“My father Ilham Tohti has used only one weapon in his struggle for the basic rights of the Uyghurs of Xinjiang: Words; spoken, written, distributed, and posted. This is all he has ever had at his disposal, and all that he has ever needed.”
The goal of the award is to recognise the work of courageous human rights defenders, and provide protection when they are at risk.
By understanding the data retention laws that apply to your organization and managing your information accordingly, you can mitigate the risk that a legal request for information will harm your work.
“It was very exciting to use machine learning when people can directly make use of the results.”
“His achievements are amazing, his strength incredible, and his passion frightening; I do not think anybody else could possibly have brought HURIDOCS, to where it is and I am honoured to have shared in some of that with him.”
It’s important to take the time to think through your options and make the right decisions for your knowledge-sharing community.
We applied this approach in one of our most recent projects, RightDocs, a public website for browsing and finding resolutions from the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Prime Time Nationalism | The Role of Television Broadcasts/Archives in the Aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars A conference and workshop organized by the Donald and Vera Blinken Open Society Archives (OSA) at Central European University (CEU) with support from CEU Conferences and Academic Events Fund (CAEF) May 13-14, 2016 | Budapest The manipulative role of […]
We will be picking up on some of the conversations started last year at RDF Manila, as well as tackling emerging questions related to the use of technology and data in human rights documentation.
UwaziDocs is an open source, web-based, mobile friendly software designed for easy annotation, sharing, and publishing.