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Investigating war crimes, pursuing justice, and preparing tomorrow's advocates.

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🎬 Happening TODAY!
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November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Today @apha.org: Julie Freccero & Michaela Austin present findings from Family and Me, a groundbreaking foster care model centering youth impacted by commercial sexual exploitation in San Francisco. We're thrilled to share our findings evaluating the program:
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The APHA 2025 program offers ample educational and networking opportunities to engage, collaborate and grow to meet your professional goals.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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🧵1/5 Our October newsletter just dropped! Check out our new projects & latest updates, including groundbreaking research on farmworker safety, a visit from @bellingcat.com to our Investigations Lab, our annual Human Rights Fellowship Conference, & much more: conta.cc/43JPELf
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Email from Human Rights Center New wildfire safe and healthy research, fellowship conference, and more!     October 2025 Newsletter 2024–2025 student fellow Rachel Wallace presents on a panel at the 2
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October 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Join us for Estado de Silencio (State of Silence), a film on #PressFreedom in #Mexico. Panel & Q&A to follow w/ director Santiago Maza, @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social Michael Bolden & more!
📅 Nov. 5
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ESTADO DE SILENCIO/STATE OF SILENCE: film screening and panel
State of Silence/Estado de Silencio explores the limits of freedom of the press in Mexico, following four journalists who risk their lives to repor...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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HRC's Linda Gordon and @publichealth.berkeley.edu's Dr. Carly Hyland have published two reports examining how Sonoma County’s Ag Pass program impacts the health, safety, and livelihoods of agricultural workers during wildfires. Read more @pressdemo.bsky.social:
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UC Berkeley researchers find 75% of surveyed field workers labored during Sonoma County wildfires since 2017
A study published this week takes a highly critical view of Sonoma County’s Ag Pass program, adding to previous analyses that suggest the system, which allows agricultural workers into disaster eva…
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October 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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1/2: Through the Climate Disasters Initiative, the Human Rights Center @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social partners with frontline communities, analyzes disaster laws and policies, and trains students to advance equity in preparedness and recovery: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpNe...
Climate Disasters Initiative Profile
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October 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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🧵1/2: Our professional trainings equip researchers, lawyers & journalists worldwide with digital #OSINT skills — from the Global Majority to The Hague. We’re building a global network of investigators advancing justice:
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October 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Join us for Estado de Silencio (State of Silence), a film on press freedom in Mexico. Panel to follow with director Santiago Maza, @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social's Michael Bolden & more!
📅 Nov. 5
⏰ 4:30 PM
📍 @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social Booth Auditorium
🔗 RSVP: events.berkeley.edu/hrc/event/30...
ESTADO DE SILENCIO/STATE OF SILENCE: film screening and panel
State of Silence/Estado de Silencio explores the limits of freedom of the press in Mexico, following four journalists who risk their lives to repor...
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October 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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🧵 1/2: The Aurora Project centers youth voices and advances research on the protection & mental health needs of LGBTQI+ refugee and conflict-affected youth. Findings will help shape global child protection guidance & tools for humanitarian practitioners: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wPN...
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October 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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The Family and Me (FAM) foster care pilot supports Bay Area youth who’ve experienced or are at risk of exploitation. FAM helps build trust, stability & belonging through caring families and consistent support:
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Family and Me Profile
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October 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Researchers from our Human Rights Center @hrcberkeley.bsky.social and UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health @ucbpublichealth.bsky.social issued two reports about the effects of wildfires on local agricultural workers. https://bit.ly/4o2UYSk #UCBerkeleyLaw
New Reports Examine Local Farmworkers’ Well-Being and Economic Security During Wildfires
Researchers from our Human Rights Center (HRC) and UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health issued two reports about the effects of wildfires on local agricultural workers. Surveying over 1,000 farmworke...
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October 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Join us for our virtual roundtable on impacts of aggregated online speech HRC's @betsypopken.bsky.social, UCB Tech Policy Fellow Meri Baghdasaryan, fmr UN Sp. Rapporteur @davidakaye.bsky.social & others!
📅 Oct. 21
🕰️ 9 AM PST
📍Virtual (Zoom)
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Rethinking Responsibility for Online Harm Accumulation
A virtual roundtable discussion with global experts to discuss the distinct harms caused by the aggregation of online speech. While individual post...
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October 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Our Technology, Law & Policy team, led by @lindsaysfreeman.bsky.social, supports international prosecutors through research on emerging technologies, digital investigations, and case-building, helping international law keep pace with modern weapons of war:
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October 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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🧵1/4 We’re thrilled to share two new reports, co-published by the Human Rights Center and @berkeleypublichlth.bsky.social, examining how Sonoma County’s Ag Pass program affects farmworker health, safety, and livelihoods during wildfires:
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California Wildfires - Berkeley Human Rights Center
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October 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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For 30+ years, our Student Fellowship Program has trained the next generation of #HumanRights leaders—providing hands-on experience that shapes their research, advocacy & careers. Watch one fellow's story below!
🌍 400+ fellows
🤝 350+ orgs
✈️ 88+ countries
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Student Fellowship Profile
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October 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Our Investigations Lab trains students in #OSINT & digital verification to document human rights violations worldwide. We’ve partnered with @amnesty.org, @hrw.org, @apnews.com & more to investigate abuses in Sudan, Iran, the United States & beyond. Explore more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT6D...
Investigations Lab Profile
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October 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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1/2🧵: Our 2024–2025 Annual Report is here! At HRC, we build community, defend facts, pursue justice, and foster a world where everyone's rights are upheld. Thank you to our students, staff, partners & donors for making this work possible:
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Annual Report 2024/2025 - Berkeley Human Rights Center
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October 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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FRIDAY: Join our annual #HumanRights Fellowship Conference! Hear all about our student fellows and their research from Nigeria, Argentina, U.S. & more:
📅 Oct. 10
⌚️12:45–5 PM
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🍴 Free lunch + reception to follow:
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2025 Human Rights Center Fellowship Conference
The 2025 Human Rights Center fellows will discuss their experience working with organizations in California, New York, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Nigeria...
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October 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Only by combining Rome Statute prosecutions with complementary measures –such as sanctions, export controls & civil litigation– can the intl. community build a robust framework for accountability for #spyware harms.

