Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) designs and builds information management solutions and conducts statistical analysis on behalf of human rights projects. With our partners, we make scientifically-defensible arguments based in rigorous evidence.

HRDAG Work in Chad Cited

September, 2008, New York, NY — Human Rights Watch has released a "Q and A on the Hissène Habré Case" which references the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG)'s preliminary analysis of data from the administrative records of the Documentation and Security Directorate (DDS), the former Chadian dictator's secret police. The HRDAG analysis reveals that 12,321 victims, including 1,208 deaths in detention, are mentioned in the DDS files. The article was also posted to AllAfrica.com.

Bay Area ABC New Affiliate Covers HRP

July 21, 2008, Palo Alto, CA — The local ABC News affiliate KGO-TV Channel 7 has broadcast a story about Benetech's Human Rights Program and its work at the Guatemalan National Police archive. You can watch the report here.

Benetech HRDAG develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Our technology and analysis is used by truth commissions, international criminal tribunals, and non-governmental human rights organizations around the world. Our analysis identifies the trends and patterns which is the evidence of crimes of policy.

The incorporation of HRDAG into Benetech brings together HRDAG's considerable field experience with Benetech's software engineering expertise. Together, we will build tools and projects that help human rights workers do their jobs better.

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The Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) was incubated for more than a decade at the Science and Human Rights Program. AAAS supports the application of science to human rights as one way that science serves society.

HRDAG is now a Benetech project. Learn more.

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The Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) applies information technology solutions and statistical techniques to help human rights advocates build evidence-based arguments.