Uwazi
Open source software from HURIDOCS for building a searchable collection of human rights documents on your own server.
Safe for sensitive material
Uwazi builds a searchable collection of documents: case files, court decisions, legislation, reports. HURIDOCS, a nonprofit, has built it for human rights organisations for years, and groups worldwide run it. The interface can be shown in Arabic, right to left.
The hard part is not the installation. It is deciding what a record contains before you enter a thousand of them: which fields every case has, what a date means, who may see what. Uwazi will hold whatever structure you design and will not rescue you from a bad one.
It needs a server and someone to keep it running. For a collection meant to outlast the current project, that is the right trade.
What happens to your data
Where this data goes
- your own organisation's server, if self-hosted as recommended for sensitive material
Trains on what you type?
No. Your input is not used to train models.
How long it is kept
Uwazi is open source document-collection software built by HURIDOCS specifically for human rights documentation. Self-hosted on your own server, nothing leaves your organisation and no outside company sees your data. A hosted/managed option also exists for organisations without the technical capacity to self-host. That arrangement is made directly with HURIDOCS, not through open self-signup, so ask about data handling before using it for sensitive case files.
Account required
No account is needed.
Getting it, and using it in Iraq
Access in Iraq
Open source code downloaded and run on your own server, or a HURIDOCS-managed instance arranged directly. No geographic restriction on the software itself.
Language quality
No one has published a measurement for this.
Arabic (Modern Standard)
Uwazi's interface ships with Arabic among its default languages and supports a right-to-left layout (https://github.com/huridocs/uwazi/wiki/Translate-the-interface), and HURIDOCS documents that the interface can be community-localised into 180+ languages including Kurdish, but Uwazi is a database and interface, not a translation or transcription engine. There is no accuracy score to cite. Untested.
Iraqi Arabic
Not applicable in the same sense as a translation tool. Untested.
Kurdish (Sorani)
HURIDOCS lists Kurdish among the 180+ languages the interface can be localised into (https://github.com/huridocs/uwazi/wiki/Translate-the-interface), without specifying Sorani versus other Kurdish varieties, and this describes interface localisation, not a translation-quality score. Untested.
Sources
Last checked: 2026-08-31