As state surveillance and web monitoring become more prevalent, human rights groups should take extra precaution while using the Internet. Many web tools exist that making hacking and monitoring more difficult, although tools alone will not make you safe. One that does help human rights groups quite a bit is called Tails, a live operating system you run from your USB.
Want to protect your website? This is an overview of 10 essential steps, most of them very easy.
As Zimbabwe is heading for presidential elections on 31 July, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum launches an updated website, supported by HURIDOCS. It will be a major source for reliable information during the elections, while providing easy access to an archive of over 300 publications on human rights developments in Zimbabwe.
A walkthrough on how to choose and customise a theme for your Wordpress website.
The International Commission of Jurists has prepared new online resources to research sexual orientation and gender identity. HURIDOCS helped create the databases.
An overview of techniques to create effective navigation for a website – based on the experience of Manushak’s work on the site for Women for Development.
As part of a series of developing a website for an NGO, Manushak shares her experience with content writing and making it findable.
A short reflection on participating in the Open Society Human Rights Workshop, Manushak also shares her presentation about what she as learned as an intern at HURIDOCS.
HURIDOCS asked specialists to hack OpenEvsys, our software for documenting human rights violations, and we asked users what they want. The result is OpenEvsys 2.0, which will be launched 1 July. It is a major update to improve security, analysis features and design.
Starting with pen and paper, Manushak walks through essential steps to design a website.