2021
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More Universities, Higher Ed Groups Step Up To Help Afghan Refugeesin Forbes, with mention of HRC and UC Berkeley
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Breaking the silence: Advocacy and accountability for attacks on hospitals in armed conflictinCambridge University Press by Alexa Koenig
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Overview of attacks against civilian infrastructure during the Syrian civil war (2012-2018)by HRC's Rohini Haar and Brian Perlman (an HRC Lab alum) with Evan Muzzall and Leonard S Rubenstein in BMJ Health.
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Special issue of Oxford's Journal of International Criminal Justice, edited by HRC's Alexa Koenig withEmma Irving, Yvonne McDermott and Daragh Murray focuses on "New Technologies and the Investigation of International Crimes." (Articles are accessible for a limited time.)
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Eric Stover Has Spent a Career Unearthing Atrocities, by Gary Lee, in California Magazine
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California must defend protesters from the harms of tear gas, rubber bulletsby HRC Research Fellow Rohini Haar, in the Berkeley Blog (cross-posted in the San Francisco Chronicle).
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"AI and Human Rights" panel discussion (video), moderated by Alexa Koenig
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UC Berkeley pioneers first multidisciplinary OSINT training for journalism and law students, in UC Berkeley Journalism
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HRC Investigations Lab contributes to Blunt Force, Amnesty International's new report on misuse of police batons and other crowd-control equipment
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Court orders Facebook to disclose content on Myanmar genocide, a Q&A with Alexa Koenig in Just Security
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Berkeley students, staff and faculty launch Afghan scholar rescue campaign, in UC Berkeley campus news
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Ep. 19: UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center Alexa Koenig on using social media to fight for human rights, on the Savage Leader podcast, by Darren Reinke
- Myanmar’s junta using bodies to terrorize, in the Associated Press
- Video: Myanmar's junta uses bodies as tools of terror, in the Associated Press
- Myanmar military killing protestors, civilians as ‘psychological warfare’ after coup, on PBS NewsHour, featuring Alexa Koenig
- Faculty members share research findings and insights leading into World Refugee Day, featuring research by HRC's Eric Stover, Sarah Craggs, Julie Freccero, and Audrey Taylor in Berkeley Law
- Five ways to prevent child marriage in refugee communities: 280 girls speak out, by Julie Freccero and Audrey Taylor in the Berkeley Blog
- How a racist white mob ruined 'Black Wall Street' 100 years ago, on PBS NewsHour, featuring Eric Stover
- Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten examines the Tulsa Race Massacre a hundred years later, by Andrew Cohen in Berkeley Law
- Documentarian hopes film on Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 is wake-up call, by Gretchen Kell in Berkeley News
- ‘Justice looks like telling the story’: the long buried story of the Tulsa race massacre, in The Guardian
- Finding the Signal in the Noise: International Criminal Evidence and Procedure in the Digital Age by Lindsay Freeman and Raquel Vasquez Llorente
- Berkeley Conversations: Centenary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, panel featuring Eric Stover
- Journal of International Criminal Justice, special issue
- Power and Privilege: Investigating Sexual Violence with Digital Open Source Information by Alexa Koenig and Ulic Egan
- Finding the Signal in the Noise: International Criminal Evidence and Procedure in the Digital Ageby Lindsay Freeman and Raquel Vasquez Llorente
- Biden revokes order sanctioning International Criminal Court personnel by Beth Van Schaack, Stanford professor and HRC Advisory Board member, in Just Security.
- Strengthening Atrocity Cases with Digital Open Source Investigations by Alexa Koenig and Lindsay Freeman in Articles of War at the Lieber Institute of West Point
- Covid-19 fuels attacks on health workers globallyby Helen Wieffering and Joshua Housing in Associated Press
- Biden revokes order sanctioning International Criminal Court personnel by Beth Van Schaack, Stanford professor and HRC Advisory Board member, in Just Security.
