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HURIDOCS
HURIDOCS (Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems) is a non-governmental organization that supports human rights groups with strategies and tools to mobilise information for justice and accountability.
Established in 1982, HURIDOCS develops strategies and tools to facilitate human rights monitoring and documentation work and improve access to bodies of human rights information. HURIDOCS consults with organizations of many scopes and sizes, including local grassroots groups, national human rights institutions and international NGOs, to help them overcome their information management challenges.
HURIDOCS's current flagship tool is Uwazi, an open-source database application designed for human rights defenders to manage collections of facts, testimonies, evidence, cases, complaints and other types of information.
The idea for HURIDOCS first took shape in 1979 at a meeting in Paris, France, among representatives of human rights organizations who identified a need to standardize human rights documentation practices and take better advantage of the then-emerging information and communication technologies. Three years later, the groundwork for the creation of an organization dedicated to human rights information and documentation was laid at a conference in Quito, Ecuador. A few weeks after that, HURIDOCS was officially founded at an assembly in Strasbourg, France, chaired by Filipino human rights lawyer and senator Jose W. Diokno and attended by several hundred human rights activists from around the world, who later approved its official Constitution on July 24, close to 12:00 am.
HURIDOCS was originally structured as a decentralized network of human rights organizations. Every four or five years, it convened members for a General Assembly in a different location to decide general policy of the network. This policy was then implemented by an executive committee (the "Continuation Committee") with the assistance of an international secretariat.
Over time, HURIDOCS transitioned to a different set-up: a board of advisors representing diverse geographical and professional backgrounds now oversees the organization's long-term strategy and operations, while a management team led by the executive director guides the day-to-day activities. HURIDOCS is registered as a non-profit association under Swiss law, and its most recent statues were adopted in 2015.
HURIDOCS was first headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands, but by the mid-1980s it changed to Oslo, Norway. In 1993, it moved once more to Geneva, Switzerland and in 1998, to Versoix, Switzerland, before finally settling back down in Geneva in 2011. Although the organization maintains a small office in Geneva, the majority of its staff work remotely from around the globe.
HURIDOCS is a longtime member of the jury for the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders. The award is named after British human rights activist Martin Ennals, who was the founding president of HURIDOCS. Dutch lawyer Hans Thoolen, who cofounded the Martin Ennals Award as well as other NGOs such as International Alert, was among the co-founders of HURIDOCS. HURIDOCS is also partnered with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG).
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HURIDOCS
HURIDOCS (Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems) is a non-governmental organization that supports human rights groups with strategies and tools to mobilise information for justice and accountability.
Established in 1982, HURIDOCS develops strategies and tools to facilitate human rights monitoring and documentation work and improve access to bodies of human rights information. HURIDOCS consults with organizations of many scopes and sizes, including local grassroots groups, national human rights institutions and international NGOs, to help them overcome their information management challenges.
HURIDOCS's current flagship tool is Uwazi, an open-source database application designed for human rights defenders to manage collections of facts, testimonies, evidence, cases, complaints and other types of information.
The idea for HURIDOCS first took shape in 1979 at a meeting in Paris, France, among representatives of human rights organizations who identified a need to standardize human rights documentation practices and take better advantage of the then-emerging information and communication technologies. Three years later, the groundwork for the creation of an organization dedicated to human rights information and documentation was laid at a conference in Quito, Ecuador. A few weeks after that, HURIDOCS was officially founded at an assembly in Strasbourg, France, chaired by Filipino human rights lawyer and senator Jose W. Diokno and attended by several hundred human rights activists from around the world, who later approved its official Constitution on July 24, close to 12:00 am.
HURIDOCS was originally structured as a decentralized network of human rights organizations. Every four or five years, it convened members for a General Assembly in a different location to decide general policy of the network. This policy was then implemented by an executive committee (the "Continuation Committee") with the assistance of an international secretariat.
Over time, HURIDOCS transitioned to a different set-up: a board of advisors representing diverse geographical and professional backgrounds now oversees the organization's long-term strategy and operations, while a management team led by the executive director guides the day-to-day activities. HURIDOCS is registered as a non-profit association under Swiss law, and its most recent statues were adopted in 2015.
HURIDOCS was first headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands, but by the mid-1980s it changed to Oslo, Norway. In 1993, it moved once more to Geneva, Switzerland and in 1998, to Versoix, Switzerland, before finally settling back down in Geneva in 2011. Although the organization maintains a small office in Geneva, the majority of its staff work remotely from around the globe.
HURIDOCS is a longtime member of the jury for the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders. The award is named after British human rights activist Martin Ennals, who was the founding president of HURIDOCS. Dutch lawyer Hans Thoolen, who cofounded the Martin Ennals Award as well as other NGOs such as International Alert, was among the co-founders of HURIDOCS. HURIDOCS is also partnered with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG).