As Children, They Fled the Nazis Alone. Newly Found Papers Tell Their Story. - Moses, Claire (The New York Times, 2025)
Just under 10,000 Jewish children fled to Britain from Europe from December 1938 to September 1939. Not much was known about their journeys, until recently.
Europe
Keywords: Archives and Records; Children and Childhood; Germany; Great Britain; Jews and Judaism; Kindertransport; Rescues; Research; World War II (1939-45); Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum

MediaHack: 36 horas contra la desinformación electoral en Ecuador - Carlos E. Flores (Global Voices en Español, 2025)
¿Puede la tecnología combatir la desinformación? Un hackathon en Ecuador unió esfuerzos para enfrentar este desafío en pleno proceso electoral.
Ecuador

With EU support UNESCO launches initiative to preserve the Jewish documentary heritage of Ukraine - EEAS (Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine, 2025)
UNESCO launches a new project aimed at preserving and promoting the rich documentary heritage of Jewish communities in Ukraine. The two-year initiative, funded by the EU, seeks to safeguard cultural and historical records, enhance accessibility to archival materials, and support at least ten memory
Ukraine

Pentagon history purge highlights which stories are told and why others are ignored - Geoff Bennett (2025)
The Trump administration’s efforts to strip diversity, equity and inclusion prompted the Defense Department to remove thousands of pages and images honoring the contributions of women and people of color. The Pentagon is restoring some of those web pages, saying the removal was a mistake.
United States of America

Harsh repression and crimes against humanity ongoing Fact-Finding Mission says - OHCHR (OHCHR, 2025)
The Government of Venezuela continues to engage in actions constituting the crime against humanity of persecution on political grounds, committed in connection with the crime of imprisonment or severe deprivation of physical liberty and other crimes, the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela said in its latest update on the country’s human rights situation.
Venezuela

Avec le soutien de l'UE, l'UNESCO lance une initiative pour préserver le patrimoine documentaire juif de l'Ukraine - SEAE (Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine, 2025)
L'UNESCO lance un nouveau projet visant à préserver et à promouvoir le riche patrimoine documentaire des communautés juives d'Ukraine L'initiative de deux ans, financée par l'UE, vise à sauvegarder les documents culturels et historiques, à améliorer l'accessibilité aux documents d'archives et à soutenir au moins dix mémoires.
Ukraine

Con el apoyo de la UE, la UNESCO pone en marcha una iniciativa para preservar el patrimonio documental judío de Ucrania - SEAE (Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine, 2025)
La UNESCO lanza un nuevo proyecto destinado a preservar y promover el rico patrimonio documental de las comunidades judías en Ucrania. La iniciativa de dos años, financiada por la UE, busca salvaguardar los registros culturales e históricos, mejorar la accesibilidad a los materiales de archivo y apoyar al menos diez memorias.
Ukraine

Archivist working for Greek authorities suspected as archaeology smuggling ring kingpin - The Jerusalem Post (The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com, 2025)
Greek authorities arrested 23 individuals in Northern Greece, alleged to be part of three antiquities smuggling rings.
Greece

Donald Trump signs order to dismantle seven federal agencies - Gangitano, Alex (The Hill, 2025)
President Trump on Friday signed an executive order that aims to eliminate seven federal agencies, including ones that focus on media, libraries, museums and ending homelessness.
United States of America

The power of transparency: fighting disinformation and defending USAid - Forster, Gary (Bond | The international development network, 2025)
As the political onslaught against USAID continues, transparency on aid spending is vital for holding truth to power.
Worldwide

Safe and Informed Access: How Vassar College Libraries Dealt with Racist, Xenophobic, and Otherwise Harmful Material in the Digital Library - Nicole Scalessa (bloggERS!, 2025)
While evaluating collections to be migrated in our 2021 move to Islandora 2.0, it became clear that the Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection required serious attention due to including racist, xenophobic, or otherwise harmful material. This led to a process of evaluation, research, discussion, and implementation that has resulted in an official content warning, informed metadata creation, UX structural changes within the Digital Library, and community events.
United States of America

Government continues systematic repression and escalates surveillance to crush dissent in the aftermath of protests - OHCHR (OHCHR, 2025)
Two and a half years after the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests began in September 2022, the Government of Iran continues to ramp up efforts to restrict the rights of women and girls, and others demanding human rights as part of a concerted effort to crush dissent, the UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran warned.
Iran

The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – ‘It was like fresh air’ - Simpson, John (The Guardian, 2025)
A fascinating, exciting history of how the agency smuggled subversive books across the iron curtain
Russian Federation
Keywords: Books; CIA; Culture; History books; Politics books

The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – ‘It was like fresh air’ - Simpson, John (The Guardian, 2025)
A fascinating, exciting history of how the agency smuggled subversive books across the iron curtain
United States of America
Keywords: Books; CIA; Culture; History books; Politics books

How social media is helping catch war criminals – video - Ahmed, Kaamil; Morresi, Elena; Glew, Steve; Assaf, Ali (The Guardian, 2025)
Kaamil Ahmed explains how the international legal system is adapting to social media, finding a way to use the digital material shared online to corroborate accounts of war crimes being committed in countries ranging from Ukraine to Sudan
Worldwide
Keywords: Human rights; International criminal court; International criminal justice; Social media; Sudan; Ukraine; War crimes; World news

Judge orders Elon Musk and Doge to produce records about cost-cutting operations - Lowell, Hugo (The Guardian, 2025)
The documents would ultimately inform whether Musk has been operating unconstitutionally to the extent Doge’s activities should be halted.
United States of America
Keywords: Donald Trump; Law (US); Trump administration; US news; US politics

Photographing the Final Days of World War II in Germany - Taylor, Alan (The Atlantic, 2025)
Archival images from the last weeks of World War II, taken by an American Army combat photographer during a push across eastern France into southern Germany
Europe

Strike Wave: Changing Tides of Labor Organizing in Libraries and Information Fields - Cheryl Oestreicher (Publishing in the Archives Profession, 2025)
Call for proposals (due 15 April): This special issue aims to engage in a conversation on how concerns of labor, precarity, and economic forces more broadly take shape within information ecosystems and library and information professions. The global discourse around such organizing efforts has become more prominent, as social movements around reproductive justice, gender liberation, and protests challenging systemic racism and policing primed the broader public for thinking critically about power and oppression.
Worldwide

USAID staff told to shred and burn classified documents - Epstein, Kayla (BBC, 2025)
USAID's acting executive secretary told staff to use shredders and burn bags to dispose of files
United States of America

Déclaration du Bureau du Procureur de la CPI sur l’arrestation de l’ancien Président philippin Rodrigo Roa Duterte - International Criminal Court (International Criminal Court, 2025)
Le Bureau du Procureur (le « Bureau ») de la Cour pénale internationale (la « CPI ») se félicite de l’arrestation et du transfert, le 11 mars 2025, du suspect Rodrigo Roa Duterte, ancien Président des Philippines, par les autorités de la République des Philippines. Cette arrestation est intervenue dans le contexte de l’enquête ouverte par le Bureau sur la situation en République des Philippines.
Philippines

Statement of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor on the arrest of former Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte - International Criminal Court (International Criminal Court, 2025)
The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) welcomes the arrest and transfer of the suspect Mr Rodrigo Roa Duterte, former President of the Philippines, on 11 March 2025 by the authorities of the Republic of the Philippines. Mr Duterte has been arrested in the context of the Office’s ongoing investigation into the Situation in the Republic of the Philippines.
Philippines

DON'T SHRED ON ME! USAID documents destruction breaks the law, according to National Security Archive - National Security Archive (National Security Archive, 2025)
The acting executive secretary of the U.S. Agency for International Development Monday night ordered the destruction of classified records and personnel files, according to the March 10 email reported by The Guardian, The New York Times, and other outlets.
United States of America

Norwegian research foundations develop new technology for studying war crimes against Ukraine - Norwegian Refugee Council (ReliefWeb, 2025)
News and Press Release in English on Ukraine about Protection and Human Rights; published on 12 Mar 2025 by NRC
Ukraine