- Strengthening Atrocity Cases with Digital Open Source Investigations by Alexa Koenig and Lindsay Freeman in Articles of War at the Lieber Institute of West Point
- Wie künstliche Intelligenz bei der Aufklärung von Kriegsverbrechen hilft, quoting Lindsay Freeman, by Sonja Peteranderl in Der Spiegel
- “Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation, and Accountability,”by Emma Irving in the International Review of the Red Cross
- The President On Trial: Prosecuting Hissène Habréby Alexa Koenig in Law and Society Review
- Social media video evidence in impeachment trial: lessons from international tribunals, in Just Security, with quotes from Alexa Koenig
- Inauguration sows doubt among conspiracy theorists by Michael Kunzelman, Amanda Seitz, and David Keppler in Associated Press, with reporting by students in the HRC Investigations Lab
- Open-Source Digital Evidence in International Criminal Cases: A Way Forward in Ensuring Accountability for Core Crimes? by Konstantina Stavrou in OpinioJuris, with mention of the Berkeley Protocol
- A crude virus: How man camps can cause a COVID surge by Kalen Goodluck, Lucy Meyer and Anjali Shrivastava (a collaboration with the Human Rights Center) in High Country News
2020
- Big Tech Can Help Bring War Criminals to Justice by Alexa Koenig in Foreign Affairs, November 11, 2020.
- China is using Uighur Labor to Produce Face Masks by Muyi Xiao, Haley Willis, Christoph Koettl, Natalie Reneau, and Drew Jordan of the New York Times, with contributions from the HRC Investigation Lab's Stephanie Croft, John Ortilla, Sang-Min Kim, and Danil Cuffe in the New York Times
- Partially Blinded by Police by Meg Kelly, Joyce Sohyun Lee, and Jon Swaine of the Washington Post, with open source research by the HRC Lab, in the Washington Post
- Students’ expertise helps map 11 days, 125 acts of U.S. police violence by Gretchen Kell in Berkeley News
- Through the Lens Q&A series by Bo Tefu on HRC Medium
- Protecting protester privacy against police surveillance by Leenah Bassouni and Shakiba Mashayekhi in Amnesty's Citizen Lab
- How to protest safely during the pandemic, quoting HRC Research Fellow Rohini Haar in Elle magazine
- Safer cash in conflict: Exploring protection risks and barriers in cash programming for internally displaced persons in Cameroon and Afghanistan by Julie Freccero, Audrey Taylor, Joanna Ortega, Zabihullah Buda, Paschal Kum Awah, Alexandra Blackwell, Ricardo Pla Cordero, and Eric Stover in the International Review of the Red Cross
- Protecting protester privacy against police surveillance by Leenah Bassouni and Shakiba Mashayekhi in Amnesty's Citizen Lab
- Safer Viewing: A Study of Secondary Trauma Mitigation Techniques in Open Source Investigations by Elise Baker, Eric Stover, Rohini Haar, Andrea Lampros, and Alexa Koenig in the Health and Human Rights Journal
- Tear gas is banned from war — but police still shoot it at protesters, who cough and bleed as a result. At least one has lost an eye , quoting HRC Research Fellow Rohini Haar in Business Insider
- 8 Minutes and 46 Seconds: How George Floyd Was Killed in Police Custody by the New York Times Visual Investigations team, which includes Lab alum Haley Willis
- Are crowd control weapons dangerous? Very, says UC Berkeley expert by Gretchen Kell about HRC Research Fellow Rohini Haar
- Alumna’s skills assist New York Times’ alarming George Floyd video by Gretchen Kell, about Lab alum Haley Willis
- ‘Nonlethal’ Anti-Protest Weapons Can Cause Serious Harm, quoting Rohini Haar, in Wired
- Using Open Source Info to Report from Home , a Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) webinar featuring our Investigations Lab alums Charlotte Godart and Gisela Perez de Acha Chavez
- Nowhere is safe for us , Amnesty report on Idlib, with open source contributions from the HRC Investigations Lab
- How OSINT helps us hold governments to account during the COVID-19 pandemic by Mitchell Paquette and our former HRC Lab student Ariela Levy (now on staff at Amnesty International)
- Using Open Source Info to Report from Home, a Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) webinar featuring our Investigations Lab alums Charlotte Godart and Gisela Perez de Acha Chavez (pictured right).
- Video contradicts Morocco’s justification of a brutal beating in Western Sahara in the Washington Post by Sarah Cahlan and Elyse Samuels, with open source verification and analysis from the Human Rights Center Investigations Lab.
