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Conflict

Pursuing accountability and restoring the historical record

The Human Rights Center has worked at the heart of some of the world’s most dire conflicts — from eastern Congo to Cambodia to Ukraine. What started as fact-finding missions on the ground has evolved into efforts to help resolve violence globally, digital open source investigations of ongoing conflicts, and efforts to hold perpetrators of human rights violations to account. Our team remains flexible to the ever-changing conditions of conflict. In response to massive digital outpourings from active conflict zones over the last decade, we’ve set global standards for the collection and documentation of digital information depicting potential violations of international criminal and humanitarian law. 

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News

A women walking past a shelter at a refugee site

November 4, 2024

Reproductive Health in Refugee Camps: A Lifeline Amid Compounded Crises

Image credit: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters Fellowship Alumna News — UC Global Health Institute: Reproductive Health in Refugee Camps: A Lifeline Amid

Two young girls

October 31, 2024

Sudan’s civil war has left at least 62,000 dead by our estimate − but the true figure could be far higher

Internally displaced Sudanese children in Port Sudan, Sudan, on Jan. 3, 2024. Omer Erdem/Anadolu via Getty Images Commentary — The

Berkeley Law Voices Carry logo.

October 21, 2024

Syria’s White Helmets

HRC in the News — Berkeley Law’s Voices Carry Podcast: Syria’s White Helmets, a conversation between HRC’s Betsy Popken, the White Helmets’ Farouq Habib, and Berkeley Law’s Gwyneth Shaw.

A group of people lift someone out of building rubble. The people are wearing white helmets and face masks.

October 4, 2024

With white helmets and GoPros, these volunteers risk it all in Syria’s civil war

Image courtesy of the White Helmets. HRC in the News — Berkeley Talks Podcast: With white helmets and GoPros, these volunteers risk it all in Syria’s civil

Three men walk on a dirt road. Their backs are to the camera. There are lush trees surrounding them.

October 3, 2024

War in Sudan: Displacement and the Loss of What Came Before

The author’s cousins walk to their neighborhood mosque for Eid prayer in Khartoum, Sudan on the morning of Wednesday, July 21, 2021. Commentary — #Verified by the