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27-659: The Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders , sometimes called "the Nobel Prize for human rights", is an annual prize for human rights defenders. It was created in 1993 to honour and protect individuals around the world who demonstrate exceptional courage in defending and promoting human rights . Its principal aim is to provide protection ("protective publicity") to human rights defenders who are at risk by focusing international media attention on their plight, mainly through online means and advocacy work. The Award

54-625: A founding member of the Anti-Apartheid Movement , and also became secretary general of the National Council for Civil Liberties , a position that he held until 1966, when he became information and publications officer of the Commission for Racial Equality . Ennals became Secretary General of Amnesty International in 1968. At the time, the organization had 7 staff and an annual budget of £17'000. Twelve years later,

81-660: A tool for document management. In the years prior, HURIDOCS had worked with the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) to develop publicly accessible and easy-to-navigate repositories of African and Inter-American case law (which is often published in PDF format). These collaborations went on to inspire the creation of Uwazi. Since then, HURIDOCS has expanded

108-573: Is Uwazi, an open-source database application designed for human rights defenders to manage collections of facts, testimonies, evidence, cases, complaints and other types of information. HURIDOCS is a longtime member of the jury for the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders . The award is named after British human rights activist Martin Ennals , who was the founding president of HURIDOCS. Dutch lawyer Hans Thoolen, who cofounded

135-465: Is developed and maintained by the HURIDOCS team. Among other examples, it has been used by groups to preserve information about human rights violations, manage complaints of human rights abuses made to independent monitoring bodies, organize online libraries of human rights law and policy, and build collective memories in the pursuit of transitional justice. Uwazi was originally launched in 2017 as

162-457: Is granted annually to someone who has demonstrated an exceptional record of combating human rights violations by courageous means and is in need of protection. The award gives international "protective publicity" to human rights defenders around the world, mainly in their country of origin (a unique characteristic of this award, and very important from a protection point of view), through too much mass media (television, radio and internet). The winner

189-524: Is named after British human rights activist Martin Ennals, former secretary general of Amnesty International and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The Award carries an important financial prize intended to support the Award winners' work in the field of human rights. The Award ceremony, co-hosted with the City of Geneva , takes place in the first semester of the year. The Jury, composed of representatives of ten of

216-584: Is registered as a digital public good with the Digital Public Goods Alliance , a "multi-stakeholder initiative with a mission to accelerate the attainment of the sustainable development goals in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of, and investment in digital public goods." The Events Standard Formats is a structured approach for monitoring and recording information about abuses of civil, political , economic, social and cultural rights . It

243-595: Is selected in Geneva, the world center for human rights, by a jury made up of 10 leading international human rights organisations, such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch , Frontline , International Commission of Jurists , HURIDOCS , etc. The Martin Ennals Award is considered the award of the whole human rights movement. It is known as "the Nobel prize for human rights". The Annual Ceremony organised with

270-577: The City of Geneva is an event with world Internet and TV coverage. HURIDOCS Established in 1982, HURIDOCS develops strategies and tools to facilitate human rights monitoring and documentation work and improve access to bodies of human rights information. HURIDOCS consults with organizations of many scopes and sizes, including local grassroots groups, national human rights institutions and international NGOs, to help them overcome their information management challenges. HURIDOCS's current flagship tool

297-643: The Martin Ennals Award as well as other NGOs such as International Alert , was among the co-founders of HURIDOCS. HURIDOCS is also partnered with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG). The idea for HURIDOCS first took shape in 1979 at a meeting in Paris, France , among representatives of human rights organizations who identified a need to standardize human rights documentation practices and take better advantage of

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324-548: The Peace and Justice Strong Institutions Award from CogX, an honor meant to "highlight a company that champions human rights by directing its AI services towards the protection of these fundamental liberties." In 2022, Uwazi was recognized as a finalist for Fast Company 's World Changing Ideas Awards in the AI and data category. Uwazi is free software released under the MIT license . It

351-466: The application's functionalities to meet a broader set of human rights information management needs. One special area of development is the integration of machine learning features that automate certain burdensome tasks when it comes to managing and categorizing the contents of an Uwazi-based collection. In 2019 and 2020, HURIDOCS piloted these features in projects with UPR Info and Plan International with support from Google.org. In 2021, HURIDOCS won

378-474: The assistance of an international secretariat. Over time, HURIDOCS transitioned to a different set-up: a board of advisors representing diverse geographical and professional backgrounds now oversees the organization's long-term strategy and operations, while a management team led by the executive director guides the day-to-day activities. HURIDOCS is registered as a non-profit association under Swiss law, and its most recent statues were adopted in 2015. HURIDOCS

