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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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Unlocking the Department of State’s foreign military training data for good this time
Security Force Monitor has crunched 5,600 pages of State Department PDFs to create new version of the U.S. foreign military training data. Today we release a tool to explore these 200,000 rows of data.
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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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Connecting data points through time (or not)
Answering the question “who was where when?” is central for investigations into allegations of human rights abuse(s). Because of this perhaps one of the most defining, and complicaticating, features of the Security Force Monitor’s data is that almost everything we research is connected to time.
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WhoWasInCommand shows you all the sources that evidence every piece of data – but you probably missed the way it does this
Here's how to see all the sources our researchers used to evidence every single piece of data on WhoWasInCommand.
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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...