Documenting Human Rights Violations Using Digital Methods Training – Session 2

Using Open-Source Information Methods for Documenting Human Rights Violations

Human rights investigations are increasingly drawing on digital tools and open-source information alongside traditional interviews. Social media content, satellite imagery, crowdsourced mapping, and data repositories now play a key role in documenting abuses.

This second of a two-session training introduces participants to these open-source approaches for documenting human rights violations. Through case studies, learn how to access and collect different types of digital data, verify information using free and advanced tools, analyze patterns of abuse, and consider the ethical implications of applying these technologies worldwide.

Presented by Jorge Ruiz Reyes, Kellogg Institute Research Associate, Violence and Transitional Justice (VT-J) Lab

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Cosponsored with the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights.