BENETECH

Around the world, there are people whose fundamental human rights are violated on a daily basis. Victims, witnesses, as well as human rights advocates and fieldworkers put their lives at grave risk when they gather and store records of these abuses.

Benetech’s Human Rights Program was founded to empower human rights defenders, fieldworkers, journalists, and other actors to securely collect sensitive information about violations and to effectively utilize it to achieve their goals.

We do this by:
1) Providing free, open source, secure software tools for collecting and analyzing human rights information;
2) Extending capacity building and data security trainings to at-risk human rights groups in countries with state-sanctioned harassment;
3) Advancing the field of human rights by partnering with preeminent organizations, such as Amnesty International, The Guardian Project, Human Rights Watch, The Tor Project, and WITNESS.

With these combined efforts we advance the global community of rights defenders and social justice actors. See benetech.org/work-area/human-rights/