Inside Human Rights Watch Digital Investigation’s Lab

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image How does Human Rights Watch’s Digital Investigations Lab conduct its work and for what purpose? What are its key methodologies and ways of working? When a short, but intense conflict broke out on the Tajikistan/Kyrgyzstan border in 2022, the Digital Investigations Lab worked with other Human Rights Watch research colleagues who were on the ground to investigate possible violations of the laws of war. We did this using video verification, geospatial analysis, and 3D spatial reconstruction techniques, such as site-scanning, photo-matching, shot-hole analysis and trajectory…

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