Donatella rovera biography of william

Amnesty International has launched a brand new podcast series ‘Witness from Amnesty International’. The series introduces listeners to the organization’s Research and Crisis Response teams – whose investigations take them to some of the most dangerous and volatile places on earth.

Listen on:

TANYA: Syria.

It’s cold and the wind is fierce. A woman crouches down, picking through the dirt.

TANYA: She’s looking for evidence, signs that this was the spot from where American forces shelled the nearby city of Raqqa. This is Donatella Rovera’s job.

DONATELLA: My work is about piecing together lots of tiny little bits of scrap of information.

And these are part of those scraps of information.

TANYA: She’s a kind of frontline human rights detective or in amnesty lingo, a crisis researcher/

DONATELLA: I go to places usually during these sort of the acute phase and investigate serious human rights abuses, war crimes, cri