Blindspots for open source investigations
It is no secret that open source information is changing the ways human rights fact-finding occurs.
In the above video, University of Swansea’s Dr. Yvonne McDermott Rees outlines some of the biases and blindspots that come with the masses documenting human rights violations.
This video reflects on some of the issues of representativeness that can arise, including the types of violations reported, the victims and witnesses who have the opportunity to have their voices heard, and how narratives of mass human rights violations are constructed.
She also discusses the impact of open source evidence on advocacy, and how it may be inappropriately prioritising certain types of violations.
Much of this video is based on qualitative research conducted as part of an ongoing project into the use of open source information for human rights fact-finding from OSR4Rights (https://osr4rights.org/).
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