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New Generation of War Crimes Investigators Turn to High-Tech Methods

PBS Newshour
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Duration
7m
Year
2017
Language
English

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Humanitarian crises like those in Syria's Aleppo sometimes make headlines. But how do we identify such atrocities when they are occurring thousands of miles away? A new program at UC Berkeley is training students to leverage social media, geolocation and other high-tech tools to document human rights abuses, and their findings have been brought to the UN. Special correspondent Cat Wise reports.

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