Huridocs
Switzerland
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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. HURIDOCS is a decentralised network of organisations that develops and uses documentation techniques, monitoring methods, information management systems and available technologies in the defense of human rights and the prevention of abuses.
