Lucky for us there are some great resources out there to help organizations identify indicators and monitoring strategies for documenting “progressive realization” of rights.
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.
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.
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.