Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems

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."


 * "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..."

Donors
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

 * 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)

Contact

 * Web: http://www.huridocs.org