After two years, RightsCon 2025 will take place from 24 to 27 February in Taipei and online. We are excited to announce that HURIDOCS will actively attend the conference, with a delegation of our talented team, including Executive Director Danna Ingleton, Senior Documentalist Bono Olgado, Programme Officer Hyebin Bina Jeon, and OTF Senior ICP Fellow, Tomiwa Ilori.
The HURIDOCS team will be presenting an interactive roundtable, and hosting a community booth to engage with the human rights community, advance the preservation of digital evidence, and provide insights on human rights documentation practices and methodologies. In addition, HURIDOCS will be joining Horizontal, Mnemonic and WITNESS for a dialogue on building an ecosystem of complementary and interoperable human rights documentation tools.
In-person roundtable
Preserve: Documenting and safeguarding digital human rights data as evidence
25 February 2025 | Tuesday | 16:30 to 17:30 (CST) – room 402A
Programme category: Justice, Litigation, and Documentation
Hosted by HURIDOCS (in-person)
HURIDOCS is hosting an interactive roundtable to co-create a development roadmap for Preserve, an open-source tool designed to help preserve digital data as evidence for human rights documentation.
The session will bring together participants from the human rights community to explore the global landscape of digital data as evidence and collaborate to safeguard information critical to addressing human rights crises and conflicts.
By fostering a collaborative environment, this session aims to empower participants and gather valuable feedback that will guide the future development of Preserve, ensuring it meets the needs of those working in the field.
Community Village Booth
26 February 2025 | Wednesday | 09:00 to 17:30 (CST)
Hosted by HURIDOCS (in-person)
To further support the community with its documentation and database development needs, our team will be available to answer questions and provide more information at the RightsCon Community Village. Visitors will also have the opportunity to interact with our flagship, open-source documentation tool, Uwazi. If you are attending the summit in Taipei, please join us!
Dialogue (hosted by Horizontal)
Teamwork makes dreams work: Building an ecosystem of complementary and interoperable human rights documentation tools
February 25, 2025 | Tuesday | 11:30 – 12:30 CST
Hosted by Horizontal (in-person)
Documenting human rights violations comes with great personal risk. How documentation initiatives are best set up varies across contexts, as well as the goals and capacity of those that rely on the documentation for change. To help alleviate these challenges, a number of technology initiatives have been created to support human rights defenders to be safer, more efficient and to collaborate to achieve change.
In this dialogue, participants will reflect on lessons learned from creating these tools and opportunities for the field to work better together. They will discuss current challenges hampering the field, from fragmentation and isolation to lack of sustainability, and share success stories of collaboration and partnerships. Together, they will chart a path toward a more collaborative and sustainable ecosystem, one that gives those on the frontlines the technology and capabilities to conduct their work safely and effectively.
Dialogue (hosted by Access Now)
Protecting data subject rights everywhere: assessing extraterritorial enforcement of data protection frameworks across the globe
26 February 2025 | Wednesday | 09:00 to 10:00 (CST)
Hosted by Access Now (in-person)
This panel explores the challenges and opportunities of the extraterritorial application of domestic data protection laws, driven by the GDPR’s global influence and the increasing adoption of data protection frameworks in the Global Majority. As global minority domicile companies expand into these regions, their business practices face growing scrutiny under human rights-focused regulatory approaches. With perspectives from MENA, LATAM, Europe, and Africa, the discussion will highlight examples of extraterritorial enforcement, its implications for a global data governance regime, and the balance between data protection rights, corporate business models, and best practices.
This session is open to anyone interested in global, regional and domestic data protection and governance ranging from civil society actors, businesses, data protection authorities, government representatives, and academia among others.
For those not able to attend in person, head on over to this page to reach out to our team.