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Article: SPOTLIGHT: Amnesty International Uses Satellite Imagery To Stem Genocidal Violence in Darfur.

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June 25, 2007
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A pioneering program by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is providing technical expertise to human rights groups and helping Amnesty International USA with a new online effort to monitor threatened settlements in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan and provide evidence of destroyed villages.

High-resolution commercial satellite images - provided at a discount from satellite imaging companies DigitalGlobe of Longmont, Colo., GeoEye of Dulles, Va., and ImageSat in Netherlands Antilles - are analyzed by AAAS researchers and posted on Amnesty International's new "Eyes on Darfur" Web site (www.eyesondarfur.org). The human rights ...

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