Hello everyone, This is a follow up update to my previous post, where I talked about how I am working with Huridocs, in the frames of Open Society Human rights internship, to build a website for the Armenian NGO Women for Development. From April 22-24, I attended the Open Society Institute Human rights seminar in [...]
Announcing OpenEvsys 2.0: Even more user-friendly, charts and maps, stronger security
We asked specialists to hack OpenEvsys, our software for documenting human rights violations, and we asked users what they want. The result is OpenEvsys 2.0, which will be launched 1 July. It is a major update to improve security, analysis features and design. With enhanced security and more powerful analysis tools OpenEvsys sees a major [...]
Jury announces the three Final Nominees for the Martin Ennals Award 2013
The Martin Ennals Award is selected by the International Human Rights Community and given to Human Rights Defenders who have shown deep commitment and face great personal risk. The aim of the award is to provide protective publicity. The Martin Ennals Award is considered to be the main award of the human rights movement and [...]
Building an engaging website: drawing the structure, winning the reader
As promised, I am back with further details on my internship at Huridocs. In this post, I am going to share what I have been up to recently. If you are thinking of renewing or creating a website from scratch this can be helpful. Getting started I started with looking into different non-profit websites to [...]
No more sleepless nights at the library
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 [...]
“It’s a long process, but a worthwhile pursuit“
Handling information effectively, using its potential to maximize the impact of advocacy – this is a serious challenge, and one that Janet Haven of the Open Society Foundations(OSF) has been working on for almost a decade. In this interview she talks about why she is convinced this is important, how she is constantly looking for [...]
USAID and Humanity United Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention
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 [...]
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“It was a challenging opportunity and all of us were volunteers”
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“For us, it was a very good opportunity to get access to information that we usually could not get“
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“We were breaking new ground”
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“It really feels like we are at the edge of a tech revolution” – Interview with Loren Treisman
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Building an engaging website: an insight from Manush, our Armenian intern
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Presentation from the Open Society Human Rights Workshop
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Announcing OpenEvsys 2.0: Even more user-friendly, charts and maps, stronger security
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Jury announces the three Final Nominees for the Martin Ennals Award 2013
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Building an engaging website: drawing the structure, winning the reader
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No more sleepless nights at the library
