Author: HURIDOCS

Maximizing human rights defenders’ impact in Africa

The African Union has identified 2016 as the “African Year of Human Rights, in particular, with focus on the Rights of Women.” This theme puts human rights at the forefront of the African Union (AU) Agenda for 2016, and relevant organs and institutions of the AU have begun to outline their programme of activities for […]

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New HURIDOCS publication: Media Monitoring, Scanning and Intelligence for Human Rights NGOs

This publication gives human rights organisations an overview of their environment, their most common assets and needs. These will guide their action and lead to intelligence. It provides a scanning package with resources on where to start searching on the Web. It shows how Web information management tools can provide an automated support for information monitoring. Finally, it illustrates how a professional project framework for information scanning activities draws the way to get good practices and avoid common information management pitfalls.

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