Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards

The NGO HURIDOCS announces the launch of a new, Open-Source version of HuriSearch (http://www.hurisearch.org) , its specialised search engine for human rights information.  HuriSearch is an effective Internet search tool, very useful for human rights researchers and advocates, academic staff and students, journalists, diplomats and staff of international organisations.  HuriSearch searches the content of over 5000 human rights websites, with a total of almost 7 million pages. This content is always fresh, because HuriSearch indexes the content of these websites very frequently. The source of information is crucially important in human rights work and HuriSearch makes it possible to focus searches on information published in a particular country, by a particular type of organisation, by a specific organisation, or in a specific language. Search results are based upon relevance of contents rather than website popularity – which makes the pages from smaller, specialized organisations more visible than on other search engines.
Feedback is appreciated but please send it directly to: search@huridocs.org