ANNUAL REPORT 2017/2018 Pursuing justice through science and law
WHERE WE’VE BEEN IN 2017
•Brazil | Colombia | Germany | Guatemala | India | FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Mexico | Mongolia | Netherlands | Peru | Turkey | United States
•Argentina | Chile | El Salvador FORENSIC PROJECT
•France | Greece | Switzerland | United Kingdom | HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM
United States
•Argentina | Indonesia | United States
HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER (AT LARGE)
Investigating war crimes
•United States
ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING PROJECT
•Central African Republic | Ethiopia | Guatemala | SEXUAL VIOLENCE PROGRAM
Mexico | Netherlands | Norway | Senegal | Uganda | United Kingdom | United States
•Belgium | France | Germany | Italy | Netherlands | TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM
Sweden | Switzerland | United Kingdom | United States
FRONT COVER: A Bangladeshi border agent gestures as he stops a crowd of Rohingya Muslim refugees waiting to proceed to camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. More than 700,000 Rohingya refugees have gone to Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar’s military that the United Nations Human Rights office has called “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” Our Human Rights Investigations Lab is contributing to documentation and verification of information related to potential war crimes in Myanmar. Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images. REPORT DESIGN: Nicole Hayward
From the Directors On pursuing justice through science and law Dear Friends, As we approach our 25th year, the Human Rights Center continues to investigate some of the gravest human rights crises of our times—from the violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar to the relentless assaults on Syrians to the plight of displaced women, men, and children around the world. Before engaging in any project—whether related to sexual violence, technology, or health—we ask: How can we make the greatest impact?
Located at the best public research university in the world, we leverage the energy and expertise of students to support human rights organizations, courts, and policy institutes worldwide. In 2017 alone, our students, faculty, and staff contributed more than 9,000 hours to human rights research and investigations. We also hosted workshops in Italy, Uganda, Norway, and the United States to develop innovative policies and strategies aimed at improving investigations of human rights abuses and ser-
Improving human rights research
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Supporting survivors
vices to survivors. One meeting brought activists, technologists, investigators, and prosecutors to the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center to begin hammering out global guidelines for open source investigations. Another was held in Kampala where police officers, healthcare workers, lawyers, and advocates discussed practical ways to improve accountability for sexual violence. This summer, we will move into an historic house on the Berkeley campus—a space large enough for our 12 staff, more than 80 Human Rights Investigations Lab students, multiple graduate student researchers, and several visiting activists and scholars. We could not do this work without you. Thank you! Sincerely,
Eric Stover, Faculty Director
Alexa Koenig, Executive Director
Training the next generation
Since I fled from Egypt, I had been struggling to regain a sense of family and home. I had constantly wished to have some impact on the injustice I had witnessed. In 2016, the HRC
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changed my life. It has become my home, my family, and my vehicle for justice. Youstina Youssef, UC Berkeley undergraduate, ’18
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Peter Bittner, 2017 Human Rights Center Fellow, interviews a recent rural-urban migrant affected by climate change in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (photo by Dimitri Staszenski).
Fellowship Program
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The goal of my HRC fellowship was to document the human rights abuses caused by Mexico’s Southern Border Program, which has deported record numbers of Central Americans from Mexico. I felt like my project would really be missing something if I didn’t also look at what happens after deportation, and so I ended up producing a story about a man who grew up in California and was deported
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back to El Salvador. The fellowship allowed me to document his experience. Levi Bridges, MJ, Human Rights Center Fellow 2017
Our special thanks to Dr. Thomas J. White for making this program possible.
Our Fellowship Program gives University of California students the opportunity to contribute their energy and expertise to human rights organizations worldwide. We are now more ABOVE (LEFT TO RIGHT): Juan Vicente grew up in
California, leaving his mother and children when he was deported to El Salvador (photo by Levi Bridges); 2017 HRC Fellowship conference: (top row) Thomas J. White, Eric Stover, Levi Bridges, Alice Taylor, Peter Bittner, Stefanie Le, Isabelle Carbonell, Sarah Schear, Caroline Tracey, Marianinna Villavicencio, (front row) Lela Rose Bachrach, Sarah Lakhani, Alexandra Carter, Andrea Trewinnard, Youstina Youssef, Nathalie Alegre, Juan Ramirez, Alexa Koenig, Audrey Whiting (photo by Monica Haulman; A Mongolian herder tends his flock in Arkhangai Province (photo by Peter Bittner).
than 300 Human Rights Center Fellows strong. In 2017, our 14 Fellows worked with survivors and human rights defenders in 10 countries, including nomadic herders in Mongolia who are displaced by climate change, Central American migrants in transit on Mexico’s southern border, and Syrians in Berlin who are documenting attacks on hospitals. Our Fellows often go on to work as lawyers, academics, journalists, and advocates. In many instances, the fellowship deepens their commitment to human rights work—for life. HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER | ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018 | 3
This sprawling camp in Bangladesh is home to many of the Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar during summer and fall 2017 (photo by Jeanne Hallacy).
Health and Human Rights Program
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When you ask them, ‘If you hadn’t been living in this situation would you still consider marrying off your daughter?’ They say, ‘No, I think I would much prefer that she would go to school, get an education, finish her education, and then get married. But under these circumstances, we don’t have money to support our children. We don’t have money to send them to school, and things are out
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of our control.’
Practitioner, Syrian Refugee Response, Lebanon
Launched in 2017, our Health and Human Rights Program works to improve the health and protection of marginalized communities affected by humanitarian crises. With support
from USAID, we are partnering with the International Rescue Committee to launch the ABOVE (LEFT TO RIGHT): Health and Human Rights Program Director Julie Freccero is interviewed by Al Jazeera about the vulnerabilities of refugee boys in Greece; A Syrian girl looks at wedding dresses (photo by Rosie Thompson, courtesy of Save the Children); Researcher Audrey Whiting, Freccero, and Researcher Joanna Ortega discuss new health and human rights projects (photo by Kat Madrigal Cheng).
“Safer Cash Project” in areas affected by conflicts. Together, we will conduct research and develop tools to make cash programming safer and ensure that support reaches the most vulnerable people. We’ve also partnered with Save the Children UK to develop strategies to prevent child marriage and support married girls in humanitarian settings. HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER | ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018 | 5
The Special Prosecutor of the Special Criminal Court for the Central African Republic, Col. Toussaint Muntazini Mukimapa (Democratic Republic of Congo) and five national magistrates were sworn in before President Faustin TouadĂŠra. The Sexual Violence Program was in Bangui that week, helping local units prepare to investigate conflict-related sexual violence (photo by Kim Thuy Seelinger).
Sexual Violence Program
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I came to law school hoping to gain a skill set that would enable me to help advance and protect women’s fundamental rights around the globe, and HRC’s Sexual Violence Program has provided me with the chance to begin
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contributing to this work even before I graduate. Jenna Klein, third year, Berkeley Law
At the request of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, we are working with a team of graduate students to learn how to better protect people from gender-based violence while in transit ABOVE (LEFT TO RIGHT): Program Director Kim Thuy
Seelinger reunited with Congolese colleagues Dr. Neema Rukunghu and Col. David Bodeli in the Central African Republic in June 2017 to train specialized police, gendarmes, and court investigators on responding to sexual crimes (photo by Kim Thuy Seelinger); Seelinger and researcher Julia Uyttewaal conducted migration-related fieldwork at the Guatemala-Mexico border in November 2017, including at this migrant shelter in Tenosique, Mexico (photo by Julia Uyttewaal); Seelinger collaborated with Ugandan police, lawyers, military, and healthcare providers to improve documentation of sexual and gender-based crimes and is pictured here with Dr. Sylvester Onzivua and medical experts from Kampala, Mbarara, and Gulu (photo by Dr. Sabrina Kitaka).
through Central America. We are also providing hands-on assistance to lawyers, judges, and investigators who document or prosecute wartime rape and other gender-based crimes. With Berkeley Law’s International Human Rights Law Clinic, we assisted Ugandan jurists on their first domestic war crimes case. We are also helping to train investigators in the Central African Republic, as the new Special Criminal Court prepares to open. With colleagues from SciencesPo and the University of Copenhagen, Program Director Kim Thuy Seelinger is now co-editing a book on the landmark trial of Hissène Habré, the former president of Chad who was convicted of rape and sexual slavery as torture and a crime against humanity. HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER | ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018 | 7
Human Rights Investigations Lab students on our Syria Team, led by Andrea Trewinnard, used satellite imagery from Google Earth to verify a chemical attack on a hospital in Al-Lataminah, Syria, in March 2017.
