Human Rights Center

@hrcberkeley

Investigating war crimes, pursuing justice, and preparing tomorrow's advocates.

Berkeley, CA

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Human Rights Center
@hrcberkeley
Feb 14, 2024
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.
Volker Türk
@volker_turk
Feb 14, 2024
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.
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Human Rights Center
@hrcberkeley
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🧵1/2 It's here! Celebrate HRC's Investigations Lab's 10th & #Oski's 85th birthday. For a decade, our students have used open source tools to document abuses & drive accountability. Support them today with a gift that goes towards $100K of matching funds:
givingday.berkeley.edu
Oski's B-Day Bearathon 2026
September 16–18
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Human Rights Center
@hrcberkeley
Sep 10
Where is the field of #OSINT today, and where is it going? That's what @CJR asked experts across the field, including HRC Faculty Director and Investigations Lab Co-Founder, @KAlexaKoenig:
The future of visual investigations, if we can’t trust our eyes.
From cjr.org
Human Rights Center
@hrcberkeley
Sep 9
🧵1/3 HRC's @betsy_popken, @VyomaRaman & @camille_xoxox release a new human rights assessment of LLMs based on interviews w/ 56 experts & practitioners across 24 countries + a review of existing literature and model evaluations:
An International Analysis of the Human Rights Impacts of Large Language Models - Berkeley Human...
From humanrights.berkeley.edu
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Human Rights Center
@hrcberkeley
Sep 1
🚨3 days left to apply!🚨Are you an analyst, lawyer, journalist, or researcher interested in skilling up in #OSINT? Join us + @InstituteIntlthis December in The Hague for our advanced open source investigations training: 🗓️Dec. 7–11 🖊️Apply by Sept. 4
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Open Source Investigation – Advanced - IICI
The Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley School of Law and the Institute of International Criminal Investigations in The Hague have partnered to offer two comprehensive open source investigation...