Module 6 – Verification and Analysis

Verification & analysis

You gathered terabytes of information. Is it all accurate? Is it useful at all? Learn how to sift through, triangulate and verify information so that you take the most reliable facts to light.

Examine how to evaluate carefully all information for its relevance, accuracy, validity, completeness and meaning, to ensure the quality of any subsequent analysis.

Estimated time: 45m

• Video lecture

  Verification & analysis

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• 1 Reading

  We encourage you to read the document “Reliability of sources and validity of information” of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Manual on Human Rights Monitoring.

• 1 Quiz

  Take the quiz and test your knowledge!

  1. Triangulating sources of information means:

  A. Information gathered from 3 geographical locations

  B. The same piece of information was gathered from at least 3 sources

  C. Three pieces of different but related information was gathered from at least 3 sources.

  Correct! Wrong!

  The information I gathered from victims is always reliable and thus I don’t need to further verify it.

  A. True

  B. False

  Correct! Wrong!

  3. Seeking patterns during an analysis means that:

  A. I will look at all the violations related to one single right over a longer period of time (i.e. freedom of assembly)

  B. I will look at interlinkages between violations of several connected rights over a period of time.

  C. I will look at failures to respect human rights by State actors over a period of time.

  Correct! Wrong!