Human Rights

Eyes on Cameroon: Videos capture human rights violations by the security forces in the fight against Boko Haram

Death By Migration

Since 2001, almost 3,000 migrants have died in Arizona on their way to the United States. While visualizing such a number…

In the Firing Line: How Amnesty’s Digital Verification Corps changed official narratives through open source…

In Remembrance of Will Moore, Friend of Amnesty International

By way of minor prologue: I knew Will Moore for just shy of 20 years. I knew him as a professor and mentor. I knew him as a Ph.D. dissertation adviser and a collaborator. And I knew him as a close friend. For much of the…

Remote Sensing and Mass Graves Detection 101

When you use the term “mass graves” a couple of things tend to spring to mind. First off, you think about Nazi atrocities during the Second World War, and then secondly, if you are someone who is interested in the world of remote sensing (RS) you tend…

Where on [Google] Earth?: Geolocating the arrests of political activists in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The constitutional mandate of the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo came to an end on December 16th 2016. No elections were scheduled…

First View of a “Mistake” from Space: The Bombing of a Displacement camp in Nigeria

We are releasing here imagery from Amnesty International taken today over Rann in Borno State, Nigeria, the site of yesterday’s bombing of a displacement camp by the Nigerian Air Force…