Libby McAvoy

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Legal advisor
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Libby McAvoy is legal advisor to Mnemonic where she works at the innovative intersection of large-scale archiving of open source information and leveraging that preserved content for justice. As legal advisor, Libby specializes in building digital evidence archives, litigation support, and open source investigations into international crimes and human rights violations. She provides this technical support to Mnemonic’s programmes: Syrian Archive, Yemeni Archive, Ukrainian Archive, Sudanese Archive, and Rapid Response. More specifically, she supports the research teams to conduct open source investigations for strategic case-building initiatives, responses to requests for information, and public advocacy projects. 

Sessions

How human rights investigators are leveraging new digital tools and open-source technologies to fight injustices

Libby McAvoy, Marija Ristic, Phoebe Walton, Christoffer Horlitz

Summary
Digital investigation techniques, including the use of open-source intelligence OSINT, are changing the field of human rights research. We will explore how these tools allow researchers to work across borders, to involve communities and to access new forms of data.
Data
Foreign affairs
Journalism
Civil Society
Speak Up / Rede mit
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English
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