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Introductory Remarks by Molly K. Land
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 March 2019
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New innovations in human rights fact-finding and criminal investigations offer both opportunities and challenges for human rights law in practice.1 As documentation of human rights violations becomes more difficult and complex, practitioners are exploring ways to augment their work with new tools and new methodologies.2 Social media, accessible satellite data, and even drone technology have expanded the capacity of human rights investigators to document abuses, even when access to the sites of atrocities is limited.
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- New Technologies in International Criminal and Human Rights Investigations and Fact-Finding
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This panel was convened at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 5, 2018 by its moderator, Molly K. Land of the University of Connecticut School of Law and Human Rights Institute, who introduced the panelists: Brittany Benowitz of the American Bar Association; Jonathan Drake of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Rebecca Hamilton of American University Washington College of Law; Julian Nicholls of the Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court; and Brad Samuels, SITU Research.
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1 See generally Land, Molly K. & Aronson, Jay D., The Promise and Peril of Human Rights Technology, in New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice 1, 9–10 (Land, Molly K. & Aronson, Jay D. eds., 2018)Google Scholar.
2 See generally The Transformation of Human Rights Fact-Finding (Alston, Philip & Knuckey, Sarah eds., 2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
3 Land, Molly K. & Aronson, Jay D., Technology and Human Rights Enforcement, in New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice, supra note 1, at 125, 126Google Scholar.
4 Land & Aronson, supra note 1, at 8.
5 McPherson, Ella, Risk and the Pluralism of Digital Human Rights Fact-Finding and Advocacy, in New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice, supra note 1, at 188, 188Google Scholar.
6 Land & Aronson, supra note 3, at 127 (“Local groups do not have the resources they need to use technology effectively or safely in their work, and more powerful groups may appropriate the documentation they produce without providing any direct benefit in return.”).
7 Shaver, Lea, Safeguarding Human Rights from Problematic Technologies, in New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice, supra note 1, at 26, 44Google Scholar (arguing that the human right to share in the benefits of science means that “[t]he introduction of unproven and potentially dangerous technologies” should be subjected to safeguards similar to those that accompany the human subjects research).
8 Land & Aronson, supra note 3, at 128.
9 Morozov, Evgeny, To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism 6 (2013)Google Scholar.
10 Land & Aronson, supra note 1, at 13.