Technology and Human Rights
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The lab has provided me with a sense of purpose as a student, but also it has confirmed my passion and to think critically in a manner that highlights people over politics. Most of all, it has bestowed
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upon me a sense of agency with which I cannot only ask questions, but also find solutions using
Where facts matter
the verification tools that the lab has taught me, allowing me to rely on my own capacity to build
80 students 31 languages 22 majors and minors 8 investigative teams
to promote justice over impunity. It has allowed me to reevaluate how to approach a news story
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evidence instead of helplessly and passively waiting to receive it. Miu Kumakura, UC Berkeley undergraduate
ABOVE (LEFT TO RIGHT): The International
Criminal Court’s Cristina Ribeiro (center) with Amnesty International’s Scott Edwards (left) and WITNESS’s Kelly Matheson (right), discusses open source investigations at our workshop at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center (photo by Andrea Lampros); Students from Pretoria, Essex, Toronto, and Berkeley took a sightseeing break after the three-day Digital Verification Corps student summit hosted at UC Berkeley in June 2017; Technology and Human Rights Program Director Félim McMahon wraps up a lecture to the 80 students in our Human Rights Investigations Lab (photo by Andrea Lampros).
Our Technology and Human Rights Program is training students from across campus and across the world to conduct human rights investigations in more than a dozen countries. Using open source information—videos, photographs, Tweets, and Facebook posts— students in our Human Rights Investigations Lab use cutting-edge methods to find and verify potential evidence of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The Human
Rights Center also administers the Technology Advisory Board of the International Criminal Court and is drafting the first global guidelines for how to investigate alleged war crimes and human rights abuses online—helping to bring human rights practice into the 21st century. HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER | ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018 | 9
Forensic Project
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Each identification of a stolen grandchild not only impacts the
person who recovers his or her identity, it also puts our society in
front of the mirror of its own identity, allowing us to recover our own
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memory and those parts of our history we have denied. Mariana Herrera Piñero, director of the Banco Nacional de Datos Genéticos
Where are they? That’s the question our partners at Asociación Pro-Búsqueda de Niñas y Niños Desaparecidos in El Salvador continue to ask about the children who were torn from their families by war and forced adoptions decades ago. Some 435 cases have been resolved to
date. Our senior research fellow Cristián Orrego is in El Salvador to support Pro-Búsqueda’s efforts in using DNA to reunite loved ones. Orrego has also helped investigate the death of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, and traveled with Faculty Director Eric Stover to Argentina
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ABOVE (LEFT TO RIGHT): Eric Stover and a colleague at the Banco Nacional de Datos Genéticos in Argentina; Eduardo Garcia, executive director of Pro-Búsqueda, holds portraits of Salvadoran women who lost their siblings during the civil war in El Salvador (photo by Salvador Melendez, Associated Press); Faculty Director Eric Stover and Senior Research Fellow Cristián Orrego converse during the 30th anniversary of the Banco Nacional de Datos Genéticos in Argentina.
Anti-Human Trafficking Project
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You have to stay persistent. You can’t just give up. . . . I had a 22-year-old victim who was afraid to testify against her pimp. It was my first case and now 10 months later she calls me at least once or twice a week to let me know that she has a job, she’s living out of town, she wants to really thank me, she has a steady boyfriend. It takes a long time to develop that
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relationship and that trust, but I think it can work. A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Investigator, Building Trust Study
Building off earlier research on human trafficking in the United States, the Human Rights Center studied anti-trafficking efforts in California in 2017/2018 to strengthen support for survivors and prosecution of perpetrators. We issued the first study of Los Angeles County’s ABOVE (LEFT TO RIGHT): The Human Rights Center issued the first study of Los Angeles County’s new victim-centered approach to addressing human trafficking (photo by Nemanja Pantelic, courtesy of Creative Commons); Researcher Khaled Alrabe highlights findings of the Bay Area trafficking study during a day-long, student-led anti-trafficking workshop at UC Berkeley in February 2018 (photo by Monica Haulman); The center’s next trafficking study, to be issued in 2018, looks into anti-trafficking work in the San Francisco Bay Area (photo courtesy of Creative Commons).
novel anti-trafficking efforts—evaluating a program that could become a model for the nation. Faculty Director Eric Stover, Researcher Khaled Alrabe, and a team of law students
interviewed 45 federal, state, and county investigators, service providers, and prosecutors for Building Trust: Perspectives on a Victim-Centered Approach to Human Trafficking Investigations in Los Angeles County. In 2018, the Human Rights Center will issue a second study that examines Bay Area anti-trafficking efforts.
