Documentation
Ground Penetrating Radar for Human Rights Documenters
The goal of the webinar is for human rights documenters to understand ground penetrating radar technology, and its applications for locating graves. 📍Speaker: Dr. Kisha Supernant, Director of the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology and an Associate...
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What Can Go Right?
Positive use cases for science and technology in human rights investigationsAccess Accountability is proud to present two case studies of human rights documenters using cutting edge technologies to document mass graves and genocide. Read more to learn how to apply...
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Hanna Song at NKDB | Meet the Human Rights Documenters (Part 2)
Hanna Song, Director of International Cooperation at Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB), talks about 5 years of challenges and opportunities for the North Korean human rights movement in the last 5 years. This video is a part of the series "Meet the...
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Digital Security
Digital Privacy
What is Digital Privacy? Have you ever CC'd your recipient contacts in an email, rather than using BCC? Connected to unsecured public Wi-Fi networks? Had an advertisement follow you from site to site? Given a game on your smartphone unjustified permission to access...
Interview with Digital Security Trainer Christina Lopez
Online Security in an Age of Digital Adversity: Interview with Christina Lopez, Foundation for Media Alternatives, Philippines June 2018 Christina Lopez worked with the Foundation for Media Alternatives, an organization which assists citizens and communities in the...
Digital Security Checklist for Human Rights Defenders
As technology experts are fond of reminding us: “Your information is only as secure as your weakest device”. With increasingly sophisticated cyber-monitoring a growing challenge for human rights documenters, it is more important than ever to make sure your devices and...
Law
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[Article] Utilizing the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD)
Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG) specializes in human rights documentation, and have successfully utilized UN human rights bodies for our advocacy work. In this article, I will walk you through how you can also do this. I’ll be talking about the UN Working...
Human Rights Law Resources
Training Sessions by International Justice Resource Center (IJRC) explore topics including the UN Human Rights Mechanisms and Documenting Human Rights Abuses. IJRC also has a series of publications including the guide Researching International Human Rights Law....
Utilizing International Human Rights Mechanisms
When people first hear about the international human rights system, people go like, "Oh, that must be such a difficult thing that only lawyers can do. Or people with some kind of academic background can do." Well, that is not actually the case. And the whole point of...
Case Studies
Justice for the Dead?: Mass Graves in Afghanistan
Mass graves are burial sites containing multiple human remains, often following events with multiple casualties such as epidemic, famine or mass killing. After decades of conflicts in Afghanistan, armed attacks had cost the lives of millions. Many years have passed...
Summary of the North Korean Archives Project 2018 Publication
To download the publication click here. The North Korean Archives Project explores the archives of former communist secret police agencies and compiles information on North Korea kept in these. The 2018 publication focuses on Polish archives and includes a full index...
Crisis in Darfur
Image source: https://www.google.com/earth/outreach/success-stories/united-states-holocaust-memorial-museum/ Click here to see PART 1 of this series. Summary of Project Crisis in Darfur is a collaborative project between the U.S. Holocaust Memorial...