CONCLUSION
There are a number of organisations and
individuals who are using these techniques
to push the boundaries of human rights
documentation, in new and exciting ways.
Many of them have been strong sources of
inspiration for this guide, and for our collective
work as a whole, providing us with just a glimpse
of what exists at the frontiers of data use in
human rights documentation.
and tutorials.
Statisticians at the Human Rights Data Analysis
Group have used innovative techniques to
accurately estimate civilian casualties in war in
a number of countries, pioneering a technique
called Multiple Systems Estimation. Among
other successes, their founder Patrick Ball has
testified in the Guatemalan Supreme Court
against former Head of State General José
Groups like Forensic Architecture, who
Efraín Ríos Montt, who was then found guilty
have done projects which use innovative
of genocide and crimes against humanity.
data modelling techniques to project what
happened in the past based on limited pieces
of information that remain after the fact.
Like 3D modelling the environment around a
boat in the Mediterranean, which was left to
drift after no country took responsibility for it.
They produced a report which formed the basis
for a number of ongoing legal petitions filed
against NATO member states.
Regarding verification, organisations and
individuals are making their processes more
transparent. Tools like Checkdesk, Github and
Jupyter Notebooks enable people to publicly
document their processes and conclusions,
increasing credibility, and allowing anybody to
follow and learn from them. It also opens research
up to a new degree of scrutiny, beyond that of
more traditional human rights documentation.
Or Bellingcat, a network of citizen investigative
journalists who use publicly available information,
including social media data and more generally,
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), to investigate
human rights violations and more. Bellingcat
founder Elliot Higgins’ work in 2013 investigating
the chemical weapons attack on Ghouta, Syria,
in August 2013 helped prove that the perpetrator
of the attack was almost certainly the regime of
Bashar al-Assad. They have produced a fantastic
set of online resources, including case studies
79
Seleccionar párrafo de destino3
Conectar a un párrafo
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Añadir a la tabla de contenidos