Call for Proposals – Human Rights Documentation Methodology Development Expert || إعلان تزويد خدمات - خبير/ة تطوير منهجيات توثيق حقوق الإنسان

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**About SCM:** The Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), is an independent, non-governmental, and non-profit civil society organization founded in 2004. It works to achieve justice, defend human rights, promote media freedom, support civil society, and encourage active citizenship. SCM has gained extensive experience in combating impunity and strengthening the rule of law. Since 2011, SCM has held Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Its work focuses on documenting human rights violations and submitting legal files to hold perpetrators accountable, while strengthening the role of victims and their families, and supporting journalists and human rights defenders, as well as independent media as a tool for building democracy. ## **1. Background** In the context of Syria’s ongoing transition and the new challenges it presents for the protection of human rights and the rule of law, the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) seeks to strengthen its capacity to monitor, document, and analyse human rights violations occurring during this period. To this end, SCM aims to develop an updated and comprehensive documentation and verification methodology grounded in relevant international standards and responsive to the nature of violations and the actors involved in the current context. While continuing to document violations related to deprivation of liberty, including arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture and ill-treatment, as well as other serious human rights violations and international crimes committed during the conflict, SCM will place particular emphasis during the transitional period on monitoring and documenting violations of legal and procedural safeguards relating to deprivation of liberty; violations of the right to a fair trial; abuses in the exercise of administrative and executive powers that constitute human rights violations; discrimination on prohibite