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    • Fighting Impunity: Documenting Human Rights Violations

    Fighting Impunity: Documenting Human Rights Violations

    Curriculum

    • 7 Sections
    • 22 Lessons
    • 4 Hours
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    • Lesson 1. Observation Essentials
      4
      • 1.0
        1.1. Why we observe
      • 1.1
        1.2. The role of the observer
      • 1.2
        1.3. What we observe: types of violations
      • 1.3
        1.4. Security
    • Lesson 2. Working in the field
      3
      • 2.0
        2.1. Contexts: public and private spaces
      • 2.1
        2.2. Identification and Relationship with the State Security Forces
      • 2.2
        Exercise 1: Elaboration of risk analysis for field observations
    • Lesson 3. The information circuit
      This section details the main phases and mechanisms for data management in monitoring systems.
      6
      • 3.1
        3.1. Defining the political and research framework of the system
      • 3.2
        3.2. Data collection
      • 3.3
        3.3. Verification of data: triangulation of sources
      • 3.4
        3.4. Systematization of data
      • 3.5
        3.5. Analysis
      • 3.6
        3.6. Visualization
    • Lesson 4. Image Capture, Documentation and Preservation
      Images are essential evidence for documenting and demonstrating human rights abuses in certain contexts. The following lesson provides practical information on how to document and preserve images effectively and safely for observers and those being filmed during a demonstration or armed conflict situation. It also provides case studies and tools for developing filming activities. The vast majority of the resources proposed in this section come from the international organization Witness and the Gaza Media Resources platform.
      4
      • 4.0
        4.1. Images as evidence of human rights violations
      • 4.1
        4.2. Planning image capture to minimize risks
      • 4.2
        4.3. Recordings in different contexts
      • 4.3
        4.4. Applications for documenting human rights violations
    • Lesson 5. Establishing an observation and monitoring system
      5
      • 5.0
        5.1. Steps to establish an observation and monitoring system
      • 5.1
        5.2. Trust, affinity groups and alliances
      • 5.2
        5.3. Role distribution and organization
      • 5.3
        5.4. Relationship with the media
      • 5.4
        Case study: Red Malla, an online map to document rights violations in Spain
    • Final Quiz
      1
      • 6.0
        Test Your Knowledge on Documenting Human Rights Violations!
        10 Minutes10 Questions
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