Human rights describe moral norms or moral standards which are understood as inalienable fundamental rights of every human person. Bangladesh institute of human rights bihr has been initiated with a promise to create awareness among community level for the protection and promotion of human rights and ensuring the respect and realization of the universal declaration of human rights and the fundamental provisions of the constitution of bangladesh as well as providing humanitarian assistance to. Kent german cnet the us placed 28 chinese organizations on an economic blacklist monday, citing a range of human rights violations and technology abuses. Benetech assists human rights defenders in uganda by providing secure datacollection software and capacity building to capture the stories of injustice and abuse. Jul 03, 2019 human rights watch is a 501c3 nonprofit registered in the us under ein. With smart information management, our partners are able to expose human rights violations for the protection of survivors and to hold perpetrators accountable. Weve trained trade unions, human rights ngos and activists on using them. Human rights violations are being documented using benetechs secure human services technology. Human rights violations recognition in images using cnn. The launch of the human rights measurement initiative dataset promises to provide comprehensive overviews of how countries are performing on human rights commitments.
Research, investigation, and documentation focused on human rights have led to the development of rightsbased interventions, and the promotion of human rights in the core strategies of international health organizations. Learn how our human services software is used to meet this pressing need. I argue that data analytics can play an important role in refocusing the international human rights regime on its original goal of preventing human. As scientists, we work to support our partnersthe advocates and human rights defenders who speak truth to powerby producing unbiased, scientific results that bring clarity to human rights violence and by ensuring that the truth is the. It archives videos, pictures, documents, and other files along with syriaspecific metadata such as the source, location, time, types and methods of violations, and the actors involved. Ndburma formed in 2004 in order to provide a way for burma human rights organisations to collaborate on the human rights documentation process. Help purchase an additional two servers so that we can securely preserve visual documentation related to human rights violations committed in syria for another year. Rsa has cooperated with various experts that have worked on the field for a long period of time monitoring and reporting on human rights violations and authorities abuse of power. Any official statement from reputable human rights organizations condemning us policy is always welcome. Documenting human rights violations could be based on a wide range of purposes. Creating a database tool that protects human rights.
Technology tools in human rights the engine room library. Provides data on human rights violations for 202 countries, annually over the period 19812011. In some places, even owning a smartphone that can film is problematic. It focuses on violations of the international covenant on civil and political rights, to which the country is party. Search worldwide for institutions, programmes and materials that aim to foster human rights education and training. Published datasets by the human rights data analysis group hrdag on human rights violations in. Human rights violations recognition in images using cnn features.
Newer technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain have the potential to make significant positive contributions to the promotion and protection of human rig. It is being used to improve access to human rights information, and to support human rights investigations managing large amounts of source documents and media to advance transitional justice efforts and evidencebased advocacy. The human rights council is a subsidiary body of the general assembly and reports directly to it. The manifesto project database is based on content analyses of party election programs for free and fair elections in more than 50 countries since 1945. The martus human rights bulletin system is a database tool that addresses the specific technological needs of the human rights community by dramatically improving their ability to manage information, document abuses and prevent the information from being confiscated or destroyed. The ciri projects data stretch back, annually, to 1981 and can be freely accessed at. If you know of anyone in the united states or of any u. Human rights, organization to report violations and abuses. In this series, openglobalrights authors explore the types, sources and uses of human rights data. Uwazi is a free, opensource solution for organising and analysing information.
Working with huridocs, we are revolutionizing the way human rights violations are monitored and documented in cambodia, and instilling a collaborative approach to promoting and protecting human rights. The dataset provides measures of the following issue domains. Learn how activists use data to substantiate claims. Openglobalrights and university of washington rule of law initiative technology can be a powerful tool for human rights. Gis, survey research, and qualitative data analysis software. Basic principles on documenting human rights violations. Sep 27, 2017 the distribution reveals that human rights violations were recorded in a total of 10 districts that are. Engineered for human rights organizations and networks, openevsys provides. Heal zimbabwe observed that the human rights violations recorded in this period were committed by 18 perpetrators 16 males and 2 females. One of the fundamental drivers in the safeguarding of human rights is the recognition of new dimensions along which individual rights can be violated. Chinese company blacklisted over human rights violations. May 18, 2018 evaluate the effects of different feature fusion mechanisms for human rights violations recognition.
The martus software is sufficiently flexible to accommodate a broad range of. Published datasets by the human rights data analysis group hrdag on human rights violations in colombia, gbuatemala, sierra leone, kosovo, and liberia. The human rights data analysis group is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world. Syrian archive is in a race against time to preserve evidence of human rights violations in syria and we need your help. The term documentation could have different meanings, depending on the geographical context or in the field where it is employed. This is an aggregated metric on that basis of multiple variables, including. It is important to stress that documenting is a process including different steps. Human rights violations play an important role as determinants of, or structural barriers to, health.
Sjacs database is designed to preserve, catalogue, and facilitate the analysis of documentation of human rights, humanitarian, and international criminal violations. Data sources human rights research guides at new york. While progress is being made in some areas, for many people the human rights situation is getting worse. Kent german cnet the us placed 28 chinese organizations on an economic blacklist monday, citing a range of. Finland amnesty international usa human rights organization. Many organizations concerned with human rights advocacy use digital images as a tool for improving the exposure of human rights and international humanitarian law violations that may otherwise be impossible. Sep 24, 2018 the defenders database didi is an easytouse tool for human rights defenders to register, analyse and share information about human rights violations. While reiterating the british stance that the kashmir dispute is a bilateral issue between india and pakistan, the minister however stressed that the human rights concerns made it an international issue. Search for information, policies and measures taken at the international, regional and national levels to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. International human rights efforts have been overly reliant on reactive tools and focused on treaty compliance, while often underemphasizing the prevention of human rights violations. Washington, dc, april 24, 2020 the world bank should work with the tanzanian government to ensure that all pregnant girls and adolescent mothers can attend. It permits users to record data on violations both online and offline, store documentation and import old reports to give the information life again. Human rights violations an overview sciencedirect topics.
However, it is not always clear how reliable and helpful these data are, and how to best use them in human rights work. This is a scoping study on how human rights defenders hrds are using. In order to understand the answer to that question, we have to understand what rights we have to begin with. Developed with both english and arabic user interfaces, the database uses opensource software. Ndburma trains local organisations in human rights documentation. It aims to help understand the realities of tool use and identify hrds needs as they stand. Human rights archive hra database, a repository of approximately 3k photographs of various human rights violations captured in realworld situations and. Human rights studies online comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and genocides worldwide from 1900 to 2010. Human rights encompass a wide variety of rights, including but not limited to the right to a fair trial, protection of physical integrity, protection against enslavement, the right to free speech, and the right to education. The collection includes primary and secondary materials across various media formats and content types. Sexual minorities in subsaharan africa face a hostile social climate and even statesanctioned persecution. Human rights violations in the united states a report on u. Can big data revolutionize international human rights law. Who makes claims about corporate human rights abuse.
Individuals and groups who protect human rights and civil liberties work in. With regard to terrorism these include the global terrorism database gtd by the national consortium for the study of terrorism and responses to terrorism start, founded in 2005 by the. Amazon faces investor pressure over facial recognition. Human rights violations have adverse consequences for health. The universal human rights index provides easy access to countryspecific human rights information emanating from international human rights mechanisms in the united nations system. Wendy betts, director of eyewitness to atrocities, said. May 21, 2014 the ciri human rights data project has released its ratings of government respect for 16 internationallyrecognized human rights in almost every country in the world for the year 2011. These rights are also different depending on what country of origin you reside in. Being independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan, we can apply rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world. It is designed for use by scholars and students who seek to test theories about the causes and consequences of human rights violations, as well as policy makers and analysts who seek to estimate the human rights effects of a wide variety of institutional changes and public policies including democratization, economic aid, military aid. Jan 06, 2020 curated by staff at the carr center for human rights policy, this database provides access to hundreds of articles, research papers, presentations, news and other resources relevant to the topic of violence against women vaw. Human rights and special prosecutions section tips criminal division. Lgbti organizers in these communities struggle with lack of access to key services, threats, arrests and detainment, and, in some instances, direct physical violence.
Database project to catalog allegations of human rights abuses by corporations. The martus human rights bulletin system is a database tool that addresses the specific technological needs of the human rights community by dramatically improving their ability to manage. And, what explains why some claims are addressed and others are not. Cingranellirichards ciri human rights data project. The global human rights community has access to more data, from a wider range of sources, than ever before. International protection of human rights is in danger of unravelling as shortterm national selfinterest and draconian security crackdowns have led to a wholesale assault on basic freedoms and rights, warned amnesty international as it launched its annual assessment of human rights around the world.