Ice accessed car trackers in sanctuary cities that could help in raids, files show - Bhuiyan, Johana (The Guardian, 2025)
Westchester county has laws limiting cooperation, but Ice has accessed trove of data that holds license plate readers
United States of America
Keywords: New York; Surveillance; Technology; Trump administration; US immigration; US news; US politics

Women in the World: Making the Invisible Visible with Crowdsourced Data - ElsaMarie D’Silva; Julia Corvalán (Inter Press Service, 2025)
Despite a push in the past ten years for more female representation and #MeToo movements highlighting the abuse that women have faced for centuries, women’s struggles continue to remain invisible—dismissed, denied, and buried under patriarchal bureaucracy.
Worldwide

U.S.A.I.D. Official Orders Employees to Shred or Burn Classified and Personnel Records - Wong, Edward (The New York Times, 2025)
Union representatives demanded that the aid agency follow the law stated in the Federal Records Act. Defense lawyers argued that officials had not destroyed personnel records and would not destroy any more documents without notification.
United States of America
Keywords: Archives and Records; Carr; Erica Y; Classified Information and State Secrets; Foreign Aid; Government Employees; Marocco; Pete; National Archives and Records Administration; Rubio; Marco; State Department; United States Agency for International Development; United States Politics and Government

The data streams that underpin humanitarian response are about to collapse - Abby Stoddard, Ron Waldman, Lars Peter Nissen, and Paul B. Spiegel (The New Humanitarian, 2025)
The data streams that underpin humanitarian response are about to collapse - The New Humanitarian puts quality, independent journalism at the service of the millions of people affected by humanitarian crises around the world
Worldwide

National Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval - Song, Lisa, Annie Waldman (ProPublica, 2025)
Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism. Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
United States of America

‘I hope this isn’t for weapons’: How Syrian data workers train AI - UntoldMag (Global Voices, 2025)
The development and training of AI systems depend on hundreds of millions of data workers. Many of them are situated or displaced from the global majority.
Syria

Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access ‘weaponised’ - Egbejule, Eromo (The Guardian, 2025)
More governments seeking to keep millions of people offline amid conflicts, protests and political instability
Africa
Keywords: Africa; Burundi; Comoros; Equatorial Guinea; Ethiopia; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Human rights; Internet; Kenya; Mauritius; Nigeria; Senegal; Tanzania; Technology; World news

Four decades on, still no justice for South Africa's Apartheid-era atrocities - France 24 (France 24, 2025)
Victims of Apartheid-era atrocities are suing the South African government for damages over failing to prosecute those suspected of committing Apartheid-era crimes. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission identified some 300 suspects to be investigated for possible prosecution, but the vast majority were never pursued.
South Africa

Newly restored photos show the ruin of 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma on its 60th anniversary - Ayana Archie (WYSO, 2025)
James "Spider" Martin was assigned to photograph the protests in Alabama after civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed by state troopers.
United States of America

HHS grants DOGE access to child support database, overriding objections - Stein, Jeff; Diamond, Dan (The Washington Post, 2025)
The decision came after resistance from career staff at the agency.
United States of America

Amnesty International Adopts Preserve365 to Streamline the Archiving and Preservation of Human Rights Records in Microsoft 365 - Accesswire (Morningstar, Inc., 2025)
Preservica, a pioneer in Active Digital Preservation archiving, is proud to announce that Amnesty International has selected Preserve365® to enhance archiving and preservation for its critical human rights records. The global organization, dedicated to researching, advocating, and mobilizing to end human rights abuses, will use Preservica's embedded Active Digital Preservation solution for Microsoft 365 to transform how it archives records in Microsoft SharePoint.
Worldwide

Israeli military creating ChatGPT-like tool using vast collection of Palestinian surveillance data - Davies, Harry; Abraham, Yuval (The Guardian, 2025)
The powerful new AI model is designed to analyze intercepted communications – but experts say such systems can exacerbate biases and are prone to making mistakes
Israel
Keywords: Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestinian territories; Surveillance; World news

Israeli military creating ChatGPT-like tool using vast collection of Palestinian surveillance data - Davies, Harry; Abraham, Yuval (The Guardian, 2025)
The powerful new AI model is designed to analyze intercepted communications – but experts say such systems can exacerbate biases and are prone to making mistakes
Palestine (Permanent Observer to the United Nations)
Keywords: Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestinian territories; Surveillance; World news

Trump Fired the Archivist of the United States - Baron, Jason R. (Washington Monthly, 2025)
Trump dismissing Dr. Colleen Shogan and replacing her with Marco Rubio as Acting Archivist is an ominous sign.
United States of America

Unveiling the Treasures of the ICRC Historical Archives: New Online Catalogue - cvogg (Cross-Files | ICRC Archives, audiovisual and library, 2025)
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) launches a comprehensive, searchable online catalogue of historical archives (1863-1975). This tool enhances accessibility, supports research, and promotes easier access to invaluable collections.
Worldwide

‘We’re losing our environmental history’: The future of government information under Trump - McKenzie, Jessica (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2025)
Government data is a vast resource that everyone relies on, whether they know it or not. Experts are worried about the future of this resource.
United States of America

Addressing disinformation and protecting information integrity - Article 19 (ARTICLE 19, 2025)
Key takeaways from our session at RightsCon featuring key experts on information integrity and media resilience in Europe.
Europe

RightsCon 2025: Protecting digital freedom in a conflicted world - Article 19 (ARTICLE 19, 2025)
At RightsCon 2025, civil society and experts discussed digital freedom, information integrity, and China's transnational repression.
Worldwide

‘Let’s dig into the archives and tell the truth’: interrogating Yale’s connections to slavery - Pengelly, Martin (The Guardian, 2025)
Pulitzer prize winner David Blight follows his biography of Frederick Douglass with a deep dive into his university’s dark past
United States of America
Keywords: Books; Culture; History books; Race; Slavery; US news; US universities; World news; Yale University

Media reforms urgently needed to protect freedom of expression - Article 19 (ARTICLE 19, 2025)
To protect freedom of expression and journalists, Bangladesh's Interim Government must urgently reform media law.
Bangladesh

Brooklyn’s fraught history with slavery is examined in a new exhibit - McFadden, Syreeta (The Guardian, 2025)
With 10 archival files, Trace/s upends simplistic narratives about New York’s history with enslavement
United States of America
Keywords: Black US culture; Brooklyn; New York; Race; Slavery; US news

Preserving records of 'atrocities' by Hasina regime critical - Pioneer, The (The Pioneer, 2025)
Bangladesh's interim government's Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus has called for the “meticulous preservation” of records documenting alleged "atrocities" committed under the administration of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
Bangladesh

SAHR Tuesday Talks - The documents of the undocumented - ICA (ICA, 2025)
How legal processes generate records that transform individuals often labeled as “undocumented” into holders of official files, essential for defending their rights and preserving their personal histories.
Worldwide

DOGE threat: How government data would give an AI company extraordinary power - Stanger, Allison (The Conversation, 2025)
As DOGE taps into sensitive federal agency data repositories, many people fear what could happen to the data. One little-discussed but hugely consequential possibility: fueling Elon Musk’s xAI company.
United States of America

Who Owns the Story? Ethical Approaches to Humanitarian Narratives - Bullen, Maya (LSE International Development, 2025)
How humanitarian organisations can incorporate storytelling ethically in their communications.
Worldwide

The deadly consequences of disinformation in the Pacific - Lisa Singh; Tushar Joshi (The Interpreter, 2025)
International partners, including Australia and India, are well placed to counter the scourge.
Worldwide

Collecting our loss - Williams, Matariki (E-Tangata, 2025)
"There is little or no information recording where the taonga came from, who they belonged to, who made them, what their names were, or how they were used.” — Matariki Williams on how the majority of taonga stored in collections have been separated from their stories.
New Zealand

How Cambridge Analytica Used Intimate Data to Exploit Gun Owners’ Private Lives - Corey G. Johnson; Anna Donlan (ProPublica, 2025)
Documents obtained by ProPublica detail the sophistication and intrusiveness of Cambridge’s work for the gun industry in 2016. The firm’s campaign aimed to help elect Donald Trump and keep industry-friendly politicians in the Senate.
United States of America

Deference to Passports Puts Dissidents at Risk - Feigenbaum, Evan A., Alena Popova (Foreign Policy, 2025)
Biometrics, already used in some border crossings, could help protect activists.
Worldwide

