Robert Flummerfelt

Robert Flummerfelt is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker formerly based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His reporting focuses on abuses by international organizations, multinational corporations, and western governments in East and Central Africa, as well as sexual exploitation and abuse in multilateral organizations.

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A masked witness leaves the military court in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, during the trial against six soldiers accused of crimes against humanity and violating orders, on September 15, 2023. Six soldiers, including two officers of the elite Republican Guard, faced a military tribunal over the killing of nearly 50 people in a crackdown on an anti-UN protest in Goma. Congolese soldiers had on August 30, 2023 stopped a religious sect from holding a demonstration against United Nations peacekeepers in the city. (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET / AFP) (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET/AFP via Getty Images)

Online Atrocity Database Exposed Thousands of Vulnerable People in Congo

Robert Flummerfelt, Nick Turse

- Nov. 17, 2023

NYU and Human Rights Watch accidentally doxxed up to 8,000 victims, journalists, and activists due to a basic security error.

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