Satellites and Human Rights

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    1. Nytimes.com/DotEarth The Science and Human Rights Project of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is using satellite images to assess claims of human-rights abuses. More at shr.aaas.org
      • 2006 (Copyright © 2006 DigitalGlobe)
      In 2006, they used DigitalGlobe images to show the destruction of a large settlement, Porta Farm, in Zimbabwe:
    2. The latest example is from Ethiopia.
      • Human Rights Watch, The New York Times, and others have compiled accounts of army actions in the Ogaden desert, including the burning of villages, gang rape, and killings.
      • But concrete evidence is hard to come by, except from orbit….
      • Labigah, Ethiopia, 9/26/2005
      • (Copyright © 2008 DigitalGlobe)
      • Labigah, Ethiopia, 2/28/2008
      • (Copyright © 2008 DigitalGlobe)
    3. More information at: nytimes.com/dotearth shr.aaas.org hrw.org dotearth @ nytimes.com

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