405-578: The complete contents of websites of human rights organizations. It was launched in 2003, and allowed for searching of information in 77 languages. By the time it was taken offline in 2016, it had crawled and indexed between 8 and 10 million web pages. The majority of HURIDOCS's income comes from grants awarded by philanthropic foundations, diplomatic and development agencies, and private companies. The remaining income comes from payments made by human rights partner organizations for services that HURIDOCS provides, as well as individual donations. Depending on

432-632: The country. This award -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Martin Ennals Martin Ennals (27 July 1927 – 5 October 1991) was a British human rights activist . Ennals served as the secretary-general of Amnesty International from 1968 to 1980. He went on to help found the British human rights organisation ARTICLE 19 in 1987 and International Alert in 1985. During Ennals's tenure as secretary general, Amnesty International

459-604: The staff had grown to 150 with an annual budget of £2 million. Ennals represented an era where Amnesty became a human rights organization of global concern. Amnesty was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 1976, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977, and the UN Human Rights Award in 1978. Ennals had other people accept the prizes on behalf of Amnesty. In 1982 Ennals led the founding assembly of HURIDOCS and

486-578: The then-emerging information and communication technologies . Three years later, the groundwork for the creation of an organization dedicated to human rights information and documentation was laid at a conference in Quito, Ecuador . A few weeks after that, HURIDOCS was officially founded at an assembly in Strasbourg, France , chaired by Filipino human rights lawyer and senator Jose W. Diokno and attended by several hundred human rights activists from around

513-418: The world's leading human rights organisations , selects the Award winner each year. Members of the jury include Amnesty International , Human Rights Watch , International Federation of Human Rights , World Organisation Against Torture , Front Line Defenders , International Commission of Jurists , Human Rights First , International Service for Human Rights , Brot für die Welt , and Huridocs . The award

540-411: The world, who later approved its official Constitution on July 24, close to 12:00 am. HURIDOCS was originally structured as a decentralized network of human rights organizations. Every four or five years, it convened members for a General Assembly in a different location to decide general policy of the network. This policy was then implemented by an executive committee (the "Continuation Committee") with

567-662: Was an open-source web-based database application that was based on the Events Standard Formats and the "who did what to whom" data model. Launched in 2009, OpenEvsys replaced the software WinEvsys, which was built on the Microsoft Access database management system. WinEvsys had in turn replaced Evsys, a DOS application built in 1989. HURIDOCS announced in 2020 that it was sunsetting OpenEvsys in favor of developing similar functionalities in Uwazi. Casebox

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594-874: Was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize , the Erasmus Prize , and the UN Human Rights Award . Born in 1927 in Walsall , Staffordshire to Arthur Ford Ennals and his wife Jessie Edith Taylor. Ennals was educated at Queen Mary's Grammar School and the London School of Economics , where he received a degree in international relations. Ennals worked for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) from 1951 to 1959. In 1959, Ennals became

621-478: Was first headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands , but by the mid-1980s it changed to Oslo, Norway . In 1993, it moved once more to Geneva, Switzerland and in 1998, to Versoix, Switzerland , before finally settling back down in Geneva in 2011. Although the organization maintains a small office in Geneva, the majority of its staff work remotely from around the globe. Uwazi is a web-based database application that

648-594: Was in the news in November 2023 when Solton Achilova was prevented from attending that years ceremony by the authorities in Turkmenistan. She was a critic of her country's government and she had been a runner-up for the 202? award. She had been unable to attend in 2021 because of the Covid-19 pandemic and she had planned to pick up the award in 2023. No reason was given by the authorities for preventing her leaving

675-498: Was its founding President. In 1986 Ennals became the first secretary general of International Alert . Ennals had two elder brothers, John and David. David Ennals was a British Labour Party politician who served as Secretary of State for Social Services , while John Ennals was Chairman of the Anti-Apartheid Movement from 1968 to 1976. The Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders , created in 1993,

702-411: Was open-source software for collaborative litigation management, designed with human rights organizations in mind. It was developed in 2011 jointly by HURIDOCS and software development consulting firm Ketse. HURIDOCS announced in 2020 that it was sunsetting Casebox in favor of developing similar functionalities in Uwazi. HuriSearch was a specialized human rights search engine which offered access to

729-658: Was originally published in 1993; HURIDOCS played a central coordinating role in the creation and subsequent revisions of the methodology, which included input from dozens of human rights practitioners and representatives from intergovernmental organizations. The Formats have been and continue to be widely employed by organizations for a variety of purposes, such as collecting evidence for transitional justice in Cambodia and South Africa, monitoring attacks against journalists, and supporting accurate mental health diagnoses for immigrants, refugees and torture survivors. OpenEvsys

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