Human rights museum removes Buffy Sainte-Marie from exhibit - Press, Steve Lambert The Canadian (Toronto Star, 2025)
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights has removed singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie from an exhibit because of questions about her First Nations identity.
Canada

Trump is gutting environmental data, obscuring climate and pollution risks to the public - Zwarenstein, Carlyn (Salon, 2025)
Deleting websites and ignoring scientific data threatens to undo clean air and water regulations
United States of America

Digital laws must be transparent and protect free expression - Article 19 (ARTICLE 19, 2025)
Bangladesh's Interim Government must prioritise transparency, public accountability, and human rights in its drafting of new digital laws.
Bangladesh

DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination, Medical Details — Even Domestic Violence - Coburn, Jesse (ProPublica, 2025)
While some agencies have resisted efforts by Elon Musk’s team to access confidential records, HUD has opened the door. The potential harm to privacy could be significant.
United States of America

Ukraine Humanitarian Fund: Introducing the UHF Data Hub - OCHA (ReliefWeb, 2025)
This dynamic, user-friendly dashboard is a go-to source for up-to-the-minute information on how UHF funding drives humanitarian action in Ukraine.
Ukraine

Digging in to Black Labor History at GW - Ruth Steinhardt (GW Today, 2025)
Archives available through the Special Collections Research Center include historical material from two of the largest and most iconic American labor unions.
United States of America

Le gouvernement espagnol retire les restes d'une momie de la vue d'un musée - Walfisz, Jonny (euronews, 2025)
Le ministère espagnol de la culture a ordonné à un musée madrilène de ne plus exposer au public une momie dans le cadre d'une politique visant à "décoloniser" les musées appartenant à l'État.
Spain

Why has the Spanish government removed a mummy from museum view? - Walfisz, Jonny (euronews, 2025)
Spain’s Ministry of Culture has ordered a Madrid museum to remove a mummy from view as part of a government policy to “decolonise” state-owned museums.
Spain

Stop attacks on journalists and media freedom in the West Bank - Article 19 (ARTICLE 19, 2025)
Israel authorities must stop the assault on journalists and the media in Palestine's West Bank, and protect vital reporting.
Israel

Stop attacks on journalists and media freedom in the West Bank - Article 19 (ARTICLE 19, 2025)
Israel authorities must stop the assault on journalists and the media in Palestine's West Bank, and protect vital reporting.
Palestine (Permanent Observer of the United Nations)

ProPublica Updates Its Database of Museums’ and Universities’ Compliance With Federal Repatriation Law - Hudetz, Mary (ProPublica, 2025)
Institutions across the U.S. returned more than 10,300 Native American ancestors to tribes in 2024, making it the third-biggest year for repatriation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
United States of America

Ukraine’s Information War - Jacobsen, Scott Douglas (International Policy Digest, 2025)
Valeria Kovtun discusses the fight against disinformation in wartime Ukraine, emphasizing media literacy, advocacy, and the power of humor in countering propaganda.
Ukraine

Tackling political pressure and legal hurdles to revive media freedom - Article 19 (ARTICLE 19, 2025)
Outdated laws, issues with public media, SLAPPs, mounting economic, political, and physical pressures undermine media freedom in Croatia.
Croatia

Farmers Sue Over Deletion of Climate Data From Government Websites - Zraick, Karen (The New York Times, 2025)
The data, which disappeared from Agriculture Department sites in recent weeks, was useful to farmers for business planning, the lawsuit said.
United States of America
Keywords: Global Warming; Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Peace Begins with Access to Information in Romich - Zejin Yin (UNMISS, 2025)
For years, the people of Romich lived in near-complete isolation—no radio, no reliable phone signal, and during the rainy season, no way out.“When it rains, we are completely cut off,” says Mary Nyak, a local resident. “To make a call, we climb trees, hoping to catch a weak signal. But most of the time, we are left in silence.”Romich became the county headquarters of Tonj East in 2020, following South Sudan’s peace agreement. But despite its new status, progress remained slow. Roads were barely passable, and frequent communal clashes made travel even riskier.
South Sudan

‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism - English, Charlie (The Guardian, 2025)
From George Orwell to Hannah Arendt and John le Carré, thousands of blacklisted books flooded into Poland during the cold war, as publishers and printers risked their lives for literature.
Poland
Keywords: Books; CIA; Communism; Culture; George Orwell; Human rights; Poland; Publishing

‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism - English, Charlie (The Guardian, 2025)
From George Orwell to Hannah Arendt and John le Carré, thousands of blacklisted books flooded into Poland during the cold war, as publishers and printers risked their lives for literature.
United States of America
Keywords: Books; CIA; Communism; Culture; George Orwell; Human rights; Poland; Publishing

Trump administration shuts down national database documenting police misconduct - Oladipo, Gloria (The Guardian, 2025)
Database, first proposed by Trump in 2020 and created by Biden administration in 2023, is now offline.
United States of America
Keywords: Donald Trump; Trump administration; US news; US policing; US politics

‘My paedophile letters’: French surgeon to stand trial accused of abusing 299 child patients - Willsher, Kim (The Observer, 2025)
Joël Le Scouarnec’s ‘black books’ of handwritten notes in which alleged sexual abuse was recorded are at the heart of case against him
France
Keywords: Europe; France; Rape and sexual assault; Trial by jury; World news

Apple removes advanced data protection tool in face of UK government request - Hall, Rachel (The Guardian, 2025)
Apple says removal of tool after government asked for right to see data will make iCloud users more vulnerable.
United Kingdom
Keywords: Apple; Business; Computing; Data and computer security; Data protection; Home Office; Politics; Privacy; Technology; UK news

Green Book exhibit showcases history, struggles and triumphs of Black travel in the U.S. - Sarah Clune Hartman; Gabrielle Hays (PBS NewsHour, 2025)
The “Negro Motorist Green Book,” a guide for African Americans first published in 1936, was a valued resource at a time when travel held the promise of adventure but was also perilous. It is now the subject of an exhibit showcasing the history, struggles and triumphs of Black travel in America.
United States of America

‘This is censorship’: Palestinian flags covered up in major exhibition at National Gallery of Australia - Haydar, Nour (The Guardian, 2025)
Pacific Indigenous art collective claims NGA cited ‘high level’ security risk in direction to remove Palestinian flag from tapestry
Australia
Keywords: Art and design; Australian art; Culture; Gaza; National Gallery of Australia

Giving Voice to Data: How Community Radio in Zanzibar is Using Gender-based Violence (GBV) Data to Drive Change - UN Women - Africa (Zawya, 2025)
Giving Voice to Data: How Community Radio in Zanzibar is Using Gender-based Violence (GBV) Data to Drive Change
Tanzania

‘I have a lot to contribute’: Whitehall whistleblower wants her job back - Weaver, Matthew (The Guardian, 2025)
Josie Stewart won an employment tribunal case against the government for unfair dismissal, after she leaked information in the public interest
United Kingdom
Keywords: Afghanistan; BBC; Civil service; Commonwealth and Development Office; Foreign; Media; Politics

Joint UN submission to protect a healthy future for our information society - Article 19 (ARTICLE 19, 2025)
A review is underway of the UN Member States’ commitments to a people-centred, inclusive, and development-oriented information society.
Worldwide

Kyiv’s White House wooing implodes as Zelenskyy tells the truth about Trump - Borger, Julian (The Guardian, 2025)
All America’s allies know that Trump is trapped in a disinformation bubble, but Zelenskyy said it out loud
Ukraine
Keywords: Donald Trump; Trump administration; US politics; Ukraine; Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Kyiv’s White House wooing implodes as Zelenskyy tells the truth about Trump - Borger, Julian (The Guardian, 2025)
All America’s allies know that Trump is trapped in a disinformation bubble, but Zelenskyy said it out loud
United States of America
Keywords: Donald Trump; Trump administration; US politics; Ukraine; Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Conflicts over access to Americans' personal data emerging across federal government - Caitlin Andrews (IAPP, 2025)
The Trump administration's fast-moving efforts to limit the size of the U.S. federal bureaucracy, primarily through the recently minted Department of Government Efficiency, are raising privacy and data security concerns among current and former officials across the government, particularly as the administration scales back positions charged with privacy oversight. Efforts to limit the independence of a host of federal agencies through a new executive order — including the independence of the Federal Trade Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission — are also ringing alarm bells among civil society and some legal experts.
United States of America

Cambodia’s Stolen Statues Are Coming Home to an Overflowing Museum - Ives, Mike (The New York Times, 2025)
Foreign institutions and collectors are returning artifacts with deep spiritual meaning for Cambodians. Where and how to display them remain open questions.
Cambodia
Keywords: Angkor Wat (Cambodia); Arts and Antiquities Looting; Buddhism; Cambodia; Cleveland Museum of Art; Collectors and Collections; Guimet Museum of Asian Art; Khmer Rouge; Koh Ker (Cambodia); Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museums; National Museum of Cambodia; Phnom Penh (Cambodia); Restoration and Renovation; Sculpture

Armenians in Turkey after the Second World War: An Archival Reader of USSR Consular Documents - MassisPost (MassisPost, 2025)
This reader brings to light newly discovered archival material compiled by the Soviet Consulate in Istanbul. The book reveals the lives and experience of Armenians in Turkey in the 1940s, with a particular focus on the process of emigration to Soviet Armenia. The accounts, translated for the first time into English, are comprised of Soviet officials’ reports and first-hand testimony by survivors of their lives during the post-genocide period, making this an invaluable new contribution to the existing collections of Armenian survival testimonies.
Armenia

Armenians in Turkey after the Second World War: An Archival Reader of USSR Consular Documents by Talin Suciyan - MassisPost (MassisPost, 2025)
This reader brings to light newly discovered archival material compiled by the Soviet Consulate in Istanbul. The book reveals the lives and experience of Armenians in Turkey in the 1940s, with a particular focus on the process of emigration to Soviet Armenia. The accounts, translated for the first time into English, are comprised of Soviet officials’ reports and first-hand testimony by survivors of their lives during the post-genocide period, making this an invaluable new contribution to the existing collections of Armenian survival testimonies.
Turkey

The Digital Preservation Coalition welcomes the Common Crawl Foundation as its newest member - Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC Blog, 2025)
The Common Crawl Foundation (CCF) has joined the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) this month, becoming the Coalition’s newest Associate Member. As a non-profit foundation dedicated to the Open Web, Common Crawl maintains a free, open repository of web crawl data that can be used by anyone.
Worldwide

Meta Will Escalate Any Concerns of Unfair E.U. Regulation to Trump - Jackson, Fiona (TechRepublic, 2025)
When companies are treated differently and in a way that is discriminatory against them, then that should be highlighted to that company’s home government,” Meta’s global affairs head said.
Europe

Meta Will Escalate Any Concerns of Unfair E.U. Regulation to Trump - Jackson, Fiona (TechRepublic, 2025)
When companies are treated differently and in a way that is discriminatory against them, then that should be highlighted to that company’s home government,” Meta’s global affairs head said.
United States of America

The Vanishing Archive: UNHCR Archives’ Recovery and Preservation of the Records from the Former Yugoslavia - Laura Bernier Ebell (UNHCR Blog, 2025)
In 2015, a major legacy project began in the Records and Archives Section to document, declassify, and preserve the records created by UNHCR staff during the Balkans Wars. Our internal estimation of the fax paper contained in this collection is around 20%, or 300,000 pages – all of which will be lost to time without intervention.
Europe

Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk’s DOGE over data - Rein, Lisa; Bailey, Holly; Stein, Jeff; Bogage, Jacob (Washington Post, 2025)
Yet another top career staffer is leaving the administration amid a disagreement over a request by Elon Musk’s team for sensitive government information.
United States of America

The Battle of Iwo Jima began 80 years ago. Listen to recordings from the frontlines - Ulaby, Neda (2025)
The Library of Congress preserved recordings from Marine Corp combat correspondents at Iwo Jima that included interviews with soldiers, music and the sounds of war.
United States of America

Preserving Our Public Data Heritage - Data Rescue Project (Data Rescue Project, 2025)
The PEGI Project recently released a post about the preservation of public federal data in support of the Data Rescue Project. PEGI stands for Preservation of Electronic Government Information and was created in 2016 by a group of government information librarians who were concerned about the future of electronic forms
United States of America

IRS reportedly preparing to give Musk’s Doge agency access to taxpayer data - Helmore, Edward (The Guardian, 2025)
US agency reviewing request for access to classified system containing personal financial records of US taxpayers.
United States of America
Keywords: Elon Musk; Trump administration; US news; US politics

Intercepted review – phone taps are a chilling glimpse into Russian soldiers’ minds in Ukraine - Hoad, Phil (The Guardian, 2025)
Recordings of fighters’ wiretapped phone calls are juxtaposed with images of wartime destruction in Oksana Karpovych’s compelling war documentary.
Ukraine
Keywords: Culture; Documentary films; Europe; Film; Russia; Surveillance; Ukraine; World news

A Picture to Remember review – memories of a Donetsk happy childhood before the war - Le, Phuong (The Guardian, 2025)
Olga Chernykh’s portrait of life in war-torn Ukraine, based on home videos, examines how bonds and memories persist through trauma, loss and distance.
Ukraine
Keywords: Culture; Documentary films; Europe; Family; Film; Life and style; Ukraine; World news

South Korea Bans Downloads of DeepSeek, the Chinese A.I. App - Tobin, Meaghan; Young, Jin Yu (The New York Times, 2025)
Regulators said they would suspend the app until they could be sure it complied with the country’s data protection laws.
South Korea
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; China; DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co Ltd; South Korea

Contre la purge « sans précédent » des sites ordonnée par Trump, les archivistes du numérique à l’offensive - Michaël Szadkowski (Le Monde, 2025)
Des décrets signés par le nouveau président des Etats-Unis ont entraîné la disparition de milliers de pages, liées notamment au changement climatique ou aux politiques d’égalité. Plusieurs initiatives coordonnées cherchent à les préserver.
United States of America

MLK’s family fear new batch of assassination files will have FBI ‘smears’ - Yang, Maya (The Guardian, 2025)
Family of Martin Luther King Jr says Trump mandate could revive J Edgar Hoover’s efforts to discredit revered activist.
United States of America
Keywords: Donald Trump; John F Kennedy; Martin Luther King; Robert F Kennedy Jr; Trump administration; US news; US politics

White House forcing out National Archives top leadership in major shakeup - Reuters (Reuters, 2025)
The Trump administration is forcing out senior leadership at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration in a major shakeup.
United States of America

The F.R.E.I.H.E.I.T. Project: tackling disinformation in Eastern Europe - Euractiv (Euractiv, 2025)
The F.R.E.I.H.E.I.T Project is a bold and ambitious initiative currently tackling the growing threat of disinformation, particularly in Europe’s Eastern Neighbourhood. It is expanding its focus to critical areas such as energy, agriculture, security, and migration, all of which are vulnerable to manipulation.
Europe

Trump called the press ‘the enemy of the people’. Now it’s time to defend ourselves - Ginsberg, Jodie (The Guardian, 2025)
The one-time defiance and solidarity of publications across the political aisle is strained as outlets cave to Trump’s threats
United States of America
Keywords: Donald Trump; Media; New York Times; Newspapers; Newspapers & magazines; US news; US press and publishing; Washington Post

UK Encryption Order Threatens Global Privacy Rights - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2025)
The United Kingdom government’s order to Apple to allow access to encrypted cloud data harms the privacy rights of users in the UK and worldwide.
United Kingdom

Exhibition marking 50 years anniversary of Asmara Massacre - Ministry of Information, Eritrea (Zawya, 2025)
Eritrea: Exhibition marking 50 years anniversary of Asmara Massacre
Eritrea

Federal data is disappearing. Meet the teams working to rescue it and learn how you can help. - MuckRockNews (MuckRockNews, 2025)
Since the start of the new Trump administration, hundreds of federal data sets and government websites have gone offline without warning, sometimes returning with major changes and sometimes not returning at all. On February 13th, MuckRock hosted an event with organizations that are helping lead the efforts to preserve the public’s data.
United States of America

How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see - Paz, Alejandro; Nost, Eric (The Conversation, 2025)
Several groups are working to preserve webpages, tools and data – some of which have already gone missing from government webpages since the start of the Trump administration.
United States of America

Undersecretariat of Cultural Heritage (Chile) secures UNESCO fund to enable the National Library’s preservation of photographic, audiovisual, and sound archives from the dictatorship era - UNESCO (UNESCO, 2025)
Chile

Between Russia and Elon Musk, German Voters Face a ‘Dual Front’ of Disinformation - Bennhold, Katrin; Myers, Steven Lee (The New York Times, 2025)
In the first major European vote since President Trump’s re-election, influence campaigns are targeting Germany from two sides.
Germany
Keywords: Alternative for Germany; Artificial Intelligence; Computers and the Internet; Elections; Germany; International Relations; Musk; Elon; Politics and Government; Rumors and Misinformation; Russia; Social Media; X (Formerly Twitter)

Former Haitian first lady seeks to declassify documents related to her husband's assassination - Ducrepin, Sindy (Voice of America, 2025)
Martine Moise, former first lady of Haiti, appealed to U.S. President Donald Trump to declassify documents related to the assissination of her husband, Haitian President Jovenel Moise.
Haiti

Former Haitian first lady seeks to declassify documents related to her husband's assassination - Ducrepin, Sindy (Voice of America, 2025)
Martine Moise, former first lady of Haiti, appealed to U.S. President Donald Trump to declassify documents related to the assissination of her husband, Haitian President Jovenel Moise.
United States of America

The dark side of AI innovation is supercharging disinformation and damaging democracy - Euractiv (Euractiv, 2025)
Misinformation and disinformation have always existed, but technological advancements have accelerated their impact. This Special Report looks at how AI misuse is damaging democracy.
Worldwide

ICRC: number of missing people in Russia-Ukraine war reaches 50,000 - Langrand, Michelle (Geneva Solutions, 2025)
As the war in Ukraine nears its third year, new data from the Red Cross reveals the staggering scale of disappearances and the long road ahead in the search for those missing.
Ukraine

Video evidence of January 6 Capitol attack missing from US government website - Betts, Anna (The Guardian, 2025)
Attorneys representing a collection of news organizations said in a legal filing submitted on Tuesday that video evidence used during the sentencing of a rioter involved in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol had vanished from an online government platform.
United States of America
Keywords: Law (US); Trump administration; US Capitol attack; US crime; US news; US politics

China tops list of countries trying to silence exiled dissidents over past decade, study shows - McQue, Katie (The Guardian, 2025)
A quarter of the world’s countries have engaged in transnational repression – targeting political exiles abroad to silence dissent – in the past decade, new research reveals. The Washington DC-based non-profit organisation Freedom House has documented 1,219 incidents carried out by 48 governments across 103 countries, from 2014 to 2024.
Worldwide
Keywords: Asia Pacific; China; Europe; Human rights; Media; Newspapers & magazines; Press freedom; Russia; Transnational repression; Uyghurs; World news

Musk’s ‘efficiency’ agency site adds data from controversial rightwing thinktank - Sainato, Michael; Noor, Dharna (The Guardian, 2025)
Website of ‘Doge’ includes information published by thinktank CEI, which claims to fight ‘climate alarmism’
United States of America
Keywords: Climate crisis; Donald Trump; Elon Musk; Trump administration; US news; US politics

Looking at Women, Looking at War by Victoria Amelina review – in memory of the Ukrainian novelist who catalogued war crimes - Cooke, Rachel (The Guardian, 2025)
A powerful, posthumous collection of diary entries, interviews, war reports and poetry has the late author’s tragic absence at its heart.
Ukraine
Keywords: Books; Culture; Essays; Journalism books; Ukraine

Campaigner for migrants in Libya targeted in spyware attack - Giuffrida, Angela; Kirchgaessner, Stephanie (The Guardian, 2025)
An Italy-based human rights activist whose work supports the international criminal court in providing evidence about cases of abuse suffered by migrants and refugees held in Libyan detention camps and prisons has revealed that Apple informed him his phone was targeted in a spyware attack.
Italy
Keywords: Africa; Europe; Giorgia Meloni; Hacking; International criminal court; Italy; Libya; Middle East and north Africa; Migration; Technology; WhatsApp; World news

Campaigner for migrants in Libya targeted in spyware attack - Giuffrida, Angela; Kirchgaessner, Stephanie (The Guardian, 2025)
An Italy-based human rights activist whose work supports the international criminal court in providing evidence about cases of abuse suffered by migrants and refugees held in Libyan detention camps and prisons has revealed that Apple informed him his phone was targeted in a spyware attack.
Libya
Keywords: Africa; Europe; Giorgia Meloni; Hacking; International criminal court; Italy; Libya; Middle East and north Africa; Migration; Technology; WhatsApp; World news

FBI says it has discovered 2,400 new records related to JFK assassination - Press, Associated (The Guardian, 2025)
The agency was transferring the records for declassification and did not say what information they contained.
United States of America
Keywords: Donald Trump; FBI; Joe Biden; John F Kennedy; US news; US politics

Polar heritage sites are slipping into the sea – but can one island live forever online? - Cecco, Leyland (The Guardian, 2025)
On Qikiqtaruk, off Canada’s Yukon coast, scientists are wielding virtual-reality cameras, 3D models and digital archives to protect the island’s history and culture before it disappears
Canada
Keywords: Americas; Arctic; Canada; Climate crisis; Coastlines; Conservation; Conservation and indigenous people; Environment; Geology; Global development; Indigenous peoples; Oceans; Science; Sea level; Whaling; World news

Israeli Police Raid Palestinian Bookshops in East Jerusalem - Odenheimer, Natan; Jakes, Lara (The New York Times, 2025)
The police said the stores were selling books that supported terrorism and that two members of the family who owned the business had been arrested. A lawyer said their detention was “political” rather than legal.
Palestine (Permanent Observer to the United Nations)
Keywords: Books and Literature; East Jerusalem; Gaza Strip; Israel; Palestinians

Russia destroys documents of the National Archive Fund in Dnipropetrovs'k region - UNN (UNN, 2025)
As a result of a Russian drone attack, the Mezhivskyi archival unit in Dnipropetrovs'k region was damaged. About 10% of the collection of documents of the National Archival Fond was lost due to the fire and its extinguishing.
Ukraine

‘Many teachers don’t want to do this, but they’re trapped’: film shows extent of Putin indoctrination in Russian schools - Sauer, Pjotr (The Observer, 2025)
Two years after he started documenting the effect of the Ukraine war on his pupils, Pavel Talankin reveals how it led to accolade – and exile from home.
Russian Federation
Keywords: Culture; Documentary films; Europe; Film; Russia; Sundance 2025; Sundance film festival; Teaching; Ukraine; Vladimir Putin; World news

Why Responsible Data Access will determine the Future of AI: The Increased Importance of Data - Chafetz, Hannah (Data Stewards Network, 2025)
At this moment, the AI Action Summit is taking place in Paris, bringing together heads of state and government, international organizations, civil society, and CEOs to look at how artificial intelligence can be most effectively harnessed by society. Achieving these goals requires something more foundational — responsible data access. Without data to train, finetune, and augment them, there can be no AI systems.
Worldwide

Judge temporarily blocks Musk’s ‘Doge’ team from accessing treasury records - Press, Associated (The Guardian, 2025)
Injunction granted in response to lawsuit alleging the Trump administration allowed Musk’s team access to sensitive data in violation of federal law.
United States of America
Keywords: Elon Musk; Trump administration; US news; US politics

Preserving Disability: Disability & the Archival Profession - Cheryl (Publishing in the Archives Profession, 2025)
The book weaves together first-person narratives and case studies contributed from disabled archivists and disabled archives users, bringing critical perspectives and approaches to the archival profession. Collectively, these works address the nuances of both disability and archives-critically drawing attention to the histories, present experiences, and future possibilities of the archival profession.
Worldwide

Berlin court rules against X on data access - Datta, Anupriya (Euractiv, 2025)
Two civil society organisations sued X after the platform refused to grant systematic access to publicly available data.
Germany