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Human Rights and Business
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Microsoft appreciated the opportunity the Human Rights Center provided for our President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith to join the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in a discussion that highlighted the many intersections of technology and human rights. This was a great example of how our partnership with the Human Rights and Business Initiative allows us to engage UC Berkeley’s
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faculty and students in our human rights priorities. Steve Crown, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Human Rights, Microsoft Corporation
The Human Rights and Business Initiative, led by Faris Natour and Marissa Saretsky, is coming to HRC as part of a new partnership with Haas School of Business’s Center for Responsible Business. In 2017, we co-hosted a conversation about the future of technology, free speech, and human rights with United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein and Microsoft’s President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith. In 2018, in addition to conducting groundbreaking research on the role of business in human rights, we will cohost a conference to investigate the impact of artificial intelligence on the “Future of Work.” 12 | HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER | ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018
ABOVE (LEFT TO RIGHT): The Business and Human Rights Initiative’s Faris Natour and Marissa Soretsky (pictured center) and Center for Responsible Business’s Robert Strand (right of center) gather before their event featuring the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein and Microsoft President Brad Smith (photo by Manali Sibthorpe); Human Rights Center Executive Director Alexa Koenig moderated the talk with Al Hussein (center) and Smith (right) on the role of technology and business in promoting human rights and freedom of expression (photo by Manali Sibthorpe); Students and community members attended the event at UC Berkeley’s International House (photo by Manali Sibthorpe).
Events Following our successful series on mass incarceration in 2016, our Gun Violence in America series used a multi-disciplinary lens—public health, journalism, social psychol-
ogy, law, history, political science, and public policy—to analyze and articulate what more can be done to prevent future gun violence in the United States. We also held events for the campus and community on human rights in Central America, Myanmar, and the United States, as well as on emerging technologies and human rights.
Following a screening of Finding Oscar—the story of a boy who survived a Guatemalan massacre, only to be raised by a soldier who killed his family— Faculty Director Eric Stover moderates a panel with Director Ryan Suffern, International Human Rights Law Clinic Associate Director Roxanna Altholz, and activist Josue Revelorio (photo by Andrea Lampros).
San Francisco State Professor Howard Pinderhughes speaks with other Bay Area gun control experts and community organizers about what’s next for challenging gun violence, while Social Science Matrix Associate Director Lindsay Skiba looks on (photo by Monica Haulman).
Following a screening of the documentary Sittwe, Faculty Director Eric Stover moderates a talk with U Myo Win, from the Smile Education and Development Foundation in Yangon, Jeanne Hallacy, Sittwe filmmaker, and Kenneth Wong, a UC Berkeley lecturer in South and Southeast Asian Studies (photo by Andrea Lampros).
Alex Bush, Esmy Jimenez, A.Y. Odedeyi, Joel Sati, and Rafael Martinez gather at Berkeley Law for the launch of their publication Undocumental (photo by Andrea Lampros).
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Publications The Human Rights Center’s six recent reports examined the health effects of tear gas in Palestine refugee camps, human trafficking in Los Angeles, and a chemical strike on a hospital in Syria. We also issued reports from a seminal workshop at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center that lays the groundwork for drafting global guidelines on using open source information as evidence and another that captures our student summit in Berkeley and chronicles the birth of university-based open source investigations labs globally. BOOKS—now and coming soon! Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror
(by Eric Stover, Victor Peskin, and Alexa Koenig) is now out in paperback Silent Witness: Applying Forensic DNA Evidence in Criminal Investigations and Humanitarian Disasters. Edited by Henry Erlich, Eric Stover, and Thomas White, and
forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2019 The Habré Trial and Beyond: New Models of Prosecuting International Crimes?
