This on-line dialogue featured Documenting Violations: Choosing the Right Approach from January 27 to February 2, 2010. It featured practitioners that have developed database systems to document human rights violations, organizations on the ground documenting violations, and those that are training practitioners on how to choose the right approach and system for their documentation. We looked at options for ways to collect, store and share your human rights data safely and effectively.
Participants discussed the range of methods that can be used to thoroughly document human rights violations, and utilize them to motivate a response. Participants shared a myriad of powerful examples from their own work, proving the importance and vast range of impact that documentation has.
Main themes were:
- What is documentation?
- How to determine what kinds of information to collect?
- What are the ways to acquire, store and organise information?
- What are the purposes of documentation?
- What are the risks, challenges and opportunities of documentation work?
