Investigating war crimes, pursuing justice, and preparing tomorrow's advocates.
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We officially launched the #BerkeleyProtocol on Digital Open Source Investigations with @UNHumanRights High Commissioner @volker_turk and launched HRC's 30th Anniversary year! We're deeply grateful for our partnership with UN OHCHR, and look forward to our future collaborations.
As new tech risks new rights abuses, our ability to monitor & defend others' rights is increasingly vital.
I'm proud to work w/ inspiring @BerkeleyLaw students to launch the Berkeley Protocol: a tool to ensure digitally documented evidence can contribute to legal accountability.
1/3 📢 The Human Rights Center is seeking public feedback on our new Digital Ceasefire and De-escalation Handbook (DCDH)!
📝 Read the DCDH draft: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
2/3 The handbook helps mediators, parties, and affected communities negotiate digital aspects of armed conflict, grey zone activity & internal disturbances.
Key areas include:
📡 Internet interference
🛜 Information threats
💻 Cyber attacks
3/3 Our feedback window is open until this Friday October 23 at 5 PM PT. The final draft will officially launch at the Paris Peace Forum w/
@betsy_popken + @solomonbrett on November 10.
🖊️ Share your feedback here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
On Oct. 26, we're hosting "Inside China's Secret Prisons," a book talk w/Orville Schell & Adam Hochschild on China's prison camps, their Soviet roots & threats to journalists who investigate them.
RSVP: events.berkeley.edu/hrc/even…
📅 10/26
⌚️ 5:30 PM
📍Booth Auditorium @BerkeleyLaw
🎬 Episode 1 of “Ten Years of HRC's Investigations Lab” is LIVE! HRC's @KAlexaKoenig sits down with alum @heytherehaley, partner @NoahFBullock of @Cristosal & Lab student @taliaharter to discuss investigating human rights harms related to immigration:
youtube.com/watch?v=86Eno1At…
THIS FRIDAY! Join us for HRC's annual Student Fellowship Conference. Hear from our 2026 fellows about their summer work on pressing human rights issues.
📅 Oct. 16
🕔 12:45 PM
📍@berkeleylaw Warren Room (295)
🍴 Lunch + reception included
events.berkeley.edu/hrc/even…
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It was wonderful to talk with Noah Bullock of @Cristosal, Investigations Lab alum Haley Willis, and @KAlexaKoenig about immigration, our work with the @hrw on CECOT, and OSINT for the start of a series for the Lab’s 10th anniversary! Looking forward to the conversations to come.
Two days until Ep. 1 of “Ten Years of HRC’s Investigations Lab.” @taliaharter, a @UCBerkeley student & Lab team lead, explains more on our research with @Cristosal + @hrw on Venezuelans deported to El Salvador's CECOT prison. Tune in on Wednesday for the full episode!
1/3 📢 The Human Rights Center is seeking public feedback on our new Digital Ceasefire and De-escalation Handbook (DCDH)!
📝 Read the DCDH draft: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
2/3 The handbook helps mediators, parties, and affected communities negotiate digital aspects of armed conflict, grey zone activity & internal disturbances.
Key areas include:
📡 Internet interference
🛜 Information threats
💻 Cyber attacks
3/3 Our feedback window is open for two work weeks, and closes at 5 PM PT on October 23. The final draft will officially launch at the Paris Peace Forum w/ @betsy_popken on November 10.
🖊️ Share your feedback here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Two days until Ep. 1 of “Ten Years of HRC’s Investigations Lab.” @taliaharter, a @UCBerkeley student & Lab team lead, explains more on our research with @Cristosal + @hrw on Venezuelans deported to El Salvador's CECOT prison. Tune in on Wednesday for the full episode!
On Oct. 26, we're hosting "Inside China's Secret Prisons," a book talk w/Orville Schell & Adam Hochschild on these camps, their Soviet roots & threats to journalists who investigate them. RSVP today:
events.berkeley.edu/hrc/even…
📅 10/26
⌚️ 5:30 PM
📍Booth Auditorium, @BerkeleyLaw
👀 Sneak peek of Ep. 1 of “Ten Years of HRC’s Investigations Lab” featuring @heytherehaley. Haley was part of the Lab’s very first cohort, then spent 7 years on @nytimes Visual Investigations team. The full video with @KAlexaKoenig, @noahbullock & Talia Harter drops on Oct 14!
🧵1/3 In 2016, we began a movement as the 1st university-based lab using digital open sources to investigate human rights violations. We started w/ @amnesty to co-create the Digital Verification Corps. Today we celebrated 10 years together in Geneva & committed to 10 more.
ALT A person gestures to a screen while four other people sit down close by, with laptops in their laps. There is another laptop in the foreground next to two bottles of water.
🧵2/3 All year we'll be celebrating w/ “Ten Years of HRC's Investigations Lab” speaker series which invites current students, alumni & investigative partners alongside @KAlexaKoenig for a conversation on a crucial issue of human rights concern through the prism of #OSINT.
🧵 3/3 Our first episode drops next Wednesday, October 14, and features Haley Willis (formerly @nytimes), @noahbullock of @Cristosal, and @taliaharter a @UCBerkeley undergrad and student lead in our Lab. Follow along, and learn more about the Lab here: youtube.com/watch?v=XT6DVYVM…
1/5: As bad actors harness sophisticated tools like zero-click spyware and mass surveillance, human rights research has to match the pace and creativity of these tech-enabled crimes.
Our investigation shows what we accomplished with little infrastructure. 🧵
ALT Web banner titled "Under Attack: TARGETING OF JOURNALISTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN MEXICO". The featured photo shows men carrying large floral wreaths past memorial pillars at Plaza Libertad de Expresión in Tijuana, commemorating murdered journalist Margarito Martínez. Below the image are navigation tabs for "Case Files," "Victims Database," "The Mañaneras," and "Security Apparatus."
4/5: Also make sure to read @lindsaysfreeman's legal argument for Mexico as a test case for the ICC's cyber policy.
Read it in English via @just_security: justsecurity.org/158283/pers…
5/5: And in Spanish via Mexicanos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad @MXvsCORRUPCION:
contralacorrupcion.mx/persec…