Edited by Sharon Weill, Kim Thuy Seelinger, and Kerstin Bree Carlson, and forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2019 Open Source Investigations for Human Rights Advocacy and Accountability
Edited by Sam Dubberley, Daragh Murray, and Alexa Koenig, and forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2019
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Students and Teaching The Human Rights Center teaches hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students each year through the Human Rights Investigations Lab seminars and practicum, classes on health and human rights, refugee law, and human rights practice. Teaching and training students are at the heart of the center’s work. UC Berkeley undergraduate Miu Kumakura speaks to fellow students in the Human Rights Investigations Lab about Myanmar.
Students Youstina Youssef, Hannah Bagdasar, and Nickie Lewis show their work at the Human Rights Investigations Lab.
The Human Rights Center, based at Berkeley Law, draws students from multiple disciplines (photo by Andrea Lampros).
Alexandra Carter, a 2017 Fellow who worked with the ACLU in San Francisco, talks with her cohort at the post-fellowship debrief (photo by Andrea Lampros).
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Staff and Students 2017 Faculty and Staff
Eric Stover, Faculty Director Alexa Koenig, Executive Director Khaled Alrabe, Researcher Alexey Berlind, Programs Administrator and Events Coordinator Julie Freccero, Director, Health and Human Rights Program Monica Haulman, Administrative Assistant and Lab Coordinator Andrea Lampros, Communications Director Kat Madrigal Cheng, External Relations Manager Félim McMahon, Director, Technology and Human Rights Program Kim Thuy Seelinger, Director, Sexual Violence Program Molly Vitorte, Deputy Director Human Rights Center Staff at the annual retreat. (top row): Alexey Berlind, Audrey Whiting, Kim Thuy Seelinger, Andrea Lampros, Julie Freccero, Khaled Alrabe; (front row): Monica Haulman, Kat Madrigal, Félim McMahon, Molly Vitorte, Alexa Koenig, and Eric Stover (photo by Monica Haulman).
Audrey Whiting, Researcher and Fellowship Coordinator Student Employees
Griselda Cabrera, Health and Human Rights Program Maya Fedderson, Team Leader, Investigations Lab Jenna Feraud, Health and Human Rights Program John Harmon, Sexual Violence Program Katrina Kennedy, Health and Human Rights Program Stefanie Le, Team Leader, Investigations Lab Sander Lutz, Archive Project Tsuyoshi Onda, Health and Human Rights Program Olivia Rempel, Team Leader, Investigations Lab Emily Thomas, Team Leader, Investigations Lab Andrea Trewinnard, Team Leader, Investigations Lab Haley Willis, Team Leader, Investigations Lab
HRC staff and visiting scholars in Simon Hall: Anna Banchik, Lindsay Freeman, Audrey Whiting, Monica Haulman, Alexey Berlind, Andrea Lampros, Adebayo Okeowo, and Khaled Alrabe (photo by Alexa Koenig).
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Youstina Youssef, Team Leader, Investigations Lab A special thank you to HRC staff member Khaled Alrabe who moved on at the end of 2017.
Advisory Board and Research Fellows Advisory Board
Richard M. Buxbaum, Professor Emeritus, Berkeley Law Maryam Elahi, Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Henry Erlich, Senior Scientist, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute Jaune Evans, Executive Director, Tamalpais Trust Elizabeth Farnsworth, Journalist/Filmmaker Deborah Goldblatt, Community Volunteer Adam Hochschild, Journalist, Lecturer, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley Kim Keller, Executive Director, David and Anita Keller Foundation Bertrand Lubin, Associate Dean of Children’s Health, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals Liz Lutz
Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins, an HRC Research Fellow, teaches students about geolocation at the first Digital Verification Corps student summit, hosted by the Human Rights Center (photo by Monica Haulman).
