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In February 2025, the Trump Administration issued sanctions against the International Criminal Court for its investigations into potential war crimes and humanitarian violations by Israel in Gaza. A few months later, the AP and other news agencies reporte

This year at HRDAG we re-dedicated ourselves to a shared clarity of purpose, grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Our recommitment has been compelled by a dramatic shift in the political environment in the United States that has resulted

Structural Zero 08: What statisticians mean by bias-and why it matters My colleagues at HRDAG and I are a little obsessed with the concept of truth. And today, finding the truth can feel a Sisyphean task: online social bubbles contribute to intellectual i

What does justice look like for communities struggling with police violence? For Cat Brooks, Co-Founder of the Anti-Police Terror Project (APTP), true justice isn't possible. "There is no such thing as justice when we're talking about police terror and th

For decades, law enforcement agencies across the United States have operated behind walls of secrecy-particularly when officers abuse their power or use lethal force. That opacity has real consequences for communities seeking truth, justice, and accountab

The Trump Administration has issued additional sanctions against judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), further endangering accountability and justice worldwide. Attacks on the ICC were a key factor in HRDAG's decision to speak out against tyra

How do scientists and statisticians stand up to authoritarianism, especially when it happens in their home countries? That was the topic tackled by the Computer Says Maybe podcast, featuring HRDAG's Executive Director Megan Price, Data and Society's Janet

Structural Zero Issue 07 I. Earlier this year, I attended a convening of organizers working on police demilitarization, organized by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and held at the Ben Lomond Quaker Center in Santa Cruz County, nestled in an

Structural Zero Issue 06 Here's what I've noticed: a lot of scientists and AI developers think that involving affected communities in AI research is probably the right thing to do, ethically. But they hesitate because they fear the messy unpredictability

Community involvement can improve the validity and reliability of artificial intelligence (AI), argue HRDAG Executive Director Dr. Megan Price and Citizens and Technology Lab founder Dr. J. Nathan Matias in new research published this week. AI is transfor