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SUMMARY:Strengthening the preservation of online evidence of atrocities
DESCRIPTION:HumanRightsThe International Bar Association (IBA)\, UC Berke
 ley Human Rights Center (Berkeley HRC)\, and Oxford Programme onInternat
 ional Peace and Security (Oxford IPS) are working collaboratively to add
 ress the need for greater preservation of and\naccess to social media ev
 idence to strengthen legal accountability for human rights violations an
 d atrocity crimes. Social media platforms have become the unintended arc
 hives of information with historical and evidentiary value\, even though
 \nsocial media companies do not necessarily have the incentives or infra
 structure to properly and indefinitely identify and preservethis content
 . Indeed\, the rate at which potentially relevant and probative content 
 is removed is rapidly increasing as political and\npublic pressure to re
 move harmful content builds.In this session\, project participants will 
 report on their research into potential mechanisms for strengthening the
  use of such digitalcontent in accountability processes\, and the most r
 ecent activities that are underway to strengthen this work. Building on 
 theparticipants' ongoing efforts to improve investigations and documenta
 tion of atrocity crimes\, this session will open a conversationwith sess
 ion participants to:\n\n\n	clarify the relevance and probative value of 
 user-generated content to international legalproceedings\;\n	clarify the
  requirements for and purposes of sharing relevant user-generated conten
 t with international and regionallegal authorities\; and\n	explore poten
 tial next steps for advancing the use of online content in international
  accountabilityprocesses.\n\n
LOCATION:Room 234\, Level 2
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