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.

🚨Are you an investigator, lawyer, journalist, or researcher interested in #OSINT? Join us and @InstituteIntl this June in Washington D.C. for our foundational open source investigations training: 🗓️ June 8–12 📍Washington D.C. 🖊️Apply by March 30: iici.global/courses/open-s…

"This course came at an excellent time," said Sudanese lawyer Mozamel Belgali Mohammed. "If peace comes, if a democratic transition comes, we can, through the information and skills we've acquired…truly document and monitor these violations." ictj.org/latest-news/hu…

In November 2025, we traveled to Kampala, Uganda with our partners @theICTJ to train Sudanese journalists & human rights defenders in digital open source investigations. Graduates from Yemen, Tunisia, and Libya joined as trainers, sharing their knowledge: youtube.com/watch?v=_gnsbf…

All of us at HRC are feeling incredibly grateful today. 92 donors raised $134,205 during #BigGive yesterday, funding our student Investigations Lab to continue documenting human rights abuses and promoting #accountability. Thank for all for being part of our community #FiatLux

#BigGive 2026 is here! Your gift supports students in HRC’s Investigations Lab documenting misuse of crowd-control weapons at immigration protests. Help us secure 50 gifts of $10+ before 9 PM tonight unlock a $50K match. Donate Now: givingday.berkeley.edu/giving-day/108…

“True systemic change will not come from bombs and brutality imposed by the outside; it will only come from a concerted, organized, and politically imaginative resistance within Iran,” writes HRC Research Fellow @amandaghahreman in the @TorontoStar thestar.com/opinion/contri…

TODAY: Rally with @youthvgov at the James R. Browning U.S. Courthouse, 8:30 AM, for youth climate plaintiffs in Genesis v. EPA and then pack the courtroom at 10 AM. Can’t attend in person? Tune in online to watch live at bit.ly/gvepa-live

On March 5, cheer on CA youth plaintiffs in @youthvgov’s Genesis v. EPA; pack the courtroom, and rally! Our students have supported OTC on separate climate migration & displacement research, and we are so proud of their work protecting CA’s future. RSVP: bit.ly/genesishearing…

📽️ Watch our video describing the impact of FAM 2.0 with Freedom Forward's Francesca Gonzalez: youtube.com/watch?v=sdhGmT…

📖 Learn more and read our Q&A breaking down the research with Senior Research Manager Michaela Anastasia Austin: medium.com/humanrightscen…

📣 📒 🥳 The Human Rights Center has published the final evaluation of the Family and Me (FAM) 2.0 foster care pilot, designed by Freedom Forward to support youth impacted by, or at high risk of, commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) in San Francisco: humanrights.berkeley.edu/publications/f…

🚨📢3 days left!📢🚨Are you an investigator, lawyer, journalist, or researcher interested in #OSINT? Join us & @InstituteIntl this April in The Hague for our foundational open source investigations training: 🗓️ April 20–24 📍The Hague 🖊️Apply by Feb. 23: iici.global/courses/open-s…

At the Human Rights Center, we investigate war crimes and human rights violations; set standards for practitioners; and train the next generation of human rights defenders. Join us in our mission as we craft our next thirty years of work: humanrights.berkeley.edu/about/

⏳ One week left! Apply for the 2026 HRC Student Fellowship by Feb 17! Fellows receive: 💰 $8,000 stipend 🌍 8+ weeks of fieldwork (US or abroad) with a partner org of your choice 🤝 A supportive cohort experience + lifelong alumni network 🔗 Apply: humanrights.berkeley.edu/programs-and-i…

🚨🚨Calling all investigators, lawyers, journalists + researchers interested in skilling up in #OSINT! Join us & @InstituteIntl this April at The Hague for our foundational open source investigations training: 🗓️ April 20–24 📍The Hague 🖊️Apply by Feb. 23 iici.global/courses/open-s…

🚨Are you an investigator, lawyer, journalist, or researcher interested in skilling up in #OSINT? Join us + @InstituteIntl this April at The Hague for our foundational open source investigations training: 🗓️ April 20–24 📍The Hague 🖊️Apply by Feb. 23: iici.global/courses/open-s…

In a new @opiniojuris blog, HRC's @KAlexaKoenig & Prof. Brianne McGonigle Leyh from @UniUtrechtreflect on the challenges of running open source investigations labs at public universities: opiniojuris.org/2026/01/12/inn…

"[Bystander video] is one of the tools at the disposal of everyday people that is a cornerstone of really being able to hold government actors accountable + help individuals who cannot be there on the ground understand what is happening," @KAlexaKoenig: usatoday.com/story/news/nat…