An Evening with the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights

Sponsored by Berkeley Law, Berkeley School of Information, The Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute, The Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, The Center for Responsible Business at Haas, The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

Join the High Commissioner and the Human Rights Center in the official launch of The Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations, the world’s first international guidelines on how to use social media and other online content when investigating war crimes and human rights violations. This event features an exclusive look at how the Protocol has been used in an ongoing investigation of the intentional blinding of Iranian protesters for the U.N. by UC Berkeley students and HRC staff.

Speakers

Volker Türk
High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations

Alexa Koenig
Co-Faculty Director
Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law

Eric Stover
Co-Faculty Director
Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law

Albert Samaha (moderator)
Investigative Journalist and author of Concepcion
Washington Post

RSVP

Please arrive 15 minutes early to secure your seat.