Berkeley Protocol News Today

The Human Rights Center hosted United Nations, or UN, High Commissioner Volker Türk to officially launch the Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations in all the languages of the

The report found that the Lukashenka regime of Belarus is assisting Russia in the relocation and re-education of thousands of Ukranian children.

Working with open source information brings a whole range of complex ethical issues – here are some tips based on Bellingcat's experience.

Nicholas Moulios, from the ELNs New European Voices on Existential Risk (NEVER) Network, has written the ELNs first commentary as part of this project. He explores the capabilities of (OSINT) systems for assessing and mitigating potential nuclear disasters, and how these emerging technologies can be harnessed to improve existential risk resilience in Europe and beyond.

Computer Weekly speaks with open source investigators about how they use social media to gather evidence of war crimes, and the trouble with using such evidence in legal proceedings.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was reminiscent of wars long past, in which one country invades another without any provocation. But there ...

In this first installment of GIJN's investigating war crimes guide, experts discuss how open source research can cover armed conflict.

An introduction to Bellingcat's J&A Unit, an initiative to demonstrate the viability of online open source information in judicial processes. 

Bellingcat examines strategies to approach sexual and gender-based violence content in open source research and investigations.

Journalists have described the invasion of Ukraine as the world’s “first TikTok war,” the most “internet-accessible war in history,” and history’s “most