News
Category: Research
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Spring Update: Data on 10 New Countries in WhoWasInCommand.com, including countries of Saudi-Emirati coalition in Yemen
(Image: “Mimosa” by rofi is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) We are pleased to announce that our coverage of police, military and other security forces dramatically expands to 10 new countries. This massive update focuses...
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#EndSARS and Nigerian Army units in the Lagos area: updated data
We have updated our data on the units and command chain of the Nigerian Army in Lagos in response to the reports of killings by the Nigerian Army of #EndSARS protesters in Lekki and Alausa,...
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Collaboratively mapping the official websites and social media of the world’s security forces
We're making a big list of all the official websites and social media accounts of police, military and other security forces around the world. Here's how to help...
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Here’s 11,904 rows of new data from the US Department of State’s 2018-2019 Foreign Military Training Report
This weekend, security and human rights wonks received an early Christmas present from the U.S. Department of State: the Foreign Military Training and DoD Engagement Activities of Interest, 2018-2019. We turned it into data you can use.
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Investigating Drug Related Killings in the Philippines
An investigation by the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism finds almost 1,400 drug related killings in Manila were not included in official counts, more than doubling the total number.
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The structure and operations of the Myanmar Army in Rakhine State: a review of open source evidence
The Myanmar Army stands accused of committing war crimes in Rakhine State in 2016 and 2017. In this review of open source evidence, we identify the deployment and chain of command of 28 army units deployed to Rakhine State during that time.
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Major update: Six new countries added to WhoWasInCommand.com
WhoWasInCommand.com is the largest public database of security force units and personnel ever created. Today, it gets even bigger and more useful to human right researchers, litigators and investigative journalists.
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OpenStreetMap is (sometimes) a handy database of military and police locations – here’s how to see them
OpenStreetMap is a useful tool for getting an impression of a security force's bases and physical infrastructure. How do we do this?
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Not all snapshots are created equal – a time-saving Wayback Machine technique
Image: Clipping from 8 February 2004 Wayback Machine snapshot of SEDENA army commanders page. How do we get all the data out of that and 50 other captures of the same page? We’re going to write about our...
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Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court receives complaint of crimes against humanity by the Mexican Army
#seguridadsinguerra https://t.co/g2OaM1eiHm — José A. Guevara B. (@JoseAGuevaraB) June 11, 2018 Earlier today the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights (CMDPDH), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and other partners...