Dear friends,

Our spirits were really on the ground on Wednesday, but they lifted at the board meeting we had at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group on Thursday. Executive Director Megan Price, Director of Research Patrick Ball, and the Board drafted these thoughts which we’d like to share with you.

For more than twenty-five years, we have held heads of state accountable for human rights violations. We support our partners and advocates in the human rights field. They collect data which we analyze using technical and scientific expertise. Those scientific results bring clarity to human rights violence and support the fight for justice.

By providing critical evidence, we participated in the prosecution of dictators like Slobodan Milošević for ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, José Efraín Ríos Montt for genocide in Guatemala, and Hissène Habré for crimes against humanity in Chad. We now are providing the most accurate counts of killings in Colombia and Syria for future prosecutions. In the US, our work is providing estimates of the total of homicides by police, and showing how using data may reinforce racial discrimination in policing.

We have been at work for twenty-five years and through four US presidential administrations. We now have challenging times ahead of us to hold our president-elect accountable, like we do for all heads of state, around the world. We will continue to stand for justice for the victims of human rights violations. Facts do matter. And all leaders must be held to account.

We are grateful to have you by our side and we hope we will continue to receive your moral and financial support in the years to come. Would you be willing to circulate this letter? And to consider including us in your end-of-year giving?

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Thank you!

Megan Price, Executive Director
Patrick Ball, Director of Research