Hello everyone, If you’ve followed my previous blog posts, then you probably have some idea about how to start creating a website. I’ve shared some of the basic principles that will help you to get started when building a website on WordPress, a free and open source content management system (that is the technology that [...]
Books Become Databases: ICJ and HURIDOCS Launch Resources on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Publications, legislation and jurisprudence on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) have become available and well-accessible in two landmark databases on the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) website. With technical support from HURIDOCS, ICJ makes available in an innovative way all jurisprudence and doctrine on SOGI from the UN human rights system in one database, [...]
Website Navigation: Guide Your Visitors
Following up on my previous post on content management, today I am going to share a few ideas about how to make texts, pictures, videos and other pieces of content accessible. Navigation is the key to guide visitors from bits of content they weren’t looking for to what they are looking for and what they [...]
Content Management: Discover Your Audience and Give a Voice To Your Beneficiaries
Hello everyone, If you have read my previous posts, you probably remember that I am an intern at HURIDOCS, where I have been building a website for the NGO Women for Development, based in Armenia. Aside from the website, I am also trying to help with different ongoing projects at HURIDOCS. In my previous posts, [...]
Presentation from the Open Society Human Rights Workshop
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 [...]
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 [...]
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“It was a challenging opportunity and all of us were volunteers”
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New tools developed, new ICJ website online
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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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Building an engaging website: an insight from Manush, our Armenian intern
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Building an engaging website: drawing the structure, winning the reader
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Design Your Website with WordPress: How to Choose the Right Theme?
- Books Become Databases: ICJ and HURIDOCS Launch Resources on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
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Website Navigation: Guide Your Visitors
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Content Management: Discover Your Audience and Give a Voice To Your Beneficiaries
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Presentation from the Open Society Human Rights Workshop
