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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Counting the Human Cost in East Timor Our Human Rights Group just released the statistical report detailing widespread and systematic violations in Timor-Leste during the period 1974-1999. This is core Benetech work: using science and technology to measure human rights abuse and provide careful analysis of the scale of such violations.

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Wikileaks War Data Reveal Underreporting of Iraqi Civilian Casualties

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The unofficial Iraq Body Count (IBC) , which tracks civilian casualties in Iraq based on press reports and administrative records, has initiated a comparison of their own data to the deaths documented in the SIGACTS data. This new evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that IBC’s press data underreport small events in Iraq.

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