At HURIDOCS, we work with human rights organisations to preserve documentation for memory, advance accountability for abuses and bring key information on human rights at our fingertips. As we are nearing the end of 2018, I want to look back at some of the highlights that shaped our year. Personally, I have been thrilled to […]
Projects that inspired the HURIDOCS team in 2018
On Human Rights Day, we want to acknowledge some of the documentation and investigation projects that have inspired our HURIDOCS team throughout the year. These projects are great examples of the creativity, adaptability, and sheer determination that describe so many human rights leaders in this field. They have inspired us to move forward in discovering […]
Herramientas para la documentación de derechos humanos: nuestro recuento de 2018
This post is also available in English. En este espacio tan cambiante, una de las preguntas más frecuentes que recibimos como organizaciones es: ¿Cuál es la mejor herramienta para “tal” propósito? Cada vez se vuelve más urgente el poder contestar de forma adecuada a esa pregunta, sobre todo con Martus finalizando su soporte de la […]
Announcing the Finalists for the 2019 Martin Ennals Award
Eren Keskin, Marino Cordoba Berrio and Abdul Aziz Muhamat have just been named finalists for the 2019 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders. Honouring Martin Ennals, Amnesty International Secretary-General from 1968 to 1980, the Martin Ennals Award is chosen by ten leading human rights organizations. Laureates are selected because they have demonstrated a deep […]
FITS: Recursos para apoyar los esfuerzos de documentación de organizaciones en la Ciudad de México
En agosto, Wingu invitó a HURIDOCS a participar en la 4ta edición del Festival de Innovación y Tecnología Social en la Ciudad de México, para hablar sobre “recursos para documentar y construir memoria colectiva”. Puedes descargar la presentación en PDF aquí. Indira Cornelio de @HURIDOCS es ponente en el #FITSmex 2018, impartirá el taller: Herramientas de […]
Ve la Demo de Uwazi y compártenos tus dudas
Esta demostración de Uwazi en video busca presentar las principales funcionalidades de la plataforma. Uwazi (y Uwazi Reveal) buscan apoyar a grupos de derechos humanos a publicar y organizar documentos, así como documentar y analizar violaciones de derechos humanos. Les invitamos a explorar la demo de Uwazi para revisar cómo funciona, cualquier duda que tengan escríbanos […]
Tools for human rights documentation: our 2018 snapshot
Este post también está disponible en español. In this fast-changing space, one of the most frequent questions we receive from organisations is: what is the best tool to for x purpose? Being able to adequately respond to this question is getting more urgent, as Martus support is coming to an end this year. This blog […]
Making metadata extraction in Uwazi more efficient with support from the Aaron Swartz Fellowship
For as long as I’ve been building web apps, it’s been apparent that most successful websites are communities – not just interactive pages, but places where groups of like-minded people can congregate and do things together. – Aaron Swartz, in A unified Theory of Magazines (September 2006) Aaron Swartz was committed to make the world […]
FITS: sharing tools to support documentation efforts with organisations in Mexico city
Este post también está disponible en español. In August, Wingu invited HURIDOCS to participate in the 4th edition of the Social Innovation and Technology Festival in Mexico city, to talk about “Tools to document and build collective memory”. You can download here the pdf presentation. Indira Cornelio de @HURIDOCS es ponente en el #FITSmex 2018, […]
Uwazi Demo: Watch the recording
This is a recording of an Uwazi demo, intended to present the core features of this platform. Uwazi (and Uwazi Reveal) is being used to publish and organise documents, or to document and analyse human rights violations. You’re also welcome to explore our Uwazi demo to see how Uwazi works, anytime!
