Human rights documentation is dead. Long live human rights documentation!

Once the backbone of human rights work, documentation is now in crisis. Formal investigations, curated archives, and legal evidence are losing ground amid shifting approaches to philanthropy, NGO precarity, and shrinking civic spaces. Even as established documentation methods utilize new technologies, skepticism toward name-and-shame strategies and legal instruments has left documentation struggling for relevance, particularly in crisis-driven contexts that demand rapid responses.

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