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02 Sep

[Subinoy Mustofi Eron is Design Director at Netra News and a co-founder of Activate Rights, a Bangladesh-based digital rights collective. Georgia Edwards is Visual Investigations Training & Partnerships Manager at WITNESS.  Dean Issacharoff is the creator of VSIN, an AI powered visual investigations platform.] Introduction In July 2024, hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis took to the streets in an uprising against Sheikh Hasina’s government....

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02 Sep

[Shanice R. Guthrie is a law student at Yale Law School ‘27 and the Student Director of the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. Born and raised in Jamaica, she brings a personal understanding of climate harm to her work on legal accountability.] The Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic partnered with WITNESS to conduct original research on the use of audiovisual evidence...

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01 Sep

[Fredah Kanampiu is a journalist in Kenya and a cohort member of WITNESS’ Fortifying Community Truth (FCT) East Africa cohort.  Mwara Gichanga is a Communications & Engagement Coordinator for WITNESS and part of the Fortifying Community Truth project, led by the Training & Partnerships team.  Skye Jacob Krabbendam is a student and Seppe Duffhues, Amina Hindawi, Kieran O’Kelly, Suzy-Anne Beekman, and Stella Poulain...

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01 Sep

[Natalie Hornos is a Program Manager at WITNESS with over 17 years of experience coordinating social impact, educommunicative, and investigative audiovisual projects across Brazil and Latin America. A specialist in community cinema, she holds a postgraduate degree in Anthropology and is currently a Master’s in Latin American Studies.] Introduction to Revide REVIDE – VIDEO SCHOOL FOR THE DEFENSE OF TERRITORIES - is...

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31 Aug

[Clive Vella is Data Manager at Airwars, a not-for-profit transparency watchdog which tracks, assesses, archives and investigates civilian harm claims in conflict-affected nations.  Shoeb Abdullah is a digital rights activist and OSINT investigator based in Bangladesh. He is co-founder of the Bangladesh Protest Archive, an initiative dedicated to preserving, documenting and investigating gross human rights abuses around democratic protest.  Kartika Pratiwi is...

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31 Aug

[Georgia Edwards leads Visual Investigations at WITNESS as a Training and Partnerships Manager.] Over the past decade, the rise in community-filmed evidence, OSI (open-source information) and visual investigations has brought methodologies and models that have profoundly reshaped human rights investigations, yet the most visible investigative labs, methodological standards and verification infrastructures are still embedded in Global North newsrooms, universities and NGOs....

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28 Aug

[Netta Goussac is Associate Senior Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and Special Counsel at Lexbridge.] Editorial Note: This post forms the third of three posts of the Opinio Juris mini-symposium on the upcoming meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems within the auspices of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. A version...

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27 Aug

[Ambassador Alexander Kmentt is an Austrian career diplomat, currently serving as Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations Office and to the Specialized Institutions in Geneva. He has worked extensively on disarmament and non-proliferation issues and is one of the architects of the initiative on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons...

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27 Aug

[Rain Liivoja is a Professor at the University of Queensland Law School and a Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute for Law and Security.]Editorial Note: This post forms the first of three posts of the Opinio Juris mini-symposium on the upcoming meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems within the auspices of the Convention on Certain...

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14 Aug

[Za Uk Ling is the Executive Director of the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO)] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=568ButQIxwg Transcription: My role today, representing the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO), is to bring the frontline reality directly into this room. My presentation is titled Beyond Borders: From Local Truth to Global Justice. At the heart of today's discussion lies a simple, but profound, question. How does evidence gathered under fire become evidence that...

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13 Aug

[Chuka Arinze-Onyia is a doctoral student researching universal jurisdiction at Griffith University Law School] This research was funded by the Australian Government through Associate Professor Emma Palmer’s Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Award (project number DE250100597). The views expressed herein are those of the author. What does success look like in international criminal justice? Put that question to a room of civil society...

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13 Aug

[Kate Schuetze is a Regional Researcher on the Pacific Islands in the East and Southeast Asia and Pacific Regional Office of the International Secretariat of Amnesty International. Jan Wetzel is a Senior Policy Adviser in the International Justice Team and the East and Southeast Asia and Pacific Regional Office of the International Secretariat of Amnesty International.] The genesis since 2008, of the project...

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