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A network that labels Sikh activists as "extremists" and attempts to undermine calls for Sikh independence has reappeared on social media.

Several CIR open source investigators shed light on the challenges of investigating human rights abuses and war crimes. 

CIR explores the Russian influence operations that have attempted to spread disinformation, sow division and undermine democracy.

Fire continues to devastate villages and settlements in western Sudan, with April the worst month on record in terms of the number of fires recorded and settlements affected since the conflict broke out last year, according to investigators from the Centre for Information Resilience’s (CIR) Sudan Witness project.

Online abuse targeting Ethiopian women has become “so normalised it’s invisible”, according to research carried out by CIR.

Sudan Witness has geolocated footage of fire damage to an internally displaced person’s (IDP) camp in Muqrin, North Darfur. Darfur...

The transcript of the opening speech at the CIR Open Source Film Awards.

Female-led newsroom Zan Times used investigative reporting and open source techniques to document killings, disappearances and arrests of Afghan women.

CIR is delighted to announce the launch of a new fact-checking unit by Afghan media outlet, Etilaatroz. The unit, named ‘Sanjah’ – a Dari/Farsi word meaning to measure, check or verify – has been supported by CIR’s Afghan Witness (AW) project.

On 22 March 2024, Russia launched a wave of attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, hitting the hydroelectric power plant in Zaporizhzhia in the early hours of the morning.

Myanmar Witness investigators have gathered key evidence proving that a massacre took place in a village in Sagaing region, Myanmar in December 2023.

Figure 1: Map of Omdurman, Khartoum لقراءة المقال بالعربية On 16 February 2024, the  Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) broke the Rapid Support...