Amassing evidence applying information technology and forensic science in human rights documentation

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This report presents content from the conference and workshop entitled “Amassing Evidence: Applying Information Technology and Forensic Science in Human Rights Documentation,” held on 25-27 July 2017 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. The three-day event was designed to facilitate knowledge-sharing between human rights documentation practitioners and invited experts in the fields of law, information technology, data analysis and forensic science. The conference and workshop was the first of its kind to be organized by the Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG), as well as the first in Korea to cover those specific themes. The event was run in partnership with the United Nations Human Rights Office in Seoul, and received sponsorship and logistical support from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Amnesty International South Korea, the Asan Institute for Policy Studies and Korea University Human Rights Center.The event was designed in response to the growing need of human rights documentation groups for access to advanced methodologies, tools, and legal knowledge that enhances the effectiveness of their documentation and advocacy efforts. It gave a thorough overview of several key aspects of human rights documentation practice via the presentations invited experts: Dr. Nevenka Tromp, Executive Director of the Geoffrey Nice Foundation; Friedhelm Weinberg of Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems (HURIDOCS); Dr. Patrick Ball of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG); Youk Chhang from the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam); and Stefan Schmitt, formerly of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). Further details regarding the backgrounds of the presenters are found in this report.In the two days following the conference, a workshop took place to offer a more in-depth, structured training program to the invited human rights documentation practitioners and advocates. The practitioner participants came from around 10 different country-groups, including from South East Asia, South America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. During the workshop, trainers discussed case studies, examples of best practice, and technological innovations with practical applicability to the documentation process.The geographical diversity of the groups represented brought many unique insights drawn from the contexts they operate in. The workshop provided a safe space in which participants could exchange their experience and expertise, reflecting on their existing activities and ways to improve their operating procedures with newly learned tools and methods.

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