For protection. For justice. For people.

AI4HumanRights builds AI-powered tools for human rights defenders, investigators, and civil society organisations - so they can focus on what matters most.

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The Mission

AI is reshaping the world.
We ensure it serves human rights - not undermines them.

The Challenge

Conflicts multiply.
Complex issues grow.

Displacement accelerates. Marginalised communities are surveilled, persecuted, tortured, and killed. Evidence fragments across borders, languages, and decades - and the challenges are growing faster than the resources to address them.

120+
Armed Conflicts
117M
Forcibly Displaced
48K
Civilians Killed (2024)
Every 14h
A Defender Killed or Disappeared

Sources: UNHCR Global Trends 2024, Uppsala Conflict Data Program, ACLED, Front Line Defenders Global Analysis 2024

Our Answer

Intelligent tools for the people who protect human rights.

AI4HumanRights develops open-source AI solutions for human rights organisations - turning overwhelming complexity into structured, actionable intelligence.

Empower
Automate workflows, organise fragmented data, and replace manual processes with intelligent systems - giving organisations the capacity they need but cannot afford to hire.
Reveal
Uncover patterns, predict emerging threats, and link evidence across cases, regions, and languages - making visible what manual analysis cannot see.
Protect
Secure sensitive data, safeguard evidence chains, and shield the people behind every case - ensuring that the tools built to save lives never put them at risk.
Our Principles

Three commitments that shape everything we build.

We believe that AI for human rights needs a different set of rules than AI for commerce. Our tools are designed around people, built in the open, and hardened for life-threatening contexts.

01

Human-first

Every tool starts with the people who use it - and the people it's meant to protect. Technology serves the mission, never the other way around.
02

Open by design

Region-agnostic. Language-flexible. Built to replicate. Our solutions are open source and portable - designed to scale wherever the need arises.
03

Co-created, not imposed

We build with domain experts, not for them. Every solution is shaped by the people closest to the problem - pilot-first, feedback-driven, inclusive, and grounded in trust.
Case Study

Tracing the Disappeared

Behind each document is a missing person. Behind each missing person is a waiting family. Some have waited decades.

Colombia
In development

Tracing the Disappeared

In Colombia, over 245,000 people have disappeared during 60+ years of civil conflict. Their traces are buried across dozens of archives in incompatible formats and often in poor quality: handwritten notes, degraded scans, forensic reports, court records. A single case can mean 200 pages of mixed documents and investigators spend days preparing each case before the actual search for answers can begin.

Together with EQUITAS, a Colombian forensic organisation with 22+ years of experience, we are building an AI-powered system that transforms months of manual case work into actionable intelligence - so investigators can do in hours what used to take days.

Less time processing. More time finding answers for families.

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Archive Unlocking
Digitises and interprets thousands of degraded, handwritten, and multilingual case files
Identity Matching
Identifies people, places, dates, and relationships across fragmented archives
Intelligent Connections
Links evidence across cases, institutions, and decades to surface leads no manual review could find
5-10x faster case processing - and justice for families.
Ecosystem

We don't build alone.

AI4HumanRights works alongside forensic experts, civil society, and institutional partners across the global tech-for-justice ecosystem.

EQUITAS
Forensic NGO Partner · Colombia
Colombian forensic organisation dedicated to searching for the disappeared. 22+ years of human rights investigation. Our NGO partner for Tracing the Disappeared.
Civic Coding
Network · Germany
German federal AI-for-good initiative. AI4HumanRights took part in their advisory programme for high-impact AI projects.
About

Built with purpose.

AI is transforming every industry. Human rights work still runs on spreadsheets, paper archives, and overstretched teams. AI4HumanRights was founded in 2024 to change that.

Sascha Stremming, founder of AI4HumanRights

Consultant and award-winning Swiss army knife.

Sascha has accelerated 60+ social and tech-for-good startups, built Europe's first circular coworking space at Impact Hub Berlin, and led high-impact projects for organisations from Samsung to the Senate of Berlin.

Combining his passion for technology and human rights, he founded AI4HumanRights to apply that experience where it matters most: building AI tools for the people on the front lines of human rights.

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The technology exists. The need is urgent. Let's start.

If you're a foundation, NGO, researcher, or builder working at the intersection of AI and human rights - drop us a line. We respond to every message.

info@ai4humanrights.org