Humanitarian crises like those in Syria's Aleppo sometimes make headlines. But how do we identify such atrocities when they are occurring thousands of miles away? A new program at UC Berkeley is training students to leverage social media, geolocation and other high-tech tools to document human rights abuses, and their findings have been brought to the UN. Special correspondent Cat Wise reports.
Humanitarian crises like those in Syria's Aleppo sometimes make headlines. But how do we identify such atrocities when they are occurring thousands of miles away? A new program at UC Berkeley is training students to leverage social media, geolocation and other high-tech tools to document human rights abuses, and their findings have been brought to the UN. Special correspondent Cat Wise reports.
New generation of war crimes investigators turn to high-tech methods
New generation of war crimes investigators turn to high-tech methods
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Product Details
BN ID: | 2940171927318 |
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Publisher: | NewsHour Productions |
Publication date: | 02/13/2017 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |