Human Rights Monitoring and Implementation: How To Make Rights ‘Real - Gadda, Andressa; Harris, Juliet; Tisdall, E. Kay M. (Routledge & CRC Press, 2024)
The collection aims to inspire readers with new approaches to implementing and monitoring the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, to make rights ‘real’ in children’s lives.
Worldwide

Statement by ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC on conference addressing cyber-enabled crimes through the Rome Statute system - Khan KC, Karim A.A (International Criminal Court, 2024)
The Office of the Prosecutor hosts an innovative conference addressing cyber-enabled crimes through the Rome Statute system. Gathering more than 100 participants including from 12 cybersecurity and technology companies at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague
Worldwide
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Event - Discussion with David Ferriero on the Role of Libraries, Archives, and History in Today's Democracy - Durham Library Foundation (Eventbrite, 2024)
Justice Willis P. Whichard is welcoming David Ferriero for a conversation about Ferriero’s transformational leadership of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and their shared interests in history, libraries, and democracy - Durham Arts Council, Sunday, January 28, 2024 - 3 - 5:30pm EST
United States
Keywords: 2023-10 November

A Virginia tribe says racism wiped their Native identity from historic records. Nearly a century later, they’re still fighting for recognition - Duster, Chandelis (CNN, 2024)
The Patawomeck Indian Tribe has been fighting to gain federal recognition from the US government for more than a decade. The tribe says the designation is critical to preserving its cultural traditions.
United States of America
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Several Investigative Journalists Under Pressure in Ukraine - Denber, Rachel; Gorbunova, Yulia (Human Rights Watch, 2024)
On January 14, unknown assailants attempted to break into the Kyiv apartment of Ukrainian journalist Yurii Nikolov, co-founder and editor of anti-corruption media investigative project Nashi Groshi (Our Money).
Ukraine
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Grieving Louisiana father faces $18,000 bill to access state records of son’s case - Vargas, Ramon Antonio (The Guardian, 2024)
Lawsuit alleges that office of Jefferson parish district attorney is violating state public records laws by setting such a high price.
United States of America
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Louisiana; US crime; US news

Foreign Office lawyers ‘unable to conclude if Israeli bombing was lawful’ - Wintour, Patrick (The Guardian, 2024)
The evidence shows a far more intensive investigation was under way inside the government about Israel’s compliance with international law than suggested by the foreign secretary.
United Kingdom
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Arms trade; David Cameron; Foreign policy; Gaza; Human rights; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestinian territories; Politics; UK news; World news

End Abuses Against Journalists - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2024)
No Justice for Suspicious Death; Detainee journalist Dieudonné Niyonsenga Denounces Torture in Court
Rwanda
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms - McQue, Katie (The Guardian, 2024)
Employees fretted over company’s ‘negligible’ response to child grooming, according to internal documents made public in lawsuit.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Children; Facebook; Instagram; Meta; Sexual harassment; Social networking; Technology; US news

Google promised to delete location data on abortion clinic visits. It didn’t, study says - Bhuiyan, Johana (The Guardian, 2024)
Tech giant said it would delete entries for locations deemed ‘personal’ or sensitive, but 18 months later, it’s still retaining data in some cases.
United States of America
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Abortion; Alphabet; Google; Health; Surveillance; Technology; Women

Spain to declassify secret documents in ‘Catalan Gate’ scandal - Heller, Fernando (www.euractiv.com, 2024)
The Spanish government agreed on Tuesday to release secret documents on the tapping of the mobile phone of Catalan President and leader of the separatist party ERC Pere Aragonés by agents of the state-run National Intelligence Centre (CNI) using the Israeli spying software Pegasus, a scandal known as “Catalan Gate”.
Spain
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Court rules Barita must comply with IC request for financial records of public officials - Jovan Johnson (The Jamaica Gleaner, 2024)
The Supreme Court has ruled that Barita Investments Limited must comply with an Integrity Commission (IC) request for financial information on 151 current and former public officials.
Jamaica
Keywords: 2024-01 January

The Office of the Prosecutor launches public principles to advance understanding of the crime of gender persecution - Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (International Criminal Court, 2024)
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, announced a new initiative to advance accountability for the crime against humanity of persecution on the grounds of gender. This initiative will culminate in a comprehensive set of principles on gender persecution to provide guidance for increasing its prevention, and ensuring protection and participation of its survivors.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Internet access a human right - The Jamacia Gleaner (The Jamaica Gleaner, 2024)
Minister with responsibility for Information, Robert Morgan, says the Government sees internet access as a human right that should be available to citizens wherever they reside.
Jamaica
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Gaddafi Son Wrongfully Held for 8 Years - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2024)
Lebanese authorities should immediately release Hannibal Gaddafi, a son of Libya’s former leader, who has been held in pre-trial detention on spurious charges since his arrest in December 2015.
Lebanon
Keywords: 2024-01 January

The European Convention on Human Rights and the COVID-19 Pandemic - McQuigg, Ronagh J.A. (Routledge & CRC Press, 2024)
This book provides detailed analysis of the applicability of the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights to issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, a substantial number of complaints concerning such issues have been made to the Court. Human rights claims in the context of the pandemic fall into two broad categories: those based on arguments that states did not put in place sufficient measures to protect individuals from the virus and those entailing arguments that the measures put in place themselves involved breaches of rights.
Europe
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Following the Voice failure, Indigenous politicians are calling for the UN's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to be implemented. What is it and what would it mean? - Bell, Kevin; Atkinson, Wayne (The Conversation, 2024)
In the aftermath of a disappointing Voice referendum, Indigenous politicians are looking to the United Nations Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a potential way forward.
Australia
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Call for Participants | Workshop UK Universities: "Mapping the Holocaust" - European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, 2024)
24 May 2024 | Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London | Deadline for applications: 1 March 2024 | The organizers invite applications for a one-day workshop on Mapping the Holocaust. In examining the routes taken by people, objects, and ideas during and after the Holocaust, this workshop highlights the connections and diversions (geographically, temporally, topically, etc.) when attempting to 'map the Holocaust'.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Canada led efforts to weaken original UN Indigenous rights declaration - Forester, Brett (CBC News, 2024)
The Canadian Liberal government led efforts to weaken the original draft United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, working secretly with Australia to develop a watered-down, state-friendly substitute in the early 2000s, newly released documents show.
Canada
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Canada led efforts to weaken original UN Indigenous rights declaration - Forester, Brett (CBC News, 2024)
The Canadian Liberal government led efforts to weaken the original draft United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, working secretly with Australia to develop a watered-down, state-friendly substitute in the early 2000s, newly released documents show.
Australia
Keywords: 2024-01 January

France Should Commit to an International Treaty on Autonomous Weapons - Fortin, Tony; Jeannerod, Bénédicte; Patrouillard, Manuel; Samouiller, Jean-Claude (Human Rights Watch/ Le Monde, 2024)
France initiated the first multilateral talks on autonomous weapons a decade ago at the CCW and has been one of the most active and engaged states on this concern, but it has the potential to do so much more.
France
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Human rights tribunal to be told Canada is still failing First Nations kids - Passafiume, Alessia; Canadian Press (CTV News, 2024)
The First Nations Family and Caring Society will argue before the Human Rights Tribunal Friday that Canada isn't living up to its promise of timely access to health care for Indigenous children. Jordan's Principle is a legal rule that ensures First Nations kids are able to access health care, social and educational supports when they need them, with questions about which jurisdiction pays for them to be worked out afterward.
Canada
Keywords: 2024-01 January

‘It could foster empathy’: Black archives look to preservation amid growing US history bans - Walker, Adria R. (The Guardian, 2024)
Matter-of-fact accounting of the legal mechanism of slavery provides insight into American history and the country’s fraught present. At a time when many schools across the country grapple with teaching truthful American history, the preservation of precious archival documents can provide a vital lens through which to understand the past and its implications for the present and future.
United States of America
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Education; Harvard University; Race; Slavery; US news

Why sex workers and unmarried women worked for no pay at these commercial laundries - Abela, Donna; Kelsey-Sugg, Anna (ABC News, 2024)
In the 19th century, Australia was home to Magdalene "retreats", Catholic-run institutions to reform wayward women. For some, the path to penitence was a brutal one.
Australia
Keywords: 2024-01 January; St Magdalene Retreat; fallen women; laundry slaves; magdalene refuge; penitent; st magdalene laundry

US cities start racism reparations as national efforts languish - Biron, Carey L. (Context, 2024)
After decades of stalled attempts in Congress at redress for slavery or structural racism, dozens of local efforts are now moving forward
United States of America
Keywords: 2024-01 January

What Newly Digitized Records Reveal About the Tuskegee Syphilis Study - Gainty, Caitjan; The Conversation (Smithsonian Magazine, 2024)
The archival trove chronicles the extreme measures administrators took to ensure Black sharecroppers did not receive treatment for the venereal disease
United States of America
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Racism; Tuskegee Syphilis Study

New Global Business Initiative on Human Rights resource provides insights from company practice on integrating human rights into climate action - Global Business Intitiative (Global Business Intitiative, 2024)
The resource has been developed to support companies seeking to approach their climate action with respect for human rights.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2024-01 January

