In the month of December 2013, Reuters revealed shocking details about the system of human trafficking created to handle the expulsion of Rohingya and other Muslims from Burma, also known as Myanmar. The agency discovered that the Thailand government was selling Rohingya refugees to human...
The last few weeks have seen a string of alarming reports in two countries at risk of mass atrocities, first in the Central African Republic (CAR) as an international force attempts to stabilize a crumbling state and protect civilians, and now in neighbouring South Sudan as rumours of a coup have...
The Responsibility to Protect doctrine, instituted in 2005, exemplifies the dominant paradigm for action during mass atrocities: international intervention. While R2P places primary responsibility on states, the international community is nonetheless positioned as the final authority on issues of...
Earlier this week, we returned from our first visit to Kenya since initiating the Tana Delta Misinformation Project last month. Abhishek, John, and I made a brief planning visit to get things started and I want to share a quick update with everyone following our progress. The goal of this trip was...
In this last post of our blog series on the humanitarian use of drones we look at two closely related issues that call into question the current use of armed drones and raise a serious point of discussion for the humanitarian use of this technology. These two issues are transparency and...
Today I have the exciting task of announcing the biggest milestone in the Sentinel Project’s history as an organization so far. Beginning immediately, we are launching a two-year field project in the Tana Delta region of Kenya together with our partners at iHub Research in Nairobi. This work is...
Iranian pro-democracy demonstrators in 2009 used social media to organize and document their protests. Here, an opposition supporter films a protest on her mobile phone. (Source) Technology is changing the nature of human rights We’re excited to offer the latest session of our course...
Last week a student group at the University of Manitoba made headlines when they protested a pro-life rally that used graphic imagery of aborted fetuses to liken abortion to genocide. This isn’t a new tactic, as pro-life campaigners have a long history of exploiting the concept of genocide,...
An image of a group of men cutting the neck of a woman and pouring her blood into a basin has been posted on Wirathu’s Facebook page in an attempt to incite animosity toward Muslims in Burma. Various elements of the image, including certain parts that are more in focus than others and changes to...
Satellite imagery has immense potential as a tool for humanitarian agencies. The Sentinel Project could use up-to-date satellite images to pinpoint locations that are poised on the brink of genocide or where genocide is already making the movement of targeted peoples a security issue.The...
By: Troy Powell & Shayan Edalati “New Analyst Shayan Edalati lends his analysis, to the situation facing the Iranian Bahá’ís in January 2012. This report, will be the first in a series of updated revisions, which introduce a new format for our monthly report structure. New features...
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new live visualization of the situation in Burma, though we are equally dismayed at the escalating persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority that it displays. Nonetheless, the Sentinel Project team is confident that this new tool will be valuable not...
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