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The Human Rights Data Analysis Group leads the way in data analysis, scientific research, and innovation in scientific methods in the field of human rights.

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If you see a statistic online, try asking two questions:

What’s included in the data?

What might be missing?

In this episode of How to Tell the Truth With Statistics, Dr. Megan Price explains why those questions are the key to spotting bias in data.

Watch now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BqpiGjtE_s

An Introduction to Bias in Statistics with Dr. Megan Price

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13 years ago, Puerto Rico adopted reforms to try to rein in police abuses.

Today, Kilómetro O, with assistance from @hrdag, published a report showing a pattern of ongoing police violence in Puerto Rico marked by racial bias.

www.kilometro0.org/informes

"Wandering officers" - police officers who kill someone, lie, or engage in other unethical behavior, and then move jurisdictions to evade accountability.

A new, searchable database is helping track them down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mwPp1_Z7e8

How communities are using databases to hold police accountable

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We’re living in a moment where people either believe everything they see online... or nothing at all.

What we need is discernment.

In this conversation with statistician Megan Price, we talk about how understanding bias in data can help us evaluate the numbers we encounter every day.

Watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BqpiGjtE_s

An Introduction to Bias in Statistics with Dr. Megan Price

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Watch now: families, activists, and data scientists came together for a powerful event in Oakland, CA where we explored how a new database supports efforts toward police accountability. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mwPp1_Z7e8
How communities are using databases to hold police accountable

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The AI industry doesn’t have good tools for measuring reliability, or even a good definition of reliability. @sayashk and @randomwalker seek to define reliability in a functionally useful way. https://www.normaltech.ai/p/new-paper-towards-a-science-of-ai
New Paper: Towards a science of AI agent reliability

Quantifying the capability-reliability gap

AI as Normal Technology

In a year when truth felt fragile, @hrdag doubled down on a simple idea: evidence matters.

Our newly published annual review shows how we bring statistical rigor and scientific values to the defense of human rights—including here in the United States. https://hrdag.org/2026/03/03/hrdags-year-in-review-2025/

HRDAG's Year in Review: 2025

This year at HRDAG we re-dedicated ourselves to a shared clarity of purpose, grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Our recommitment has been compelled by a dramatic shift in the political environment in the United States that has resulted in the targeting, discrediting, and silencing of institutions involved in human rights work. ...

HRDAG - Human Rights Data Analysis Group

Today we mourn the assassination of feminist and human rights defender Yanar Mohammed, killed in her own home March 2 in Baghdad.

We join the human rights community in calling for justice and an independent investigation.

https://www.gc4hr.org/assassination-of-whrd-yanar-mohammed-emblematic-figure-of-the-feminist-movement-condemned/

Assassination of WHRD Yanar Mohammed, Emblematic Figure of the Feminist Movement, Condemned - Gulf Centre for Human Rights

The assassination of woman human rights defender Yanar Mohammed, a prominent Iraqi feminist and President of the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), on 02 March 2026 in Baghdad, constitutes a grave attack against human rights defenders and against the struggle for women’s rights in Iraq. The international, regional and Iraqi signatory organisations express their profound […]

Gulf Centre for Human Rights
On International Women's Day, we join our partners around the world in decrying the assassination of Iraqi human rights defender Yanar Mohammed. Her death is part of a broader pattern of attacks targeting activists, journalists, and human rights defenders in Iraq. https://www.gc4hr.org/assassination-of-whrd-yanar-mohammed-emblematic-figure-of-the-feminist-movement-condemned/