Call for applications: ODIHR Training on Open Source Human Rights Monitoring
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The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is currently implementing a project in Ukraine entitled “Advancing the Human Dimension of Security in Ukraine”. As part of this project, ODIHR is opening a call for applications for a 5-day training event on Open Source Human Rights Monitoring.
Participants
ODIHR is looking for up to 15 human rights defenders in Ukraine, with a focus on applicants preferably working in Southern and Eastern Ukraine.
The training is offered free of charge to selected participants.
Objectives
The purpose of this training is to enable human rights defenders to independently carry out high quality and objective human rights monitoring activities - based on international standards and using open source monitoring techniques.
The training aims to equip human rights defenders with the skill set required to:
- gather, verify and analyse videos and images
- conduct comprehensive social media research
- perform open source data collection and verification
The training also looks to provide human rights defenders with an understanding of how the internet functions and how it can be effectively utilized for research and human rights investigation purposes. The training curriculum will include sessions on advanced web-searching techniques and verification principles; advanced social media research; geolocation and maps and satellite resources.
The languages of the event will be English, Ukrainian and Russian. Simultaneous interpretation from English to Ukrainian/Russian and Ukrainian/Russian to English will be provided during the training.
The training methodology is based on practical investigation exercises and requires a working laptop and a high level of active participation by all participants.
Application and selection
The training is specifically designed for human rights defenders with proven experience of human rights monitoring in Ukraine. It is aimed at human rights defenders in Ukraine who are or will be using open source techniques to monitor human rights.
ODIHR is dedicated to providing trainings for human rights defenders regardless of gender, ethnicity or age. Human rights defenders from southern and eastern Ukraine, and human rights defenders working on Roma issues, LGBTI and women’s rights are especially encouraged to apply.
ODIHR will select participants on a competitive basis. Selected participants will be invited to the ODIHR training in the week of 3 August. ODIHR does not inform applicants who have not been selected for the training.
The following criteria are used by ODIHR for selection of the participants:
- proven track record as a human rights defender in Ukraine
- demonstrated experience of human rights monitoring and reporting
- relevance of the training for future human rights activities especially in the regions of southern and/or eastern Ukraine
- limited or no experience in open source investigation techniques
- good level of digital literacy, including digital security
- fluency in Ukrainian/Russian/English
- available for the full duration of the training
Interested human rights defenders are welcome to submit their applications by 3 August 2020 by filling in the enclosed application form in English, Ukrainian or Russian and emailing this, together with their CV, to Ukraine-CSproject@odihr.pl.
Questions
In case you have questions, please contact Ukraine Project team at Ukraine-CSproject@odihr.pl.
Human rights defenders
The OSCE/ODIHR recognizes as a human right defender any person promoting and striving for the realization of human rights regardless of profession, age or other status. Human rights defenders carry out their human rights activities individually or jointly, as part of an informal group or as a non-governmental organization (NGO), and act in a voluntary capacity or professionally. The key characteristic that defines human rights defenders is not who they are but what they do and the principles they stand for.