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Uwazi

Our database application is designed for human rights defenders to preserve and manage collections of information.

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We partner with human rights groups to help them overcome documentation and information management challenges.

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Check out our guides, frameworks and more for finding, documenting and organising human rights information.

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North Korean Prison Database

Investigating patterns of human rights violations in North Korea's prisons

We helped Korea Future develop the North Korean Prison Database, a growing and comprehensive archive of international human rights law violations and atrocities that have transpired in the North Korean prison system.

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Putting girls’ rights at the forefront of the international agenda

Putting girls’ rights at the forefront of the international agenda

With our support and the help of Google.org Fellows, Plan International curates thousands of legally binding policies and international soft law from United Nations and regional bodies, covering a wide variety of human rights issues.

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Using Uwazi to build a database documenting institutional violence

Using Uwazi to build a database documenting institutional violence

Find out how the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS), with the support of The Engine Room, used Uwazi to reconceptualise their existing database documenting cases of institutional violence.

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