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Centre for War Victims and Human Rights

Protecting War Victims and Promoting Human Rights

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Centre for War Victims and Human Rights
Centre for War Victims and Human Rights

Protecting War Victims and Promoting Human Rights

Our Teams

Documentation

The Documentation Team is responsible for documenting war crimes and human rights violations by listening to victim stories, recording them in the web application, and verifying the information. It provides statistical reports, and presents selected stories to the public. It provides training, and co-ordination for data collection in several countries.

Research

The Research Team focuses on detail collection of events related to human rights violations.  It cross checks the information from the victims documentation. Also, the team researchs and publishs fact sheets and reports on genocides, human rights laws, and related material.  The Research Team consists of experienced researchers and high school, college and university students.

Campaign

The Campaign Team works to raise awareness about human rights violations, laws, plight of the victims, and the importance of documentation.  The team uses TV ad campaings, articles on newspapers and magazines, pamphlets, web, radio, outreach through events, and street campaigning to communicate its message.  The campaign team works with other human rights organizations such as Amnesty International that share our principles.

Technology

The Technical Team develops, maintains and supports the web application used for documentation, and the cwvhr web site. The team consists of professional developers.  It currently working on an Events Database and Interface.

Administration

The Adminstration Team supports the work through transparant, responsible operation of the center.  It works to sustain cwvhr work by seeking reliable funding, and by creating and maintaining an open, creative volunteer community.

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Recent Posts

  • War Crimes in Sri Lanka – INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP – NEW REPORT
  • Sri Lanka: New Evidence of Wartime Abuses – Human Right Watch
  • CWVHR welcomes UN Appointed Panel on Sri Lankan Human Rights Abuses – June 23,2010
  • Human Rights Day 2010
  • UN Report on Sri Lanka Conflict must be made Public – Amnesty International

Archives

  • April 2025
  • September 2024
  • October 2023
  • September 2023

Useful Links

  • British Institute of Human Rights
  • Amnesty International
  • Human Rights Watch
  • Asian Human Rights Commission
  • No Borders

Information Collection

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  • Australia
  • Belgium
  • Canada
  • Denmark
  • France
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland

If you live in a country not listed above, please contact us by email at dm@cwvhr.org or call us at 1-416-628-1408.

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