by Christopher Tuckwood | Jan 2, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
The Sentinel Project is excited to have former US ambassador Jack Chow, an advocate for humanitarian drones, join us as an advisor. He will be assisting our team as we develop new ideas about these devices and build prototypes in the near future. Many of our...
by Sentinel Project | Dec 23, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
We’re excited to offer our new Human Rights and Technology training course over five weeks (two hours of evening class per week) starting on 15 January 2013. Students will learn the relationship between technological tools and human rights through a combination...
by Sentinel Project | Dec 12, 2012 | General News
The Rohingyas have been subjugated to mistreatment for years, but a recent wave of targeted ethnic violence towards the community has led to a humanitarian crisis in Rakhine. Since the unrest began in June, thousands of Rohingyas have been forcibly relocated to...
by Sentinel Project | Nov 22, 2012 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern
The Sentinel Project has updated its annual assessment on the risk of genocide in Kenya and has maintained Kenya as a situation of concern with the “High” risk rating established in 2011. Our teams of analysts have revised the original report to reflect recent...
by Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer | Nov 6, 2012 | General News
In 2011, Sentinel Project launched ThreatWiki – a genocide risk tracking and visualization platform to help monitor communities at risk of genocide around the world. We are proud to announce today a major update. ThreatWiki is a platform that helps the Sentinel...
by Sentinel Project | Nov 1, 2012 | General News
Between April and June 1994, more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were killed over the span of approximately 100 days, leaving the entire country in ruins and its people reeling in the aftermath. Today, Rwanda is a more stable country but the...
by henry | Oct 21, 2012 | General News
After visiting the Ohrdruf concentration camp near Weimar, Germany in 1945, Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces recounted, “The things I saw beggar description. The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty...
by Sentinel Project | Oct 1, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
Great news! We’ve got our own t-shirts and would be glad to have you show your support for us! Details: The t-shirt will have the Sentinel shield and our name logo on the front. The back will have our message, “Genocide is Preventable” with our...
by Sentinel Project | Sep 25, 2012 | General News
The volunteers at the Sentinel Project were recently invited to a new public photo exhibit, called “I’m Still Here” at the Oz Studios in Toronto. Featuring the works of Emily Cavan, a freelance writer and humanitarian aid worker, the exhibit was...
by Sentinel Project | Sep 10, 2012 | General News
A group of 67 of the world’s top genocide experts from 10 different countries are calling on the Obama Administration to launch an immediate humanitarian intervention in Sudan. On 27 August, an open letter was issued by Operation Broken Silence detailing the...
