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Human Rights Advocacy IS Information Management

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In discussion with Tom L., I realise that all human rights work is basically about leveraging information.  The key is gathering accurate and timely information with a specific purpose – generally, to build a case or to support a campaign.  With that in mind, I’m going to try and persuade Tom to do some guest posts on the specifics of human rights work in the field…

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Written by Paul Currion

September 20th, 2007 at 5:06 pm

Posted in Human Rights

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  1. I feel the pressure ratcheting up to write something …

    Tom L

    20 Sep 07 at 22:45

  2. [...] similar issues I was facing in my work with a group monitoring human rights abuses in Zimbabwe, he bravely handed me the keys to his blog to start a conversation about how they were handling these [...]

    humanitarian.info » Information Management for human rights

    31 Dec 07 at 11:08

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