Find what matters with Uwazi
An open-source information management solution for the human rights community
Human rights groups are often confronted with enormous amounts of data and information, accumulating
years’ or even decades’ worth of facts, observations, testimonies, research and materials that support the
case for change.
To address this challenge, the open-source human rights documentation tool Uwazi was launched in 2017.
Uwazi, which means ‘openness’ in Swahili, is a flexible web-based database application designed for human
rights defenders to manage their collections of information, including documents, evidence, cases and
complaints. More recently, Uwazi started to leverage machine learning to make human rights information
even more accessible.
P ROJ ECT S P OTLI G H T
Justice Watch Archive
What can you do with Uwazi?
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Collect & Categorise
Store & Analyse
Collaborate & Protect
Assess & Showcase
• Capture and organise
raw data, including text,
documents, images and
video.
• Store large amounts of
information.
• Receive information
through public
submission forms.
• Build a public version of
your collection.
• Add context to your
information.
• Create templates to
categorise and retrieve
items.
• Use relationships to
track complex cases.
• Decide what information
you share with the
public.
• Search and filter for
subsets of information.
• Analyse your content
by displaying it in
tables, graphs and
maps.
• Choose what you share
with each collaborator
or team.
• Ensure your information
is safe by keeping an eye
on all changes made.
• Protect your accounts
with an extra security
layer.
• Tell stories with your
data and show what
matters.
• Export your information
into commonly used
formats.
• Share it privately for
advocacy, litigation and
accountability
purposes.
“We believe this will
significantly help in delivering
and verifying the information,
identifying the victims closely
and showing their own
narratives, and, thus, shedding
more light on the perpetrators
and the places where they have
committed their crimes.”
– Ahmed Mefreh
Human rights lawyer and Executive
Director of the Committee for Justice,
who developed the Justice Watch
Archive to document human rights
violations in the context of the
Egyptian justice system
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