Human Rights Center

We officially launched the #BerkeleyProtocol on Digital Open Source Investigations with @UNHumanRights High Commissioner @volker_turk and launched HRC's 30th Anniversary year! We're deeply grateful for our partnership with UN OHCHR, and look forward to our future collaborations.

We're #hiring a development officer! You'll be managing grants; identifying, cultivating & stewarding prospective and current donors; planning & implementing fundraising efforts; & reporting metrics on campaign performance. Apply by June 3: careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPLOY…

Interested in learning about how to protect civilians impacted by digital warfare? Join us virtually on June 4 for a panel with HRC's @betsy_popken, @JalalAK_jojo from @7amleh, Marwa Fatafta from @AccessNow, and more! 📅 6/4 ⌚ 9 AM PST 📍 Zoom berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Tune in to @KALXradio's to hear HRC's @KAlexaKoenig and Investigation Lab student team leads Maneh Davityan and Talia Harter to discuss their investigation and research into El Salvador's #CECOT mega-prison: 🎙️: kalx.berkeley.edu/berkeley-brain…

"Speaking truth to power by investigating the experience of Venezuelan detainees at #CECOT & contradicting the administration’s narrative feels essential" wrote HRC Lab student Maneh Davityan, whose research supported @HRW's report. 🔗 Read the piece: medium.com/humanrightscen…

@KALXradio had HRC's @KAlexaKoenig speak on the psychological toll of graphic imagery online. Listen to Part 1 below & stay tuned for Part 2, where Alexa & our Lab student leads discuss our investigation into El Salvador's #CECOT mega-prison. 🎙️: kalx.berkeley.edu/berkeley-brain…

Interested in learning about how to protect civilians impacted by digital warfare? Join us virtually on June 4 for a panel w/HRC's @betsy_popken, @JalalAK_jojo from @7amleh, Marwa Fatafta from @AccessNow, and more! 📅 6/4 ⌚ 9 AM PST 📍 Zoom Register: berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

From issues of target distinction to the accountability gap in AI warfare, our students spent the last semester researching how loitering munitions challenge international humanitarian law. Read their reflections here: medium.com/p/caf67f00fc7e

"Today, what we’re getting is just a volume that is not contained to your newspaper or the news, it’s something that we have with us 24-7." Prof. @KAlexaKoenig, Co-Faculty Director of @hrcberkeley joined @KALXradio to talk about online graphic trauma: bit.ly/4uHqW9x

Thrilled to see HRC’s Linda Gordon & partner Masheika Allgood reflected in @CALittleHoover report on data centers & electricity policy. Their testimony reflected impacts on water, air quality, utility rates & more, showing a need for comprehensive policy. lhc.ca.gov/report/data-ce…

Don't miss tomorrow's global launch of the "Child Marriage Theory of Change in Crisis Settings"! Hosted by @PlanGlobal & @save_children, this framework is rooted in HRC research led by @JFreccero that centers the voices of 280 girls in Jordan & Uganda: @96306d57-5eb7-4dc4-a5bd-22a0e5cc0aab" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">events.teams.microsoft.com/event/efa4dc4c…

"If a democratic transition comes, we can, through the information and skills we’ve acquired, employ this training in how we truly document and monitor these violations and conduct good investigations," said Sudanese lawyer Mozamel Belgali Mohammed: youtube.com/watch?v=_gnsbf…

In November 2025, we partnered with @theICTJ to train displaced human rights defenders from Sudan on open source investigative methods. With these new skills to document atrocities, their aim is to strengthen capacity for transitional justice processes: news.berkeley.edu/2026/04/29/as-…

Alongside @StanfordCIGH and others, HRC is co-sponsoring an event on Rohingya history, life in Bangladesh's refugee camps, asylees in the US, and more! 📅 Tuesday, May 5 ⌚️ 6:30–8 PM PST 📍 IEAS Conference Room 🔗 RSVP for in-person & Zoom: events.berkeley.edu/hrc/event/3192…

After training with the International Center for Transitional Justice and @hrcberkeley, Sudanese refugees are using open-source tools to document abuses at home. Their hope: Peace, and justice for victims: bit.ly/4tSnatK #BerkeleyLaw

Happening #TOMORROW! HRC Faculty Director @KAlexaKoenig in conversation on solidarity, migration, and democratic life in Central America with @Cristosal's Executive Director @NoahFBullock! ⌚️12:45 PM 📍@BerkeleyLaw Room 132 🔗 RSVP: events.berkeley.edu/hrc/event/3190…

Join HRC on April 22 for a conversation on democracy and repression in #CentralAmerica with HRC Faculty Director @KAlexaKoenig & @Cristosal Executive Director @NoahFBullock. 📅 Wednesday, April 22 ⌚ 12:45 PM 📍 @BerkeleyLaw, Room 132 🔗 RSVP: events.berkeley.edu/hrc/event/3190…

In Perugia for #ijf26? Join @KAlexaKoenig + @guardian's Dr. Manisha Ganguly for "OSINT, accountability, and the future of human rights reporting" on April 18. Event in-person + live-streamed, learn more and register at this link: journalismfestival.com/programme/2026…

Our Senior Director of Health & Human Rights @JFreccero spoke with @ImprintNews about our final evaluation of FAM 2.0, a foster care model designed to support youth impacted by, or at high risk of, commercial sexual exploitation in San Francisco:  imprintnews.org/top-stories/su…

📢 This documentary by Marion Apio, a Ugandan journalist and student at @hrcberkeley, examines how both new and veteran journalists navigate an increasingly hostile environment for press freedom in Uganda. ▶️ Watch: twp.ai/4iwqM3