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Recent Posts

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

[Mei Ching Liu is an Associate Research Fellow with the Military Transformations Programme (MTP) at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore.] All views expressed in this post are the author’s own and do not reflect the official position of RSIS. The UN Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) will meet later this month...

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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

[Yousuf Syed Khan is a Manager, Law and Policy at Legal Action Worldwide in Geneva. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council (Strategic Litigation Project), and an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - The Hague. Jérôme de Hemptinne is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University.] In Part I of this post, we clarified which legal regimes...

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28 Aug

[Yousuf Syed Khan is a Manager, Law and Policy at Legal Action Worldwide in Geneva. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council (Strategic Litigation Project), and an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - The Hague. Jérôme de Hemptinne is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University.] We read with real interest Alexandria Virginski’s recent post, Behind Enemy...

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28 Aug

[Rashmi Raman is a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore.] In January this year, on this blog, Christine Ryan, Richard Dicker and Akshaya Kumar urged supportive States to resist what they called premature minimalism, warning that limiting proposals to what nearly all member States might accept “risks pointless concessions and irreparably weakening the text”. The...

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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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28 Aug

[Michael John-Hopkins is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of The Rule of Law in Crisis and Conflict Grey Zones (Routledge, 2016) and a co-author of Malign Information Psychological Operations: Concepts, Law, and Strategy (Routledge, forthcoming 2027).] In July 2025, in Bradshaw and Others v United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights confronted a tension between...

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