THE MARTIN ENNALS FOUNDATION (MEF) Vacancy for the post of Director Background: The mission of the Martin Ennals Foundation (MEF) is to enhance the visibility and the protection of human rights defenders and to build awareness and recognition for their work, through publicity and support, principally by granting of an annual award. Context: Created in 1993, the Martin Ennals Foundation (MEF) [...]
Nominations for Martin Ennals Award 2012
Dear friends, HURIDOCS has the pleasure to inform you that nominations for the 2012 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders are accepted until the 9th of December 2011. Forms can be filled out directly on the website at the following link: http://www.martinennalsaward.org/MEA/index.php?option=com_rsform&view=rsform&Itemid=65&lang=en. Please note that reception of nominations will not be acknowledged. The goal of the Martin [...]
European Coordination Committtee on Human Rights Documentation (ECCHRD) meeting
The 32nd meeting of the European Coordination Committee on Human Rights Documentation (ECCHRD) will take place in Budapest on 30 and 31 May 2011. It will be hosted by the Open Society Archives (OSA). The meeting brings together persons working on documentation, information and communication within human rights organisations and institutions based in Europe. 1. [...]
The international human rights movement announces as its 2011 award winner a gay rights activist from Africa
texte en français ci-bas texto en español debajo The Jury of the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA), meeting in Geneva, selects Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera as the Laureate for her work for LGBT rights and marginalised people in Uganda Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera, a Ugandan woman, is the founder and Executive Director of Freedom [...]
Photos: HURIDOCS moves to downtown Geneva
Dear colleagues, We finally moved out of cold and lonely Versoix to some very nice new offices in central Geneva, three minutes from the train station, and just in front of Manor. The new address: 11 rue de Cornavin. Here it is on the map. You are most welcome to visit. We have good coffee. [...]
Vacancy/Urgent: Data Manager for Kenyan TJRC
update 3 June 2011: The shortlist for this post has been made and we no longer accept applications. On behalf of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission of Kenya (TJRC), HURIDOCS is seeking a seeking highly motivated individual with proven team management abilities and data analysis skills to manage the transfer of information from over [...]
HURIDOCS Resource Library
The HURIDOCS Resource Library is a carefully curated collection of tools and manuals for human rights monitoring, documentation and communication, produced by HURIDOCS and many other organisations. It contains more than 200 manuals, articles, organisations, websites etc., divided into five main categories: Managing Documentation, Monitoring and Documentation, Search and Analysis, Specific Areas, and Websites and [...]
Vacancy for Technical Project Manager (former USSR Region)
Vacancy announcement for Technical Project Manager (former USSR Region)
L’annonce d’emploi pour Chef de projet technique (ex-URSS Région)
Empleo de convocatoria para el Técnico Director del Proyecto (ex URSS Región)
African Human Rights Case Law Analyser
The decisions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights are now available on-line through an advanced tool. At the NGO Forum just before the November 2010 session of the Commission, the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) and HURIDOCS launched a new online database of jurisprudence of the African Human [...]
HURIDOCS Micro-thesauri
The Micro-thesauri: a tool for documenting human rights violations is a collection of 48 lists with terminology was developed by HURIDOCS or adapted from a variety of authoritative resources. The Micro-thesauri are intended for use in conjunction with HURIDOCS Standard Formats manuals, and in particular with the HURIDOCS Events Standard Formats: a tool for documenting [...]
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