Resources for Documenting Human Rights Violations

Online resource

Research on human rights documentation practices

Lessons learned, key insights and perspectives from civil society documenters, tool developers and transitional justice actors.

Online course

Human rights documentation

Course on the common stages of human rights documentation and what can be achieved with community-led documentation.

Community resource

How to prepare for a database

Five community resources on planning for the information one would need when documenting human rights violations.

Handbook

What is Documentation?

A practical handbook for human rights defenders that offers an introduction to documentation.

Handbook

What is Monitoring?

A comprehensive manual that explains the basics of how to methodically observe a human rights situation.

Methodology

Events Standard Formats

A methodology for monitoring and recording abuses of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.

Terminology

Microthesauri

A collection of 48 sets of terminology for categorising different aspects of human rights violations.

Principles

Rapid Response Documentation Principles

A set of principles and concepts that can guide the development of context-specific tools and methodologies in doing documentation during emergent crises.