Map wars in the Middle East: How cartographers charted and helped shape a regional conflict - Leuenberger, Christine (The Conversation, 2025)
But no matter the purpose, all maps have something in common: They are political. Making maps is about making decisions about what to omit and what to include. They are subject to selection, classification, abstractions and simplifications. And studying the choices that go into maps can reveal different stories about land and the people who claim it as theirs.
Worldwide

Revealing India’s Cold War secrets - Mark Pierce (The Interpreter, 2025)
Indians worried about interference by “the foreign hand” in their affairs might have over-estimated their adversaries.
India

From archives to impact: Historian, UWG alumna is changing how America sees black history - Press Release (The City Menus, 2025)
How does one define history? For University of West Georgia alumna Autumn Smith ’21, that isn’t a rhetorical question. The historian has already made an impact preserving, presenting and promoting the untold stories of Black history and culture. There are even three Emmy awards to prove it. “(Re)Defining History: Uncovering the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre,” produced by WABE Studios, explores the truth behind the carnage, what led to the violence and how it spawned resilience in Atlanta’s Black communities.
United States of America

Trump launches sanctions against the ICC - AFP (JusticeInfo.net, 2025)
The decision comes as no surprise, but the reactions are massive, and its consequences could threaten the existence of the International Criminal Court (ICC): on Thursday 6 February 2025, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order providing for sanctions against the Hague Court, which he accused of ‘taking illegal and unfounded actions against America and (its) close ally Israel’.
United States of America

Defector who exposed Assad’s brutality calls for Syria sanctions to be lifted - Christou, William (The Guardian, 2025)
The former military officer, previously known only as ‘Caesar’, smuggled evidence of thousands of deaths out of the country.
Syria
Keywords: Syria

Disappearing Data: Trump Administration Removing Climate Information from Government Websites - Rachel Santarsiero (National Security Archive, 2025)
In the first two weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term, the administration has begun to scrub critical environmental resources and datasets from federal agency websites. To combat this effort to suppress and censor public data, the National Security Archive’s Climate Change Transparency Project today publishes a selection of materials on climate change and environmental justice that have been deleted from agency web pages and spotlights the environmental and archivist organizations working to identify, scrape, and preserve these critical data.
United States of America

Harvard law library acts to preserve government data amid sweeping purges - Satter, Raphael; Satter, Raphael (Reuters, 2025)
A unit of Harvard University's Law Library says it is releasing an archive of more than 300,000 government data sets, aiming to protect vital public information at a time when President Donald Trump's administration is wiping it from the web.
United States of America

The Subsequent Nuremberg Trials 1946-1949: Digitalization project launched - Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2025)
A new research project is making the extensive documentation from the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials from 1946-1949 available digitally – a milestone for digital humanities and the historical reappraisal…
Germany

As Trump Administration Purges Climate Data and Web Pages, Research Groups Scramble to Save Information - Price, By Kiley (Inside Climate News, 2025)
The Trump administration has directed federal agency staff to remove climate references and scientific data from many web pages. Researchers are rushing to archive it.
United States of America

CDC webpages go dark as Trump targets public health information - Sherman, Carter; Glenza, Jessica (The Guardian, 2025)
Resources for contraception, gender-affirming care, STIs and HIV flicker in and out of existence or vanish completely.
United States of America
Keywords: Health; Trump administration; US domestic policy; US healthcare; US news; US politics; World news

Tiny Nigerian museum marking a forgotten British invasion pushes for recognition - Egbejule, Eromo (The Guardian, 2025)
In the sleepy Nigerian port town of Koko, the reminder of a forgotten invasion by the British more than a century ago has itself been forgotten. Officially known as the Nanna Living History Museum, the building was designated a national monument in 1990.
Nigeria
Keywords: Africa; Colonialism; Heritage; Nigeria; UK news; World news

Abroger l'amendement à la loi draconienne sur la cybercriminalité - Human Right Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2025)
La loi modifiée menace la liberté d’expression, notamment sur Internet.
Pakistan

Repeal Amendment to Draconian Cyber Law - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2025)
The Pakistan government’s recent amendment to the country’s cybercrimes act seriously threatens internet freedom and free expression.
Pakistan

DeepSeek making a splash with EU data protection bodies - Moreau, Claudie (Euractiv, 2025)
DeepSeek's emergence in the European digital space has been closely watched by national data protection authorities, who are concerned the company is breaching the GDPR by transferring EU personal data to China.
Europe

The Panama Canal Treaty Declassified - National Security Archive (National Security Archives, 2025)
The documents posted today include CIA reports, NSC briefing papers, White House meeting minutes, telephone transcripts and audio tapes dating back to the Kennedy era. These fascinating archival records provide a contextual, factual overview to understand and appreciate the historical foundations of the foreign policy crisis that is escalating today over Panama.
Panama
Keywords: United States of America

Senior USAid officials put on leave after denying access to Musk’s Doge team - Roth, Andrew (The Guardian, 2025)
After standoff, Doge members gained control over access system, letting them lock out workers and read emails
United States of America
Keywords: Donald Trump; Elon Musk; Trump administration; US Congress; US news; US politics; USAid

Argentine Navy ordered to preserve dictatorship archive - Jaureguy, Martina (Buenos Aires Herald, 2025)
Judge Alicia Vence halted the planned destruction of archives which could serve as potential evidence of crimes against humanity
Argentina

Exonerated environmental defenders to face murder retrial in El Salvador - Lakhani, Nina (The Guardian, 2025)
Critics decry ‘politically motivated’ decision to revisit civil war-era charges against leaders of anti-mining campaign. Five Salvadorian environmental defenders who were exonerated of bogus civil war charges will face retrial this week amid growing evidence of political interference.
El Salvador
Keywords: Americas; El Salvador; Environment; Mining; World news

1,500 videos, photos of July atrocities collected - Staff Correspondant (The Daily Star, 2025)
Bangladesh Protest Archive, a digital platform that has been collecting videos, audio recordings, and photos documenting the state-led atrocities, including police brutality, perpetrated during the July uprising last year, announced its official launch yesterday.
Bangladesh

Specters of the Past: How Russia and Ukraine are Weaponizing History - Piccoli, Erik (International Policy Digest, 2025)
History is a powerful tool so it would make sense that both Ukraine and Russia are rewriting their histories.
Russian Federation

Specters of the Past: How Russia and Ukraine are Weaponizing History - Piccoli, Erik (International Policy Digest, 2025)
History is a powerful tool so it would make sense that both Ukraine and Russia are rewriting their histories.
Ukraine

Tunisia reclaims lost voices of WWI riflemen from German archives - RFI (RFI, 2025)
Germany has returned hundreds of sound recordings of North African soldiers who were held as prisoners during World War I, helping to fill a major gap in Tunisia’s war archives.
Tunisia
Keywords: Germany

Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis - Canon, Gabrielle (The Guardian, 2025)
Forest service website among many sites affected as agencies scramble to comply with president’s orders
United States of America
Keywords: Climate crisis; Donald Trump; Environment; Trump administration; US news; US politics; World news

Trump Removes Access to CEJST, Our New Coalition Restores It - EDGI_Team (Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, 2025)
Last week the Trump administration removed access to the Council on Environmental Quality’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST). The public web tool allowed users to see on a map which places in the US face marginalization and disproportionate climate and pollution burdens.
United States of America

Trump administration seeking access to database of immigrant minors - Miroff, Nick; Sacchetti, Maria (The Washington Post, 2025)
The Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is responsible for caring for unaccompanied minors, has long operated independently of ICE.
United States of America

As Data Goes Off-Line Under Trump, Environmental Researchers Are Uploading Backups - Quinn, Ryan (Inside Higher Ed, 2025)
A team of scholars has worked since November to archive resources that are valuable to themselves and the public—just in case they were taken down. In the first few days of Donald Trump’s second term as president, the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST, for short) disappeared from government websites. It was an interactive map of U.S. Census tracts that are “marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution,” as the pre-Trump federal government put it—something researchers and the public could use to quickly locate and zoom in on specific communities and analyze the problems they face.
United States of America
Keywords: premium

As conflict rates soar, misinformation is getting worse - Clionadh Raleigh (POLITICO, 2025)
We may not be able to change how people ingest information, but we can and should place guardrails around the evidence we use to inform the public.
Europe

