NEW PUBLICATIONS

Human Rights Center Annual Report (October 2011)

Talking Peace: A Population-Based Survey on Attitudes About Security, Dispute Resolution, and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Liberia (June 2011)

After the First Trial: A Population-Based Survey on Knowledge and Perception of Justice and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (June 2011). Read the press release.

Transitioning to Peace: A Population-Based Survey on Attitudes About Social Reconstruction and Justice in Northern Uganda (December 2010). Read the press release.

Building Peace, Seeking Justice: A Population-Based Survey on Attitudes about Accountability and Social Reconstruction in the Central African Republic (August 2010). Read the press release on UCB NewsCenter.

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.

EVENTS

02/03/12 - Statistics Searching for Truth: Statistical Analysis in Human Rights Investigations - Lecture with Patrick Ball, Benetech

02/13/12 - Current Challenges in the Field of Transitional Justice - Lecture with Dave Tolbert, ICTJ

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MULTIMEDIA & UPDATES FROM THE FIELD

This photo essay by Michelle Arevalo-Carpenter about her work with the HRC DNA Reunification Project and Pro Busqueda is featured on the PhotoPhilanthropy web site. It highlights efforts to reunite families with children who were abducted during that country's civil war.

Follow field updates from 2011 Fellows Leah Rorvig, Elisabeth Powelson, and Marissa Ram on the Berkeley in the World blog. Read additional updates from Rosalynn Vega.

Medical historian Susan Reverby discusses the U.S. Public Health Service's studies in which hundreds of Guatemalans were deliberately infected with syphilis in the 1940s. Click here to download the podcast.

01/24/12 - Though Diplomatic Doors Open to Myanmar, Tragedy Persists in Ethnic Areas (Huffington Post) - OpEd from 2010 Fellow Andrew Lim

9/27/11 - Presumed Guilty, an investigative documentary film by 2008 Human Rights Fellows Roberto Hernández and Layda Negrete wins Emmy Award. See coverage of the win.

3/25/11 - To Combat Human Rights Abuses, California Company Looks to Computer Code (PBS NewsHour)

3/18/11- Echoes of Mengele, Tuskegee, this time in Guatemala

12/07/10 - Probing the haphazard rise of harsh supermax prisons (UC Berkeley NewsCenter)

12/04/10 - New report shows improved security in Acholi region (Daily Monitor)

12/02/10 - Majority in the north are eager to vote (New Vision)

08/10/10 - Conflict Fuels High Death Rate, Health Problems in Central African Republic - Voice of America

08/03/10 - The Fastest to Die (Foreign Policy)

08/03/10 - The Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Caught Between Multiple Masters? (Huffington Post)

07/26/10 - A ciência contra o esquecimento (O Estado de S. Paulo)

07/23/10 - Cambodia awaits verdict in Khmer Rouge tribunal (Associated Press)

07/08/10 - Mapping Human Rights (Transcript Magazine)

06/07/10 - A hopeful future for Kenya (Los Angeles Times)

05/25/10 - In Cambodia, Verdict Nears in Khmer Rouge Genocide Trial (Lehrer NewsHour)