'Puzzle Women': Piecing together the files destroyed by East Germany's secret police - Reporters - Tonelli, Niagara (France 24, 2024)
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a team of archivists has been tirelessly sorting, pasting and reassembling documents that were destroyed by the Stasi, the East German secret police. Nicknamed the "Puzzle Women", these heroines of collective memory face the Herculean task of piecing together these files: the paper fragments are sometimes tiny, and the number of archivists is only a fraction of what would be required to complete the job without recourse to new technology.
Germany
Keywords: East Germany; Secret Police; Stasi

Volunteers Race to Preserve Culturally Significant Records in Chinatown - Wu, Zhe (San Francisco Public Press, 2024)
A community-based volunteer group worked on digitising records related to community organisations in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The records include those of organisations such as the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, which was at the forefront of filing civil rights lawsuits against the Chinese Exclusion Act and supporting newly arrived immigrants.
United States of America
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Danger and dignity in some of the world’s vanishing trades – a photo essay - Farand, Chloé (The Guardian, 2024)
From Egypt to Bangladesh, photographer Lucien Migné has documented the work of marginalised groups whose livelihoods have remained largely untouched by the modernisation of work.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Bangladesh; Egypt; Ethiopia; Global development; Photography; South and central Asia; World news

Crackdown Amid Growing Information Vacuum - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2024)
Belarusian authorities carried out a widespread and systematic crackdown on dissent and on the spread of information about rights abuses during 2023.
Belarus
Keywords: 2024-01 January

The Commission For Truth, Unity and Reconciliation: A Damp Squib for Human Rights Archives and Records - Nugawela, Nigel (Groundviews, 2024)
The Bill on the Commission for Truth, Unity and Reconciliation (CTUR) in Sri Lanka was finally issued in the Gazette on January 1, 2024 after months of announcements by the government. However, recommendations sent to the president and key ministries regarding the management of records have not been addressed in the current draft. This includes the establishment of a nexus with the Sri Lanka National Archives (SLNA) for the transfer of records, processing the records of previous commissions of inquiry (CoIs), establishing a records management unit and acknowledging rights of access for affected persons.
Sri Lanka
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Drought Touches a Quarter of Humanity, U.N. Says, Disrupting Lives Globally - Sengupta, Somini (The New York Times, 2024)
The crisis, worsened partly by climate change, has been accompanied by soaring food prices and could have consequences for hunger, elections and migration worldwide.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Agriculture and Farming; Drought; Food; Food Insecurity; Global Warming; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Malnutrition; Poverty

Lower House discusses draft amendments for Right to Access Information in Jordan - The Jordan Times (The Jordan Times, 2024)
The Joint Lower House Committee approved the 2023 amendments, incorporating modifications after discussions with experts and relevant bodies.
Jordan
Keywords: 2024-01 January

World Court to hear Genocide Case Against Israel - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2024)
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearings on January 11 and 12, 2024, on genocide in Gaza will include the first formal response by Israel before an independent and impartial court, to allegations of atrocities against the Palestinian people since October 7, 2023.
South-Africa
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Gaza; Israel

World Court to hear Genocide Case Against Israel - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2024)
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearings on January 11 and 12, 2024, on genocide in Gaza will include the first formal response by Israel before an independent and impartial court, to allegations of atrocities against the Palestinian people since October 7, 2023.
Israel
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Gaza; Isreal

Zambia enacts new Access to Information law - New Zimbabwe.com (New Zimbabwe, 2024)
Zambia has become the latest country to enact an Access to Information law, signed the bill last month. Under the new law, every citizen can request unclassified information from the government on any issue of public interest.
Zambia
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Access to Information law

A balancing act: Collecting data for social good in an age of privacy concerns - Rana, Satender; Rajaram, Sowmya; Sharma, Divya (LSE International Development, 2024)
An in-depth analysis of the potential impact of India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 on the social sector in India.
India
Keywords: 2024-01 January

How to Achieve Justice: Interview with Fernando Travesí, Director of the International Center for Transitional Justice - Varada, Pranay (Harvard International Review, 2024)
Fernando Travesí is the Executive Director of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). He has over 20 years of international experience in transitional justice, human rights, and rule of law, working for both international organizations and NGOs.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Workers in Argentina face the biggest blow to their employment rights since the military dictatorship of the 1970s - Zorzoli, Luciana (The Conversation, 2024)
Since he took office, Milei has been busy with his agenda of cutting. Within weeks he had published an 82-page executive decree as an inaugural phase of his extensive deregulation. The decree is designed to fundamentally change Argentinian society, directly affecting the rights and protections of millions of workers.
Argentina
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Reparative Archival Work - Chapman, Mary (Northrop Frye Centre, 2024)
Since the “biographical turn”, scholars of the African diaspora have recovered diasporic Black lives that fill in an abstract and anonymous Black Atlantic history, but Asian North Americanist scholars have struggled to uncover personal stories of the earliest Chinese immigrants to Canada that write back to the dehumanizing bureaucratic records collected during the Exclusion Era.
Northern America
Keywords: 2024-01 January

How Haiti Destroyed Slavery and Led the Way to Freedom throughout the Atlantic World - Daut, Marlene L. (Public Books, 2024)
Not the United States, Great Britain, France, or any other enslaver deserves credit for ending slavery. Atlantic abolition began with Haiti.
Haiti
Keywords: 2024-01 January

How digital archives are preserving Palestinian history amid Israel’s bombardment of Gaza - Malvisi, Gabriele (Arab News, 2024)
Keen to preserve items and documents pertaining to the history of Palestine, a digital platform, Palestine Nexus, launched in 2020, has redoubled its efforts to gather and protect treasures drawn from archives across the Middle East.
Palestine (Permanent Observer to the UN)
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Labour to table vote calling for release of Rwanda deportation plan documents - Syal, Rajeev (The Guardian, 2024)
Party to ask for details of individual relocation costs and any payments to the Rwandan government.
United Kingdom
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Africa; Conservatives; Immigration and asylum; Politics; Refugees; Rishi Sunak; Rwanda; UK news; World news; Yvette Cooper

Is Israel's treatment of Palestinians a form of apartheid? - Wilkinson, Tracy (Los Angeles Times, 2024)
In 1976, then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said the then-nascent right-wing movement that pushed Jewish settlers into what was supposed to be Palestinian land was a “cancer” and an “acute danger” to Israel’s democracy. He warned that it would lead to apartheid, a specter raised in later years by his successors Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert.
Israel
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Taonga archive of Māori history in photos acquired by national library - 1News Reporters (1 News, 2024)
The purchase of thousands of photos has come as a result of a new deal between the archive's foreign owner and the National Library of New Zealand. The historic archive includes important images of key figures in Māoridom and a significant section of images documenting political activation.
New Zealand
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Duncan Miller Gallery; Maori; New Zealand; United States of America

Indonesia is one of the world's largest democracies, but it's weaponising defamation laws to smother dissent - Mann, Tim (The Conversation, 2024)
Two human rights activists have been acquitted of defaming a powerful government minister. It’s the latest in a string of concerning authoritarian uses of Indonesian law.
Indonesia
Keywords: 2024-01 January

A Journey Through the Documents That Inspired ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ - Montoya, Stephen (Fort Worth Magazine, 2024)
Many of the documents written and received by the real-life people portrayed in Martin Scorsese’s latest film are housed in Cowtown.
United States of America
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Murders; Osage; United States of America

Exhibition - How (Not) to Reread the Colonial Archive - Placino, Portia (Art Review, 2024)
‘Snare for Birds’ at Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila revisits imperial and colonial narratives from the American occupation of the Philippines / Snare for Birds: Rereading the Colonial Archive at Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila, through 17 February 2024
Philippines
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Former 'Namgis Nation chief remembered as 'example of how we should carry ourselves in this world' - CBC News (CBC, 2024)
Chief Bill Cranmer was known for repatriating cultural objects, helping preserve 'Namgis culture, language. He died in his Alert Bay home on Wednesday at the age of 85.
Northern America
Keywords: 'Namgis Nation; 2024-01 January; Canada; Repatriation

United Arab Emirates acknowledges mass trial of prisoners previously reported during COP28 - Grambell, Jon; UPI (The Globe and Mail, 2024)
The United Arab Emirates acknowledged it is conducting a mass trial of 84 inmates previously reported by dissidents.
United Arab Emirates
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Social Issues

Hydroxychloroquine use in COVID pandemic may have led to 17,000 deaths - Duboust, Oceane (euronews, 2024)
The drug hydroxychloroquine was prescribed off-label during the pandemic and touted in particular by a prominent French researcher.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Cultural Objects and Reparative Justice: A Legal and Historical Analysis - Gerstenblith, Patty (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Cultural Objects and Reparative Justice provides a comprehensive legal and historical analysis surrounding a highly debated current question: Where should cultural objects that were removed without consent be located? This book follows an innovative, interdisciplinary approach based in law, history, art history, anthropology, and archaeology and proposes a paradigm for reparations.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Switzerland/Gambia: Jammeh-Era Crimes on Trial - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2024)
The opening of a Swiss trial for serious crimes committed in The Gambia on January 8, 2024 represents a significant advance for justice for the victims of grave abuses.
Gambia
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Switzerland