✍️ @hrcberkeley.bsky.social's Lindsay Freeman.

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The Rome Statute in the Digital Age: Confronting Emerging Cyber Threats
For the Rome Statute to remain relevant, practitioners must understand how governments can deploy spyware to commit international crimes.
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October 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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For the Rome Statute to remain relevant, practitioners must understand how governments can deploy spyware to commit international crimes, writes @lindsaysfreeman.bsky.social for @justsecurity.org and @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social for the series "Legal Frameworks for Addressing Spyware Harms" out now:
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Last in our Spyware Accountability series with the
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For the Rome Statute to remain relevant, practitioners must understand how governments can deploy spyware to commit international crimes, writes Lindsay Freeman.

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The Rome Statute in the Digital Age: Confronting Emerging Cyber Threats
A lack of regulation and oversight in cyberspace has led to significant abuse — often going hand-in-hand with human rights violations.
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October 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Join us for our annual #HumanRights Fellowship Conference! Hear from our 2025 fellows about their summers work on pressing human rights issues.
📅 Oct. 10
🕔12:45–5 PM
📍 @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social Booth Auditorium (Rm. 175)
🍴 Lunch served, reception to follow!
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2025 Human Rights Center Fellowship Conference
The 2025 Human Rights Center fellows will discuss their experience working with organizations in California, New York, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Nigeria...
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October 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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We're so grateful for the opportunity to have HRC alumnae Bhavya Joshi and Sabreen Tuku speak w/ Executive Director @betsypopken.bsky.social about how students at Berkeley can make real impact in the field of human rights with HRC and @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social for #Homecoming!
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October 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Will you be at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social's #Homecoming weekend? Join us for an engaging discussion of how Berkeley students can engage in impactful human rights investigations and fieldwork.
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📍Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall
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UC Berkeley Homecoming Weekend 2025, Making Impact: Fighting for Human Rights at UC Berkeley, Maude Fife Room, Third Floor, Wheeler Hall. Friday, October 3, 10:00 — 11:00 a.m. Three women are pictured smiling at the camera.
October 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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AI data centers in CA use massive amounts of water. AB 93 would require usage reports, but not public access to that data. HRC's Linda Gordon warns many agencies already block data: “More disclosure is great — but how that info gets used is key.” More @calmatters.org:
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California lawmakers wanted to get tough on data centers. Here's what survived
Lawmakers were mostly thwarted this year in trying to crack down on data centers to protect water supplies and California electricity rates
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September 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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HRC Senior Director @lindsaysfreeman.bsky.social cial joined @sentinellabs.bsky.social's Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade and @ryanaraine.bsky.social to discuss the Wagner Group’s war crimes in Mali at #LABScon25 for The Three Buddy Problem podcast. Full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOAa...
September 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM