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🔎Extracting and organising data from PDFs can be complex and time-consuming. This is why HURIDOCS has developed the PDF Document Layout Analysis Service. This way, human rights defenders, researchers, legal practitioners, archivists, journalists and many others, can make their work easier and more efficient.⌚

➡️Swipe through to see how this state-of-the-art service works, and check out our latest blog post written by HURIDOCS’ machine learning specialists for a detailed look at its features.

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💡Project Spotlight: Fiji and Samoa’s national human rights institutions (NHRIs), Human Rights Commission Fiji and
Ombudsman/National Human Rights Institution Office SAMOA, a better way to manage complaints and data. With the support of the Pacific-Community-SPC, HURIDOCS facilitated the implementation of our flagship tool Uwazi to help streamline their systems and improve efficiency.
Learn more about how we are making a difference in NHRIs and how you can support our ongoing efforts. 🙌
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📢Our longstanding partner, UPR Info is holding a workshop on 20 August for legal practitioners in The Gambia to enhance the understanding of the UPR process and how this can uphold human rights standards in court!
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✨Last June, our longstanding partner TJWG: Transitional Justice Working Group 전환기 정의 워킹그룹l organised an international conference on ‘Combating North Korea’s Crime of Enforced Disappearance: Documentation Accountability and Sanctions’, where the database powered by Uwazi, Footprints 2.0 was launched! The HURIDOCS team was a guest speaker and part of an in-depth workshop the following day.
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HURIDOCS contributes to international conference on North Korea’s enforced disappearances | HURIDOCS HURIDOCS participated in key presentations that included the launch of the Footprints 2.0 database and insights into documentation practices.

🚀 Update Alert!
We are thrilled about the full integration of our open-source documentation tool Uwazi and the Tella app! Human rights defenders can connect to Uwazi databases and document human rights violations even in risky environments without an internet connection. 🌐📱✨

We are delighted to share an insightful interview by Sursiendo with our Programme Manager, Salva Lacruz! 🌍Explore the discussion about the vital work HURIDOCS is doing with Uwazi, providing human rights defenders with bespoke documentation technologies and strategies.

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Uwazi, «un modelo de documentación que se adecúe a las necesidades de la organización» Entrevista con Salva Lacruz, de Huridocs, organización que desarrolla Uwazi…

📣Exciting news! HURIDOCS and Eşit Haklar İçin İzleme Derneği/Association for Monitoring Equal Rights, supported by the EU, are launching the second cycle of sub-grants to empower disadvantaged groups in Türkiye. Local civil society groups can apply for financial and technical support to enhance economic, social, and cultural rights. 🇹🇷 Apply by 26 August 2024.
➡️Read more here: https://ow.ly/Es5B50SKWze

👥🎧Don’t miss the new Justice Visions podcast episode! This episode features Bono Olgado, HURIDOCS Senior Documentalist, and Sophia Bijleveld Milosevic, Head of Memorialisation and Victims Participation at Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organisation (AHRDO). They shed light on memorialisation and documentation efforts in Afghanistan, and reflect on the merits and challenges of arts-based approaches and how this was adapted to the Afghanistan Memory Home Museum database.
➡️Listen to the podcast: https://ow.ly/KiZC50SFfS8

✨AHRDO and HURIDOCS worked together to create the virtual museum Afghanistan Memory Home (AMH) which aims to to create a safe and inclusive space for victims and survivors to share their experiences while fostering collective memorialisation and providing a comprehensive perspective on the impact of war in Afghanistan.✨
➡️Find out more about AMH here: https://ow.ly/qYQ450SFfS5

🌐Last month, HURIDOCS was honoured to participate in the International Conference on Combating North Korea’s Crime of Enforced Disappearance. This event was co-hosted by our partner, the TJWG: Transitional Justice Working Group 전환기 정의 워킹그룹, and Yonsei University Global Graduate School of International Studies, and took place on 26 June 2024 at Yonsei University, Seoul 🇰🇷

☀️Representing HURIDOCS, Hyebin Bina Jeon (Programme Officer) and Bono Olgado (Senior Documentalist), shared valuable insights on best practices of civil society organisations in database establishment and advocacy on enforced disappearances.

📁During the conference, the Footprints 2.0 database was launched, a collaborative effort between HURIDOCS and TJWG that is dedicated to documenting North Korean-enforced disappearances.

▶️We invite you to watch the full recording of the event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6p0yGIGUb8&list=PLd2ZC53YQDK6EuSiwrTNz1SZMMfkSSVVN

⏳Check out HURIDOCS’ presentation that begins at 34 minutes, and learn more about TJWG’s Footprints project team at 58 minutes.

📢 We are hiring: Administrative Support for European Commission Projects!

Join our team at HURIDOCS as an Administrative Support Consultant and contribute to promoting ESC rights for disadvantaged groups in Türkiye. This part-time, 24-month consultancy role involves providing project management and administrative support for a European Commission-funded project. You will work remotely under the supervision of the Programme Manager, supporting reporting requirements, communication materials, and logistics for international travel.

🌍Preferably based in Africa, MENA or Europe.

➡️Explore the requirements and apply here: https://huridocs.org/join-our-team/

⌛ to a memorable afternoon a year ago in Geneva with HURIDOCS’ friends and colleagues, where we welcomed our new Executive Director, Danna Ingleton, and said heartfelt goodbyes to our former ED, Friedhelm Weinberg, and our valued board member, Gisella Reina. We celebrated a new chapter with new leadership while honouring the significant contributions of those who came before.🌟

🔍Curious about our first year in this new chapter?
Explore our 2023 Annual Report - https://ow.ly/NIzc50SyCNx

🌟 Don't miss HURIDOCS 2023 Annual Report!

Explore our major achievements and innovative projects from last year. See how we are advancing human rights worldwide through documentation technologies and strategic support! Explore the digital version and share it with your network.

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🌐Danna Ingleton, HURIDOCS Executive Director, addressed the Human Rights Council 56 side-event on 'Digital, Media, and Information Literacy: A Key Element of a Human Rights-based Approach to Artificial Intelligence,' stressing the critical need for civil society to understand and navigate emerging technologies.
➡️Read her full speech here: https://ow.ly/hc7O50SvKoR

📢 We are excited to share our 2023 Annual Report! Last year brought new leadership and important tech advancements that welcomed us to a new era in HURIDOCS’ history!

We are leveraging machine learning to enhance Uwazi, continued our legacy with documentation methodologies, plus attended several events to continue our work with the human rights community. And our support extended to over 113 partners in 49 countries around the world.
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✨Join us in our mission to advance human rights through innovative documentation technology ✨

🌟🔍Explore the critical role of documentation in transitional justice with the latest episode of Transforming Transitional Justice by the Global Initiative for Justice, Truth, and Reconciliation. Learn how documentation protects human rights and aids justice, with insights from Cynthia Ibale, Senior Lawyer at Project Expedite Justice (Sudan) and Dario Colmenares Millán, Program Director for GIJTR (Colombia, Myanmar, Bangladesh).

➡️Listen to the podcast here: https://ow.ly/eANt50SsPt2



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🌈 This Pride Month, join us in celebrating the incredible work of LGBTIQ+ rights defenders. Read about the inspiring journeys on our blog of Amanita Calderón-Cifuentes, Karla Avelar and Feliciano Reyna. Let's honour their dedication to justice and equality! 🌟 Read more about their work 👇 https://ow.ly/tbkm50SryRk

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Celebrating Pride Month: Honouring LGBTIQ+ rights defenders | HURIDOCS Join us as we honour the tireless efforts of human rights defenders who advocate for the rights of LGBTIQ+ persons.

🚀Happening now! "Digital, Media, and Information Literacy: A Key Element of a Human Rights-based Approach to Artificial Intelligence," organised by the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea in Geneva, and in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of Poland and UNESCO.
🌟Tune in now: https://ow.ly/k4sq50SoSwT

🌟 In case you missed it, this , watch HURIDOCS’ Tech Lead Rafael Pólit’s presentation on GitHub’s Open Source Friday🌟. Discover Uwazi's powerful features and versatility in human rights documentation. Watch it here 👇

Uwazi shines on Github’s Open Source Friday | HURIDOCS Uwazi was showcased on GitHub’s Open Source Friday by HURIDOCS' Tech Lead Rafael Pólit.

📣We are excited to announce that the Footprints 2.0 database was launched yesterday by our partners at the TJWG: Transitional Justice Working Group 전환기 정의 워킹그룹's International Conference on “Combating North Korea’s crime of enforced disappearances”.

🚀Footprints is a joint civil society initiative designed to document and publish detailed information on arbitrary detention, abduction, and enforced disappearances committed in and by North Korea. This project covers the stories of victims and perpetrators, proceedings to seek redress, relevant human rights instruments, and North Korean resources.

🌟The collaboration between HURIDOCS and TJWG included an overhaul of the database with a comprehensive data clean-up, automatic translation from Korean to English, the migration of nearly 100,000 historical victim records, and newly designed data visualisation pages. These enhancements make the database more user-friendly and informative, bringing almost 100,000 crucial stories to light.

🔍 Share this with your network and explore the database ➡️ link in the comments!

�HURIDOCS Executive Director, Danna Ingleton, will be a "Digital, Media, and Information Literacy: A Key Element of a Human Rights-based Approach to Artificial Intelligence" on June 27, 2024, from 12:00 to 13:00 CET. Organised by the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea in Geneva, and in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of Poland and UNESCO this event will explore the impact of AI technologies on human rights, focusing on freedom of opinion and expression.

�Alongside Danna, special panellists include Irene Khan, Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression; Adeline Hulin from UNESCO; and Piotr Czepulonis from the Permanent Mission of Poland. They will discuss how generative AI affects content production and dissemination, and the importance of fostering digital, media, and information literacy (DMIL) to empower citizens and protect human rights.

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📢THIS IS TODAY! Don't miss GitHub's Open-Source Friday featuring Uwazi, where our Tech Lead, Rafa Pólit, will take a deep dive into HURIDOCS' flagship documentation tool🔍
Tune in at 19:00 CET 👉 https://ow.ly/rYRj50ShU6A

⌛ to the Uwazi inception workshop, in Kenya! 🌍

✨In Swahili, Uwazi means “openness,” and it is based on this principle that the tool was born to transform the way human rights defenders manage vast amounts of crucial data. With the aim of creating a “Case Law Analyser for All”, HURIDOCS convened an in-depth and collaborative consultation with a wide range of prominent human rights actors. In September 2015, representatives from 21 organisations including Kenya Law, ICJ Kenya, Kituo Cha Sheria-Legal Advice Centre, African Centre for Open Governance, Katiba Institute- KI Official, Cleen Foundation, Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, Southern African Legal Information Institute, and African Legal Information Institute met at the beautiful Lake Naivasha to brainstorm on the development of a tool to better manage, publish and share knowledge. The inception workshop was co-funded by the Public International Law & Policy Group - Netherlands Office and the development of Uwazi was initially supported by the MacArthur Foundation.

🚀Uwazi was officially launched in 2017 and quickly evolved beyond a simple document management tool. Today it is helping human rights defenders, activists, lawyers, researchers, archivists and others to highlight, tag, organise, and relate various types of information—from text documents to multimedia files and geolocation points.

➡️Nine years later, Uwazi truly symbolises openness and empowers the changemakers using it to make a positive difference in the world!

➡️Find out how you can support our mission to continue strengthening the human rights community!

Join HURIDOCS Tech Lead Rafa Pólit on 14 June for GitHub’s Open Source Friday, who will take a deep dive into Uwazi, our flagship, open-source tool that is strengthening human rights defenders with their documentation efforts worldwide. 🌎✨

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Take a lot at the work of our partner International Service for Human Rights and their database in - Many human rights defenders face reprisals and intimidation by their governments, after engaging with UN bodies. Find out more about the documented reprisals on this comprehensive database!

✨ Are you a working on reprisals?

✊ With ISHR's Database, you can research, analyse and take action on cases and situations of intimidation and reprisals documented by the UN Secretary-General since 2010.

➡️ Learn more: https://endreprisals.ishr.ch/

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Don't miss our own Rafael Pólit, HURIDOCS Tech Lead, talking about Uwazi on Github's Open Source Friday! 🗼🙌

Empowering human rights defenders globally, Uwazi is revolutionizing the field.

Join HURIDOCS Tech Lead Rafael Pólit for an in-depth look at this important open-source platform on our next , June 14th. RSVP now ⬇️
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Imagine four walls of this! 📦 For many human rights defenders, archives often look like this—boxes upon boxes of crucial case management and documentation files. But what if there was a better way to manage and protect this invaluable information?

🌐 Uwazi is an open-source platform that offers a safe, secure, and flexible solution for human rights documentation. Developed by our dedicated teams at HURIDOCS, it provides a bespoke solution tailored to users’ needs. Uwazi streamlines workflows, giving defenders more time to focus on what truly matters: advocacy, justice, and making a difference.

💪By transitioning to Uwazi, defenders can ensure their vital work is not just preserved but also more effective and impactful.

HURIDOCS strengthens human rights defenders with a secure, sophisticated tool to document human rights violations. Get in touch to find out how you can support our mission and help defenders worldwide! 🚀

📣Do you have a passion for human rights and software development? HURIDOCS is seeking an experienced Front-end Software Engineer to join our diverse global team and contribute to our open-source product Uwazi, a knowledge management tool used by human rights defenders worldwide to manage collections of information.

👉Be part of something big and help develop software solutions for HURIDOCS including research, analysis, programming, testing and providing support according to the chosen development methodology.

👉Read the job description for more details and apply before16 June 2024 at 18:00 UTC!
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