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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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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
