Welcoming Our 2019 Data Science Fellow
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        We’re pleased to announce that Camille Fassett has joined our team as our new data science fellow.
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                Welcoming Our 2019 Human Rights Intern
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        Trina Reynolds-Tyler is HRDAG's 2019 Human Rights Intern.
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                HRDAG To Join the Partnership on AI
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        HRDAG is  joining Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society (PAI).
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                Using Machine Learning to Help Human Rights Investigators Sift Massive Datasets
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        How we built a model to search hundreds of  thousands of text messages from the perpetrators of a  human rights crime.
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                La estadística de mortalidad del conflicto en Perú
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        En ese artículo respondemos a una crítica del estudio de mortalidad que realizamos para la Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación en 2003.
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                The Statistics of Mortality Due to Conflict in Peru
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        A key point is that human rights data collection prior to the TRC largely ignored violence by the Shining Path.
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                Update on Work in Guatemala and the AHPN
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        HRDAG has sampled and analyzed documents at Guatemala's AHPN and has testified against war criminals based on that analysis.
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                Primer to Inform Discussions about Bail Reform
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        The primer addresses what pretrial risk assessment is and what the research supports.
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                Always Learning
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        The data science field is always changing, which means that I'll always be learning.
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                Las cifras de la CVR en el 2019
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        Las estimaciones se estratificaron por ubicación y perpetrador.
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                Reality and Risk in Our Mortality Study of the Peruvian TRC
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        HRDAG researchers and analysts at Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) estimated conflict mortality due to violence using Capture-Recapture methods.
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                HRDAG’s Year End Review: 2018
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        In 2018, HRDAG collaborated on work in Guatemala, US criminal justice, and more.
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                HRDAG Names New Board Member Margot Gerritsen
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        Margot is a professor in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University, interested in computer simulation and mathematical analysis of engineering processes. 
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                Counting the Dead in Sri Lanka
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        ITJP and HRDAG are urging groups inside and outside Sri Lanka to share existing casualty lists.
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                New analysis of World War II Korean “comfort women” held by Japanese
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        There may have been more undocumented World War II-era Korean "comfort women" than known.
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                HRDAG Report on Disappeared Tamils in Army Custody in Sri Lanka
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        HRDAG has published a report about the 500 Tamils who disappeared while in Army custody in Sri Lanka in 2009.
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                The UDHR Turns 70
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        We're thinking about how rigorous analysis can fortify debates about components of our criminal justice system such as cash bail, pretrial risk assessment and fairness in general.
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                Welcoming Our 2018 Data Science Fellow
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        Shemika Lamare has joined the HRDAG team as our new data science fellow.
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                HRDAG and #GivingTuesday 2018
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        Will you help HRDAG advance human rights?
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                Welcoming Our New Data Scientist
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        We're thrilled to announce that Tarak Shah has joined our team as our new data scientist. 
                                        
                                        
                                    
                                
















