OxHRF: Open Source Investigations for Human Rights: Nabeel Hamdi Lecture delivered by Alison Killing

Over the past decade, open source techniques have become a key investigative tool for human rights defenders and investigative journalists. These new methods have enabled research that wouldn’t have been difficult, if not impossible before, at a faster pace and has allowed a wider group of people to participate in this work, including many who would have been shut out before.

This lecture will focus around a years-long, Pulitzer prize winning series of investigations into the campaign of oppression that the Chinese government has pursued against Uyghurs and other Muslims in the Xinjiang region of north west China. It will look at how you can investigate and produce reliable evidence of human rights abuses in a place that investigators can’t even go to, as well as ways of seeking accountability for human rights abuses and creating pressure for change.