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• Status: Closed
• Thematic area: Human rights activism and monitoring
• Country: Israel
• Year approved:2019

The Conflict Records Digital Repository: unearthing official archives to support human rights in Israel-Palestine

• Name of organisation / initiative supported: Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research
• Start date: 1 February 2019
• End date: 1 February 2020

Initiative summary:

Akevot is an Israeli organisation that has unique access to information. They contribute to increase transparency and accountability by making the Israeli state archives related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict accessible to the public and to human rights organisations. With EED funding, Akevot will identify, digitise and catalogue key documents relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and make these accessible to human rights NGOs and activists to complement their research, advocacy and litigation efforts.