FreedomLab’s Tool Library compiles all online tools and resources that can be relevant for human rights defenders, spanning a wide variety of topics. Use the filters below to find relevant resources - tools can be filtered by Topic, Type, and Target Group. Please note that tools included in this library do not belong to FreedomLab and, whilst the Library is regularly updated and maintained by the FreedomLab team, users should be aware of the risks that arise by clicking on external links. If you know of a tool that could be added to this library, fill out this form.
Digital Enquirer Kit
Digital Enquirer Kit is a self-study course designed to teach how to identify misinformation, find, collect, and analyze reliable information online and share it all in a secure way.
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E-learning courses
Topics
Digital Security
Information Collection and Documentation
Information Verification and Analysis
Primero
Primero is an open-source software platform for social services, humanitarians and development workers that provides tools for case management, incident monitoring, family tracing and reunification.
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Mobile Applications
Software
Topics
Information Collection and Documentation
Information Verification and Analysis
Project Management
OCCRP Aleph
OCCRP Aleph is an investigative data platform that provides access to archives and other data that can be used to track assets, corporate ownership, government expenditures, and cross-reference...
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Databases
Topics
Information Collection and Documentation
Information Verification and Analysis
Living with Algorithms
This video explains why we should care about algorithms and how they influence individuals’ everyday lives.
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Media Content
Topics
Digital Security
Information Collection and Documentation
Information Verification and Analysis
The Scoring Society
This video looks at scoring applied to everyone’s lives, from credit and social media scoring and terrorist scoring. It demonstrates how our data is used to analyse each person’s score, and where...
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Media Content
Topics
Digital Security
Information Collection and Documentation
Information Verification and Analysis
Confessions of a Data Broker
This video introduces the topic of the 'black box' of the multi-million-dollar industry that revolves around the trading of our data. It looks at the data broker market and which techniques...
Tool
Media Content
Topics
Digital Security
Information Collection and Documentation
Information Verification and Analysis
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is community driven project aimed at creating and distributing free geographical data for anyone to use.
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Databases
Online maps & registries
Topics
Information Collection and Documentation
Information Verification and Analysis
Information Visualization and Design
Handbook “For Human Rights beyond Borders: How to Hold States Accountable for Extraterritorial Violations”
The intention of this handbook is to make the Maastricht Principles more accessible and relevant to civil society by illustrating, with concrete examples, how they relate to specific policy fields,...
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Handbooks, Manuals and other publications
Topics
Advocacy
Information Collection and Documentation
Information Verification and Analysis