Flawed systems can’t create accurate data
Open-source investigation are often said to revolutionise human rights work. Evidence found online, however, often isn’t as objective as it seems to be. Rather, it reflects, and in some cases even exacerbates, existing inequalities and power asymmetries. Ultimately, data is only as good as the system that created it. Since March 2022, open-source investigators of […]
Transitional Justice. A Call for Decolonisation
Transitional Justice is part of the colonial order, it persists and is deeply embedded in ‘Euro- North American – centric modernity’. Even when transitional justice initiatives are comprehensive and holistic, they account for a colonial situation only to a limited extent, representing more compromises and easier ‘fixes.’ They, thus, address symptoms rather than causes; and […]
