Rightswire is an online networking, collaboration, information management, and news service for individuals and organizations working in the human rights field. Rightswire empowers human rights organizations towards the common goal of advancing human rights by strengthening their capacity to access, manage, and share information.

Organizations can use Rightswire for internal purposes: connecting offices, helping teams work on specific projects, placing documents and other information into a common space where it can be easily accessed by staff, and maintaining relationships with colleagues, conference participants, and alumni. Rightswire also enables human rights organizations and individual practitioners to build external networks, share documents, collaborate via workgroups, and access human rights-related news and media.

Rightswire helps organizations

• Improve communications between offices
• Form topic or section-specific groups with discussions, news streams, calendaring, media storage, email, and links to external resources
• Store, manage, and easily access existing information assets
• Develop new partnerships with human rights organizations
• Maintain connections—with program alumni, conference participants, etc.
• Harvest in-house knowledge and preserve institutional memory
• Raise the organization’s profile and increase awareness of its mission

Rightswire helps individuals

• Find people and organizations working in similar fields
• Form topic-specific discussion groups
• Access human rights-related news streams from hundreds of sources
• Post updates about their own work
• Create and share links to online human rights resources
• Store documents and media

The Rightswire website is under development and will be launched in the summer of 2008. If you'd like to get in touch with Rightswire, send us a message on WiserEarth or directly to info@rightswire.org