HURIDOCS is seeking your support to help human rights defenders around the world share crucial evidence with those who hold power and make decisions.
With your donation, we can support organisations and groups working on human rights research, documentation, advocacy, and innovative digitalisation practices across a wide range of human rights, environmental and humanitarian issues.
What is the purpose of the Documentation Fund?
Over the years we have seen a consistent growth in the requests we receive for the training and consultation for HRDs and human rights organisations on information collection, protection, and management techniques. Unfortunately, the funding landscape for this kind of work is challenging.
Despite this clear need, funding for methodology and technology support remains exhaustively insufficient. It is a barrier for many nonprofits and grassroots organisations to get started or digitally transform their human rights documentation initiatives. Those who are able to start and sustain these efforts, boldly do so through small grants, with little resources and/or through volunteers.
Storing and preserving large amounts of data for the long term also implies ongoing costs for secure hosting of crucial information and evidence. Video and audio files, in particular, can be huge in size and may grow exponentially with time.
The Documentation Fund is currently supported by the Irene M. Staehelin Foundation, the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Däster-Schild Stiftung and the Canton of Geneva. Our dream is to build up this fund and expand it further to support more beneficiaries.
What does the Documentation Fund cover?
The Documentation Fund aims to fully or partially cover the following:
Technical costs
Costs of project-related data analysis as well as the setup, configuration, customisation and implementation of bespoke databases, using HURIDOCS’ flagship open-source tool Uwazi.
Training and ongoing support
Costs of user onboarding, technical training, and additional customisation and ad hoc configuration.
Hosting fees
Cost of hosting which is crucial for the sustainability of each project as it keeps the database secure, protected and accessible.
Staff costs
Costs to ensure engagement with our partners throughout their documentation journey to assess project needs, define communication goals, build and implement comprehensive data models, and explore strategic partnerships.
Success stories
The following groups and organisations received support through the Documentation Fund, which led to the innovative digital transformation of their human rights documentation work:
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Secure case management system and collaborative workflow
To raise awareness about the ongoing conflict and use reliable data to take informed action to improve the human rights situation in the DRC.
Kenya
Secure case management system and collaborative workflow
To support the LGBTQIA+ community in Kenya by documenting violations and sharing information for collective advocacy efforts.
Indonesia / West Papua
Secure information management system and collaborative workflow
To promote Indigenous peoples’ and environmental rights in the West Papuan context through an accessible and central Papuan archive.
International
Secure case management system and collaborative workflow
To support the trans community by using reliable data to advocate for laws to keep the community safe and to memorialise and honour those who have been murdered.
Latin America
Secure case management system for strategic litigation
To expose abuses against HRDs and migrants, and support legal cases to be heard at the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights and the United Nations.
Mexico
Secure case management system and collaborative workflow
To support HRDs and social activists who are arbitrarily detained, tortured and imprisoned in Mexico.
Tibet / India
Secure information management system and collaborative workflow
To advance human rights and democracy in Tibet and the exiled Tibetan community by monitoring, documenting, and campaigning against human rights abuses.
Tunisia
Secure information management system and collaborative workflow
To promote the rights of minorities and strengthen gender equality through a collaborative and digitally transformed workflow that supports advocacy for gender-sensitive approaches.
Donate today and help our partners preserve the truth and pursue justice!
