HURIDOCS consults with organizations of many scopes and sizes, including local grassroots groups, national human rights institutions and international NGOs, to help them overcome their information management challenges.

[1] HURIDOCS's current flagship tool is Uwazi, an open-source database application designed for human rights defenders to manage collections of facts, testimonies, evidence, cases, complaints and other types of information.

Three years later, the groundwork for the creation of an organization dedicated to human rights information and documentation was laid at a conference in Quito, Ecuador.

[9] Over time, HURIDOCS transitioned to a different set-up: a board of advisors representing diverse geographical and professional backgrounds now oversees the organization's long-term strategy and operations, while a management team led by the executive director guides the day-to-day activities.

One special area of development is the integration of machine learning features that automate certain burdensome tasks when it comes to managing and categorizing the contents of an Uwazi-based collection.

[19][20] In 2021, HURIDOCS won the Peace and Justice Strong Institutions Award from CogX, an honor meant to "highlight a company that champions human rights by directing its AI services towards the protection of these fundamental liberties.

"[25][26] The Events Standard Formats is a structured approach for monitoring and recording information about abuses of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.

It was originally published in 1993; HURIDOCS played a central coordinating role in the creation and subsequent revisions of the methodology, which included input from dozens of human rights practitioners and representatives from intergovernmental organizations.

[27] The Formats have been and continue to be widely employed by organizations for a variety of purposes, such as collecting evidence for transitional justice in Cambodia[28] and South Africa,[29] monitoring attacks against journalists,[30] and supporting accurate mental health diagnoses for immigrants,[31] refugees[32] and torture survivors.