HRC Senior Director @lindsaysfreeman.bsky.social cial joined @sentinellabs.bsky.social's Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade and @ryanaraine.bsky.social to discuss the Wagner Group’s war crimes in Mali at #LABScon25 for The Three Buddy Problem podcast. Full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOAa...

🎬 Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for our screening of "My Sweet Land" at @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social, followed by a panel discussion with director Sareen Hairabedian, HRC’s @betsypopken.bsky.social, and others. Grateful to our co-sponsors and community for making this event possible!

Thrilled that HRC Faculty Director @alexakoenig.bsky.social is one of the inaugural members of Women Transforming Global Security, a new feminist global network addressing crises related to nuclear weapons proliferation, climate change, human rights, and more: transformingsecurity.org

Registration closes TOMORROW for our screening of the award-winning documentary "My Sweet Land." 📅 Sept 18, 5:30 PM 📍 Booth Auditorium @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social 🍴 Snacks served 🎙️ Director Sareen Hairabedian, @betsypopken.bsky.social & more! 🚨 RSVP by tmrw 5PM events.berkeley.edu/hrc/event/30...

Don’t miss the My Sweet Land screening followed by a panel + Q&A with director Sareen Hairabedian, HRC’s @betsypopken.bsky.social, and others. 📅 Sept 18, 5:30 PM 📍 Booth Auditorium @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social 🍴 Snacks served 🎟️ RSVP by Sept 16, 5 PM: events.berkeley.edu/hrc/event/30...

Join us for a screening of the award-winning documentary "My Sweet Land" & panel w/ director, Sareen Hairabedian, HRC’s @betsypopken.bsky.social, and more! 📅 Sept 18, 5:30 PM 📍 @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social Booth Auditorium 🍴 Snacks served 🎟️ RSVP by Sept 16, 5 PM: events.berkeley.edu/hrc/event/30...

We sat down with HRC Fellow & former Investigations Lab Director Stephanie Croft to discuss The 85 Project, her new venture supporting media & nonprofits with geospatial + #OSINT research, and her reflections on the Lab’s impact and AI in investigations. 🔗: medium.com/humanrightsc...

Our summer fellow Meredith Song worked with Community Alliance with Family Farmers to analyze geospatial data of agricultural land transactions in California. She co-authored a @sfchronicle.com piece to explore what can be done to rein in corporate land ownership: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

HRC's @alexakoenig.bsky.social and @lindsaysfreeman.bsky.social each have new articles out in @uchicagolaw.bsky.social's International Law Journal's summer 2025 edition! Check out the full journal here, with the articles linked below: cjil.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...

HRC's @lindsaysfreeman.bsky.social joined @nadinefj.bsky.social, @natynettle.bsky.social, and @lisandranovo.bsky.social for @slpjustice.bsky.social and @cyberstatecraft.bsky.social's panel event “Accountability Now: Liability for Spyware Harms.” Watch the full event here: ➡️ bit.ly/45OEIfI

Join HRC Director of Technology, Law & Policy @lindsaysfreeman.bsky.social at Tech, Law, Security @auwcl.bsky.social's 4th Annual Cyber & Int'l Law with Program Director GaryCorn and expert panelists Harriet Moynihan, Leonard Bailey, and Ori Pomson. 📅 Sept 15–16 📍 AUWCL 🔗 loom.ly/eLOAqCY

📅 AUGUST 26, 2025 ⏰ 10:00 AM ET Join us for an event with @cyberstatecraft.bsky.social, “Accountability Now: Liability for Spyware Harms.” Featuring @nadinefj.bsky.social, @lindsaysfreeman.bsky.social, and @natynettle.bsky.social, moderated by SLP’s @lisandranovo.bsky.social. buff.ly/1jkeT82

Our Investigations Lab students contributed to an historic new report with @amnesty.org documenting police violence, arbitrary arrests & internet shutdowns in #Mozambique. It has already supported legal action as a former police commander was questioned. 🔗: www.amnesty.org/en/wp-conten...

Join a workshop to inform the course of California’s Fifth Climate Assessment! The workshop will include breakout discussions on housing, health, labor, and education, which will be featured in the statewide topical reports. 🗓️ August 7 🕰️ 1–2:30 p.m. 📍 Zoom: opr-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Our Investigations Lab student Ana Z. Franklin, along with a larger team, worked with @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social to track the Trump administration's policy impacts on veteran and military communities. She reflected on the experience in a beautifully-written blog: medium.com/humanrightsc...

