About this site

Why did we create this site?

After several years of searching the internet, we gradually discovered and assembled a collection of human rights tools and resources of amazing quality - and all of them were offered by their developers to other human rights workers. Taken together, these tools consitute a formidable resource, and a wonderful example of sharing and collaboration.

However one thing that was missing was a directory which made it easy to access this collection of wonderful tools. This is why we created an E-Library which had to have the following qualities:

About the team

He now works as training officer for HURIDOCS, based in Versoix, which helps other human rights organisations improve their capacity to monitor respect for human rights and document violations.

Daniel holds a BA in political science from the University of Lausanne and an MSc in NGO Management from the London School of Economics. He lives near Geneva, in Coppet.


Helene Hedberg - Bloggers animator

Helene is a Swedish girl in her twenties currently studying a Human Rights programme in Stockholm. She studied the IB-programme during the high school period where a lot of the international engagement was encouraged and broadened. She has been involved in some UN voluntary work besides being part of a lot of church-related projects and a mission organization called MAF.

Besides studying, the involvement in an after school center for mostly immigrant kids in one of the southern suburbs of Stockholm (Varberg) takes a lot of time.

Helene animates the Human Rights Bloggers community, and runs her own blog called undialogue, where issues concerning human rights are discussed and the subject of diplomatic dialogue is debated.


Idowu Ajibade - Research Associate

Idowu is a consultant to a number of organisations promoting human rights, peace, and anticorruption. She recently concluded an assistantship with the International Council on Human Rights Policy, Geneva.

Her professional interest includes; advocacy on constitutional guarantee and concrete implementation of all human rights, with a special interest on fulfillment economic, social, and cultural rights. In the past, she has worked as a Development Consultant, for Leonard Cheshire International, and worked as Program Associate for Freedom House, Nigeria project. She is a member of UPEACE/US Alumni Advocacy Committee to the United Nations.

Idowu holds an M.A degree in International law and Human Rights from the University for Peace, Costa Rica and a B.A in (Philosophy) from Obafemi Awolowo University , Nigeria.

Michael Harris - general web trickery

Michael has alleged that he knows PHP, (X)HTML and CSS, as well as other technologies used on the web. Using this he claims that he can fix up large problems with the website, including that much of it does not validate correctly. However, looking at the code used to move the courses into a database system, this seems at least partly unlikely. As well as creating the mess that is the courses back-end, Michael is going to do some stuff with the Elgg system, made a nice change on the newsletter page and randomly fix and make mistakes around the website (including making it all nice and valid, and breaking links in the process).

Web stuff isn't what Michael has any actual qualifications in, however, his first (and currently only) degree is a Bachelor of Arts, with a focus on Political Science. Currently doing an Internship at HURIDOCS, he is looking for a job in Geneva.

Michael can be contacted at harrismw (at} humanrightstools {dot] org, or you can view the website where he may (in the future) keep interesting things http://ids.org.au/harrismw.

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