HURIDOCS - where power of information & communication is harnessed in the service of human rights by Kofi Kumado, HURIDOCS Chairman 1:35am 16th Jun, 2008   HURIDOCS is a global capacity-building network of organisations that use documentation techniques, monitoring methods, information management systems and technologies in the defence of human rights and the prevention of abuses.    "One fundamental characteristic of genuine human rights organisations, whatever their focus of work, is the bias for truth. Truth is the foundation of justice. Human rights organisations must always strive to bring out the truth in its entirety as much as possible." - Kofi Kumado, HURIDOCS Chairman    Our Vision: A world where the power of information and communication is harnessed in the service of human rights.    Our Mission: To strengthen the capacity of human rights organisations to manage and communicate information, enhancing their effectiveness and credibility.    Our Goal: To ensure that human rights organisations have the tools, knowledge, skills and supporting services to use their information resources effectively.    Our objectives are to develop tools and techniques for monitoring, information management and communication; and to provide them to human rights organisations and national human rights institutions.    To build the capacity of the human rights community to master and adapt these tools and techniques to their specific needs through training and other activities.    To support human rights organisations to set up and strengthen their information systems. To improve human rights advocacy and reporting techniques. To expand human rights outreach and network capacity. To provide a centre of excellence on methods and techniques for human rights.    HURIDOCS is a decentralised network and has partnerships and collaboration with a large number of human rights organsations world-wide.    * Visit the link below to access the HURIDOCS Database. Visit the related web page
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