RightDocs: Your information gateway for HRC35
RightDocs is the complete, searchable, and filterable collection of UN Human Rights Council resolutions, amendments, presidential statements, decisions and reports.
RightDocs is the complete, searchable, and filterable collection of UN Human Rights Council resolutions, amendments, presidential statements, decisions and reports.
The African Child Rights Case Law Database is a collection of judgments from domestic courts in various African countries on cases related to the rights and welfare of children.
“It was very exciting to use machine learning when people can directly make use of the results.”
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.
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 […]
A recap of the Open Knowledge Conference in Geneva – with highlights on open data, human rights and beyond.
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.
The International Commission of Jurists has prepared new online resources to research sexual orientation and gender identity. HURIDOCS helped create the databases.
A symposium on human rights law attracted a large number of students at the University of The Gambia eager to devote their future to the protection and promotion of human rights in Africa. Speakers at the symposium stressed the importance of thorough research for the students’ recent and future work and introduced the African Human Rights Case Law Analyser as an important tool. It is excellent for making research better while saving time, speakers and students said.
In this interview Johannes Buabeng-Baidoo explains what role the African Human Rights Case Law Analyser plays in that and how he and his students use information that they did not have access to before.