🚨LAST CHANCE 🚨 Apply by this Monday, July 28 to join us and @instituteici.bsky.social in September at The Hague for our foundational #OSINT training. Investigators, lawyers, journalists, and researchers, this one's for you! 🗓️ September 22–26 📍The Netherlands iici.global/courses/open...

📢 HRC student fellow alum Cara Schulte, now a PhD candidate @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social led a powerful new report with @climaterights.bsky.social on how extreme heat and labor abuses are endangering workers across Bangladesh. Read the full report: cri.org/reports/my-b...

Canada must join the 50 other states supporting the International Criminal Court in the face of attacks and sanctions by the United States, write HRC Research Fellow @amandaghahremani.com and @alexneve.bsky.social for @theglobeandmail.com: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Between private military + security companies and state clients, who bears legal responsibility for violence? @lindsaysfreeman.bsky.social + @amandaghahremani.com offer reflections based on HRC's investigation into the Wagner Group in Mali / @opiniojuris.bsky.social: opiniojuris.org/2025/07/17/s...

Our Investigations Lab students contributed to @amnesty.org's report “‘You feel like you are subhuman:’ Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza” through digital open source research documenting specific attacks on civilian locales: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

🚨 🚨Are you an investigator, lawyer, journalist, or researcher interested in skilling up your #OSINT skills to investigate violations of human rights? Train with us and @instituteici.bsky.social September at The Hague 🚨🚨 🗓️ Sept. 22–26 📍The Netherlands 🖊️Apply by July 28: iici.global/courses/open...

We think of wars as fought with ballistic missiles, defense systems, and bunker bombs — but battlefields are increasingly staged in the digital domain. Peace deals must catch up. @brettsolomon.bsky.social & @betsypopken.bsky.social / @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/for-true-pea...

At a time when #Canada should be distinguishing itself from the #US and reaffirming values of human rights, dignity + equality for all, PM Carney‘s administration is doing the opposite through the Strong Borders Act. I explain the dangers in @thestar.com #Cdnpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

🚨Apply Now!🚨Calling investigators, lawyers, journalists, and researchers: Join us alongside @instituteici.bsky.social in September at The Hague for our foundational #OSINT training. 🗓️ September 22–26 📍The Netherlands 🖊️Apply by July 28 iici.global/courses/open...

Don't miss my conversation w/ @lindsaysfreeman.bsky.social on today's @lawfaremedia.org podcast about @hrcberkeley.bsky.social's investigation into the Wagner Group's "war influencers" and their ICC submission advocating for prosecution of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Mali

Tech, Law & Policy Director @lindsaysfreeman.bsky.social spoke with @tylermcbrien.com for @lawfaremedia.org about our investigation into the Wagner Group's crimes in Mali and our ICC submission urging prosecution of Wagner commanders & Mali junta leadership: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

"This devolution of civilization and show of savagery is no longer just the stuff of overwrought fiction. It exists today as a real-world horror — broadcast on the open internet for the world to witness." @lindsaysfreeman.bsky.social for @lawfaremedia.org: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/war-...

As our allies abandon the Ottawa Convention against landmines, Canada must publicly defend it, writes HRC Researcher @amandaghahremani.com: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

"In West Africa...there is a new band of online influencers: war influencers" @lindsaysfreeman.bsky.social @hrcberkeley.bsky.social details how the Wagner group + other PMCs use Telegram to terrorize - and details 1st steps to accountability www.lawfaremedia.org/article/war-...

“Wagner has deftly leveraged information and communications technologies to cultivate and promote its global brand as ruthless mercenaries,” said Lindsay Freeman, director of the Technology, Law & Policy program at the Human Rights Center (@hrcberkeley.bsky.social): apnews.com/article/wagn...

"As the world largely focuses on wars in Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan, the Sahel has become the deadliest place on earth for extremism," —@monikapronczuk.bsky.social + @smednick.bsky.social / @apnews.com highlighting our ICC submission re. the Wagner Group’s atrocities in Mali: apnews.com/article/wagn...

The final in a special @justsecurity.org series, @alexakoenig.bsky.social and Andrea Richardson discuss how #OSINT can strengthen accountability for gender crimes through our report on attacks against #WomanLifeFreedom protestors: www.justsecurity.org/112988/open-...

🚨LAST CHANCE: TWO DAYS TO APPLY!🚨 Calling investigators, lawyers, journalists, and researchers: Join us in August at @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social for our foundational #OSINT training held with @instituteici.bsky.social: 🗓️ August 4–8 📍Berkeley Law 🖊️ Apply by June 20 iici.global/courses/open...

