EXTRA RESOURCES
Where to go for support and online resources
To explore some available tools for documentation, and find out what kind of support is offered by the developers who make these tools, see our Tools Table or go to the tool developers’ websites.
This page offers a selection of support organisations and online resources.
- Advocacy Assembly is a free online training platform for human rights activists, campaigners and journalists. Relevant short courses include documenting and reporting human rights abuses using testimony (Cuny Brooklyn College), Secure communication (Security First), and Capturing, Storing and Sharing video evidence (WITNESS).
- The Advocates for Human Rights is a non-governmental organisation focused on the implementation of international human rights standards. Resources published on their website include Human Rights Tools for a Changing World: A step-by-step guide to human rights fact-finding, documentation, and advocacy.
- BIS (Basic Investigative Standards for International Crimes) app (iOS and Android) is a mobile app developed by Global Rights Compliance that provides detailed guidance around how to collect information in ways that “preserve its potential to be useful evidence in future national or international trials or accountability mechanisms.”
- The Engine Room is a nonprofit organisation that supports organisations to use technology and data in strategic, effective and responsible ways. We also offer direct support.
- HRDAG (Human Rights Data Analysis Group) is a non-profit organisation that conducts statistical analysis on behalf of human rights projects around the world.
- HURIDOCS is the creator of the documentation tool Uwazi. The organisation offers free resources on their website on topics like documenting human rights violations and organising information.
- ILGA Europe works for LBGTI equality and human rights in Europe and Central Asia. Their website includes a page on the basic principles of human rights documentation, and links to useful resources published by others.
- Mnemonic is the group behind the Syrian Archive, Yemeni Archive, and Sudanese Archive. They also offer trainings and publish useful information about their tools and methodologies for others to use.
- TRIAL International is a non-governmental organisation fighting impunity for international crimes and supporting victims. The organisation’s universal jurisdiction database offers an overview of major criminal cases related to universal jurisdiction worldwide.
- OHCHR (United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights) has this Manual on human rights monitoring available for download.
- WITNESS helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights. Their website holds a number of toolkits and guides, and they also offer trainings.
- Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition have published a manual on Gendering Documentation: A Manual For and About Women Human Rights Defenders