Mapping digital rights law: a preview of the CYRILLA database being developed by HURIDOCS and SMEX
When it comes to holding powerful governments accountable for constricting online spaces, knowledge and understanding of legal frameworks in which digital networks operate is crucial. However, the laws that affect human rights in digital environment are widely scattered across legal frameworks. As a result, even lawyers sometimes struggle to understand the effects that specific laws […]
Hamsa: documenting labour migrant rights in Asia to improve evidence-based advocacy
The Hamsa database and accompanying mobile application is a comprehensive solution for recording, managing, analysing, and sharing information on labour migration rights. The system was created by HURIDOCS and Migrant Forum Asia (MFA), a network of more than 50 local organisations in Asia and the Gulf. In Sanskrit, Hamsa means migratory bird and is a […]
Memoria y Ciudadanía: usando Uwazi para contar la historia de la corrupción en Perú
This post is also available in English. En HURIDOCS, son las organizaciones con quienes trabajamos las que impulsan nuestro desarrollo tecnológico. Uwazi fue construido en función de las necesidades de los grupos de derechos humanos en África, para organizar y publicar documentos sobre derechos humanos. Nosotrxs solxs, no podemos imaginar todas las formas en que […]
Memoria y Ciudadanía: using Uwazi to tell the story of corruption in Peru
Este post está disponible también en español. At HURIDOCS, our partners drive our technology development. We built Uwazi based on the needs of human rights groups in Africa – to organise and publish human rights documents. But alone, we can’t imagine all the ways that human rights groups will want to use Uwazi – we […]
HRC side event panel on the role of technology in human rights investigations
Please join The Permanent Mission of Liechtenstein to the UN and HURIDOCS on 28 June 2018 from 14.00 to 15.30 hours at the Palais des Nations in Room XXIII for a UN Human Rights Council side event on the role of technology in human rights investigations. Every minute, some 300 hours of video are uploaded […]
Community Discussion: Machine Learning and Human Rights (via New Tactics)
This article is cross-posted from the New Tactics in Human Rights website. Join HURIDOCS, the Center for Human Rights Science – Carnegie Mellon University, and the New Tactics community for an online conversation on machine learning and human rights June 18-22, 2018. Technology is rapidly changing the world around us, offering new ways for human […]
Resumen de la discusión comunitaria: Documentando a lxs desaparecidxs
¡Ya está disponible el resumen! Queremos agradecer a Justine Di Mayo (Act for the Disappeared, Líbano), Özlem Kaya (Hafiza Merkezi, Turquía), Tamar Hayrikyan (Técnicas Rudas y Centro Diocesano de Derechos Humanos Fray Juan de Larios, México), Celina Flores (Memoria Abierta, Argentina) y Jorge Ruiz Reyes (Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México, México) por participar en la […]
What will it take to improve access to human rights information online?
Challenges in accessing human rights information are a significant problem for advocates. But they are also a problem for human rights bodies (the information producers) because these barriers impact their ability to realise their promise for those who promote and protect human rights. There is no standard collection of documents for information on international human […]
Starting at the Source: Introducing Uwazi Reveal
Documenting human rights violations is a crucial part in ongoing or potential transitional justice efforts, as it often leads to national and international litigation or supports (future) transitional justice mechanisms. Providing technological and methodological support to these documentation efforts is at the heart of HURIDOCS’ work. For more than three decades, HURIDOCS has developed free, […]
Uwazi, Radar, Collaboratory and More: Our 2017 Annual Report
2017 marks our 35th year supporting the work of human rights organisations. We are honoured and humbled to have the trust of our partners, and to empower them in their fight for justice across the globe. 2017 brought new challenges and opportunities, new partnerships and breakthrough achievements, pivotal developments and milestone celebrations, and we are […]
So far, yet so close: working in healthy and successful remote teams
Working in a remote team is an ongoing learning experience for HURIDOCS. As a largely remote team, we don’t see each other often, and one of the few occasions when most of our team gathers in one place is during the Internet Freedom Festival in Valencia, Spain. So at this year’s festival, we took the […]
Where you can find us at RightsCon 2018 (and we hope you do!)
Going to RightsCon in Toronto 16 to 18 May? We hope you’ll join one of our sessions listed below, or stop by our booth to say hi and grab a sticker! Friedhelm and Kristin will be there with bells on. Panel to discuss information management and human rights bodies Naming, Shaming & Litigating: Access to […]
Call for Nominations – 2019 Martin Ennals Award
Every year HURIDOCS joins nine leading human rights organisations in honoring finalists of the Martin Ennals Award (MEA), a prize that aims to recognise the work of individuals and organisations who promote and defend fundamental human rights in dangerous environments and often at great personal risk. The award is named after Martin Ennals (1927-1991), co-founder […]
Friedhelm Weinberg receives OSF New Executives Fund grant to focus on monitoring, evaluation and learning
We are proud to announce that our executive director Friedhelm Weinberg was named among the recipients of a New Executives Fund grant on 25 January 2018. The award granted by Open Society Foundations is intended to give newly appointed executives the flexibility to invest in the organisation’s development or their own leadership. Today, as the […]
On the Passing of Asma Jahangir
It is with great sorrow that we learned about the passing of Asma Jahangir on Sunday, 11 February. A prominent lawyer and renowned human rights defender, Asma was at the forefront of human rights movement in Pakistan, often taking on the most dangerous and challenging cases despite great personal risks. She passed away because of […]