Our priorities

Our investigations focus on the worlds’ most challenging issues

Mass violence: We operate at the sharp end of human rights abuses, focusing on war crimes, mass violence and other gross violations perpetrated by both state and non-state actors.

Disinformation: In an age of manipulated content, we unmask disinformation through community led gathering and verification of evidence to build a trusted information ecosystem.

Climate disaster: The climate crisis is exacerbating and obscuring human rights issues. We put people at the centre, identifying climate-induced atrocity risk and establishing early warning systems to prevent and respond to related mass violence.

Corporate impunity: Complex supply chains hide the role companies play in mass violence and the climate crisis. Our work uncovers the links, driving legal cases, advocacy and positive change.

Democracy under threat: Flawed elections and restraints on freedom of expression are increasingly prevalent. Our work helps pro-democracy movements protect themselves and push back.

Memorialisation: We advance grassroots truth-telling and memorialisation, utilising documentation for transitional justice processes and historical memory efforts.

Videre is unique and essential... providing courts with irrefutable evidence linking an accused to the scene of a crime
— Professor Eric Stover, UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center