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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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)

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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 [...]

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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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HuriSearch – the Open Source human rights search engine

texte en français ci-bas texto en español debajo HuriSearch – the Open Source human rights search engine HURIDOCS is glad to announce the launch of a new, Open Source version of HuriSearch, its specialised search engine for human rights information. HuriSearch is a very useful resource for human rights researchers and advocates, academic staff and [...]

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Vacancy announcement: Project manager for projects in the former Soviet Union (60% position)

sommaire en français annonce pour poste (60%) comme chef de projets pour l’ex URSS resumen en español anuncio de posición (60%) como gerente de proyectos para la ex URSS Vacancy announcement HURIDOCS is a global capacity-building network of organisations that use documentation techniques, monitoring methods, information management systems and technologies in the defence of human rights [...]

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Syrian human rights defender wins Martin Ennals Award 2010

texte en français ci-dessous texto en español debajo PRESS RELEASE Friday 7 May 2010 The main award of the international human rights movement in 2010 goes to a Syrian human rights defender lingering in prison The Jury of the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA), meeting in Geneva, announces its Laureate for 2010 [...]

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