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In early 2026, WITNESS, in collaboration with Airwars, initiated five workshop sessions, led by Clive Vella (Data Manager, Airwars) to train a core team within the Bangladesh Protest Archive (BPA) in the designing of their datasets. This training was delivered using Airwars’ methodology, developed through its extensive experience documenting civilian harm and structuring open source evidence for investigations, while building on the BPA’s collection of textual and audiovisual documentation from the 2024 Bangladesh protests.
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The document, which was approved last week but only published on Monday, is expected to provide a powerful new tool supporting reparations claims. Countries are legally obliged to provide broad reparations for harms resulting from both direct and indirect involvement in the transatlantic African slave trade.
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Today is International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Sri Lanka has one of the world’s highest rates of enforced disappearances, numbering in the tens of thousands, including those who disappeared during the 1980s JVP insurgency and during and after the civil war between the government and the LTTE..
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More than 100 undercover officers spied on tens of thousands of mainly leftwing activists over decades
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Renewed scrutiny comes after police officer accused of falsifying records in order to close the cases of people who were later found dead
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Videos of the disaster, which tore through the border area between Tibet and Nepal, have been removed from social media by China’s censors.
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As photojournalist sentenced to 15 years, rights groups warn law would turn civic engagement into security crime
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Bolivia’s government published two decrees in early August that threaten the right to freedom of association and the work of human rights defenders.
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Located in Bosnia-Herzegovina's capital Sarajevo and considered one of the city's most prominent symbols, the historical Vijecnica Library continues to serve as the city’s memory 34 years after it was burned in an attack by Serb forces on Aug. 25, 1992.
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A recent memo claiming executive privilege over communications with private advisers invites corruption
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From killings in Gaza to the alleged use of a sonic weapon on a vigil in Belgrade, the Lebanese-British artist reveals how his work for activist group Earshot is inseparable from his art
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Two activists who organised commemorations of the bloody crackdown on China’s 1989 pro-democracy protests now face jail. Remembering is not a crime.
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Guha and Subaltern Studies argued that elite history writes out the peasant, the worker, the ordinary. Khalra was that subaltern: not a general, not a minister, a bank manager. Without a film, his archive becomes a footnote. With the film banned, the erasure doubles. Hannah Arendt warned that totalitarianism’s most effective weapon is not violence alone but the destruction of memory. Make people forget the sequence, and you can rewrite the meaning. ‘Satluj’ resists that. It insists memory is a civic act.
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Ensuring victims’ access to truth and justice is essential for building a reconciliation process on solid foundations. Victims must have access to the truth. If truth and justice are ensured, this creates a sound basis for reconciliation, making it possible to prevent the repetition of further injustices.
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Responding to the convictions of activists who organized Tiananmen vigils in Hong Kong: “This dismaying verdict underlines how Hong Kong’s National Security Law is being used to punish people for peacefully remembering one of the darkest chapters in recent Chinese history.
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When fact checkers reconstructed the events of July 20 Chalo Sansad march they relied on hundreds of user-generated videos with different timestamps and vantage points. Additionally, international coverage of the movement drew heavily on footage captured by the protestors themselves. This marked a profound shift in who gets to write history.
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Gracias a ese enorme esfuerzo historiográfico conocemos con bastante precisión cómo se ejerció la violencia y cuáles fueron sus consecuencias políticas y sociales. Sin embargo, una pregunta permanecía casi intacta: ¿qué ocurre psicológicamente con las familias cuando una pérdida nunca puede cerrarse? Responder a esta cuestión exige mirar el pasado desde un lugar diferente.
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Writing daily logs on children in residential care is a key part of the job, but too often neglected, says David Jones
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An Indian educator is documenting his vulnerable Indigenous language on YouTube. He hopes his videos “will create an invaluable resource for the entire humankind.” The OpenSpeaks Archives is developing a process for Wikimedians to cite oral knowledge from Indigenous and other low-resourced language communities, including nearly 20 language communities from India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. This process includes audio-visual documentation, creating technological and educational resources, and community capacity building.
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In Australia, the Maiam nayri Wingara Indigenous Data Sovereignty principles were developed and published in 2018 and as a result, there is a growing body of academic and policy relevant literature on Indigenous Data Sovereignty. There are increasing calls from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and their organisations, governments, statistical agencies and universities for practical guidance on how to operationalise Indigenous Data Sovereignty principles through Indigenous...
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