AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program

Projects

A great many ad-hoc and more formal projects exist which are of interest to the geospatial technologies and human rights community. A sample of these are presented here, and AAAS welcomes suggestions for additions. Please send an email to with your project suggestions and include a link to the project and a brief description of its relevance to geospatial technologies and human rights. Note that projects are also often part of more formal Institutional Programs, and often the projects listed below are linked to their respective insitutional homes.

RWI Human Rights ThemeMaps
'RWI Human Rights ThemeMaps' is basically intended to visualize states' formal commitment to international human rights standards. What is available here is a rough trial version with the core international human rights conventions, that is but the first step to a more comprehensive version with more conventions both global and regional, optional protocols, at least the existence of reservations, more details of the ratification process indicating formal commitment to international human rights law, changes over time in ratifications, themes, membership of various organizations, indicators, and more.

UNOSAT -- Monitoring IDP camps in Yemen
As the international community steps up efforts to bring relief to people displaced by conflict in Yemen, UNOSAT has released a new IDP analysis report on the IDP camps in Sa’adah, Yemen. This analysis report is based on the most recent very high resolution satellite imagery available, acquired in October 2009. UNITAR/UNOSAT will provide updated analysis as new satellite imagery is acquired. The IDP shelter count was obtained from automated building extraction methods. This analytical report is part of the UNOSAT Humanitarian Rapid Mapping Service provided to the entire humanitarian community and it is free of charge. It can be (more)...

UNOSAT -- Supporting flood relief in West Africa
The current seasonal floods in West Africa are affecting over 350,000 people. With floods reported in Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Benin, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Mali, Liberia and Guinea, the UNITAR Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) supports sister agencies UNICEF and UNOCHA with satellite image derived analyses of the situation. Using satellite imagery from multiple dates, the evolution of flood conditions is monitored and the latest changes on the ground observed.

UNOSAT -- The crisis in Gaza
UNITAR's Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) has produced a situation map for the current crisis in the Gaza Strip and Israel. Following rocket attacks by Hamas into Israel and Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip during the last week of December, the detailed overview map shows media-reported attack locations related to urban settlements, hospitals, mosques, UN offices and UNRWA-administered refugee camps. UNOSAT will update this map as the situation evolves over the coming days.

Ushahidi -- Tracking the Eastern Congo Conflict
This site tracks the conflict in eastern Congo through crowd-sourced reports on riots, assaults, property damage, etc.

Ushahidi -- Tracking xenophobic attacks in South Africa
UnitedForAfrica.co.za is for the collective good and is brought to you by a collaboration of a wide range of Africans living throughout this beautiful continent, Europe and America. An interactive portal for all African's who witness xenophobic violence in Southern Africa or who have relevant information to share or learn. Here you can anonymously submit incidents and news and it will appear on a map-based view for others to see.

Ushahidi -- War on Gaza
This map was published by Al Jazeera during the January 2009 Gaza War. It maps user-submitted reports of deaths, air strikes, rocket attacks and more.

USHMM -- Crisis in Darfur
In partnership with Google Earth, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is releasing compelling new visual evidence of the destruction in Darfur. New information from the U.S. State Department identifies more than 3,300 Darfur villages as damaged or completely destroyed, twice the number that were confirmed when Crisis in Darfur launched in 2007. The data now include for most of the villages the exact year or a year range when they were destroyed. This confirms that over 2,000 villages were destroyed by 2005, marking the height of the conflict.

USHMM -- Mapping the Holocaust
The Museum is using Google Earth to map key Holocaust sites with historic content from its collections, powerfully illustrating the enormous scope and impact of the Holocaust.

USHMM -- World Is Witness
World is Witness, a project of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, bears witness to genocide and related crimes against humanity around the world. Our staff and guest contributors bring you updates from the field, eyewitness testimony, photographs, interactive maps and more.

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