Documentation Training Sessions

Through the Documentation Network, documentation training sessions focused on human rights (individual and collective) and Indigenous Peoples have been organized by doCip.

These sessions are a product of decisions made by Indigenous members of the Documentation Network.  In 2004, 2006, and 2008, the sessions were organized in cooperation with Huridocs (Human Rights Documentation) and focused on the techniques of documenting human rights violations in order to collect data for United Nations reports and classifying gathered information.

A quadralingual team made up of Ana Pinto and Roy Laifungbam of CORE (Centre for Organisation Research & Education, northeast India) for English, Saudata Aboubacrine of Tin Hinan (Burkina Faso) for French, Tarcila Rivera from Chirapaq (Centro de Culturas Indigenas, Peru) for Spanish, and Mikhail Todyshev of RAIPON (Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and Far East, Russian Federation) for Russian has set its selection criteria and chosen the candidates.  They have also developed the program (along with Huridoc and doCip) and registration form.  DoCip then organized the courses, always in partnership with the aforementioned Indigenous regional leaders.

The courses, hosting approximately ten participants, took place in Geneva in 2004 in English and French and in 2006 in Spanish and Russian.

A new English course was organized in conjunction with the AIPP (Asian Indigenous Peoples Pact) in Thailand in 2008. The seventeen participants came from India, Bangladesh, and Indonesia.

In 2009, a new course was developed, oriented more toward the creation and management of Indigenous documentation centers.  The training session touched on subjects such as the preservation of Indigenous heritage, digitization (analyses, techniques), new tools for online collaboration, tools for creating a digital library, databases of UN documents and other international organizations, how to present reports before human rights organisms, and the Indigenous thesaurus on human rights.  This course, occasionally attended by Indigenous specialists, was co-organized by doCip and Chirapaq, the training being essential for doCip.  The 17 Indigenous participants came from several Latin American countries from Mexico to Argentina.