News, releases, and lessons from building the open-source human rights documentation platform.
The Syria Justice and Accountability Centre is pleased to announce the release of Bayanat 4.0, the largest update in the platform's history — six months and 76 merged pull requests since v3. Bayanat is the open-source evidence platform for human rights accountability. Human rights organizations use it to
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In November 2025, SJAC's IT team released Bayanat v3.0.0, marking one of the most significant updates to the platform since its inception. At the heart of this release is the new Form Builder, a feature that fundamentally changes how organizations can customize Bayanat to fit their specific
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With the rise of open-source investigations, organizations and human right defenders need robust platforms that can handle vast amounts of data and adapt to diverse investigative contexts. At SJAC, our experience in building and refining Bayanat has shown us what it takes to develop a successful OSINT/human right
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At Bayanat, we're always looking to keep our technology stack current. Recently, we took on the challenge of upgrading our application to Vue 3 and Vuetify 3. This wasn't a simple task, especially given our extensive use of custom components and third-party Vue 2 and Vuetify 2
Read more →Bayanat's precisely crafted data structure is tailored for documenting, analyzing, and investigating violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. Despite its robust framework—organized into three core sections: Actors, Bulletins, and Incidents—managing information about the same Actors from numerous, diverse sources presented significant challenges. These scattered profiles
Read more →Bayanat is a robust data management application designed to empower organizations working on critical issues. At its core, Bayanat facilitates efficient data import, organization, and analysis. The newly added Bayanat's powerful system settings unlock even greater potential for both administrators and users. Previously, modifying core Bayanat functionalities required technical
Read more →In 2023, SJAC’s relational database Bayanat, underwent a series of transformative updates, improving security, efficiency, and user experience. This article looks at some of the most important changes to Bayanat and highlights how Bayanat is constantly being improved to help current and future users document, preserve, and analyze evidence
Read more →We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Bayanat blog, a space where we will keep you updated with all the news about our open-source data management application. With this blog, we aim to fulfill our commitment to community engagement and empower human rights initiatives with technological solutions
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