Human Rights Implications of LLMs
Join our Executive Director Betsy Popken and Technology Researcher Camille Chabot, the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law Marlena Wisniak, and Business for Social Responsibility’s Lindsey Andersen and J.Y. Hoh at Rights Con to learn about the risks and opportunities uncovered during our interdisciplinary human rights evaluation of LLMs in law, journalism, and education, and how to integrate our learnings across sectors for maximum impact. Attendees can register for this in-person event and attend in room 201E. This event will take place on February 26 at 11:30 AM CST.
Attacks against Healthcare in Ukraine, Palestine, Sudan: Leveraging Tech and Authenticated Footage for Accountability
Join Dr. Alexa Koenig at RightsCon 2025 for an online dialogue on leveraging tech to document attacks on healthcare to support accountability efforts, along with experts from Physicians for Human Rights, Al-Haq, and Sudan Human Rights Hub. We will explore the increasing frequency of attacks on health in conflict zones, with a focus on Sudan, Ukraine, and Palestine. The conversation will examine the devastating effects of these attacks on civilians, commonalities across crises, challenges in documenting such incidents, and implications under international law. Further, they will discuss how technology — including tools used for capturing and verifying audiovisual evidence — can play a pivotal role in advancing justice and accountability. Attendees can register online for free before February 21 by clicking “Community Ticket,” scrolling to “Community (online)” and entering “0” under “Choose Price.” You then must register for the event titled “Attacks against Healthcare in Ukraine, Palestine, Sudan – Leveraging Tech and Authenticated Footage for Accountability.” This event will take place on February 26 at 2:00 PM CST | February 25 at 11:00 PM PST.
OSINT Hackathon for Human Rights
Are you interested in investigating human rights violations using open source research techniques? Tune into our virtual RightsCon session titled “Triangulating the Truth in Troubled Times: OSINT Hackathon” for a chance to put your skills to work with HRC investigators Brian Nguyen, Ceren Fitoz, and Lene Guercke. This session invites investigators of all levels to work in real-time on an ongoing human rights investigation using the Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations. Attendees can register online for free before February 21 by clicking “Community Ticket,” scrolling to “Community (online)” and entering “0” under “Choose Price.” You then must register for the event titled “Triangulating the Truth in Troubled Times: OSINT Hackathon.” This event will take place on February 26 at 2:00 PM CST | February 25 at 11:00 PM PST.
Teaching and Training OSINT
Do you teach or train students or professionals in open source investigative methods? Join HRC’s Dr. Alexa Koenig, Lene Guercke, Andrea Richardson, and Brian Nguyen at Rights Con online or in-person in Taipei for the session “Tweetdeck is Trapped: Now What?” to brainstorm new strategies for finding facts online, given our fast-changing digital world. Online attendees can register online for free before February 21 by clicking “Community Ticket,” scrolling to “Community (online)” and entering “0” under “Choose Price.” You then must register for the event titled “Tweetdeck is Trapped, Now What? Preparing a Next Generation of Open Source Investigators.” In-person attendees can register and attend in room 202A. This event will take place on February 26 at 4:30 PM CST | 12:30 AM PST.
Building a Digital Ceasefire Framework
Join HRC Executive Director Betsy Popken and former Access Now Executive Director and current HRC Senior Research Fellow Brett Solomon for a Rights Con session exploring the digitalization of warfare and discussing new policy frameworks intended to help rein in atrocities and abuses of war experienced across domains — the Digital Ceasefire initiative. Attendees can register for this in-person event and attend in room 201B. This event will take place on February 27 at 12:45 AM CST.