We are delighted to share that the second round of the tech challenge for atrocity prevention has been launched on March 6th. This is an exciting competition, organized by USAID and Humanity United, to find new and promising approaches to prevent large-scale, deliberate attacks against civilians. The second round focuses on three critical issues: better [...]
Building an engaging website: an insight from Manush, our Armenian intern
Hello everyone, I’m Manushak Aslanyan from the NGO Women for Development (WFD), based in Armenia. Recently I started an internship with HURIDOCS as part of the Open Society Human Rights Program and on this blog I would like to share what I learn and experience as I go along. WFD has been working in rural [...]
“It really feels like we are at the edge of a tech revolution” – Interview with Loren Treisman
Three days after finishing her PhD, Loren Treisman went to East Africa and her life started to take a different turn. Now she is Executive of Indigo Trust, a philanthropic fund that awards mostly small grants to small, community-driven projects in Africa that use technology for social change. In this interview, Loren talks about what [...]
“For us, it was a very good opportunity to get access to information that we usually could not get“
Originally from Ghana, Johannes Buabeng-Baidoo later moved to South Africa and is now a lecturer in human rights law at the University of the Gambia. He is an enthusiast about human rights, works closely with his students to help them understand the African human rights system and wants them to become ready to make sharp [...]
“It was a challenging opportunity and all of us were volunteers”
When she left Palestine in the 1980s after five years to take up a post in an inner city high school in Winnipeg, Canada, she almost left her work behind. Eventually, Judith Dueck did decide to take it with her even though it seemed like she was entering a new phase of life. Thanks to [...]
Landmark database for the Americas
HURIDOCS working on a Caselaw Analyzer for the Americas together with CEJIL (content partner) and Ketse.com (technology partner) Our vision of available and well-accessible human rights case law is becoming reality, as HURIDOCS and CEJIL met last week to bring the work for the Americas to a new level. From July 2013 on, a first [...]
HURIDOCS in five minutes and ten slides
Recently, we gave a presentation on the work we’re doing at the excellent ICTs for Social Justice Meet-Up in London. It gives a very short overview on our approach and a few examples of our work on the intersection of ICT, information science and human rights. We thank Tony Roberts (who has a fantastic blog [...]
A global approach to human rights case law
It is a vision, but it is becoming reality already – a platform that brings all international human rights case law together in one place. In this post, we sketch out why it is important, how it can be done and why sense-making should be the guiding principle. How long does it take to find [...]
“We were breaking new ground”
Hans Thoolen talks about the excitement of founding HURIDOCS, why the human rights community nowadays resembles a church with too many priests (and too few believers) and what made Latin American human rights defenders embrace technology before everyone else. Looking back at decades of involvement in human rights work, he also sketches out his idea [...]