Digital Rights and Privacy - Sonneborn, Liz (Greenhaven Publishing, 2024)
It is almost impossible to avoid having a digital footprint. Social media, streaming websites, navigation applications, online shopping websites, and search engines generate a large amount of data about users' digital habits. Tech companies have used this data to “optimize” their products and allow them to better predict users' behaviors, but the collection and use of data has raised new questions about the right to digital privacy.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Transatlantic slavery continued for years after 1867, historian finds - Alberge, Dalya (The Guardian, 2024)
Evidence found by Hannah Durkin includes ships landing in Cuba in 1872, and people held in Benin in 1873.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Africa; Americas; Benin; Cuba; Europe; Nigeria; Slavery; Spain; US news; World news

Spycatcher scandal: newly released documents from the Thatcher era reveal the changing nature of government secrecy - Grube, Dennis C. (The Conversation, 2024)
Cabinet Office papers expose Thatcher’s anxiety over the famous book, and the difference between governing in the 1980s and the modern information age.
United Kingdom
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Spying

Indigenous Americans — The Journal’s Historical “Indian Problem” - Jones, David S.; Abdalla, Moustafa; Gone, Joseph P. (New England Journal of Medicine, 2024)
The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine publishes an introspection on centuries of unjust and racist medicine towards Indigenous People. The long list of prejudices evoked makes us realize that they are deeply rooted in Western societies.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Release of Virginia Laparra is a triumph against injustice - Amnesty International (Amnesty International, 2024)
Ana Piquer, Americas director at Amnesty International, said: “Virginia Laparra should never have spent a day in jail. It’s great news that she can be reunited with her loved ones after nearly two years as a prisoner of conscience. Her release is a first step towards ending the terrible human rights violations she has faced in retaliation for her outstanding work as an anti-corruption prosecutor.”
Guatamala
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Ending violence against women: can a UN protocol make a difference? - Langrand, Michelle (Geneva Solutions, 2024)
A record 89,000 women were intentionally killed in 2022, including more than 130 killed every day by a partner or relative. This is just one of the many forms of violence against women and girls that Costa Rica, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Antigua and Barbuda and Sierra Leone are hoping to tackle through a globally agreed framework.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Beware the ‘botshit’: why generative AI is such a real and imminent threat to the way we live - Spicer, André (The Guardian, 2024)
With pivotal global elections approaching, experts warn of AI's capability to influence outcomes through the production of deceptive content, a phenomenon termed "botshit." There is an urgent need for measures to mitigate AI's negative effects on political discourse and the information landscape.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Artificial intelligence (AI); Computing; Politics; Technology; UK news; US news; US politics; World news

Russian News Outlet Says Data Shows Putin Signed Record Number Of Secret Decrees In 2023 - Current Time (RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, 2024)
Almost one-half of the presidential decrees signed by Russian leader Vladimir Putin last year were done in secret, a local media outlet said, more than any other year on record.
Russian Federation
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Meet the retired women bringing Switzerland to court over climate inaction - Niranjan, Ajit (Mother Jones, 2024)
"Our generation has done so much to destroy the climate. We have a responsibility." The women are suing the Swiss government in Europe’s top court for violating their human rights with policies that do too little to stop the planet from baking
Switzerland
Keywords: 2024-01 January

For families of LGBTQ+ hate crime victims, our tragic loss was compounded by NSW police who turned away with a ‘sorry, mate’ - Steve Johnson (The Guardian, 2024)
Dozens of cases profiled by special commission are studies in police tactics to erase LGBTQ+ murders from the history books.
Australia
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Australia news; Australian police and policing; LGBTQ+ rights; New South Wales

ACA@UBC 15th Annual Conference - University of British Columbia - Association of Canadian Archivists Student Chapter at the University of British Columbia (ACA@UBC) (Association of Canadian Archivists Student Chapter at the University of British Columbia, 2024)
The 15th annual conference is titled Archives and the Environment: Land, Colonialism, and the Climate Crisis. This event will be held virtually on Zoom on Friday, February 16th, 2024, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM (PST)! Registration is free for students.
Canada
Keywords: 2024-01 January

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Memory: Remembrance, commemoration, and archiving in crisis - Fridman, Orli; Gensburger, Sarah (Springer International Publishing, 2024)
What happened to commemorative practices, events, and rituals around the world during the pandemic, and especially during lockdown periods in early 2020? The book also grapples with the inquiry as to how did the Covid-19 memory boom emerge? It finally puts forward the claim as the contributions of this book demonstrate: the Covid-19 crisis restricted social interaction but unlocked memory.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Activism; Archives; Collective memory; Commemoration; Covid-19; Cultural heritage; Digital memory; Inequalities; Lockdown; Memory; Oral history; Pandemics; Protest; Public policy; Social distancing

The Cambridge Handbook of Intellectual Property and Social Justice - Jamar, Steven D.; Mtima, Lateef (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Protection for intellectual property has never been absolute; it has always been limited in the public interest. The benefits of intellectual property protection are meant to flow to everyone, not just a limited population of creators and the corporations that represent them. Given this social-utility function, intellectual property regimes must address issues of access, inclusion, and empowerment for marginalized and excluded groups. This handbook defines an approach to considering social justice in intellectual property law and regulation.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Human Rights Publications from Memoria Abierta (Argentina) - Modern Endangered Archives Program (UCLA Library, 2024)
Memoria Abierta, a collective group of Argentinean human rights organizations (HROs), represents the struggle against historically repressive regimes during the late 20th century. During the last five decades, these organizations authored publications detailing their histories, promoting organizational events, and sharing social commentary. This collection reveals the work of human rights activism and traces the history of these organizations in Argentina.
Argentina
Keywords: 2024-01 January

The Peruvian Peasant Confederation Archive: Rural and Indigenous Society, National Politics, and International Solidarity - Modern Endangered Archives Program (UCLA Library, 2024)
Since 1947 the Confederación Campesina del Perú (CCP) has been active in defense of peasants and indigenous people. Their archive documents the organized efforts of rural and indigenous people in Peru during the 20th century, including the 1969 agrarian reform and the conflict with the Shining Path (1980-1992).
Peru
Keywords: 2024-01 January

An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo - Niehuus, Rachel Marie (Duke University Press, 2024)
In An Archive of Possibilities, anthropologist and surgeon Rachel Marie Niehuus explores possibilities of healing and repair in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo against a backdrop of 250 years of Black displacement, enslavement, death, and chronic war.
Congo, Democratic Republic of the

Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Development and Human Rights: Towards an Integrated Approach - Pineschi, Laura (Routledge, 2024)
The importance of cultural heritage - in both its tangible and intangible forms - to sustainable development and its economic, social and environmental components is increasingly evident in the recent practice of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations at the universal and regional level.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Localising Memory in Transitional Justice: The Dynamics and Informal Practices of Memorialisation after Mass Violence and Dictatorship - Rauschenbach, Mina; Viebach, Julia; Parmentier, Stephen (Routledge, 2024)
This collection adds to the critical transitional justice scholarship that calls for “transitional justice from below” and that makes visible the complex and oftentimes troubled entanglements between justice endeavours, locality, and memory-making.
Worldwide

ICA SAHR - The archives of victims of political repression of the soviet regime: Memorial International - ICA International Council on Archives (2024)
The archives of victims of political repression of the soviet regime: Memorial International, by Elena Zhemkova, Executive Director of Memorial International from 1995 until 2022. Introduction and moderation by Jose Maria Faraldo Jarillo, profesor of the University of Madrid (Universidad Complutense). With the collaboration of the European Observatory on Memories-EUROM. Summary Elena Zhemkova will talk about the main questions related to Memorial records and archives and their use for supporting human rights: 1) how have them been collected and used, mainly by victims of repression or human rights abuses; 2) which are the most important threats against Memorial and its documentary heritage, have any of the records been destroyed or seized within the judicial and political attacks against Memorial?; 3) how Memorial archives are being protected and preserved in the current Russian political situation; 4) what has been the role of Memorial in the fight for opening the public archives of the former USSR; 5) which is the position taken by Memorial on the Ucrania war. Biography Elena Zhemkova graduated from the Mathematical Faculty of Odessa University and the International Management Systems Consulting Company (MSI, USA). In 1987, she became one of the founders of the “Memorial Initiative Group” and in 1988 a member of Memorial’s Board. She has been Executive Director of Memorial International from 1995 until 2022 when it was liquidated by the Russian Supreme court. She has been notably responsible for the project "Victims of two Dictatorships", the 3 – 5 million persons taken from the former USSR during World War II by the Nazis for forced labour and for this reason, persecuted again by their own government after their return to the USSR. She has been involved in major original research, publications, and exhibitions in relation to this work for over 30 years. In 1996-2011 she has been a member of the Supervisory Board of the Russian Foundation "Understanding and Reconciliation", which paid compensation for this forced labour, funded by the German government, and in 2018-2022 a member of the Russian Interdepartmental Working Group aiming at perpetuating the memory of victims of Political Repression. Since 2015, she is a member of the International Scientific Council of the Topography of Terror Foundation (Germany), which studies the crimes of the Nazi regime and since 2018, a member of the International Scientific Council of the Documentation Center for Forced Labor by the Nazi Regime, in Berlin-Schoeneweide. In recent years, she has coordinated the International Memorial network, which includes more than 30 regional organizations in Australia, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Since 2023, Elena works as the director of Zukunft Memorial in Germany. Zukunft Memorial (Future Memorial) is one of the 15 founding organizations of the new International Memorial Association. Zukunft Memorial was founded by Memorial members who were forcibly relocated from Russia to Germany. Zukunft Memorial continue the activities carried out in Russia for many decades related to state repression, including historical research, collection and preservation of archives, and public education. The main areas of her research interests are the history of political repression, comparative analysis of Nazi and Soviet repressive mechanisms, memorialization of victims of political repression (monuments, toponymy, etc.) as well as the development of civil society organizations and their means of support; educational work with young people; and the establishment of democratic values and human rights. The presentation will be delivered in Russian with simultaneous translation into English (translation provided by the European Observatory in Memories (EUROM), Solidarity Foundation, University of Barcelona).

