Explanation:
Human rights violations are diverse in nature, stemming from willful transgressions against—or neglect of—basic principles stated in the International Bill of Human Rights and subsequent instruments. Evidence of human rights violations, correspondingly, comes in many forms and is created for many purposes.
Human Rights electronic evidence is any information created or stored in digital form that is relevant to establishing the occurrence of a human rights event. It is collected on an increasingly diverse array of devices including computers, cell phones, video recorders, and cameras. It may consist of first-person (primary source) recordings of events; testimonials and statements after the event has occurred; news articles and videos; forensic evidence collected with the intention of establishing facts of what occurred; and any manner of additional materials collected through real-time monitoring or subsequent investigation. The types of documentation created may include, but are not limited to:
digitally generated images and digitally encoded audio and video
networked communications, such as e-mail and text messages
information created and disseminated via web-based technologies (web pages, blogs, Twitter posts, and other social media)
human- or computer-generated files in “born-digital” format (text files, wordprocessing documents, spreadsheets, data files, indices, logs)
database records, indices, reports, and supporting management systems
records of transactions (including communication logs and financial transactions)
court records, testimonies, and supporting documentation gathered as a result of judicial processes, and
digitally converted evidence from content previously contained in analog formats (scanned images of a physical document, digitized audio or video,
