HRC Research Fellow Amanda Ghahremani spoke with CANADALAND on the International Court of Justice's ruling of “real and imminent risk” of genocide in Gaza, and the provisional measures Israel must take in order to prevent it: www.canadaland.com/podcast/82-c...

#82 Could Canada Be Complicit in a ‘Plausible Genocide’?

The ICJ court ruled that Palestinians in Gaza face a “real and imminent risk” of genocide, and laid out the provisional measures Israel must take in order to prevent it.

HRC Senior Research Fellow Victor Peskin spoke with The Conversation regarding the ICJ's recent interim ruling in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel. Read their conversation here: theconversation.com/un-court-rul...

UN court ruling against Israel shows limits of legal power to prevent genocide − but rapid speed

While the International Court of Justice lacks enforcement powers, its new provisional measure could heighten pressure on both Israel and Hamas to save civilian lives and free the hostages in Gaza.

Our student fellowship is officially open for applications! For the last 30 years, we've sent 400+ student fellows to 81 countries & territories to provide crucial skills and support to organizations across the globe. Apply by February 20! humanrights.berkeley.edu/students/fel...

HRC Research Fellow Amanda Ghahremani talks to Al Jazeera about South Africa's filing against Israel to the ICJ under the Genocide Convention, lessons from The Gambia's 2019 filing against Myanmar, and how international legal mechanisms are responding: www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Join us and Berkeley's Center for Race & Gender for a special two-day event on January 17 & 18 titled: "Guantánamo 22 Years In." This special in-person event will feature (virtual) speakers Lakhdar Boumediène and Mohamedou Ould Slahi. RSVP below: bit.ly/Spring2024-CRGEventReg

Our Lab students worked w/ Cultural Survival & UC Digital Investigations Network to investigate the killing of 13 Indigenous land defenders in the Brazilian Amazon. Six HRC students reflected on putting together this project that traced these geographies of violence: medium.com/humanrightsc...

Scars on the Land

Honoring the Lives and Investigating the Deaths of Indigenous Land Defenders

Terrific, rich interview with @alexakoenig.bsky.social@hrcberkeley.bsky.social has methodologies to avoid the clicky-baity-ness of some OSINT work.

"I think there’s a trap that people can fall into of not thinking about the communities that have been affected by violence and how [exposure] can magnify that trauma for that individual + those communities." —@alexakoenig.bsky.social on the nuance of #OSINTwww.cjr.org/the_media_to...

Q&A: Alexa Koenig on the potential and pitfalls of open source investigations

<p>On October 17, the parking lot outside Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, where hundreds of displaced Palestinians had amassed, was hit by an explosive of uncertain origin. The New York Times, among ot...

"The Broken Promise" explores why genocide continues to persist, and what we can do to make “never again” a reality. HRC Co-Faculty Director @alexakoenig.bsky.social & Advisory Board Member Patricia Viseur Sellers are some of the experts cited in this documentary premiering TONIGHT on KQED 9 at 8pm:

In a new article with Open Global Rights, HRC's @alexakoenig.bsky.socialwww.openglobalrights.org/climate-cand...

Climate candor: Ridding climate cases of questionable science

Just as flawed forensic evidence strips the innocent of fundamental rights, aiming for the political—rather than scientific—target of 1.5°C will deprive billions of their most basic human rights.