Joan Platt, Founder and President, Joan and Lewis Platt Foundation Juan Méndez, Special Rapporteur on Torture, UN Commission on Human Rights Art Reingold, MD, Professor and Division Head, Epidemiology, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley Darian W. Swig, Founder and President, Article 3 Advisors Beth Van Schaack, Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor of Human Rights, Stanford Law School Hon. Rebecca Westerfield (ret.), Mediator Thomas J. White (ret.), Chief Scientific Officer, Celera Senior Research Fellows
Patricia Viseur Sellers
Lindsay Freeman
Carolyn Patty Blum
Harvey Weinstein
Rohini Haar
Charles H. Brenner
Human Rights Center Sarah Warshauer Freedman Research Fellows
HRC Advisory Board member Adam Hochshild (photo by Andrea Lampros).
Visiting or Consulting Researchers
Eliot Higgins
Anna Banchik
Keith Hiatt
Kirsten Bowman
Vincent Iacopino
Khaled Alrabe
Benjamin Schiff
Lindsay Freeman
Cristián Orrego Benavente
Patrick Ball
Karl Shoenberger
Joseph Guay
Gilles Peress
Mychelle Balthazard
David Tuller
Joanna Ortega
Victor Peskin
Stephen Smith Cody
Hernán Reyes
Camille Crittenden
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Donors 2017 Many thanks to our generous donors in 2017. You make our work possible. David Keller and Elizabeth Farnsworth talk with Alexa Koenig at the screening of Dead Reckoning, produced by Jonathan Silvers and coproduced by Eric Stover (photo by Andrea Lampros).
HRC Programs and Events Coordinator Alexey Berlind greets the Open Society Foundations’s Borislav Petranov, with Alexa Koenig and Laurel Fletcher (photo by Andrea Lampros).
Former HRC Associate Director and retired clinical professor in the School of Public Health Harvey Weinstein says hello (photo by Andrea Lampros).
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Individual Donors
Anonymous Katherine Abbott Hesham Al-Alusi Margaret Alkon and Jonathan Marshall Daniel Appelman Bridget Baird Gail Bensinger Ross Benson Suzanne and Robert Boas—In honor of Heidi Boas Gregg Butensky Richard Buxbaum and Catherine Hartshorn Nina Byers Robert Calo and Elizabeth Lamade—In honor of Alexa Koenig, Andrea Lampros, and Eric Stover Jonathan and Susanna Cobb David Condra Paul Craig and Kathleen Cox Sheldon and Janet Crandall—In honor of Eric Stover and Alexa Koenig Camille Crittenden and John Palmer Ellen Daniell and David Gelfand Joanne DePhillips Natasha and David Dolby Ruth Eisenberg and Greg Hendren Henry Erlich and Brenda Way Elizabeth Farnsworth Lois Feinblatt Laurel Fletcher and Jeffrey Selbin Thomas Franco Sarah Freedman Deborah Garvey—In memory of my mother D Linda and Daniel Geballe Mark Gergen and Susan Whitman Vivian and Sandy Golden Robert Gomez
Alva G. Greenberg Dorothy Gregor E. Anne Griffiths Susan L. Hannah—In honor of Alexa Koenig Stephen Isaacs and Kathryn MacBride Nina Jehle Gentaro Kamei Joan and Timothy Kask David and Anita Keller Lori and Jeremiah Kepner Steve and Renee Kirk— In honor of Alexa Koenig Wendy Kirk-Scalise Lenore Kitts Alexa Koenig and Don Mercer Charles Koenig — In honor of Alexa Koenig Maja Kristin Krista and Ajay Kshatriya—In memory of Judge Harry Pregerson Sandra LaFramboise and Michael Marken Andrea Lampros and John Fike—In honor of Milton Lampros Marcus Lampros Chantelle LaPierre Ryan Lincoln Katerina Linos and Stavros Gadinis Liz and Greg Lutz Cheryl Lutz and Larry Pizarro Melissa McCall Ilene Moore and Edward Rubin—In memory of George Moore Millard Murphy and Laurel Brody Noah Novogrodsky Monique Olivier Eve Pell Roberto Portolese Ellen Prager Keramet Reiter and Thomas Blair Laura Roberts Bart and Linda Saunders—In honor of Alexa Koenig
Herbert Schreier—In memory of Arthur Schreier George and Linda Sensabaugh Jonathan Simon and Christina Spaulding Stephen Smith Cody and Amanda Beck Jerry Snow—In memory of Clyde C. Snow Dan and Elizabeth Sokolov Gail Solo Eric Stover and Pamela Blotner Lorraine Sumulong Darian and Rick Swig Nadine Tang and Bruce Smith Jeremy Thorner and Carol Mimura— In memory of Shirley Goldberg & Melvin Thorner Sylvia Tiwon Judith Tuller Greg Ward and Elizabeth Addison Harvey and Rhona Weinstein
Samantha and James Wendt—In honor of Dr. Thomas J. White Rebecca Westerfield Thomas J. White Susan Whitman and Mark P. Gergen Herman and Renee Winick— In memory of Joseph Birman and Andy Sessler Glenn Woroch and Patricia Pacheco Foundations and Corporations
Berkeley Collegium California Humanities The California Wellness Foundation Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund France-Berkeley Fund Humanity United Institute of International Education
Crowdfunding donors 2018 Thank you for helping us make a home for human rights!
