Built by Syrian talents for human rights
Bayanat is developed by the Syria Justice & Accountability Centre (SJAC), an organization committed to documenting human rights violations and supporting accountability efforts.
Our Mission
Bayanat was created to address a critical need: human rights organizations often lack purpose-built tools for managing the complex, interconnected data that documentation work requires.
Commercial solutions are expensive and rarely meet the specific needs of human rights work. General-purpose databases lack the relationship modeling, security features, and workflows that investigators need.
We built Bayanat to fill this gap—a professional-grade platform designed specifically for human rights documentation, freely available to organizations worldwide.
"Documentation is the foundation of accountability. Without comprehensive records, justice remains out of reach."— SJAC Mission Statement
Pioneering Human Rights Technology
Bayanat represents the first time human-rights focused technology has been engineered by individual activists and NGOs to collect, analyze, and share documentation of crimes against humanity during an active conflict.
Internal Development Begins
SJAC builds first version of relational database for internal documentation work.
Open Source Release
Bayanat rewritten in Python/Flask and released on GitHub, freely available to researchers and activists worldwide.
Major Platform Updates
Geo-spatial search, WebAuthn security, Ukrainian language support, and enhanced admin tools added.
2M+ Documents Processed
Supporting European prosecutors, UN IIIM, and human rights organizations globally.
Syria Justice & Accountability Centre
SJAC is a Syrian-led human rights organization working for meaningful justice and accountability that holds perpetrators accountable and addresses grievances, leading to lasting peace.
The organization collects documentation from multiple sources, secures them in a database, catalogs according to human rights standards, and analyzes using legal expertise combined with big data methodologies.
Since 2012, SJAC has collected and preserved millions of documents, testimonies, and pieces of evidence—supporting investigations, case building, missing persons tracking, and trial monitoring.
Learn more about SJACSJAC Programs
- Documentation
- Investigations & Case Building
- Missing Persons
- Trial Monitoring
- Tech & Human Rights
- Capacity Building
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/sjacorg/bayanat.git
# Start with Docker
docker-compose up -d
# Access at localhost:5000Open Source Commitment
Bayanat is released under the AGPL-3.0 license. This ensures the software remains free and open, and that improvements benefit the entire community.
We welcome contributions from developers worldwide. Whether it's bug fixes, new features, translations, or documentation improvements, every contribution helps make Bayanat better for human rights organizations everywhere.
Get in touch
Have questions about deploying Bayanat? Want to contribute or partner with us? We'd love to hear from you.