The International Advisory Council has 15-20 individuals from diverse professional backgrounds, who are all interested and competent in advising on how new methods and technologies fit into the context of human rights. The Council members provide guidance for the Continuation Committee and to the Secretariat in the implementation of HURIDOCS work.
Consultations with the International Advisory Council ensure that HURIDOCS stays on the cutting edge of the current discussion in both the human rights and information management sectors. Our Continuation Committee and Secretariat keep well informed on the latest solutions and challenges and this boosts their capacity for implementing successful interventions for human rights organisations in need.
A new International Advisory Council was elected at the General Asssembly of 28 February 2009. It is composed of:
- Adama Dieng (Senegal): Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- Ibrahim Sarr (Senegal), Programme Director of the Rencontre Africaine pour la Defense des Droits de l’Homme
- André Titus, Information Systems Manager at the Human Rights Institute of South Africa (South Africa)
- Aurora Javate de Dios, President of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women – Asia Pacific (Philippines)
- Adilur Rahman Khan, Secretary of Odhikar (Bangladesh)
- Dan Brickley, expert on Semantic Web technology (United Kingdom)
- James Lawson, European Court of Human Rights, Council of Europe (France)
- Tom Longley, Programme Lead, Visualising Information for Advocacy at Tactical Tech (United Kingdom)
- Hans Thoolen, Chair of the Martin Ennals Foundation (Greece)
- Nelly Benilde Herrera Román, documentalist-archivist at the Comisión Ecuménica de Derechos Humanos (CEDHU) (Ecuador)
- Luis Maria Lozano, Communication Unit of the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS) (Argentina)
- Aída María Noval, human rights documentalist (Mexico)
- Lucrecia Molina Theissen, Director of the Documentation Centre of the Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (IIDH) (Costa Rica)
- Nina Atallah, Head of Monitoring and Documentation Department, Al-Haq (Palestine)
- Youssef El-Bouhairi, member of the National Bureau of the Organisation marocaine des droits humains (OMDH) (Morocco)
- Lars Bromley, former Project Director, Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights at the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (SHR-AAAS) (United States)
- Judith Dueck, Director of Research, Content & Scholarship at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (Canada)
- Sam Gregory, Program Director at Witness (United States)
- William R. Pace, Convenor of the Coalition of the International Criminal Court (United States)