Anonymous (17) Khaled Alrabe Kenneth Aron Cameran Ashraf Amy Belsher Kevin Bentz Alexey Berlind Caleb Bowers Richard M. Buxbaum Kat Madrigal Cheng Rishi Chopra Stephen Cody Alison Cole
Norma Cole Nomi Conway Kate Doyle Jennifer Easterday Elizabeth Farnsworth Karin Goh Lauren Groth Abram Hardin Monica Haulman Jasmine Hennessy Teri Herbst Julie Hooper Sarah Hunter
Sasha John Fernanda Jordao Evita Joan Kask David Keller Steven Kirk Wendy Kirk-Scalise Karen Klayman Alec Konstantin Alexa Koenig Charles Koenig Ellen Koerber Sophia Konstantin Andrea Lampros Marcus Lampros Chantel LaPierre Chris Lee Michael Levin
International Rescue Committee Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Oak Foundation Open Society Foundations The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Sigrid Rausing Trust Save the Children Social Science Matrix Student Technology Fund Tang Opportunity Fund Townsend Center for the Humanities Uganda Fund
Special thanks to the following organizations for their partnership in 2017 (partial list):
Amnesty International Archer Bellingcat Boalt Hall Committee for Human Rights Center for Justice and Accountability First Draft News Meedan Syrian Archive WITNESS
Local Businesses
Berkeley Bowl Trader Joe’s
Ryan Lincoln Michael Litchfield Liz and Greg Lutz Jason MacLeod Diana Malin Olivier Massot Robin Mejia Don Mercer Ariel Meyerstein Senna Milstead Faris Natour Darcy Paquette Yumi Park Victor Peskin Ellen Prager Don Ralphs Kristin Reed
Hernan Reyes Kevin Reyes Jamie Rowen Marissa Saretsky Nushin Sarkarati Sarah Schear Benjamin Schiff George Scharffenberger Kelli Schlegel Kim Thuy Seelinger George Sensabaugh Carla Shapreau Brandon Shooshani Elaine Sir Lee Slome Nisha Srinivasa Adam Sterling
Samaruddin Stewart Eric Stover Dan Tabori Jack Tame Julia Uyttewaal Beth Van Schaack Molly Vitorte Harvey Weinstein Richard Weir Rebecca Westerfield Herman Winick Thomas White Pauline White Meeusen Luke Whiting Richard, Heidi, and Haley Willis Diana Yovino-Young Irene Yu
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Financial Report 2017
56+16+28z 1+17+1118342z 2+25+53218z
Benefits $299,386 (27.8%)
SALARIES: 23 STAFF (11 professional, 12 student staff)
Subtotal 1,076,022
Program salaries $608,179 (56.5%)
Administrative salaries $168,457 (15.7%)
Building/rent/space $2,151
Fellowships $55,000
Indirect costs paid to Berkeley $53,800
Liability insurance $7,572 NON SALARY EXPENSES
Subtotal 324,527
Conferences/workshops (including all travel) $113,105
Computers and supplies $34,854
Research support $58,045
Total Expenses 1,400,549
Sales/services/fees $6,855
Berkeley Law (teaching contribution) $322,900
Individual donations $433,627
Endowment income $36,554
INCOME
Grants $921,041
Total Income 1,720,977
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A Rohingya boy walks through a refugee camp in Bangladesh (photo by Jeanne Hallacy).
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Where, after all, do universal rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity,
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equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Great Question” remarks delivered at the United Nations in New York on March 27, 1958
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