After a two-day meeting to discuss a report to the UN Human Rights Council, CGHR hosted an international panel of experts for a discussion of the uses of ICTs in the protection of human rights, particularly focusing on the opportunities and challenges associated with their potential for fostering greater accountability for violations.

The panel:

Christof Heyns – UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions

Christina Ribeiro – Investigation Coordinator, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court

Christoph Koettl – designer and editor of Amnesty International’s Citizen Evidence Lab

Eliot Higgins – creator of the Brown Moses blog, investigating the conflict in Syria

Ella McPherson – CGHR Research Associate (chair)