Monitoring Human Rights From Space

On the Media | Sep 29, 2011

There are parts of Sudan too dangerous and too remote for journalists to get to—meaning they can't cover some of the human rights abuses that have plagued the country. The Satellite Sentinel Project uses, you guessed it, satellites to shed light on what's happening on the ground in Sudan. The project is, in part, the brainchild of George Clooney. (Yeah, that George Clooney.) Brooke talked with the Satellite Sentinel Project's Jonathan Hutson.

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