Four prominent activists who worked on documenting human rights violations were kidnapped in December 2013 from the offices of the Violations Documentation Centre in Douma, which collaborated with the LCC Douma.
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"It's clear they don't take into account historical documentation, civil rights documentation or human rights documentation," she said.
In Argentina, it has advised a local group on how to resist the military's legal demands for its documentation of human rights abuse.
In the month since, they have been collecting documentation on human rights abuses in prisons, organising court cases and letter-writing campaigns, and travelling to co-ordinate individual efforts; they have not paused for a minute.
This fits with the religious motivation in other targeted IS campaigns against ethno-religious minorities, some of whose plight, despite documentation by human rights monitors, have not received as much international recognition as Nineveh's Christians or the Yazidis.
Where documentation of human rights abuses in conflict is available, it is often based on individual case reports, which provide detailed descriptions but are likely to represent only a small portion of actual events [ 3].
Reports of cyber attacks on Uyghur activists in exile gave rise to concerns that China was upping efforts to disrupt documentation of Uyghur human rights conditions that contradict the official narrative.
This is not to suggest that there is no role for research as documentation in a human rights paradigm.
She oversees multi-country documentation and advocacy projects in Asia, conducts trainings on human rights documentation, and facilitates LBT engagement with UN mechanisms, specifically the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
