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Human Rights Data Analysis Group

The Human Rights Data Analysis Group is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world. It was founded in 1991 by Patrick Ball. The organization has published findings on conflicts in Syria,[1] Colombia,[2] Chad,[3] Kosovo,[4] Guatemala,[5] Peru, East Timor,[6] India, Liberia, Bangladesh, and Sierra Leone. The organization provided testimony in the war crimes trials of Slobodan Milošević and Milan Milutinović at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and in Guatemala's Supreme Court in the trial of General José Efraín Ríos Montt, the de facto president of Guatemala in 1982–1983. Gen. Ríos Montt was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity.[7] Most recently, the organization has published on police violence in the United States.[8]

History

The Human Rights Data Analysis Group was founded in December 1991 by Patrick Ball as a part of the Science and Human Rights Program within the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[9] It moved to the non-profit umbrella company Benetech on November 3, 2003.[10] On February 1, 2013, HRDAG became an independent nonprofit organization, fiscally sponsored by Community Partners.[11]

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References

  1. Megan Price. Preliminary Statistical Analysis of Documentation of Killings in the Syrian Arab Republic The Benetech Human Rights Program, commissioned by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), 2013^
  2. Daniel Guzmán. Unobserved Union Violence: Statistical Estimates of the Total Number of Trade Unionists Killed in Colombia, 1999-2008 The Benetech Human Rights Program, 2012^
  3. Romesh Silva. State Coordinated Violence in Chad under Hissène Habré: A Statistical Analysis of Reported Prison Mortality in Chad's DDS Prisons and Command Responsibility of Hissène Habré, 1982-1990 The Benetech Human Rights Program, for Human Rights Watch and the Chadian Association of Victims of Political Repression and Crimes, 2010^
  4. Patrick Ball. Policy or Panic? The Flight of Ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, March-May 1999 American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1999^
  5. Christian Davenport. Views to a Kill: Exploring the Implications of Source Selection in the Case of Guatemalan State Terror, 1977-1996 2002^
  6. Ann Harrison. Coders Bare Invasion Death Count Wired Magazine, 2006-02-09, retrieved 2009-12-08^
  7. Elisabeth Malkin. Former Leader of Guatemala Is Guilty of Genocide Against Mayan Group The New York Times, 2013-05-10, retrieved 2013-05-15^
  8. Patrick Ball. Violence in Blue 2016^
  9. Christine Grillo. HRDAG – 25 Years and Counting HRDAG - Human Rights Data Analysis Group, 2016-12-10, retrieved 2024-12-20^
  10. AAAS Science and Human Rights Program - Human Rights Data Analysis Group American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2008-03-18, retrieved 2010-07-30^
  11. Justin Adams. Benetech Celebrates Milestone; Human Rights Data Analysis Group Transitioning into Independent Organization Benetech, 2013-01-02, retrieved 2013-02-22^