The Human Rights Center investigates war crimes and other serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. Our empirical studies recommend specific policy measures to hold perpetrators accountable, protect vulnerable populations, and help rebuild war-torn societies.
 
NEW PUBLICATIONS

The Guantánamo Effect Exposing the Consequences of U.S. Detention and Interrogation Practices (September 2009)

So We Will Never Forget: A Population-Based Survey of Attitudes about Social Reconstruction and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (January 2009)

Coverage of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.

Guantánamo and Its Aftermath: U.S. Detention and Interrogation Practices and Their Impact on Former Detainees (November 2008)

Report also available in Arabic and Pashto.

HRC endorses calls for a Commission on Accountability.

 

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EVENTS

Weekly Google Technology Meetup Group

Announcement of the Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge Winners

Soul of the New Machine conference videos are now available. Watch plenary sessions or browse the conference site.

HRC IN THE NEWS

06/11/09 - Guantanamo haunts released detainees (LA Times)

05/5/09 - How technology can help human rights (SF Chronicle)

04/11/09 - First African Female President Wows UC Berkeley (SF Chronicle)

04/08/09 - Pain of Khmer Rouge Era lost on Cambodian Youth (NY Times)

2/1/09 - Efforts to limit Khmer Rouge trials decried (NY Times)

11/17/08 - Cal study finds ex-Guantanamo prisoners broken (SF Chronicle)

11/13/08 - Former Guantánamo captives continue to struggle, report says (Reuters)

11/13/08 - Human rights groups seek detainee truth commission (Miami Herald)


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