Lemming Cliff

By Christoph Koettl and Haley Willis.

Since 2001, almost 3,000 migrants have died in Arizona on their way to the United States. While visualizing such a number does not reveal…

On April 14th 2017, a shooting occurred at the Manus Island Detention Centre in Papua New Guinea, where over 800 refugees and asylum seeker…

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…

After increasing reports of large influxes of refugees entering Uganda from the Yei and Kajo-Keji regions of South Sudan, an investigatory…

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…

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

We are releasing here imagery from Amnesty International taken today over Rann in Borno State, Nigeria, the site of yesterday’s bombing of…

Today — January 11, 2017 — marks the fifteenth anniversary of the use of the United States’ military facilities at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to…

Christoph Koettl, Micah Farfour

Why reverse image search is a crucial skill for today’s human rights investigator

Worldwide displacement is on the rise, due to both natural disasters and complex emergencies, leading to a global displacement crisis with…

On 8 July 2016, the fragile new peace deal forming the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGoNU) shattered to pieces in the capital…

For many people in the world, technology alters and changes their lives in fundamental ways. The list of tech tools for social good is…

Satellite imagery of the Mosul area over the last few months looks like what you might find in an ominous Hollywood scene about war in the…

Amid the grey dust and twisted metal, the young girl discovered beneath the rubble of a destroyed building in Kafr Deryan, a small town…

The movement of the world’s 21 million refugees can increasingly be seen from space. While the emergence of camps around Syria, most…

With advances in technology, more commercial satellites are being launched into space, creating competition that not only drives the price…

Tens of thousands of refugees are stranded in a desert no-man’s land between the Syrian and Jordan border. The displaced currently have no…

As I begin this post — the inaugural of the Lemming Cliff — I will acknowledge in a nod to students of the Rodentia Order that Lemmings do…