Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems
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Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems (HURIDOCS) "is a global capacity-building network of organisations that use documentation techniques, monitoring methods, information management systems and available technologies in the defence of human rights and the prevention of abuses." [1]
- "The idea of HURIDOCS was born three years before its official founding in 1982. In 1979, the Ford Foundation called a meeting near Paris of some key human rights organisations. The meeting participants noted that information and communication technologies were being used by commercial companies and government agencies.
- "They saw that the community of non-governmental human rights organisations needed to familiarise themselves with these tools. If this were done collaboratively, resources could be pooled.
- "An international volunteer working group was formed to create a network-type of organisation. In 1982, the HURIDOCS founding assembly met in Strasbourg and approved the organisational elements of the network: a Council to serve as governing body; members (organisations taking part in the activities of the network on a voluntary basis); and a Permanent Unit composed of fulltime staff to coordinate activities in the network. The HURIDOCS founding president was Martin Ennals (1927-1991), a dedicated human rights activist who had been the first Secretary-General of Amnesty International..." [2]
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Donors [3]
HURIDOCS Financial Contributors since 2000 have included:
- Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Department for International Development, UK
- Human Rights Desk of Evangelical Churches, Germany
- Human Rights Education Associates
- International Development Research Centre, Canada
- Joyce Mertz Gilmore Foundation, USA
- Mennonite Central Committee, Canada
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland
- Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- [[Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
- Prime Minister’s Office, France
- Reebok Human Rights Foundation
- Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
- Swiss Department for Foreign Affairs
People [4]
- Kofi Kumado (Ghana), Chair LL.M University of Leiden
- Judith Dueck (Canada), Vice Chair
- Agnethe Olesen (Denmark), Treasurer
- Jonathan Kuttab (Palestine) JUr. Dr. University of Virginia
- Aurora Javate de Dios (Philippines) Ph. D.
- James Lawson (France)
- Aida María Noval (Mexico)
International Advisory Council members
- Frej Fenniche (Tunisia)
- Hannah Forster (The Gambia)
- Tokunbo Ige (Nigeria)
- Livingstone Sewanyana (Uganda)
- Agnes Camacho (Philippines)
- Kathleen Maltzahn (Australia)
- Kumar Rupesinghe (Sri Lanka)
- Saskia Bal (The Netherlands)
- Marija Laszlo (Croatia)
- Mary Robinson (United Kingdom)
- Carmen Garreton (Chile)
- Ramon Martinez Portorreal (Dominican Republic)
- Rosario Narvaez Vargas (Peru)
