Digital Human Rights Investigations Project

The Digital Human Rights Investigations Project trains students to use open-source digital media to investigate and document human rights violations worldwide. Research based on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is a technique being pioneered by various non-profit organizations and academic institutions internationally to improve the transparency and fact-checking of investigative journalism and to strengthen legal cases in the area of international human rights. Details of this program are typically released during the fall term.

Here are two video essay projects created by the Spring 2024 Digital Human Rights Investigations Project: The Bibby Stockholm  and A White Knight? Russia’s Deportation of Ukrainian Children. 

The Spring 2025 Digital Human Rights Investigations Project created the following two video essay projects which will be uploaded to the site soon: “Expansion of the Yunarmiya in Occupied Ukraine” and “Russian-Forced Deportation and Re-education of Ukrainian Children”.