"One fundamental characteristic of genuine human rights organisations, whatever their focus of work, is the bias for truth. Truth is the foundation of justice. Human rights organisations must always strive to bring out the truth in its entirety as much as possible."

-- Kofi Kumado, HURIDOCS Chairman

Our Vision:

Our Mission:

To strengthen the capacity of human rights organisations to manage and communicate information, enhancing their effectiveness and credibility.

Our Goal:

To ensure that human rights organisations have the tools, knowledge, skills and supporting services to use their information resources effectively.

Our objectives:

1. To develop tools and techniques for monitoring, information management and communication; and
2. to provide them to human rights organisations and national human rights institutions.
3. To build the capacity of the human rights community to master and adapt these tools and techniques to their specific needs through training and other activities.
4. To support human rights organisations to set up and strengthen their information systems.
5. To improve human rights advocacy and reporting techniques.
6. To expand human rights outreach and network capacity.
7. To provide a centre of excellence on methods and techniques for human rights.