Huridocs – Resources for Documenting Human Rights Violations

In its website, Huridocs has a page entirely dedicated to human rights documentation practices. It includes the following sections:
  • Research on human rights documentation practices

Lessons learned, key insights and perspectives from civil society documenters, tool developers and transitional justice actors.

  • Online course – Human rights documentation

Course on the key stages of human rights documentation and what can be achieved with community-led documentation.

  • Community resource – How to prepare for a database

Five community resources on planning for the information one would need when documenting human rights violations.

  • Handbook – What is Documentation?

A practical handbook for human rights defenders that offers an introduction to documentation

  • Handbook – What is Monitoring?
A comprehensive manual that explains the basics of how to methodically observe a human rights situation.
  • Methodology – Events Standard Formats

A methodology for monitoring and recording abuses of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.

  • Microthesauri

A collection of 48 sets of terminology for categorising different aspects of human rights violations.

  • Rapid Response Documentation Principles

A set of principles and concepts that can guide the development of context-specific tools and methodologies in doing documentation during emergent crises.