moderated by Laura Guzmán (The Engine Room) and co-facilitated by Jonathan Drake (American...

It has been three years since an estimated 740,000 Rohingya fled the Myanmar military’s targeted campaign of violence in Rakhine State for refugee camps in Bangladesh. Yet for the Rohingya remaining in Myanmar, life is still full of danger and human rights violations continue. In January, as part...

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...

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...

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...