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About a dozen volunteer rescue workers wearing GoPro cameras on their white helmets, carry a person on a stretcher out of rubble in Syria

Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: With white helmets and GoPros, these volunteers risk it all in Syria’s civil war

"We keep raising awareness and reminding the world that we cannot achieve peace without justice," said the leader of the Syria Civil Defence, widely known as the White Helmets.

Bernice Yeung, Isabella Gomes and Holly Joshi sit at a long table with microphones in front of them

Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: Protecting survivors of sex trafficking

Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: International journalists on women’s rights in Iran and Afghanistan

Decorations mark the graves of men and women in Bucha, Ukraine, who were killed by invading Russian troops after the invasion in February 2022

Law

In Ukraine, Berkeley experts are shaping the legal fight against war crimes

Graphic collage featuring photos of two young women holding protest signs opposing abortion, set against a round birth-control pill dispenser.

UC Berkeley reporting reveals birth control disinformation campaign

a woman in a protest who has red hand prints on her cheeks and holds a sign with three girls and women killed by the Iranian government

‘A mix of hope and sorrow’: Campus community reflects on Iran uprising

Eric Stover at a grave site in Bosnia in 2016, with apparent human bones in his right hand, during the filming of the PBS documentary

A legacy of truth: 40 years of investigating the forcibly disappeared

a red silhouette of the hooded figure famously tortured by U.S. military officials at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison nearly 20 years ago is superimposed on a monochromatic purple etching of a torture chamber during the Spanish Inquisition 400 years ago.l

The tortures of the Spanish Inquisition hold dark lessons for our time

a person speaks with a colorful circle diagram on the wall behind her

Berkeley Talks: Damilola Ogunbiyi on driving an equitable energy transition

A photo of a woman standing against a wall made of corrugated metal, holding up a cell phone. The screen of the phone reads,

Cellphone data, machine learning help target humanitarian aid in Togo

an informal portrait of Khwaga Ghani outdoors in the East Bay

Taliban gunshots echo through Khwaga Ghani’s new life at Berkeley

Maryam Karimi stands with her hand on a tree

Maryam Karimi: This generation in Afghanistan will not give up

people lined up in the desert in front of barbed wire

Berkeley students, staff and faculty launch Afghan scholar rescue campaign

Berkeley Talks: Threats to abortion rights and how people are resisting

exterior of a large building in the early 1900s

How the U.S. government created an ‘insane asylum’ to imprison Native Americans

a person using a wheelchair in a checkout grocery counter

Campus archives reveal genesis of U.S. disability rights movement

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