ICA SAHR - The Residual Special Court Archive for Sierra Leone - Preserving the Memories of a Civil War - ICA International Council on Archives (2024)
The Residual Special Court Archive for Sierra Leone - Preserving the Memories of a Civil War: From the Archivists’ Perspective by Aminata Kpewa-Allen, Heather Faulkner and Andreas Nef. Summary The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) was the first hybrid tribunal created through a joint agreement between the United Nations and the Government of Sierra Leone to try those who bore the greatest responsibility for a civil war which devastated the country from 1991-2002. Following the completion of final appeals, in 2013 the SCSL entered its residual phase (RSCSL), which counts the management of archives amongst its most important functions. The Archives of the RSCSL/SCSL is an extremely valuable collection, documenting the war crimes and atrocities carried out by several warring factions during the conflict. It also represents evidence of the efforts of the Sierra Leonean and international legal community who worked tirelessly to deliver justice, and to demonstrate that perpetrators cannot expect impunity for their actions. These records are important with regards to their impact on both national and international jurisprudence among other convictions, the principle of joint criminal enterprise, forced marriage and prosecution of the crime of recruiting and using child soldiers. During this session, two of the archivists involved in the creation of the RSCSL archives within the Office of the Prosecutor and the RSCSL Registry will share their experiences, impressions and lessons learned on the complex task of securing a complex and sensitive archive for the continued operation of the courts’ residual functions and as a tool for understanding of human rights abuses. Guest Speakers Aminata Kpewa-Allen is an Archivist working at the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) and its successor institution, the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone (RSCSL). She has worked in this organization for more than a decade, first as an evidence custodian for the office of the Prosecutor, and now within the Archives of the RSCSL Registry. Aminata has also worked as an Information Management professional for UN-OPCW Joint Investigative mission in Syria and worked in Timor Leste (East Timor) as the Head of the Evidence Unit in the Office of the Prosecutor for the UN Serious Crimes Unit. Aminata has an MSc in Records Management and Digital Preservation from the University of Dundee in Scotland and a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations and Political Science from the University of Sierra Leone. She currently lives in The Hague, Netherlands. Heather Faulkner is an Archivist with a specialization in humanitarian archives. During her career, she has worked for Amnesty International, the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and has headed the Access and Research unit in the Records and Archives Section of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) since 2013. She has a BA in History and Politics from the University of Sheffield and a Masters in Archives and Records Management from the University of Liverpool. She currently lives in Geneva, Switzerland. Andreas Nef has started as archivist, and subsequently worked in different roles, in recent years as technical lead and Chief Technology Officer, focusing on digital preservation and implementing e-archives. A member of the Swiss Expert Pool for Civilian Peacebuilding, he has been deployed as archiving consultant for the Special Court of Sierra Leone in 2009 and continues to support the Residual SCSL. As an external expert, he has also collaborated in different projects with Swisspeace and their "Dealing with the Past" team. He is a member of the Executive Board of the ICA Section on Human Rights as well as the METS Editorial Board.

Network of Concerned Historians : NCH Annual Reports 1995–2024 - Network of Concerned Historians (Network of Concerned Historians, 2024)
The Annual Reports contain news about the domain where history and human rights intersect, especially about the censorship of history and the persecution of historians, archivists and archaeologists around the globe, as reported by various human rights organizations and other sources.
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The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown : Planet Money : NPR - Rosalsky, Greg (NPR, 2024)
The Chinese Exclusion Act is widely considered to be the first significant crackdown on immigration in American history. It's a riveting tale that parallels today and may provide insights into the economic consequences of immigration restrictions and mass deportations.
United States of America

Synchronising colonial heritage: a linked data approach - Gruijs, Marit (The Art of Information, 2023)
Since the seventeenth century, the Netherlands had trading posts and colonies in Asia, Africa and North and South America. Many cultural objects from these regions have been brought to the country. It is often unclear which objects should be considered ‘colonial heritage’ and, if so, whether they were acquired lawfully or against the will of their original owners. A new digital platform supports users in gaining insight into this: the Colonial Collections datahub.
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Keywords: 2024-01 January; Digital Repatriation

Tony Blair urged 'radical' measures to cut asylum, archive papers reveal - Berg, Sanchia (BBC News, 2023)
Government records from 2003 released by the UK National Archives reveal the extent of "radical" measures discussed during the Blair premiership in order to prevent migrants from entering the UK.
United Kingdom
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Read the letters from around the world calling on Mary Robinson to intervene in X Case - Riegel, Ralph (Irish Independent, 2023)
Released confidential records reveal the concern expressed by organisations and individuals about the human rights implications of a 1992 Irish High Court injunction against a 14-year-old rape victim seeking to travel overseas for an abortion.
Ireland
Keywords: 2023-12 December; Abortion

Netherlands accused of spying on Jews after World War II - euronews (euronews, 2023)
The secret services reportedly monitored members of the Netherlands Auschwitz Committee and infiltrated its meetings.
Netherlands
Keywords: 2023-12 December

How Environmental and Climate Racism Manifests in Cities - Ghisleni, Camilla (ArchDaily, 2023)
Given the impacts of climate change on the planet, environmental racism has expanded to encompass climate racism as well. However, the nations facing the most severe consequences of climate change are those in the global south. It's important to emphasize that the historical settlement of disenfranchised slaves is connected to its colonial past, with social structures based on the enslavement.
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Keywords: 2023-12 December; Reparation; Slavery

Poland’s Media Transparency Under Threat: State Archives Allegedly Destroyed - Zylm, Wojciech (BNN Breaking, 2023)
The archives of public broadcasters, TVP (Telewizja Polska) and Polish Radio, have been allegedly destroyed according to the National Broadcasting Council of Poland (KRRiT).
Poland
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Climate Reparations Are Becoming a Reality. Here’s What They Could Look Like. - Doré, Gabrielle (Worth, 2023)
Grist asked 10 countries how they would use the long-awaited “loss and damage” fund launched at COP28.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Good morning, Mogadishu! Preserving Somalia’s cultural history, one tape at a time - UN News (UN News, 2023)
Historic audio recordings covering the recent history of Somalia are being preserved for future generations thanks to UN support.
Somalia
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Archives From Oslo Era Reveal the US Press Wasn’t Always in Lockstep on Israel - Falcone, Daniel (Truthout, 2023)
A Truthout analysis of the archival material uncovers how mainstream papers portrayed the asymmetries of the accords.
Palestine (permanent observer to the UN)
Keywords: 2023-12 December

The shocking state of US LGBTQ rights in 2023 - Hansford, Amelia (Pink News, 2023)
State legislators in the US have spawned so many anti-LGBTQ+ bills in the past 12 months that it’s easy to lose track. The independently researched trans legislation tracker puts the number at 589, across 49 states. By comparison, a conservative estimate of the number of bills filed against the LGBTQ+ community in 2022 is 174, meaning the count has increased by more than 230 per cent this year.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Archiving “sensitive” social media data: ‘In Her Shoes’, a case study - Grimes, Lorraine; Cassidy, Kathryn; Dias, Murilo; Lanigan, Clare; O'Carroll, Aileen; Singhvi, Preetam (Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies, 2023)
Social media play an increasingly significant role in activist and social movements around the globe. Archiving social media is a relatively new phenomenon and an area which needs greater clarity, understanding and uniformity. When it comes to archiving and cataloguing sensitive social media collections, such as personal abortion stories, the process is even more ambiguous.
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Archives for Justice and Peace: The Project for the Recovery of Historical Memory (REMHI) and the National Reconciliation Commission (CNR) - Modern Endangered Archives Program (UCLA Library, 2023)
This project will digitize the REMHI collection, which documents the human rights violations resulting from armed conflict in Guatemala from 1973 into the 1990s.
Guatemala
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Digitizing Vulnerable Community-Held Archives of Human Rights in Colombia - Modern Endangered Archives Program (UCLA Library, 2023)
A survey of organizational Archives in Colombia to preserve history of human rights activism and document crimes against humanity.
Colombia
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Notes, Letters, Diaries, Posters and Pamphlets: Narrating Ideas of Indigeneity in Jharkhand, India - Modern Endangered Archives Program (UCLA Library, 2023)
The collection of Bishop Nirmal Minz in Jharkhand, India illuminates the struggle for justice, dignity, and human rights through the voices of marginalized writers.
India
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Rite Aid facial recognition misidentified Black, Latino and Asian people as ‘likely’ shoplifters - Bhuiyan, Johana (The Guardian, 2023)
Surveillance systems incorrectly and without customer consent marked shoppers as ‘persons of interest’, a Federal Trade Commission settlement says
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-12 December; Artificial intelligence (AI); Facial recognition; Race; Technology; US news

