Our priorities

Our investigations focus on the worlds’ most challenging issues

Mass violence: We operate at the sharp end of human rights abuses, focusing on war crimes, mass violence and other gross violations perpetrated by both state and non-state actors.

Disinformation: In an age of manipulated content, we unmask disinformation through community led gathering and verification of evidence to build a trusted information ecosystem.

Climate disaster: The climate crisis is exacerbating and obscuring human rights issues. We put people at the centre, identifying climate-induced atrocity risk and establishing early warning systems to prevent and respond to related mass violence.

Corporate impunity: Complex supply chains hide the role companies play in mass violence and the climate crisis. Our work uncovers the links, driving legal cases, advocacy and positive change.

Democracy under threat: Flawed elections and restraints on freedom of expression are increasingly prevalent. Our work helps pro-democracy movements protect themselves and push back.

Memorialisation: We advance grassroots truth-telling and memorialisation, utilising documentation for transitional justice processes and historical memory efforts.

A city street at night with smoke and fire, debris scattered, and people standing and walking, some with their hands up, amid urban buildings and utility poles.
Videre is unique and essential... providing courts with irrefutable evidence linking an accused to the scene of a crime
— Professor Eric Stover, UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center