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Online Dialogue - New Tactics in Human Rights

DOCUMENTING HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS:

CHOOSING THE RIGHT APPROACH

January 27 to February 2, 2010

This dialogue will feature 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 will look at options for ways to collect, store and share your human rights data safely and effectively.  If you are trying to figure out the best documenting system for your work - or if you have found something that works well, please join us for this conversation to share your questions, ideas, resources and stories!

Featured Resource Practitioners

Featured resource practitioners for this dialogue include (click here for more biographical info):

• Vijaya Tripathi and Megan Price work with the Martus database developed by Benetech
• Agnethe Olesen, Daniel D'Esposito and Bert Verstappen work on the OpenEvSys database developed by HURIDOCS
• Nathan Freitas of the Guardian Project
• Jorge Villagran and Sofia Espinosa of the Guatemalan National Police Archive Team
• Patrick J. Pierce,  head of the International Center for Translational Justice - Burma Program
• Oleg Burlaca, utilizes HURIDOCS methodology and working on websites for World Organisation Against Torture and SOVA Center for Information and Analysis
• Patrick Stawski, Human Rights Archivist at Duke University and Seth Shaw, Duke's Libraries' Electronic Records Archivist
• Jana Asher, M.S., is the Executive Director of StatAid
• Agnieszka Raczynska of Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos, Mexico
• Daniel Rothenberg is the Managing Director of International Projects at the International Human Rights Law Institute (IHRLI) at DePaul University College of Law

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Need help participating?

This online dialogue is a conversation among human rights practitioners focused on the topic: Documenting Violations.  The conversation is not in 'real time,' so that people in any time zone can feel free to participate.  To participate in the dialogue, register or login, and reply to a comment below. For help participating in this dialogue, please visit this help page or take a moment to watch our online training video. If you are experiencing problems, please contact us.

Join this dialogue January 27 - February 2, 2010.

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