We’ve partnered with @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social to compile a chronological exploration of the Trump administration’s actions focusing on the military and veteran communities. The interactive timeline is updated daily — check it out here: thewarhorse.org/trump-timeli...

🚨ONE WEEK TO APPLY!🚨 Calling investigators, lawyers, journalists, and researchers: Join us in August at @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social for our foundational #OSINT training held with @instituteici.bsky.social: 🗓️ August 4–8 📍@ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social 🖊️ Apply by June 20 iici.global/courses/open...

#New: We're launching a @justsecurity.org series with our partners at @slpjustice.bsky.social, Mnemonic, @law.ucla.edu, and more on our collaborative investigations into gender persecution and attacks on #WomanLifeFreedom protestors in Iran: www.justsecurity.org/tag/series-o...

1/ Out today! The first two pieces in a special series @justsecurity.org on our collaborative investigations into gender persecution + attacks on Woman Life Freedom protestors in Iran. www.justsecurity.org/tag/series-o...

This spring, HRC students partnered with @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social to document the Trump administration’s attacks on veteran communities and the military since he assumed office in January 2025. Explore the human impact of policy changes at the DOD and VA here: thewarhorse.org/trump-timeli...

UC researchers are suing the Trump administration for cutting essential grant funding. HRC has lost 100s of thousands in federal funding for our work with refugee youth in humanitarian settings & investigating human rights violations through our Investigations Lab. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

🚨 Calling all investigators, lawyers, journalists, and researchers! 🚨 Join us this August in Berkeley, California for our foundational digital open source investigations #OSINT training, held in partnership with @instituteici.bsky.social.

2024 set a new record for attacks on health care in conflict. The Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition identified 3,623 incidents in 2024, driven by violence against healthcare workers and infrastructure in Lebanon, Myanmar, Palestine, Sudan, and Ukraine. Read more here: safeguarding-health.com

🚨 Calling all investigators, lawyers, journalists, and researchers! 🚨 Join us this August in Berkeley, California for our foundational digital open source investigations #OSINT training, held in partnership with @instituteici.bsky.social.

The internet functions as a nauseating funhouse mirror of hate, amplifying violence against women & vulnerable groups. Ending this requires on/offline action to disrupt abuse & ensure justice, writes HRC investigator Ceren Fitoz for @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/from-incels-...

🚨 Investigators, lawyers, journalists, researchers 🚨 Join us this August in Berkeley, CA for our foundational digital open source investigations #OSINT training held in partnership with @instituteici.bsky.social! 🗓️ August 4–8 📍@ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social 🖊️Apply by June 20 iici.global/courses/open...

HRC Research Fellow @amandaghahremani.com calls for Canada to end their designation of the United States as a "third safe country" for @thestar.com: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

In the last 100 days, the U.S. has rapidly descended towards authoritarianism & proven it is not a “safe third country” for refugees & asylum-seekers. I explain in @thestar.com why #Canada needs to wake up & suspend the Safe Third Country Agreement, now. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Join us tomorrow to launch HRC Senior Researcher Dr. Lene Guercke's book "Failure of the State: Organised Crime and Mexico’s Disappeared." 📅 May 1 🕔 5 PM 🎙️ @alexakoenig.bsky.social & Omar Gómez-Trejo 📍 HRC 🍽️ Snacks served events.berkeley.edu/hrc/event/29...

Our partner @instituteici.bsky.social is running a brand new course on #DroneStrikes that provides specialist knowledge and skills to allow participants to identify, collect, and use evidence related to drone attacks for investigations into #warcrimes and #humanrights abuses. Apply by this Friday:

Join us in celebrating the book launch of "Failure of the State: Organised Crime and Mexico’s Disappeared" by HRC Senior Researcher Dr. Lene Guercke! 📅 May 1 🕔 5 PM 🎙️ @alexakoenig.bsky.social & Omar Gómez-Trejo 📍 HRC @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social 🍽️ Snacks served! 🔗 events.berkeley.edu/hrc/event/29...

Join us on April 24, #ArmenianGenocide Remembrance Day, for a screening of "My Sweet Land" and a conversation about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with UC Berkeley lecturer Myrna Douzjian: 🗓️ April 24 ⌚️ 5:30 PM 📍@ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social Room 100 🍕 Served! events.berkeley.edu/hrc/event/29...