Digital investigations. Human stories.

A two-part CIR investigation examines the use of displacement orders in Gaza between January and July 2025. It assesses what those orders meant in practice for civilians directed into shrinking safe zones, cut off from hospitals and water infrastructure, and prevented from returning to areas absorbed into an expanding military buffer zone.

Scam compounds, where people are forced to conduct online fraud targeting victims globally, have emerged as one of the most significant human rights crises in Southeast Asia. Myanmar Witness has been monitoring the compounds since the 2021 military coup, identifying more than 137 suspected sites across Myanmar and the wider region through satellite imagery analysis, victim testimonies, missing persons reports, and incident records.

From AI-generated videos imagining London “taken over” by immigrant communities, to TikTok videos depicting a walk through central London requiring military-style gear, CIR has documented a wave of online disinformation portraying London as a city “in decline”. The content collected spans five platforms, overlaps with far-right extremist ideology, and is reaching international audiences.