Members of IHRP's Digital Verification Working Group Attend Summit Hosted at UC Berkeley

Last week, four U of T law students in the IHRP’s Digital Verification working group (along with the IHRP director) attended a first-ever summit at Berkeley for university students being trained to review and verify digital content — typically videos shot by citizens who witnessed atrocities —  that could help human rights lawyers prosecute war criminals.
 
The Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley’s School of Law, along with Amnesty International, hosted the event, which also included students and instructors from the University of Pretoria, the University of Essex and the University of Cambridge.

Press coverage:

• Berkeley News, "World's next generation of human rights investigators meets at Berkeley" June 28, 2017  http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/06/28/worlds-next-generation-of-human-rights-investigators-meets-at-berkeley/
• The Mercury News, "As 'fake news' flies, UC Berkeley students verify and document" June 27, 2017  http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/27/as-fake-news-flies-uc-berkeley-students-verify-and-document/
• YouTube, "Fighting human rights violations through social media" June 30, 2017  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fQTJ_86IEs