Measuring the health impact of human rights violations. Armed conflict database covers international and internal conflicts, as well as terrorism. Human rights violations measured on a scoring system from 0 to 10 where 10 is worst. Home what we do our work supporting the movement funder ilgaeuropes documentation and advocacy fund human rights documentation tools find in this section the basic principles behind human rights violations documentation, links to other sources and resources from ilgaeurope. Part of the experts work in the past has been monitoring and reporting on inhuman and degrading detention conditions in. Zaka, chivi, bikita, gutu, mberengwa, muzarabani, mt darwin, hurungwe, wedza and mutasa. Huridocs and others have built easytouse database applications. Documenting human rights violations benetech software. Curated by staff at the carr center for human rights policy, this database provides access to hundreds of articles, research papers, presentations, news and other resources relevant to the topic of violence against women vaw. Read a list of organizations to contact regarding human rights abuses, such as amnesty international, doctors without borders, human rights watch, red cross, unicef, salvation army, refugees international, united nations office of the high commissioner for human rights and international justice mission.
This important online dialogue featured documenting violations. The uppsala conflict data program at the university of uppsala has. With smart information management, our partners are able to expose human rights violations for the protection of survivors and to. He described the software as a product that could lead to violations of human and civil rights around the world, especially if sold to authoritarian governments. May 18, 2018 human rights archive hra database, a repository of approximately 3k photographs of various human rights violations captured in realworld situations and surroundings, labeled with eight semantic. Video was identified as especially problematic within zimbabwe. A 2017 human rights watch report demonstrated that pretrial detentionoften resulting from failure to pay bailcoerces people, some innocent, into pleading guilty just to get out of jail. We are an ngo that supports human rights organizations to use information and technology in the simplest and most efficient way. However, to date, there remains little empirical evidence documenting this association, beyond the obvious physical and psychological effects of torture. The united nations human rights council, created at the 2005 world summit to replace the united nations commission on human rights, has a mandate to investigate violations of human rights. Documenting human rights violations is a critical step toward social reform. The african human rights case law analyzer is a searchable database of human rights decisions from supranational judicial and quasijudicial bodies in africa, including the african commission and court of human and peoples rights, african committee of experts on the rights and welfare of children, ecowas community court of justice, sadc. Candidates will not be considered for employment with the united nations if they have committed violations of international human rights law, violations of international humanitarian law, sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, or sexual harassment, or if there are reasonable grounds to believe that they have been involved in the commission of any.
For many groups that are documenting human rights violations, this work doesnt. Human rights violations archives human rights connected. Statistics are not exhaustive and refer to 160 countries where amnesty international documented or received information from credible sources on specific human rights violations during 2014, unless otherwise stated. Human rights violations not only affect the physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing of service and nonservice recipients with mental disorders but also significantly influence potential service recipients access to mental health services, thereby creating a dynamic where not receiving any form of treatment or support may. Between 1977 and 1990, more than 9,000 testimonies were taken in an effort to document the. The organization has published findings on conflicts in syria, colombia, chad, kosovo, guatemala, peru, east timor, india, liberia, bangladesh, and sierra leo. Human rights groups can now use internet technology in order to help collect, organise, safeguard and disseminate information about human rights violations. Activists now have a model of secure, systematic documentation of human rights violations, and they have transformed this data into evidencebased advocacy tools for social justice.
Openevsys is a database for managing information about human rights violations. Chinese company blacklisted over human rights violations is. In some contexts, using technology to document human rights violations was identified as a potential risk. Sjacs database is designed to preserve, catalogue, and facilitate the. Violations database sjac s database is designed to preserve, catalogue, and facilitate the analysis of documentation of human rights, humanitarian, and international criminal violations. Choosing the right approach from january 27 to february 2, 2010 this dialogue featured practitioners that have developed database systems to document human rights violations, organizations on the ground documenting violations, and those that are training practitioners on how to choose the right approach and system for their. This is a scoping study on how human rights defenders hrds are using technology tools to communicate, analyse and manage information, identify new incidents and archive data. I can speak for the united states being a us citizen. The united nations had no realistic leverage to influence the us government in the baluchi case or similar matters, varon cautioned. Evaluate the effects of different feature fusion mechanisms for human rights violations recognition. The chrd team is currently engaged in a pilot project to create a database of claims of corporate human rights abuses from 2000 through today. Additional legal case management software options not designed. Allegations of human rights violations in kashmir must be investigated, says uk foreign secy. Aug 29, 20 the ciri human rights data project has released its ratings of government respect for 16 internationallyrecognized human rights in almost every country in the world for the year 2011.
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