- NHK World doc "Digital Detectives" features the Investigations Lab
- Resiliency, on the Playful Blog, a Q&A with Andrea Lampros
- How OSINT helps us hold governments to account during the COVID-19 pandemic by Mitchell Paquette and our former HRC Lab student Ariela Levy (now on staff at Amnesty International)
- Digital Witness: A Guide for Human Rights Investigations, Honed at Berkele y , by Berkeley Law's Gwyneth K. Shaw about the just-published Digital Witness, co-edited by Alexa Koenig, Sam Dubberley, and Daragh Murray
- Survivors, Hashtags, and Justice: The ethics of investigating sexual violence online by Kavya Nambiar and Catherine Chang, students in the Human Rights Investigations Lab, in HRC's Medium
- Big Guns Fighting the Coronavirus, by Peter Fimrite , featuring HRC Advisory Board member and UC Berkeley School of Public Health Professor Art Reingold in the San Francisco Chronicle. Reingold (pictured right) has provided critical expertise to the country during this crisis
- Digital Witness: A Guide for Human Rights Investigations, Honed at Berkeley, by Berkeley Law's Gwyneth K. Shaw about the just-published Digital Witness, co-edited by Alexa Koenig, Sam Dubberley, and Daragh Murray
- Video contradicts Morocco’s justification of a brutal beating in Western Sahara in the Washington Post by Sarah Cahlan and Elyse Samuels, with open source verification and analysis from the Human Rights Center Investigations Lab
- Refugee girls use collages, music, and flowers to help find an end to child marriage by Audrey Taylor, research manager, Health and Human Rights Program, in HRC's Medium.
- Survivors, Hashtags, and Justice: The ethics of investigating sexual violence online by Kavya Nambiar and Catherine Chang, students in the Human Rights Investigations Lab, in HRC's Medium.
- Q&A with Camille Crittenden: Champion of Women in Tech, interview with former HRC's former executive Director Camille Crittenden, in the UC IT Blog
- Digital Witness—Using Open Source Info for Rights Investigations, featuring HRC's Alexa Koenig on the University of Essex's RightsCast.
- The Human Rights Investigations Lab: Reflections from Our Pilot Year, by Alexa Koenig and Andrea Lampros in Centre for Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge
- Targeting the Caravan: Debunking an Anti-Migrant Video Spread as U.S. Right Wing Propaganda,by Maria Di Franco on HRC's Medium
- Who Makes Money from Tear Gas? featuring HRC Research Fellow Dr. Rohini Haar, on CNBC
2019
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Digital Accountability Symposium: Whose Stories Get Told, and by Whom? Representativeness in Open Source Human Rights Investigationsin OpinioJuris by Yvonne McDermott, Daragh Murray, and Alexa Koenig
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'The world has not forgotten us': a Rohingya Activist Speaks as Myanmar Faces Genocide Case, in Time Magazine, by former HRC Visiting Scholar Wai Wai Nu
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International Journalists Visit Joint Multinational Training Group – Ukraine, featuring 2018 HRC Fellow Levi Bridges
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Microfinance lenders in Sierra Leone accused of 'payday loan' interest rates in the Guardian, by 2019 HRC Fellow Mara Kardas-Nelson
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Welcome to the world of uncertainty: If everything can be faked, how do we know that anything is real? in Politico, quoting Alexa Koenig
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Using Digital Verification Before Deployment into the Field: The Advantages from Libya in Amnesty's Citizen Evidence Lab, by HRC Lab's Gisela Pérez de Acha and John Ortilla
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Emma Day Links Children’s Rights and Technology at ‘Amazing’ LL.M. Program in Berkeley Law, noting Alexa Koenig
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The New York Times's The Weekly: The Plan to Rescue El Chapo's Son, Episode 20: The Siege of CuliacánReporting by J-School and HRC Lab student Gisela Perez de Acha Chavez and former lab student and New York Times Fellow Haley Willis
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California's Criminal Cops—a project of the Berkeley J-School's Investigative Reporting Program and three dozen news outlets statewide—investigates officers convicted of crimes in California. The HRC Investigations Lab's Brian Perlman contributed to this reporting
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Bloomberg Business Week: Millions in Hong Kong Have Been Exposed to Tear Gas since June quotes HRC Research Fellow Rohini Haar
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Santa Fe New Mexican: Technology Shapes the Truth—But How? Quotes Alexa Koenig
- El Comedor, Female Migrants in Charge, Women's Policy Journal, by former Fellow Than Man BercherAmnesty International reports on Hong Kong and Libya (with verification work by our Digital Verification Corps team at the Investigations Lab).
- Half the Truth is Often A Great Lie: Deep Fakes, Open Source Information, and International Criminal Law by Alexa Koenig
- Rape Emergency Declared in Sierra Leone, then Lifted. Did Anything Change? Authored by 2019 HRC Fellow Mara Kardas-Nelson
- New Human Rights Lab Trains Students to Investigate Wrongdoing, UC Santa Cruz Newscenter
