Local activists armed with nothing more than a smartphone, a twitter account and a YouTube channel [can] become global distributors of information and images about human rights violations. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights – a small NGO based in the UK – has become the most-cited organization for casualty figures in the Syrian conflict, a situation unimaginable even five years ago.
Keywords: Protecting Safety and Security, Data analysis and visualization for human rights, Syria, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights