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Can genuine archival documents be used to manipulate our knowledge of the past? Of course, only three steps suffice: restrict historians' access to archives, select sources according to a desired premise and make sure your message reaches a wide audience, especially non-historians.

OHCHR. (2022, April 30). OHCHR | Call for inputs: Countering disinformation for the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms. OHCHR. https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2022/call-inputs-countering-disinformation-promotion-and-protection-human-rights

Objectives The United Nations General Assembly resolution 76/227 on “Countering disinformation for the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms” requested the UN Secretary-General “to seek the views of States, United Nations entities and relevant stakeholders and to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-seventh session a report, within existing resources, based on information and best practices shared by States, United Nations entities and relevant stakeholders on countering disinformation.”

OHCHR Special Procedures. (2022, September 28). OHCHR | International Financial Obligations, Digital Systems and Human Rights. OHCHR. https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2022/international-financial-obligations-digital-systems-and-human-rights

Background and objectives In her annual report to the Human Rights Council in March 2023 the Independent Expert on debt, other international financial obligations and human rights, Ms. Attiya Waris, will address the links between international financial obligations, digital systems and human rights.

OHCHR Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights. (2023, January 26). OHCHR | Call for inputs for a report on cultural rights and migration. OHCHR. https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2022/call-inputs-report-cultural-rights-and-migration

Background An estimated 280 million people, approximately 3.6% of the world’s population, currently live outside their country of origin. The reasons for these displacements are numerous: some may have chosen to leave to pursue better opportunities elsewhere; many are compelled to leave for a complex combination of reasons, including poverty, lack of access to healthcare, education, water, food, housing, and the consequences of environmental degradation and climate change; others are forced to flee persecution and conflicts.

Today, 23 March 2021, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court ("ICC" or the "Court''), published a draft Policy on Cultural Heritage for consultation and comments by States Parties to the Rome Statute, civil society, and the wider community of stakeholders.The development of this Policy is in line with the Office of the Prosecutor's Strategic Plan to pay particular attention to crimes against and affecting cultural heritage and the commitment of the Office to...

Background At its 125th session, the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (hereinafter, ‘the Working Group’) announced its intention to conduct a thematic study on the issue of new technologies and enforced disappearances.

OHCHR. (2023, February 28). OHCHR | Call for input: Comprehensive report on “Importance of casualty recording for the promotion and protection of human rights.” OHCHR. https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2023/call-input-comprehensive-report-importance-casualty-recording-promotion-and

Background In resolution 50/11, the Human Rights Council requested the High Commissioner “to prepare, in consultation with all States, relevant United Nations entities, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and national human rights institutions, a comprehensive report on the impact of casualty recording on the promotion and protection of human rights, including relevant practices, in particular the role of casualty recording in upholding and fulfilling the rights of victims of armed conflict, post-conflict situations

Background Since 2012, the General Assembly has adopted annual resolutions mandating the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance to prepare two reports per year, one to the Human Rights Council and one to the General Assembly, on the implementation of General Assembly resolutions on combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.

Objectives of the report The Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, wishes to focus his next thematic report to the General Assembly on “the use of technology in facilitating and preventing contemporary forms of slavery”.

The Committee on the Rights of the Child is currently drafting a general comment on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change.

Background Inclusive social protection is an important and timely issue affecting the respect, protection, and fulfilment of the rights of the child around the world.

Dagmar Hovestädt, head of outreach and research at the Stasi Records Archive at the Federal Archives in Germany presents A Legacy of the DDR: The Stasi Records Archive. Dagmar Hovestädt was the spokeswoman of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records (BStU) from 2011 to 2021. Currently she heads the department outreach and research at the Stasi Records Archive at the Federal Archives in Germany. As part of her duties, she implements strategy on continued research into the Stasi...

Raymond Frogner, responsable des archives au Centre national pour la vérité et la réconciliation de l’Université du Manitoba présente Les Lieux de Sépulture Non-Marqués des Pensionnats Indiens du Canada. Cette intervention présentera certaines des sources archivistiques référencées lors de l'enquête sur les lieux de sépulture non marqués situés à proximité des pensionnats autochtones au Canada. Cette recherche est confrontée à de nombreux défis, notamment le caractère fragmentaire des...

Ruth Elena Borja Santa Cruz, Profesora Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM), Perú - El Uso de los Archivos por la Comisión de la Verdad y la Reconciliación de Perú La utilización de los archivos en la tarea de reconstrucción de nuestra historia reciente de violaciones de derechos humanos ha sido puesta de relevancia a través del trabajo realizado por la Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR). Su Unidad de Documentación localizó y recopiló información bibliográfica y...

Peter Horsman, Professor Emeriti – University of Amsterdam presents Documenting Genocide Justice: The Rwanda Gacaca Archive Peter Horseman previously worked with the Netherlands Archives School, Municipal Archives of Dordrecht, and the National Archives of the Netherlands. Currently, he is active as a consultant, mostly in the field of (electronic) records and archives management, and digital preservation (both for public and private organizations). He is currently involved in a data...

Oradores: Claudio Ogass Bilbao, Estudiante de Doctorado en Archivos y Gestión Documental de la Universidad de Liverpool , y Francisco González Villanueva, Geólogo de la Universidad de Chile Mapeo del Cambio Climático para Proteger los Archivos El objetivo de esta presentación es compartir una metodología en construcción para identificar los potenciales riesgos provocados por el cambio climático que amenazan la sostenibilidad y el contenido de los archivos en diferentes partes del mundo,...

Gilles Manceron, Historien spécialiste du colonialisme français L’accès aux archives en France : entre les principes républicains et le poids de l’Etat, des difficultés persistent. Lors de la Révolution française, le droit des citoyens à consulter les archives publiques a été proclamé, mais les différents régimes qui ont suivi ont eu tendance à considérer celles-ci comme leur propriété et à entraver cet accès. Il faut attendre les lois de 1979 et de 2008 pour que les délais de...

Giulia Barrera Operation Condor was a secret, illegal cooperation agreement among Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay in 1975 to track down and eliminate political opponents who had taken refuge abroad. After the 1973 coups in Chile and Uruguay, thousands of opponents from these countries fled to Argentina, which already hosted a wide community of Paraguayan refuges; in the following years, thousands of Argentinians took refuge abroad as well. Due to the Condor system...