Technology and Human Rights: Does Evidence Matter?

from Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast Hosted by Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast

We can now take satellite pictures from the sky, get DNA samples on the scene and track moving networks of people through phones, laptops and other mobile technologies. With all this tech, human rights organisations should have a better idea than ever of the situation on the ground. But does this really matter, and can it really work? From using big data to predict instances of human rights abuse to combining different types of evidence to prove they have occurred, Declarations sat down with Steven Livingston, a Professor at George Washington University and a senior fellow at the Carr Centre for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, to talk about how technology is changing the human rights scene.