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ANDREA LAMPROS (2X)
International Acclaim In just 3½ years, Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center Investigations Lab has blazed a trail for finding and presenting publicly available evidence of international atrocities. In a new book co-edited by HRC Executive Director Alexa Koenig ’13, those tactics are going global. Published in February, Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation, and Accountability sold out its first print run almost instantly—hitting the top spot in Amazon’s criminal evidence category. As part of the book’s launch in the United Kingdom, Koenig and fellow editors Sam Dubberley (Amnesty International) and Daragh Murray (University of Essex
BROADCAST NEWS: Human Rights Center Executive Director Alexa Koenig ’13 discusses the new book Digital Witness.
Human Rights Center) appeared before Parliament. In 2016, they established the Digital Verification Corps, a group of university students from around the world trained to use digital methods to investigate human rights abuses. HRC’s lab was the first member of the corps, which now has six chapters on four continents and won a Times Higher Education Award for international collaboration last fall. Digital Witness serves as a valuable handbook for using opensource material for investigations (such as videos of rights violations, satellite images of environmental INVESTIGATIONS LAB: Students review photos of possible human rights violations.
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