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Monitoring transphobic incidents
The monitoring tool
T
he development of the monitoring
Several security measures make Ope-
Additional security tools:
User manual:
tool has been supported by HURI-
nEvsys a secure tool for trans human-
https://securityinabox.org/
HURIDOCS’s user manual provides
DOCS, an international NGO helping
human-rights organisations use information technologies and documentation methods to maximise the impact of their advocacy work. HURIDOCS develops tools
and techniques and provides advocates
with customised training and support.9
assistance in using the various functions of
rights defenders to use:
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Protection manual for LGBTI defenders:
the program (e.g. data entry, analysis):
It is hosted with an encrypted
http://protectioninternational.org/
https://www.huridocs.org/wp-content/
https:// account, and an external ana-
publication/protection-manual-for-
uploads/2010/06/openevsys-users-
lysis has shown that its code is secure.
lgbti-defenders-2nd-edition/
manual-1401.pdf
OpenEvsys allows the creation of
Chapter Ten, Security of communica-
different types of users who have
tions and information technology
access to all or parts of the database
The tool developed is a customised form
(data entry, analysis, administration)
in OpenEvsys, a free and open-source
and who can carry out all or some
software application that human-rights
specific tasks (reading, creating, up-
NGOs use to record and analyse information on human-rights violations. The
form, which records information on the
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victim, the perpetrator and the followup actions after the incident took place
Furthermore, users can mark cases as confidential so that they can
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other users selected by them.
OpenEvsys contains two features
to further enhance security that
can be set up by individual users:
toring form), aims to be comprehensive,
Google Authenticator, which re-
but at the same time makes it possible
quests a 6-digit code available on
to record only key facts in the event that
the user’s smartphone, and Yubikey
there is no detailed and/or first-hand
(http://www.yubico.com/), which
information available on a case, e.g. the
works with a physical authentication
source of information is the tabloid me-
device that is slotted into the USB
detailed to make the information they
collect, depending upon the data available and existing resources for data entry.
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dating, and/or deleting records).
– for the entire form see Annex: The moni-
dia. Therefore, users can choose how
https://www.huridocs.org/openevsys
only be accessed by themselves and
transphobic incident (by capturing important aspects of the incident itself, the
Videos about the program are also available:
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slot of the computer used.
In addition, ReCaptcha, which protects against attempts by automated software to obtain access to the
database, can be set up for all users
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under the Admin-System settings.
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For more information on HURIDOCS, see https://www.huridocs.org/