🏆Human Rights Press Award 2024
The Country that bombs its own people
(New York Times / Hayley Willis and Weiyi Cai)

The New York Times' beautifully produced multimedia article won an honorable mention in the Human Rights Press Awards 2024. It was supported by extensive…

On 9 May 2024, the Ethiopian Human Rights Defenders Centre, the Ethiopian Women's Human Rights Defenders Network, and CIR will host a one day conference event on Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV) in Addis Ababa.

Free tickets are now available here:…

#EyesonRussia #Ukraine

Event: Strike on Odesa Law Academy’s ‘Palace of Students’.
Location: Odesa city, Odesa Oblast
Coordinates: 46.416845, 30.762909
Date: 29 April 2024
Source: twitter.com/maria_drutska/…

CIR investigators verified at least seven civilian casualties, including at…

#EyesonRussia #Ukraine

Event: Damage to an educational building
Location: Kherson city, Kherson Oblast
Coordinates: 46.644279, 32.588475
Date: 28 April 2024
Source: t.me/hueviyherson/5…

CIR investigators verified 47 incidents involving damage to educational institutions in…

Using open source tools to understand the extent of the damage caused by the conflict in Sudan.

New video by CIR Director of Investigations, Ben Strick.
Watch in full (20mins)
youtube.com/watch?v=MKxUCb…

Today, Zan Times launches an interactive map documenting the killing, disappearance, and arrest of ‘public’ women – defined as those working or studying outside the home.

The map, which was created in partnership with CIR’s Afghan Witness, is an ongoing archive of incidents…

Google Earth has updated its satellite imagery of many parts of Sudan. Looking over West Darfur city of El Geneina, I am shocked at the level of destruction. In some parts, whole areas have been destroyed and cleared. Location: 13.4469, 22.4151 (dates: April 2023 & March 2024)

The number of villages in Sudan that have been destroyed or severely damaged by fire has risen sharply in recent weeks.

CIR’s Sudan Witness team shared their analysis with the The Guardian so they could further investigate the damage done to villages in Sudan, shedding more light…