What is behind the title: Project HURIDOCS?
"Universal communications system" - subject which is one of the main problems in everyday work of NGOs in Croatia.
At the beginning of war in our country lots of NGOs started to work in promotion and protection of human rights. Most of them gather small group of activist, and their area of work in much bigger then they can manage in their humble conditions. Despite that, number of NGOs is bigger year after year and their results of their work is getting better. During the time volume of documentation increased so much that ability to find certain cases, and to distribute date, become very hard. Some organizations made a suggestion how to solve this problem. Solution was to introduce unique methodology for gathering and documenting data with help of computer system. During the last few months of 1997, we contacted Ms. Marija Laszlo which introduced us to existence and work of HURIDOCS network. She also showed us the computer program for handling information about human rights events, EVSYS 4.1, and we decided that it could help us in solving existing problems. Meeting was attended by representatives of almost all NGOs which are active in protection of human rights. After this meeting and checking of program we started initial organization of Croatian HURIDCS network, which now consists of 17 NGOs. Initiative for organizing Croatian HURIDOCS network was taken over by Center for Direct Protection of Human Rights, and so we made a project titled: "Education, use and Development of HURIDOCS network". We assume that project will last for a year and planed to make this goals: |