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Global Human Rights League

CASE STUDY · GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS LEAGUE

Nine hundred and seventy political prisoners, documented in two languages.

CLIENT
Global Human Rights League
WHAT WE BUILT
The site, the bilingual archive, the admin and the content pipeline
DISCIPLINES
Web · AI · CMS · Bilingual
STATUS
Live at ghrl.org
The Global Human Rights League homepage: Defending, promoting and teaching human rights worldwide, beside a photograph of a man and a woman at a prison wall.

THE PROBLEM

The record existed. Almost nobody could read it.

The League documents political persecution across the Americas. Its old site was Spanish-only, and its most important work, a case file on every political prisoner it had verified, lived as nearly a thousand card images: impossible to search, and closed to anyone who reads English.

For an organisation whose whole purpose is to make the world look, that is the wrong way round.

WHAT WE BUILT

A living archive, in English and Spanish, that the staff run themselves.

  1. 01
    Every card, read and rebuiltAn AI pipeline read 993 case cards and turned them into 970 real, searchable profiles, in both languages, with each photograph cropped from its card.
  2. 02
    One toggle, two languagesEvery page exists in English and Spanish. Switch anywhere and you stay exactly where you were.
  3. 03
    Nothing lost in the moveSixty-seven documents, ten State Department reports reformatted for reading, and thirteen public statements came across. The old site’s thirty-eight addresses all redirect, so no link anywhere breaks.
  4. 04
    An admin the staff run themselvesProfiles, news and statements are edited in a bilingual admin, without calling a developer.
  5. 05
    A way inVictims and advocates can report a case or offer help, and get a reply in their own language.
The homepage in English.
English. The default.
The same homepage in Spanish: Defendiendo, promoviendo y enseñando derechos humanos a nivel mundial.
Español. The same page, one toggle away.
Political prisoners in Bolivia: 326 in total, with counts of minors, women, men, released, sentenced and currently held.
The count. Every case verified through family, neighbours and legal counsel before it is counted.
Where we work: eight countries across the Americas, each with its own documentation and profiles.
Eight countries. Documentation, reporting and legal action across the Americas.
Documents sent to international organisations: reports, complaints and petitions, each with its source.
The documents. Petitions and reports sent to international bodies, all of them carried across.
The homepage on a phone, in English.
On a phone.
The homepage on a phone, in Spanish.
En el teléfono.
The Global Human Rights League logo.

Human dignity. A more just world.

993case cards read by the AI pipeline
970searchable profiles, in both languages
2languages on every page
38old addresses redirected, so no link breaks