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Protecting human rights is one of the core issues of the United Nations and is the mission of such agencies as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. Tracking human rights violations, however, can be difficult and dangerous. It often involves researchers travelling to conflict zones or countries in transition in order to document victim experiences and gather data. Increasingly, activists and researchers are turning to sophisticated technologies including machine learning tools in order to analyze human rights data. That's the focus of this episode of Stats + Stories.
Rosemary Pennington is joined by regular panelists, John Bailer, Chair of Miami Statistics Department, and Richard Campbell, Chair of Media, Journalism and Film. Their guest is Megan Price, the executive director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group or HRDAG which is a non-profit organization based in San Francisco. It works with human rights groups to figure out what questions can be answered with quantitative data, or how such data can be used to help people better understand human rights issues.
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