Police transparency expands with new national database — except Michigan

Tarak Shah is quoted with regard to the National Police Index: “Police often avoid accountability by moving to another agency rather than face discipline. This tool, allowing anyone to look up and track the histories of such officers, provides an invaluable service for the human rights community in our fight against impunity.”

Patrick Ball es un sabueso de la verdad. Ese deseo de descubrir lo que otros quieren ocultar lo ha llevado a desarrollar fórmulas matemáticas para detectar desaparecidos.

Su trabajo consiste en aplicar métodos de medición científica para comprobar violaciones masivas de derechos humanos.

Calculating Body Counts

10MM Images from Guatemala’s National Police Go Online: Disappearances, STD Experiments, More

Death Numbers

Data Security or Death

DATNAV: New Guide to Navigate and Integrate Digital Data in Human Rights Research

DatNav is the result of a collaboration between Amnesty International, Benetech, and The Engine Room, which began in late 2015 culminating in an intense four-day writing sprint facilitated by Chris Michael and Collaborations for Change in May 2016. HRDAG consultant Jule Krüger is a contributor, and HRDAG director of research Patrick Ball is a reviewer.

Data Collection and Documentation for Truth-Seeking and Accountability

When It Comes to Human Rights, There Are No Online Security Shortcuts

Indirect Sampling to Measure Conflict Violence: Trade-offs in the Pursuit of Data That Are Good, Cheap, and Fast

Romesh Silva and Megan Price. “Indirect Sampling to Measure Conflict Violence: Trade-offs in the Pursuit of Data That Are Good, Cheap, and Fast.” Journal of the American Medical Association. 306(5):547-548. 2011. © 2011 JAMA. All rights reserved.

Foundation of Human Rights Statistics in Sierra Leone

Richard Conibere (2004). Foundation of Human Rights Statistics in Sierra Leone (abstr.), Joint Statistical Meetings. Toronto, Canada.

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Ouster of Guatemala’s Attorney General

We were surprised and disappointed to learn that our colleague Claudia Paz y Paz has had her term as Guatemala’s attorney general cut short. The nation’s Constitutional Court ruled on 6 February that her four-year term will end this May, instead of in December. (She was appointed in December 2010, replacing an attorney general who was appointed in May 2010.) During her term, she put four generals from Guatemala’s civil war on the stand for charges of crimes against humanity and genocide, including General José Efraín Ríos Montt, who ruled from 1982 to 1983. We were fortunate to work with her on that trial and to witness the handing down of a ...

HRDAG Adds Three New Board Members

HRDAG's advisory board has added three new members.

Scanning Documents to Uncover Police Violence

Administrative paperwork generated by police departments can hold evidence of police violence, but can present unique challenges for data processing.

A Definition of Database Design Standards for Human Rights Agencies.

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¿Quién le hizo qué a quién? Planear e implementar un proyecto a gran escala de información en derechos humanos.

Patrick Ball (2008). “¿Quién le hizo qué a quién? Planear e implementar un proyecto a gran escala de información en derechos humanos.” (originally in English at AAAS) Translated by Beatriz Verjerano. Palo Alto, California: Benetech.

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Police transparency expands with new national database — except Michigan

Rain soaks homeless Haitians, collapses shacks

The Invisible Crime, (pdf of English translation)

Martus: Software for Human Rights Groups

El científico que usa estadísticas para encontrar desaparecidos en El Salvador, Guatemala y México

Calculating Body Counts

10MM Images from Guatemala’s National Police Go Online: Disappearances, STD Experiments, More

Death Numbers

Data Security or Death

DATNAV: New Guide to Navigate and Integrate Digital Data in Human Rights Research

Data Collection and Documentation for Truth-Seeking and Accountability

When It Comes to Human Rights, There Are No Online Security Shortcuts

Indirect Sampling to Measure Conflict Violence: Trade-offs in the Pursuit of Data That Are Good, Cheap, and Fast

Foundation of Human Rights Statistics in Sierra Leone

Our Copyright Policy

Ouster of Guatemala’s Attorney General

HRDAG Adds Three New Board Members

Scanning Documents to Uncover Police Violence

A Definition of Database Design Standards for Human Rights Agencies.

¿Quién le hizo qué a quién? Planear e implementar un proyecto a gran escala de información en derechos humanos.

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