Rapid Response on Deaths in Syria published in BMJ
Jay Aronson, along with colleagues from the Human Rights Data Analysis Group and the Carter Center, published a rapid response critique of Guha Sapir et al’s British Medical Journal research article on “Civilian deaths from weapons used in the Syria…
Human Rights and Health Information
On the connection between economic and social rights and technology: a 2012 briefing paper from ARTICLE 19 on the connections between the right to health and access to information. Several of its recommendations have technological implications, including recommendations for protection of the right to access information, dissemination…
UN Data Revolution
The report by the expert group tasked by the UN Secretary General to develop recommendations for improving the use of data in sustainable development initiatives is available here.
Center for Human Rights Science Technical Report
A new technical report from the Center for Human Rights Science discussing video analytics for human rights-related video is available here.
Data, Human Rights & Human Security
A new primer just published by Mark Latonero and Zachary Gold on human rights and new technologies, via Data & Society. Here is the description: “In today’s global digital ecosystem, mobile phone cameras can document and distribute images of physical…
Challenging Impunity with User Generated Content, by Jay Aronson
This blog post builds upon, and amplifies, Megan Price’s excellent analysis of the challenges of using found data and user generated content in human rights investigations in the previous technology for truth blog post. As someone who has been engaged…