The recent OHCHR report on human rights and transitional justice (A/HRC/58/36) highlights the importance of victim-centered, inclusive, and data-driven approaches in fostering justice, accountability, non-recurrence, and reparations. It underscores the vital role of civil society-led documentation efforts in sustaining peace and ensuring reparative justice in challenging contexts.
For more than four decades, HURIDOCS continues to recognise that strong documentation practices, further enhanced by technological solutions, are essential to transitional justice across its various mechanisms. Our work supports human rights defenders through open-source tools, data management strategies, and archival methodologies, closely aligning with the report’s emphasis on evidence preservation, community-led truth-seeking, and memorialisation. The report highlights numerous initiatives by our partners, including their Uwazi instances, demonstrating how innovative documentation efforts, regional networks, and survivor-led initiatives strengthen the fight against impunity.
This report is a powerful reminder that human rights documentation is more than a technical process; it is an act of justice, resistance, and empowerment. As HURIDOCS continues to work with human rights groups worldwide, we remain committed to enhancing the accessibility, security, and impact of human rights documentation, ensuring that victims and communities play a central role in shaping the global transitional justice agenda.
For more insights, read the full OHCHR report.
Check out some of the Uwazi instances highlighted in the report and other parallel examples.