Archiving Gaza: The Race to Save Evidence of War Crimes and Mass Destruction - Hassan, Lila (Drop Site News, 2025)
Inside the dangerous effort to dodge censorship and document the horrors of Israel's war against Gaza.
Palestine (Permanent Observer of the United Nations)

The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict and War Crimes: Challenges for Documentation and International Prosecution - Grzebyk, Patrycja; Uczkiewicz, Dominika (Routledge, 2024)
As the largest international armed conflict in Europe since World War II, Russia’s war against Ukraine has provoked strong reactions and questions about the post-1945 world order, the utility of the war, and the effectiveness of international criminal justice. Throughout the chapters in this volume, scholars and legal practitioners from Canada, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, the UK, and the United States present the results of interdisciplinary research, insights from the perspective of other post-communist states, and first-hand expertise from directly working on the documentation and prosecution of these crimes.
Russian Federation

The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict and War Crimes: Challenges for Documentation and International Prosecution - Grzebyk, Patrycja; Uczkiewicz, Dominika (Routledge, 2024)
As the largest international armed conflict in Europe since World War II, Russia’s war against Ukraine has provoked strong reactions and questions about the post-1945 world order, the utility of the war, and the effectiveness of international criminal justice. Throughout the chapters in this volume, scholars and legal practitioners from Canada, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, the UK, and the United States present the results of interdisciplinary research, insights from the perspective of other post-communist states, and first-hand expertise from directly working on the documentation and prosecution of these crimes.
Ukraine

India regulator seeks greater access to social media records, source and memo say - Batra, Shubham (Zawya, 2024)
India's markets regulator is seeking broader powers from the government to remove unauthorised financial advice from social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram, and to access their call records for investigations into market violations, a government source and a document reviewed by Reuters showed.
India

SAHR Tuesday Talks - Managing UNHCR Records - ICA (ICA, 2025)
Managing UNHCR Records, Archives and Protecting Information on Refugees and Displaced Persons
Worldwide

Long-lost anti-fascist mural from 1930s restored and back on show in Mexico - Graham, Thomas (The Guardian, 2025)
A long-neglected 1930s mural in Mexico that warns about the rise of fascism has been revealed and restored – just as some historians say the world faces that threat once more.
Mexico
Keywords: Americas; Art; Communism; Diego Rivera; Mexico; Nazism; Painting

Provision of Information Management and Analysis Organizational Review - KonTerra Group (OCHA, 2025)
The review focuses on OCHA’s IM and Analysis function (including its role in the provision of IM and Analysis products and services to the humanitarian community).
Worldwide

Peacebuilding and disinformation - Berghof Foundation (Berghof Foundation, 2025)
A non-governmental organisation supporting people in conflict in their efforts to achieve sustainable peace through conflict transformation and peacebuilding
Worldwide

Russia Is Spinning Up a New Barrage of Lies in Europe - McGee, Luke (Foreign Policy, 2025)
European officials are in a long battle against disinformation.
Europe

Seizure of news organisation's laptop undermines press freedom - ARTICLE 19 (ARTICLE 19, 2025)
The Malaysian police recently confiscated a laptop from Malaysiakini as part of their ongoing investigation into former Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin's comments regarding a purported royal addendum that could allow former Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak to serve his prison sentence under house arrest.
Malaysia

Saving history: These archivists' mission to preserve social media record of war in Gaza - Charlie Bell; Agnes Ored (SBS News, 2025)
Archivists preserve social media posts from conflict zones — but verifying and protecting the vast quantity of dynamic content presents huge challenges for the teams that attempt it.
Palestine (Permanent Observer to the UN)

A new Vancouver archive aims to keep alive the memory of the Holocaust - Wendy Cox (The Globe and Mail, 2025)
As per his mother’s wishes, Taylor has donated his grandfather’s archives to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre (VHEC) and the UBC Library. The digitization of the archive is set to be completed in August, and it will be open to researchers worldwide. On Monday, Taylor also launched a six-episode podcast called The Hidden Holocaust Papers.
Canada
Keywords: Social Issues

‘New way of bearing witness’: one of biggest Holocaust archives goes online - Bakare, Lanre; Arts, Lanre Bakare (The Guardian, 2025)
Wiener Holocaust Library has digitised more than 150,000 items including letters, pamphlets and photos
Europe
Keywords: Holocaust; Judaism; Nazism; Second world war; UK news; World news

‘We were raided regularly’: with Assad gone, banned books return to Syria’s shelves - Christou, William (The Guardian, 2025)
Under the deposed dictator, books had to pass detailed scrutiny by government censors.
Syria
Keywords: Bashar al-Assad; Books; Censorship; George Orwell; Middle East and north Africa; Syria

Preserving the legacy of Russia's independent media - Satchkova, Svetlana (RAAM, 2025)
With independent journalism in Russia now virtually impossible, a group of exiled journalists has launched a Russian Independent Media Archive. The collection preserves the legacy of Russian journalism and underscores the current lack of freedom, but also functions as a valuable tool for research and education.
Russian Federation

Secret police tricked Carlos the Jackal into fleeing Prague, archives reveal - Walker, Shaun (The Guardian, 2025)
New book casts doubt on accepted picture of communist bloc support for violent radicals during cold war.
Worldwide
Keywords: Carlos the Jackal; Cold war; Czech Republic; Czechoslovakia; Espionage; Europe; World news

‘The risk of extinction is accelerating’: world’s botanic gardens raise alarm with space to protect endangered plants running out - Ferguson, Donna (The Observer, 2025)
University of Cambridge research suggests living collections have collectively reached peak capacity
Worldwide
Keywords: Conservation; Endangered species; Environment; Plants

Police Commissioner apologises for exposure of CISOCA records - Jamaica Observer (Jamaica Observer, 2025)
Police Commissioner Dr Kevin Blake has issued an apology following the exposure of sensitive records belonging to the police’s Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA)
Jamaica

Authorities pass bill with sweeping controls on social media - Amnesty International (Amnesty International, 2025)
The amendment Bill was presented in and passed by the National Assembly on 23 January 2025 and referred to the Standing Committee the next day by the Senate after backlash from opposition, media and civil society. The Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act passed in 2016 triggered widespread criticism from human rights organizations and activists for its potential for harmful impact on the right to freedom of expression and access to information in the country. The nine years since have confirmed these fears as journalists, human rights defenders and political opposition have been targeted under the law. Recently, the authorities have frequently imposed blanket bans on social media platforms and have blocked X, formerly Twitter, since February 2024.
Pakistan

The EU wants to scan every message sent in Europe. Will that really make us safer? - Fotiadis, Apostolis (The Guardian, 2025)
Lawmakers argue that mass surveillance will help to protect children. But the implications for our privacy and security are staggering, says journalist Apostolis Fotiadis
Europe
Keywords: Child protection; Data protection; Digital media; Encryption; Europe; European Union; Media; Society; Surveillance; Technology; World news

Newly discovered photos of Nazi deportations show Jewish victims as they were last seen alive - Gruner, Wolf (The Conversation, 2025)
Descendants of survivors helped researchers identify 279 deportees and tell their stories. ‘We give previously faceless victims a voice,’ says project’s co-founder.
Europe

Don’t Let Autocrats Erase the Internet - Nossel, Suzanne (Foreign Policy, 2025)
Preserving digital archives is a crucial weapon in discrediting and defeating authoritarian regimes.
Worldwide

Burkina Faso collecting Thomas Sankara's archives, artefacts - CGTN Africa (2025)
The Burkinabe government is leading an initiative to restore the memory of Thomas Sankara, who was the leader of the country from 1983 before being assassinated in 1987. Fellow revolutionaries in possession of materials associated with Sankara have been handing them over for national preservation.
Burkin Faso

Meta, WhatsApp win relief as India tribunal suspends data sharing ban - Chaturvedi, Arpan; Chaturvedi, Arpan (Reuters, 2025)
An Indian tribunal temporarily suspended a five-year data sharing ban between WhatsApp and owner Meta Platforms , a major relief for the U.S. giant which had warned its advertising business will be affected.
India

Déclaration du Procureur de la CPI, Karim A.A. Khan K.C. : des mandats d’arrêt requis dans la situation en Afghanistan - International Criminal Court (International Criminal Court, 2025)
Aujourd’hui, mon Bureau va déposer deux requêtes aux fins de délivrance de mandats d’arrêt dans la situation en Afghanistan auprès des juges de la Chambre préliminaire II de la Cour pénale internationale.
Afghanistan

Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC: Applications for arrest warrants in the situation in Afghanistan - International Criminal Court (International Criminal Court, 2025)
Today, I can announce that my Office has filed two applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court in the Situation in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan

Is TikTok a national security threat – or is the ban a smokescreen for superpower rivalry? - Sabbagh, Dan (The Guardian, 2025)
Washington looks happy for the video app to harvest users’ data – as long as China does not reap the rewards
United States of America
Keywords: China; Digital media; Donald Trump; Media; Social media; Technology; TikTok; US news; World news

Is TikTok a national security threat – or is the ban a smokescreen for superpower rivalry? - Sabbagh, Dan (The Guardian, 2025)
Washington looks happy for the video app to harvest users’ data – as long as China does not reap the rewards
China
Keywords: China; Digital media; Donald Trump; Media; Social media; Technology; TikTok; US news; World news

Ethics watchdog issues conflict of interest warning to Musk’s Doge agency - Smith, David (The Guardian, 2025)
American Oversight has raised concerns over ‘department of government efficiency’ using encrypted apps
United States of America
Keywords: Donald Trump; Elon Musk; Trump administration; US news; US politics

Microsoft's LinkedIn sued for disclosing customer information to train AI models - Stempel, Jonathan (Reuters, 2025)
Microsoft's LinkedIn has been sued by Premium customers who said the business-focused social media platform disclosed their private messages to third parties without permission to train generative artificial intelligence models.
United States of America

Fallen Black South African Soldiers From World War I Finally Remembered - Crystal Orderson (Inter Press Service, 2025)
Despite being the sons of Africa, the hundreds of soldiers who served in non-combat roles between 1914 and 1918 have been unrecognized for decades.
Africa

ICC arrest warrant against Osama Elmasry Njeem for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes - International Criminal Court (International Criminal Court (ICC), 2025)
On 18 January 2025, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court ("ICC" or "the Court"), by majority, issued a warrant of arrest for Mr Osama Elmasry Njeem, also known as Osama Almasri Njeem, in the Situation in Libya. Mr Osama Elmasry Njeem, who is alleged to have been in charge of prison facilities in Tripoli, where thousands of persons were detained for prolonged periods, is suspected of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including murder, torture, rape and sexual violence, allegedly committed in Libya from February 2015 onwards.
Libya

Mandat d’arrêt de la CPI à l’encontre d’Osama Elmasry Njeem pour crimes contre l'humanité et crimes de guerre présumés - International Criminal Court (International Criminal Court (ICC), 2025)
Le 18 janvier 2025, la Chambre préliminaire I de la Cour pénale internationale (« CPI » ou « la Cour ») a délivré un mandat d’arrêt à l’encontre de M. Osama Elmasry Njeem, également connu sous le nom d’Osama Almasri Njeem, dans la situation en Libye.
Libya

Archives of the Surveilled - Rosen, Charlotte (Public Books, 2025)
The FBI’s recording of Arthur Huff Fauset's life undermined its own goals by essentially archiving his speeches, which would have otherwise been lost to history and even the author’s own memory. In these words written at the end of his life, there is a poignancy to his sarcasm: He may leave a legacy after all, but only through the institutions that silenced him in the first place Archives open up the possibility to read around the official political and literary history that government repression has constructed.
United States of America

The Vigil Files: Government Surveillance in the Civil Rights Movement - Alejandro Hernández (Denver Public Library Special Collections and Archives, 2025)
In part one of Ernesto B. Vigil Freedom of Information Act papers (WH2496), we looked at some of the early actions the FBI took to surveil the civil rights movement. In part two, we will look at how such actions would escalate and even some cross-border actions taken by J. Edgar Hoover.
United States of America

Italian church probe reveals scores of abuse cases in a single diocese - Armellini, Alvise (Reuters, 2025)
Dozens of sex abuse cases committed by members of the clergy over six decades emerged on Monday from an independent report into a northern Italian diocese that dug deeper into the past than others produced by the Italian Catholic Church.
Italy

New legislation will open WWII collaboration archive: minister - Quell, Molly (DutchNews.nl, 2025)
Education and culture minister Eppo Bruins is preparing new legislation which will open controversial digital archives on possible collaborators during World War II to the general public, he told current affairs programme Buitenhof at the weekend. The archives should have been fully online from January 1, but that plan was halted because of privacy concerns. Instead, only the list of names of suspects was made available – even though many were never investigated. The records from the Centraal Archief Bijzondere...
The Netherlands

Meta Looks for the X Factor - Chakravorti, Bhaskar (Foreign Policy, 2025)
What Mark Zuckerberg’s change of heart on misinformation means for the world.
Worldwide

Ethel Rosenberg’s family pushes Biden to exonerate her decades after her execution - John Yang; Harry Zahn (PBS NewsHour, 2025)
In 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed after being convicted as Soviet spies in a sensational Cold War espionage case. Now, a recently declassified document is seen as the strongest evidence yet of Ethel’s innocence.
United States of America

Women's rights under threat in Uganda as conservative groups push disinformation campaign - Prudence Nyamishana (Global Voices, 2025)
The rise of the anti-rights conservative groups in Uganda and around the world has led to gendered disinformation that is threatening democracy and freedoms in the East African nation.
Uganda

Call for ‘censorship culture’ to end as Unity Mitford’s German diary is revealed - Tapper, James; Thorpe, Vanessa (The Observer, 2025)
Extracts from Mitford’s papers published but many more archives concerning British fascists remain concealed
Germany
Keywords: Adolf Hitler; Censorship; The Mitford sisters

Conservatives spent £134m on never-used IT systems for failed Rwanda scheme - Dearden, Lizzie (The Observer, 2025)
Home Office official says data protection laws caused the cost of its forced removal programme to increase
United Kingdom
Keywords: Conservatives; Home Office; Human rights; Immigration and asylum; Politics; Refugees; Rwanda; UK news

Conservatives spent £134m on never-used IT systems for failed Rwanda scheme - Dearden, Lizzie (The Observer, 2025)
Home Office official says data protection laws caused the cost of its forced removal programme to increase
Rwanda
Keywords: Conservatives; Home Office; Human rights; Immigration and asylum; Politics; Refugees; Rwanda; UK news

At what cost are we bridging Africa’s digital divide? - Muhammed Bello Buhari (Global Voices, 2025)
Beneath the promises of enhanced connectivity in Africa lies a complex narrative—a 21st-century iteration of colonial dynamics cloaked in the rhetoric of "connecting the unconnected"
Africa

Yoon supporters storm Seoul court after his detainment period is extended - the Guardian (The Guardian, 2025)
Protesters smash windows after officials cite concerns the impeached president could destroy evidence if released
South Korea
Keywords: Asia Pacific; South Korea; World news; Yoon Suk Yeol

EU asks X for internal documents about algorithms as it steps up investigation - O'Carroll, Lisa (The Guardian, 2025)
Musk’s company has been accused of manipulating systems to give far-right posts and politicians greater visibility
Europe
Keywords: Digital media; Elon Musk; Europe; European Union; Internet; Social media; Technology; World news; X

Sudani oversees handover of Baath crime archives in London - Rudaw (Rudaw, 2025)
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani on Thursday oversaw the handover of archival documents on Baathist era crimes to an Iraqi documentation center during his visit to London, his office said. The archive, previously held by an Iraqi human rights organization, was transferred to the Iraqi Center for Documenting Extremist Crimes, which is affiliated with the al-Abbas Holy Shrine located in Karbala, according to a statement from Sudani’s office.
Sudan

Deb Haaland on Biden's efforts to preserve public land and recognize Indigenous history - Amna Nawaz (PBS News, 2025)
One of the legacies President Biden leaves behind when he exits the White House is his record on conserving and protecting the country’s public lands and water. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland played a key role in implementing Biden's policies over four years. Amna Nawaz spoke with Haaland about her achievements.
United States of America

Balgh platform marks two years as a tool of repression - ARTICLE 19 (ARTICLE 19, 2025)
Iraqi authorities continue to use the Balgh platform to monitor online speech and curtail freedom of expression.
Iraq