Surveillance technology is advancing at pace – with what consequences? - Boffey, Daniel (The Guardian, 2023)
Plans for facial recognition searches across UK driving licence records could threaten idea of policing by consent.
United Kingdom
Keywords: 2023-12 December; Police; Surveillance; UK news

Conference Call for Proposals - Social justice and development in a polarising world - Development Studies Association (Development Studies Association, 2023)
Data are playing an increasingly important role in shaping patterns and trajectories of development. Data can be a powerful tool for challenging societal harms but can also reflect and reinforce existing relationships of power. Proposals to be submitted by 23 January 2024. Hybrid conference to be held at University of London 26-28 June 2024.
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Keywords: 2023-12 December

No Right to Medical Care, Compensation for Injuries or Time Off: How Immigrant Dairy Workers Go From Vital to Disposable - Jameel, Maryam; Sanchez, Melissa (ProPublica, 2023)
Immigrant workers are essential to Wisconsin’s dairy industry. But when they get injured, they’re often cast aside.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Troubles legacy act: Ireland takes human rights case against UK - O'Neill, Julian (BBC News, 2023)
The Irish government is to begin a legal challenge against the UK government over its decision to offer immunity for Troubles-era crimes despite opposition from Dublin and all Northern Ireland's main political parties. Critics argued the law gave an amnesty and removed access to justice.
Ireland
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Troubles legacy act: Ireland takes human rights case against UK - O'Neill, Julian (BBC News, 2023)
The Irish government is to begin a legal challenge against the UK government over its decision to offer immunity for Troubles-era crimes. The UK's controversial Troubles legacy act became law in September, despite opposition from Dublin and all Northern Ireland's main political parties. Critics argued the law gave an amnesty and removed access to justice.
United Kingdom
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Yellowhead Institute to end reports on TRC calls to action - Passafiume, Alessia; Canadian Press (Vancouver Sun, 2023)
The 2023 report by the Yellowhead Institute found that no calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission were completed this year. It says that if Canada continues at this pace, it will not finish the work until 2081
Canada
Keywords: 2023-12 December; Reconciliation; Yellowhead Institute

WMO issues new guidelines on evaluation of weather and climate extremes - World Meteorological Organization (World Meteorological Organization, 2023)
WMO has taken over responsibility for hosting the official Archive of Weather and Climate Extremes - the equivalent of the Guiness Book of records on heat, rainfall, wind, lightning and many other phenomena. It has also issued new guidelines on the evaluation of new records.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-12 December

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs controversial legislation to create slavery reparations commission - Duddridge, Natalie (CBS New York, 2023)
The new law authorizes the creation of a community commission that will study the history of slavery in New York state and what reparations could look like.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-12 December

A Verdict in South Africa Reveals an Unfinished Reckoning With Apartheid - Hussein, Tam (New Lines Magazine, 2023)
Public recognition that the imam and activist Abdullah Haron was killed by security police in 1969 poses questions about the justice sacrificed at the modern nation’s founding
South Africa
Keywords: 2023-12 December; Apartheid

Stolen Pieces of Palestine: Archival Responsibility in the Case of Displaced Archives - White, Connor (The IJournal: Student Journal of the Faculty of Information, 2023)
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has led to the displacement of thousands of Palestinians from their homes, leaving behind furniture, books, documents, and other items relating to their cultural heritage. These items were captured by the invading Israeli forces and sealed away in their archives and libraries, where they remain to this day. Since this first phase of pillaging in 1948, Israel has continued to sequester away pieces of Palestinian cultural heritage which they collected during the Six-Day War and its repeated invasions into the Gaza Strip. This article examines the ways in which these items, particularly records and books, were seized by Israel and integrated into its archival infrastructure. Through acquisition, arrangement, description, and access, Israel and its archivists hold the power to create, transform, or destroy what remains of Palestine’s documentary heritage.
Palestine (Permanent Observer to the UN)
Keywords: Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Palestinian cultural heritage; appraisal and description; displaced archives

After 50 years of global effort to abolish torture, much work remains - Einolf, Christopher Justin (The Conversation, 2023)
The 1973 world’s first conference on the abolition of torture drew more than 300 delegates representing over 70 countries and international organizations. It opened with the news that the United Nations General Assembly had passed a resolution condemning torture. More than three-quarters of the world’s nations still engage in torture, which is notoriously difficult to study because it often occurs in secret.
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Keywords: 2023-12 December

We know who created Syria’s torture programme and how | Opinions - Jelacic, Nerma (Al Jazeera, 2023)
After 12 years of civil war, hundreds of thousands of people killed and tens of thousands missing, a glimmer of hope for the Syrian people came from the world’s top court. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that the Syrian state must prevent torture of detainees and refrain from destroying evidence of these unlawful acts.
Syrian Arab Republic
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Training - Archives and Climate Change - Tansey, Eira (UCLA California Rare Book School, 2023)
Climate change is one of the greatest contemporary threats to archives. This online course will run 5 August – 9 August, 2024. The tuition cost is $1,200.00
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Keywords: 2023-12 December

Revised edition of 'Tintin in the Congo' aims to address racism, colonialism - RFI (RFI, 2023)
A new version of the comic book "Tintin in the Congo" seeks to address accusations of racism and colonialism with a reworked cover, new preface and modifications to the story. But the response from anti-racism groups has been mixed.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Binder of classified material on Russia reportedly went missing in final Trump days - Pengelly, Martin (The Guardian, 2023)
Reported disappearance of 2,700 pages of classified material caused alarm in US intelligence circles.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-12 December; Donald Trump; Europe; Robert Mueller; Russia; US foreign policy; US news; US politics; World news

Improving Access and Discovery of LGBTQIA Materials Across Collection Services Workflows - Alexandra deGraffenreid; Gideon Goodrich (Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies, 2023)
Archival descriptive practices have traditionally obfuscated the existence of or excluded entirely the experiences of LGBTQIA+ people. The development of reparative archival description practices compels archivists to reassess how best to elevate the voices of queer creators and subjects within their collections.
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Videos of stripped detainees in Gaza: A practice condemned under international law? - Gallo, Nathan (The Observers - France 24, 2023)
Israeli authorities say they undressed the detainees as a security measure, but that photos of them in their underwear "serve nobody". The images have sparked debate on the legality of the IDF's arrest procedures. Human Rights Watch told FRANCE 24 that sharing humiliating images of prisoners can amount to a war crime
Palestine (permanent observer to the UN)
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Senate Passes $886 Billion Military Bill That Extends Mass Spying Authorization - Johnson, Jake (Truthout, 2023)
In an overwhelming bipartisan vote, the U.S. Senate passed a military policy bill that includes an extension of surveillance authority that the government has used — and heavily abused — to access the communications of activists, journalists, lawmakers, and others without a warrant.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Rethinking Institutional Repositories: Innovations in Management, Collections, and Inclusion - Josh C. Cromwel (ACRL, 2023)
Librarians have grown accustomed to making the case for why their institution needs an IR, and based on the data, it appears that they have largely been successful in making these arguments to administrators. But if the question of “why” has been answered, the more fundamental question of “how” remains: How should libraries use their IRs most effectively to benefit their universities and their community?
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How Israeli settler violence is forcing Palestinians to flee their homes – video - McKernan, Bethan; Evangelou, Kyri; Doran, Temujin (The Guardian, 2023)
After weeks of intense settler violence in the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October, and despite the decades-long fight to remain in their homes, these communities are now being forced off their land.
Palestine (permanent observer to the UN)
Keywords: 2023-12 December; Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestinian territories

Conference Call for Proposals - The Politics of Libraries Conference VI is looking for submissions on this year’s theme of *SOLIDARITY* in GLAM institutions - Politics of Libraries Conference (PoL, 2023)
Politics of Libraries VI (PoL VI) seeks to generate a thoughtful discussion on solidarity between information workers. Some of the themes are: academic freedom, white supremacy, heteronormative patriarchy, and ableism in the GLAM sector. This is a virtual conference taking place from 5 April to 24 May, 2024 on Fridays at 12pm MST
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Embassies allegedly fail to investigate abuse of women migrant workers, incl. in care & garment sectors, showing need for greater protection of women migrants - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, 2023)
In recent years, a number of stories have been reported in the media about the awful sufferings and exploitation of Bangladeshi women migrant workers in some Middle East countries. Many of the victims returned home empty-handed, tortured or even dead, which posed questions about the protection of women migrant workers in those countries.
Bangladesh
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Statement of the International Council on Archives on the Destruction of the Central Archives of the Municipality of Gaza - International Council on Archives (International Council on Archives, 2023)
The International Council on Archives (ICA) has learnt of the reported bombing of the Central Archives building in Gaza and the main public library, resulting in the destruction of historical documents dating back 100 years.
Palestine (permanent observer to the UN)
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court publishes new Policy on Children: Statement by ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC - International Criminal Court (ICC) (Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, 2023)
As the suffering of children is witnessed worldwide, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has launched a new Policy on Children to help remedy their historic underrepresentation and lack of engagement in international criminal justice processes.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-12 December

After 75 years, what is the UN human rights system’s theory of change? - Limon, Marc (Geneva Solutions, 2023)
While celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights most commentaries have focused on the historical importance of the document, its relevance, and the fact that it would be impossible today for United Nations member states to adopt such an agreement. Yet two equally – if not more – crucial questions linger: what was the Universal Declaration’s theory of change, meaning how did its authors intend for it
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Keywords: 2023-12 December

The World remembers the Nanjing Massacre on anniversary as new evidence continues to surface - Media OutReach Newswire (Zawya, 2023)
An American pawnshop owner donated an album containing photos of atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in World War II in China, updating the complete electronic archive of the album.
China
Keywords: 2023-12 December

EU Parliament agrees position on digitalising health data - Peseckyte, Giedre (www.euractiv.com, 2023)
The European Parliament agreed on their position on digitalising EU health data, paving the way for the start of interinstitutional negotiations. Secondary use of data would be possible after being anonymised or pseudonymised.
Europe
Keywords: 2023-12 December

The Remorse That Follows Wartime Actions Against Civilians - Shore, Zachary (TIME, 2023)
The U.S. learned this lesson during World War II—and it should guide those countries at war in 2023.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-12 December; Japanese American Internment

Suspended sentences in Japan army sexual assault case - Agence France-Presse; Charles, Frédéric (RFI, 2023)
Three Japanese ex-soldiers were found guilty Tuesday but given only suspended jail sentences for sexually assaulting a female colleague who won praise but also online hate for going public with her accusations.
Japan
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Zimbabwe: Acquittal of imprisoned opposition leader shows growing cases of misuse of justice system to target critical voices - Amnesty International (Amnesty International, 2023)
Responding to yesterday’s High Court acquittal of opposition leader, Jacob Ngarivhume, who was sentenced in April to 48 months imprisonment for leading protests against government corruption, Khanyo Farisè, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Southern Africa, said: “His imprisonment is a travesty, and an affront to Zimbabwe’s constitution and the country’s international human rights obligations. No […]
Zimbabwe
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Haxhi Shala arrested on charges of witness intimidation and transferred to the KSC Detention Facilities in The Hague – Initial Appearance scheduled for 13 December 2023 - Kosovo Specialist Chambers (Kosovo Specialist Chambers & Specialist Prosecutor's Office, 2023)
Haxhi Shala was arrested yesterday, 11 December 2023, in Kosovo by the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office, pursuant to an arrest warrant, transfer order and a confirmed indictment issued by a Pre-trial Judge of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers.
Serbia
Keywords: 2023-12 December; Kosovo

South Sudan: Education Cluster Information Management Strategy - Education Cluster UNICEF (UNICEF, 2023)
The strategy explicitly delineates processes related to data collection, management, visualization, analysis, and dissemination among the various actors involved as well as the frequency. This strategic approach to IM is geared to provide ongoing IM support to current and future Humanitarian Response Plans.
South Sudan
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Digital archive on forced labor of the Dutch during WWII visited over 400,000 times - ANP (NL Times, 2023)
The digital archive of Dutch people who had to perform forced labor in Germany during the Second World War was accessed more than 400,000 times in the first week.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-12 December; Dutch; Dutch ancestors; World War II

75 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a review - Ilaria, Federico (euronews, 2023)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is 75 years old. What was so significant about this treaty and is it still relevant?
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Tyla’s racial identity: South African singer sparks culture war - Nesta Kupemba, Danai (BBC News, 2023)
The term "coloured" is a slur in the US, but for millions of South Africans it is part of their identity. Apartheid was a political system with a racial hierarchy and the Population Registration Act of 1950 required people to be registered into one of four racial categories - white, black, Indian or coloured.
South Africa
Keywords: 2023-12 December; Apartheid

Why Ukrainian archives must be protected - Reymann-Schneider, Kristina (dw.com, 2023)
Many archives have been destroyed in Ukraine since the Russian invasion. Is Vladimir Putin trying to erase Ukraine's cultural memory?
Ukraine
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Kenya at 60: the shameful truth about British colonial abuse and how it was covered up - Duffy, Aoife (The Conversation, 2023)
Thousands of Kenyans were held in detention camps, and the British imperialist government tried to cover up brutal violations that occurred there.
Kenya
Keywords: 2023-12 December

The landmark Genocide Convention has had mixed results since the UN approved it 75 years ago - Hinton, Alexander (The Conversation, 2023)
While the Genocide Convention has helped raise awareness and prevent ethnic violence from escalating, it has not stopped many accusations of genocides, including violence in Darfur and in Ukraine.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Images of Syrian Civil War Take on a Second Life in Gaza Conflict - Koltai, Kolina (bellingcat, 2023)
The avalanche of disinformation shared about Israel and Palestine amid the recent conflict has been well documented. There is also a trend of footage and images from Syria’s long-running civil war being recycled and misattributed to the current Israel-Hamas conflict.
Western Asia
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Humiliation and violence in Kenya’s colonial days – when old men were called 'boy' and Africans were publicly beaten - Shadle, Brett (The Conversation, 2023)
Colonialists daily reinforced a hierarchy that allowed white people to abuse Africans.
Kenya
Keywords: 2023-12 December

It's one of the biggest experiments in fighting global poverty. Now the results are in - Aizenman, Nurith (NPR, 2023)
The study focuses on a universal basic income and spans 12 years and thousands of people in Kenya. How did the money change lives? What's better: monthly payouts or a lump sum.
Kenya
Keywords: 2023-12 December

United States-born Pinochet hitman's "confessions" declassified - Contreras, Russell (Axios, 2023)
Recently declassified notes reveal for the first time the entire scope of the role an agent in Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's secret police played in multiple assassinations and in a fatal 1976 Washington car bombing that shocked Americans.
Chile
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Activists give 540,000 strong petition on online child abuse to MEPs - Marques da Silva, Isabel (euronews, 2023)
They are calling for the strongest possible measures when it comes to the EU's measures preventing and combating online child abuse.
Europe
Keywords: 2023-12 December

In 2024 elections, we have to act against AI-aggravated bias - Selva, Meera (euronews, 2023)
Journalists must give a voice to the underrepresented and underprivileged communities at the receiving end of much of the misinformation that drives polarising narratives and undermines trust in democracy itself.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-12 December; Government

Peru braces for protests after former President Fujimori's release from prison - Tegel, Simeon (NPR, 2023)
The release from prison of the former authoritarian leader has triggered uproar in the Andean country. He had been serving a 25-year sentence for directing death squads against supposed subversives.
Peru
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Burundi: Amend gender-based violence law - Amnesty International (Amnesty International, 2023)
Burundi’s 2016 law against gender-based violence was a milestone achievement, bringing improved protection. However, it falls short of regional and international best practice, and in some instances undermines rather reinforces the fight against gender-based violence. This briefing proposes how to strengthen protections, including through revisions of the law.
Burundi
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Security forces used rape and other sexual violence to crush “Woman Life Freedom" uprising with impunity - Amnesty International (Amnesty International, 2023)
A report demonstrates that security forces in Iran used rape and other forms of sexual violence, amounting to torture and other ill-treatment, to intimidate and punish peaceful protesters during the 2022 “Woman Life Freedom” uprising.
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Censorship rises in Malaysia under Anwar despite his pro-reform pledge: report - Azmi, Hadi (South China Morning Post, 2023)
The People Power Under Attack 2023 report cited an increase in censorship under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s administration despite his pro-reform pledge.
South-Eastern Asia
Keywords: 2023-12 December; Indonesia; Malaysia

Barbados PM says country owed $4.9tn as she makes fresh call for reparations - Gentleman, Amelia (The Guardian, 2023)
Mia Mottley, Barbados PM, said during a visit in the UK that Barbados was owed $4.9tn (£3.9tn) by slave-owning nations, noting that conversations over how this debt should be repaid would “be difficult and will take time”
Barbados
Keywords: 2023-12 December; Americas; Barbados; King Charles III; Mia Mottley; Monarchy; Slavery; UK news

Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts: Recalling the Past in Africa - Ngoepe, Mpho; Bhebhe, Sindiso (Routledge, 2023)
Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts revisits the definition of a record and extends it to include memory, murals, rock art paintings and other objects.
Africa
Keywords: 2023-12 December; Botswana; South Africa; Southern Africa; Zimbabwe

Deploying OSINT in armed conflict settings: law, ethics, and the need for a new theory of harm - Ed Millett (Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog, 2023)
Explore the role of open-source information (OSINT) in 21st-century conflicts, its benefits in accountability and justice, and risks such as privacy violations. What are the legal frameworks and challenges in regulating OSINT's use by states and non-state actors in armed conflict settings?
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Turkmenistan remains unsafe for women - Tarp Nurmagambetova, Mia (Global Voices, 2023)
One in every six women experienced violence from their current or former partner, according to the first-ever national survey of domestic violence in 2020.
Turkmenistan
Keywords: 2023-12 December

The Qatargate Files: Hundreds of leaked documents reveal scale of EU corruption scandal - Braun, Elisa; Volpicelli, Gian; Wax, Eddy (POLITICO, 2023)
Evidence from the European Parliament graft investigation provides a record of more than 300 alleged attempts to manipulate EU democracy.
Europe
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Tribes in Maine Spent Decades Fighting to Rebury Ancestral Remains. Harvard Resisted Them at Nearly Every Turn. - Hudetz, Mary; Ngu, Nash (ProPublica, 2023)
The university’s Peabody Museum exploited loopholes to prevent repatriation to the Wabanaki people while still staying in compliance with NAGPRA. The tribes didn’t give up.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-12 December

