Human rights groups tend to experience some common problems when it comes to their data, particularly in verifying information and in keeping it safe. They also increasingly find themselves needing to target new audiences; as rights mechanisms become moving targets within development organizations...
Archive for November, 2009
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Posted in: Governance & Accountability, Rights & Justice
Topics: advocacy, data management, Elizabeth Eagen, human rights
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The commemorations, reflections and ruminations around the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Velvet revolutions overshadowed another November 20th anniversary of profound historical significance: the United Nations adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Posted in: Education & Youth, Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: Bernard Rorke, children, Roma
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It was particularly sad for me to read Robert L. Bernstein's op-ed article last month in The New York Times criticizing Human Rights Watch for its reporting on the Israeli-Arab conflict. Though Bernstein is right to differentiate between closed and open societies, he is wrong to suggest...
Posted in: Rights & Justice
Topics: Aryeh Neier, human rights, Human Rights Watch, Israel, Israeli-Arab conflict, The New York Times