For the first time, CIR has uncovered the location of a Sudanese RSF military camp in the desert of Sudan’s neighbour, Libya. It is directly linked to the war in Sudan. We will show you where, we will show you how. Watch in full now: https://t.co/6gTlaNTcJ4

@UN_Women @VitalVoices @HRahbin For Day 9 of #16Days, we’re highlighting a landmark for ethical gender-based violence investigations: https://t.co/5PV4tiAWUh 'The Murad Code Open Source Practitioners’ Guidance', produced by @hrcberkeley and @InstituteIntl. At CIR, we use open-source research to help fill

CIR's Myanmar Witness project has geolocated burial sites in Htan Shauk Khan, Buthidaung, Myanmar, where new reports allege the Arakan Army (AA) killed hundreds of Rohingya civilians on 2 May 2024. Forensic analysis confirms human remains. Full report [Contains graphic and

@UN_Women @VitalVoices For Day 8 of #16Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, we’re highlighting the work of @HRahbin, an OSINT analyst with our Afghan Witness project. Here, Humaira explains how Afghan Witness documents and verifies human rights violations against women and girls in

@UN_Women For Day 7 of UN Women’s #16Days of Activism, we will be joining @VitalVoices' panel discussion following the screening of the award-winning documentary 'My Sextortion Diary'. https://t.co/qhBVk5LbnK Panellists include: -Patricia Franquesa, Director of “My Sextortion Diary”

@UN_Women To mark Day 4 of @UN_Women's #16Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, we joined Gendernet for a roundtable on misogyny, tech-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) internet privacy, and security. The Gendernet project, led by Anna Maria Piskopani, has been

#16DaysofActivism. Watch UK Ambassador to Ethiopia, @DarrenWelchFCDO's thoughts on this years’ theme 👇 Unite to End Digital Violence Against All Women and Girls. #stopviolenceagainstwomen #noexcuse

@UN_Women At CIR, we believe it’s imperative that research into Technology-Facilitated Gender-Base Violence (TFGBV) is locally-grounded and context-specific. On Day 3 of @UN_Women’s #16Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, CIR researcher Francesca Gentile takes us through the

@UN_Women On Day 2 of UN Women’s #16Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, we delve into an important discussion on Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV). https://t.co/GubeInWu8j To learn about the rising challenge of TFGBV, how it manifests across contexts, and the

Today, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, marks the start of @UN_Women's #16Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. This year’s theme ‘UNiTE to End Digital Violence Against All Women and Girls’ aligns directly with our mission of

🚨Dagalo presence in El Fasher: CIR has verified new footage showing RSF deputy commander Abdulrahim Hamdan Dagalo at the Saudi Hospital in El Fasher on 4 November. The last confirmed sighting of Dagalo before this was at the SAF 6th Infantry Division base in El Fasher on 26

Here’s a fun story, remember all of those “I’m an independent Trump supporting woman” accounts on X that pretended to be real people in the US supporting trump? Due to recent location updates, we now know almost all of them are based in Thailand. Let’s take a look 👇

Russia’s sanctions evasion playbook is getting bolder. https://t.co/NhAyllprVT In her latest piece for @lawfare, CIR’s @elisethoma5 uncovers how the Kremlin is leaning on convicted money launderer Ilan Shor and the A7 payments network to reroute billions, and what can be done

6/ And our analysis of A7's use of shell companies for sanctions evasion here: https://t.co/md5eujKjGW

5/ CIR's previous investigation into A7 and A7A5 is here: https://t.co/AZKT2TIHkP

4/ @elisethoma5 adds: "I wonder whether we may be about to see a similar thing happen here: the Kremlin picking a winner it can control, and then taking out competitors at the kneecaps. It'll be very interesting if we start to see Russian law enforcement begin cracking down on

3/ In September, Russia declared A7A5 (A7's own stablecoin registered in Kyrgyzstan) as their first "digital asset" for legal cross-border trade. Weeks before, raids were launched on Moscow City, a Moscow office building infamous for housing crypto payments companies - i.e.

2/ CIR's @elisethoma5, who led the investigation, suspects that "What we are seeing is an effort by the Kremlin to get the wild west of cross-border payment services and sanctions circumvention methods in Russia under state control."

🔎The Russian government has just created a partially state-owned company with #A7 & Promsvyazbank. We've published two investigations by @elisethoma5 into how A7, & its convicted criminal CEO, is evading sanctions & laundering money via #cryptocurrency and shell companies. 🧵1/

Since the 10 October 2025 ceasefire, CIR has been monitoring possible incidents of non-compliance within Gaza. https://t.co/T3RZmTkG1p CIR’s updated methodology details the indicators used to classify ceasefire-related incidents - covering protection of civilians, cessation of