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Author: Lauren L. Finch

A new database project is memorializing the “footprints” of people taken by North Korea

With support from HURIDOCS, TJWG and their partners have launched an open archive of arbitrary detention, abduction and enforced disappearance cases since the 1950s.

17 March 2021 - Project Spotlight

CIMAC is shining a light on the violence that women journalists face in Mexico

The organization’s Cartography of Attacks Against Women Journalists is powered by a HURIDOCS-developed solution: Uwazi.

12 January 2021 - Project Spotlight

CIMAC está visibilizando la violencia a la que se enfrentan las periodistas en México

La organización ha creado la ‘Cartografía de agresiones contra mujeres periodistas’, una base de datos construida con nuestra herramienta Uwazi.

12 January 2021 - Project Spotlight

UPR Info is making human rights recommendations more accessible—with a little help from machine learning

HURIDOCS collaborated with UPR Info to relaunch their Database of UPR Recommendations and Voluntary Pledges with improved features.

8 July 2020 - Project Spotlight

How machine learning is helping Plan International put girls’ rights at the forefront of the international agenda

The Human Rights Database is powered in part by machine learning, the result of collaboration between Plan International, HURIDOCS and Google.org fellows.

4 May 2020 - Project Spotlight

Atlas of Torture fosters a more collaborative movement to prevent “one of the most serious human rights violations”

Supported by HURIDOCS, the project offers a database of torture-related information and a space for experts to exchange insights.

8 April 2020 - Project Spotlight

“I don’t think that our work as defenders of human rights will ever stop”

Watch these short films about the 2020 Martin Ennals Award laureate, Yemeni human rights activist Huda Al-Sarari, and finalists Norma Librada Ledezma and Sizani Ngubane.

24 March 2020 - News

A year of exciting collaboration, innovation and human rights advocacy: Our 2019 Annual Report

How did HURIDOCS spend 2019? Helping our partners to document important human rights information and make it accessible.

17 March 2020 - News

Three inspiring women in Mexico, South Africa and Yemen are Martin Ennals Award finalists

Huda Al-Sarari, Norma Ledezma and Sizani Ngubane are human rights defenders who have risked their lives to promote justice and dignity in their local communities.

13 January 2020 - News

A collaborative effort to make the machine work for human rights information

Together with some of our partner organizations and Google.org Fellows, we’re exploring how machine learning can support access to human rights law.

17 December 2019 - Reflection and Advice

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