ICC: Combat Double Standards for Justice - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2023)
Member countries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should step up their political, practical and financial support so that the court can fully deliver on its mandate.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-12 December

'The category of domestic animals': Aboriginal people named Hitler, Stalin and Bing Crosby - Parke, Erin (ABC News, 2023)
Across northern Australia, some Aboriginal people have grown up bearing the names of Hollywood stars and fascist dictators. It's a link back to a dark chapter in history.
Australia
Keywords: 2023-12 December; Australian history; bing crosby; cattle stations; hitler; names; slavery; stalin

A movement is growing across Africa and diaspora demanding reparations for the impacts of slavery and colonialism - Zage, Zita (Global Voices, 2023)
"The demand for reparations is not an attempt to rewrite history or to continue the cycle of victimization. It's a call to recognize the undeniable truth and rewrite the wrongs ..."
Africa
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Young Chinese people are finding creative ways keep 'white paper' protest alive - Asia Pacific Newsroom (ABC News, 2023)
One year on from the "white paper protests", one of the biggest displays of civil disobedience in China since the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, young people are finding creative ways to express political dissent.
China
Keywords: 2023-12 December; art; blank paper protest; china; dissents; protest; resistance; white paper anniversary; white paper protest; young people

Interview with Eira Tansey about “A Green New Deal for Archives” - Burkely Hermann, (Issues & Advocacy, 2023)
In a Green New Deal for Archives policy platform I think there’s an important role for community archives to play in documenting watersheds and local environmental problems. Community and activist archives can do this in ways that government archives likely could not or would not.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Russian Destruction Causes Loss of Ukrainian Archives - Kyiv Post (Kyiv Post, 2023)
Ukraine’s state archives were under threat even before the full-scale invasion of 2022, because of a lack of funding and resources. Now Russian occupiers seem intent on destroying what’s left.
Ukraine
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Traditional Knowledge Database strengthening weather forecasting and observations in the Pacific - Siosinamele Lu (Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2023)
There is a lot of data in our traditional knowledge. Our chants, songs, artefacts, and tattoos all hold data that only we can interpret and understand. However, there has been limited integration of this knowledge into our policies and decision-making processes.
Oceania
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Global Voices from the Women’s Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition: Feminisms, Transnationalism and the Archive - Dalbello, Marija; Wadsworth, Sarah (Springer International Publishing, 2023)
The book examines women's movements of the nineteenth century through women’s writing from around the world, analyzes the international women’s library at the Columbian Exposition of 1893, and illuminates women's organizing and activism through interdisciplinary feminist and decolonial lenses
Worldwide
Keywords: 1893 Chicago World's Fair; Woman’s Building Library; international women’s writing; modernism; women's movements

Exhibition - Nelson Mandela is Dead - Nelson Mandela Foundation; Mokgopa, Kneo (Nelson Mandela Foundation, 2023)
Ten years after Nelson Mandela passing away. The thought-provoking Mandela is Dead exhibition curated by Kneo Mokgopa celebrates, as well as challenges, the legacy of a great Human Rights Activist and South Africa’s first democratically elected president - Exhibition launched 30th of November 2023 at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Houghton South Africa
South Africa
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Narrating Heritage - Veysel Apaydin (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023)
This book brings important original ethnographic research and unique case studies together in a coherent and cohesive way to examine patterns and differences of approaches to heritage. It exposes discourses of the uses and abuses of heritage, and provides narratives of persistence, demonstrating the importance of heritage in securing human rights and social justice.
Worldwide

'Israel destroyed Central Archives of Gaza City': Head of Gaza Municipality - Middle East Monitor (Middle East Monitor, 2023)
The head of Gaza Municipality said that Israel destroyed the “Central Archives” which contained thousands of historical documents dating more than 150 years.
Palestine (permanent observer to the UN)
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Sharpeville: new research on 1960 South African massacre shows the number of dead and injured was massively undercounted - Clark, Nancy L.; Worger, William H. (The Conversation, 2023)
Despite its historic importance, Sharpeville itself has remained unknown and its residents anonymous, yet they have a story to tell.
South Africa
Keywords: 2023-10 November

Lloyds of London archives show how important the City was to transatlantic slavery - Donington, Katie (The Conversation, 2023)
The author's work on the Legacies of British Slavery project traced how the profits of slavery were invested in Britain. Research of this kind raises questions about reparations and whether responsibility, today sits with individuals, organisations or the state.
United Kingdom
Keywords: 2023-10 November

Human rights are a low priority for many national climate change adaptation policies, research finds - Lejtenyi, Patrick (Phys.org, 2023)
The link between human rights and climate change adaptation policy has not been a major source of discussion in national policies, according to a new study.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-10 November

South Korea: Jail sentence for man who praised North an attack on freedom of expression - Amnesty International (Amnesty International, 2023)
Responding to the sentencing of a South Korean man, Lee Yoon-seop, to 14 months in prison for praising North Korea in a poem, Amnesty International’s East Asia Researcher Boram Jang said: “South Korean authorities must drop all charges against Lee Yoon-seop, who has been sentenced to jail simply for exercising his right to freedom of […]
Korea, Republic of
Keywords: 2023-10 November; Republic of Korea

Court document claims Meta knowingly designed its platforms to hook kids, reports say - AP News (Associated Press, 2023)
Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook kids and knew — but never disclosed — it had received millions of complaints about underage users on Instagram but only disabled a fraction of those accounts
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-10 November

The spy tech firm managing NHS data - Iqbal, Nosheen; Crider, Cori (2023)
Palantir, the US spy-tech firm co-founded by the billionaire Peter Thiel, has won a contract to handle NHS data. It’s a deal that has left privacy advocates with serious questions
United Kingdom
Keywords: 2023-10 November; Business; Data protection; Espionage; Health; NHS; Society; Technology; UK news

Kazakhstan Woman’s Death a National Tragedy | Human Rights Watch - Kim, Viktoriya (2023)
Saltanat Nukenova is a name that is widely recognized in Kazakhstan these days. That is because, on November 9, Saltanat’s husband, Kuandyk Bishimbayev, the former economy minister, was detained in connection with her death. She was just 31 years old.
Kazakhstan
Keywords: 2023-10 November

‘Like knives penetrating me’: Greenland’s victims of forced contraception seek justice - France 24 (France 24, 2023)
In the late 1960s, Denmark implemented a brutal contraceptive policy to limit births in its former colony of Greenland, forcing thousands of teenage girls to have IUDs inserted without their consent. After decades of repressing their trauma, the women are now speaking out and demanding reparation.
Denmark
Keywords: 2023-10 November; Greenland

Despite Bans, Disabled Women Are Still Being Sterilized in Europe - Hurtes, Sarah (The New York Times, 2023)
Governments have declared the practice a human rights violation. But they have made exceptions that are divisive among parents, doctors and social workers.
Europe
Keywords: 2023-10 November; Abuse of the Disabled; Belgium; European Union; France; Hysterectomies; Iceland; Intellectual Disabilities; Reykjavik (Iceland); Women and Girls; audio-negative-sad; audio-negative-tragedy; audio-neutral-informative

Hunger for Truth - Tkach, Andrew (Kyiv Post, 2023)
Ukraine commemorated the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor, or death by hunger, when millions starved to death in Europe's breadbasket after Stalin ordered the seizure of farmers' crops and food. This film is based on a Canadian reporter's unauthorised truth-telling trip through the starving Soviet heartland. It's interwoven with the story of a Ukrainian prisoner of war from Russia's invasion.
Ukraine
Keywords: 2023-10 November; Holodomor

What can Taiwan learn from Ukraine? - Noubel, Filip (Global Voices, 2023)
Can Taiwan learn from Ukraine as it faces military threats from China? Fighting disinformation, utilizing technology and establishing command systems are crucial.
Republic of China (Taiwan, not a UN member)
Keywords: 2023-10 November

Can we make better use of humanitarian data for an impartial and humane response to crisis? - Cara Kielwein (Humanitarian Practice Network, 2023)
Data is everywhere, and the humanitarian sector is no exception. As humanitarians, we want decision-making to be ‘data-driven’ or ‘evidence-based’. However, this opportunity also presents a risk of misguided analysis supporting misguided response.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-10 November

Japan ordered to compensate wartime 'comfort women' - BBC News (BBC News, 2023)
A South Korean court has ordered Japan to compensate a group of women who were forced to work in wartime brothels.
Korea, Republic of
Keywords: 2023-10 November

Michelle Bachelet: The Universal Declaration is ‘good enough’ - Foulkes, Imogen (SWI swissinfo.ch, 2023)
Over a year out of her job as Human Rights Commissioner, Michelle Bachelet talks about her legacy and controversies that rocked her presidency.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-10 November

