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Camille Crittenden Human Rights Day: How social video changes the game for advocacy and accountability

Camille Crittenden, Executive Director of Data and Democracy, CITRIS @ Berkeley | 12/4/12 | One comment

December 10 marks Human Rights Day, commemorating the U.N.’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Durable protection of human rights requires institutional frameworks and the rule of law. But with the rise of social media — together with cameras now standard in mobile devices — citizens … More >

Camille Crittenden The Internet and global justice 2.0

Camille Crittenden, Executive Director of Data and Democracy, CITRIS @ Berkeley | 7/23/12 | Leave a comment

Recent developments in technology — and a UN Human Rights Council Resolution — highlight the growing potential of social media’s role in international justice. Tools for citizens to report or document serious crimes are increasingly available and easy for non-specialists to deploy. The seminal crowdsourcing platform Ushahidi, created during the … More >

Jonathan Simon Zombies, humanitarians and the Twilight Zone of security

Jonathan Simon, professor of law | 12/1/11 | 2 comments

The shock is palpable. For those of us used to United States criminal justice as a baseline the decision seemed in explicable. Norway’s prosecutors have decided that Anders Behring Breivik is insane and should not face criminal prosecution (read the AP report here). Breivik was arrested last summer after methodically … More >

Dan Farber Environmental justice and adaptation to climate change

Dan Farber, professor of law | 4/4/11 | 4 comments

I’m beginning to wonder whether we need an “Endangered People Act” to ensure that the most vulnerable get the protection they need from climate change impacts. Climate change will disproportionately affect vulnerable individuals and poorer regions and countries, as I discuss in a recent paper comparing … More >

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