Human rights defenders in Gaza risk death and can no longer carry out their mission - International Federation for Human Rights (International Federation for Human Rights, 2023)
Staff from international organisations are left almost entirely inoperative: they cannot document the human rights violations that are currently being committed, which reinforces the cycle of impunity for international crimes.
Palestine (permanent observer to the UN)
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Personal data stolen in British Library cyber-attack appears for sale online - Sherwood, Harriet (The Guardian, 2023)
The library said it was “aware that some data has been leaked, which appears to be from files relating to our internal HR information”. Academics and researchers who use the library have been told that disruption to the institution’s services after the serious ransomware attack was likely to continue for months.
United Kingdom
Keywords: 2023-10 November; Books; British Library; Cybercrime; Data and computer security; Internet; Libraries; London; Technology; UK news

Kosovo Specialist Chambers and the Unappreciated Necessity of Contempt Proceedings in International Criminal Accountability - Bartels, Rogier (Just Security, 2023)
The contempt cases may assist the Kosovo Specialist Chambers Special Prosecutor's Office and the judges in carrying out their mandates and building the judicial record.
Southern Europe
Keywords: 2023-10 November; Kosovo

French Senate debates compensation for gay men jailed under homophobic laws - France 24 (France 24, 2023)
An estimated 60,000 gay men were convicted by French courts between 1942 and 1982 under homophobic laws that were repealed just four decades ago. On Wednesday, French senators will discuss a bill acknowledging France’s role in the persecution of homosexuals and offering compensation to those still alive, mirroring steps taken elsewhere in Europe.
France
Keywords: 2023-10 November

British Library: Employee data leaked in cyber attack - Rufo, Yasmin (BBC News, 2023)
A group of cyber criminals have claimed they are behind the ransomware attack and are auctioning off the data.
United Kingdom
Keywords: 2023-10 November

On #International_Children_Day: #Justice_for_Yemen_Children Must Be Included in Peace Talks - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2023)
November 20th marks International Children's Day. This day serves as a poignant reminder that we must take a resolute stand to defend, promote, and celebrate the rights of Yemeni children. We, the undersigned, call on the parties to the conflict in Yemen and the international community to work towards securing justice for Yemeni children and enabling them to lead dignified lives, in accordance with the principles enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which Yemen is a signatory.
Yemen
Keywords: 2023-10 November

The doomsday vaults storing seeds, data and DNA to protect our future - Braidwood, Ella (The Observer, 2023)
Around the world, highly secure chambers are being built to preserve everything we need to withstand any number of worst-case scenarios.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-10 November; DNA database; Environment; Plants; Science; World news

Urge Laos to Address Rights Abuses - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2023)
In the context of the upcoming Australia-Laos 8th bilateral human rights dialogue, the Australian government should press Lao government leaders to end their systemic human rights violations when the two governments meet for a bilateral rights dialogue.
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Keywords: 2023-10 November

Labour abuses, including slavery, found on European fishing vessels - O'Donoghue, Saskia (euronews, 2023)
Research by a Washington DC-based organisation which tracks illicit money flows has found that tens of thousands of workers every year on these boats are estimated to be trapped in unsafe conditions.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-10 November

Damaged cultural sites in Ukraine verified by UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2023)
As of 15 November 2023, UNESCO has verified damage to 329 sites since 24 February 2022 – 125 religious sites, 143 buildings of historical and/or artistic interest, 28 museums, 19 monuments, 13 libraries, 1 Archive.
Ukraine
Keywords: 2023-10 November

Statement of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim A.A. Khan KC, on the Situation in the State of Palestine: receipt of a referral from five States Parties - International Criminal Court (ICC) (International Criminal Court, 2023)
The Office of the International Criminal Court Prosecutor received a referral of the Situation in the State of Palestine, from the following five States Parties: South Africa, Bangladesh, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Comoros, and Djibouti.
Israel
Keywords: 2023-10 November; Palestinian Statehood

Five Anti-War Price Tags, Seven Years in Russian Prison | Human Rights Watch - Lokhmutov, Aleks (Human Rights Watch, 2023)
Russian court sentenced artist Aleksandra Skochilenko to seven years in prison for replacing supermarket price tags with information about Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Russian Federation
Keywords: 2023-10 November

UN Rights Review Amid Violent Crackdown - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2023)
The Bangladesh government should seriously respond to concerns regarding grave abuses and the crackdown on civil society raised by member states on November 13, 2023, during Bangladesh’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
Bangladesh
Keywords: 2023-10 November

World Court Rules Against Syria in Torture Case - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2023)
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) order on November 16, 2023, directing Syria to take all measures within its power to prevent acts of torture and other abuses is a milestone toward protecting civilians in the country
Syrian Arab Republic
Keywords: 2023-10 November; The Netherlands

World Report 2024 - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2023)
Annual Review Of Human Rights Around The Globe
Worldwide
Keywords: 2024-01 January

UN Syria Commission welcomes landmark ICJ order to Syria to prevent torture and destruction of evidence - OHCHR (OHCHR, 2023)
The UN Syria Commission of Inquiry welcomesd a landmark order by the International Court of Justice in The Hague binding the Syrian Arab Republic to take all measures within its power to prevent acts of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and ensure that its officials - as well as any organizations or persons under its control, direction or influence - do not commit any such acts.
Syrian Arab Republic
Keywords: 2023-10 November

France issues arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad - France 24 (France 24, 2023)
France has issued an international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, accused of complicity in crimes against humanity over chemical attacks in 2013
Syrian Arab Republic
Keywords: 2023-10 November; Syrian Arab Republic

Ethiopia Partnership Eases Vulnerable Returnee Access to Legal Identity Documents - International Organization for Migration (International Organization for Migration, 2023)
IOM has signed a cooperation agreement with the Office of the Prime Minister of Ethiopia’s National Identification Program (NIDP) to facilitate access to identification documents for vulnerable migrant returnees, displaced persons and affected communities as a prerequisite for global mobility and development.
Ethiopia
Keywords: 2023-10 November

A Desperate Call from the Cold Crematorium - Meerwald, Johannes (2023)
This podcast talk about a letter dated 23 April 1945, from a man called Hans Frölicher to the Swiss Minister of Foreign Affairs. Hans Frölicher was the Swiss ambassador to Germany during World War II. The official letter starts: ”I have the honour to enclose a copy of a communication that was secretly delivered to the Consulate General in Munich/Rottach-Egern."
Europe
Keywords: 2023-10 November; World War II

Why Buffy Sainte-Marie's 'pretendian' case strikes a nerve - Yousif, Nadine (BBC News, 2023)
Prominent figures in North America have faced allegations of lying about being indigenous. But none have touched a nerve quite like the recent allegations about Buffy Sainte-Marie - an Oscar-winning folk singer long celebrated as an indigenous icon and biggest name caught up in questions around indigenous identity.
Canada
Keywords: 2023-10 November

Cambodia: Mass evictions at UNESCO World Heritage site Angkor violate international law - Amnesty International (Amnesty International, 2023)
Cambodian authorities cruelly uprooted families who have lived in Angkor for several generations.
Cambodia
Keywords: 2023-10 November

US Army clears historical convictions of 110 black soldiers - Comerford, Ruth (BBC News, 2023)
The soldiers were court martialled after a 1917 riot in a process with "numerous irregularities".
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-10 November

WHO paid compensation money to sexual abuse victims in Congo - Euro News (euronews, 2023)
Internal documents show the World Health Organisation paid $250 to victims in Congo who were sexually abused by their employees during the Ebola outbreak and made them take a training course to receive the money.
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Keywords: 2023-10 November

YouTube creators: Disclose AI use or face suspension - Euro News (euronews, 2023)
YouTube said creators that don't disclose their use of AI tools to make “altered or synthetic” videos face penalties - including content removal or suspension.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-10 November

Rights Concerns Over License Plate Tracking - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2023)
Uganda’s new surveillance system, which allows the government to track the real time location of all vehicles in the country, undermines privacy rights, and creates serious risks to the rights to freedom of association and expression.
Uganda
Keywords: 2023-10 November

“They Don’t Treat Us like Human Beings” - Kasai, Teppei (Human Rights Watch, 2023)
“‘They Don’t Treat Us like Human Beings’: Abuse of Imprisoned Women in Japan,” documents the abusive conditions in many women’s prisons in Japan.
Japan
Keywords: 2023-10 November

The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age - Keats Citron, Danielle (W. W. Norton & Company, 2023)
Privacy is disappearing. Exploring why the law has struggled to keep up, the author reveals how our current system leaves victims—particularly women, LGBTQ+ people, and marginalized groups—shamed and powerless while perpetrators profit, warping cultural norms around the world.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Digital apartheid and the use of social media algorithms in humanitarian crises - Seerat Khan (Global Voices, 2023)
Big tech platforms extensively censor Palestinian voices, shadow banning them and their supporters, violating their rights to free speech, assembly, information access, political participation, and protection from discrimination.
Palestine (permanent observer to the UN)
Keywords: 2023-10 November

'The artwork is not guilty': Swiss museum unveils Nazi era collection - Farrant, Theo (euronews, 2023)
A prestigious Swiss institution is attempting to navigate the troubled waters of displaying an art collection with questionable origins dating back to World War II and Nazi looted art.
Switzerland
Keywords: 2023-10 November; Academia and Education

'We need to record everything': This team stayed behind in a Ukrainian war zone - Mosley, Tonya (NPR, 2023)
Ukrainian filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov was in Mariupol when Russia invaded. "I just understood that we need to record everything," he says. His new documentary is 20 Days in Mariupol.
Ukraine
Keywords: 2023-10 November