Human Rights Council. Decision 2/105. Right to the Truth - Commission on Human Rights (United Nations, 2006)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Human Rights Resolution 2005/66: Right to the Truth - Commission on Human Rights (United Nations, 2005)
Adopted without a vote. See chap. XVII, E/CN.4/2005/L.10/Add.17
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Study on the Right to the Truth, Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - Commission on Human Rights (2006)
Sixty-second session Item 17 of the provisional agenda
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

ISDF International Standard for Describing Functions - Committee on Best Practices and Standards (International Council on Archives, 2007)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Nunca Más (Never Again) - Report of CONADEP (National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons) - 1984 - Conadep (1984)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Le Procès Papon, un journal d'audience - Conan, Eric (Gallimard, 1998)
Avant même l'ouverture du procès, la cause semble entendue : Maurice Papon, secrétaire général de la préfecture de la Gironde sous l'Occupation, est coupable. Mais, au fil des audiences, il devient bientôt clair que l'instruction, en quatorze ans, a été pour le moins mal faite ; que l'Histoire, celle des historiens cités à comparaître, est plus nuancée dans ses analyses des chaînes de responsabilité administrative ; que les témoignages des grands acteurs témoins de la Résistance divergent sensiblement d'un tableau en noir et blanc ; que la Mémoire des enfants et parents des victimes déportées doit se contenter d'obtenir réparation d'un fonctionnaire de rang moyen, alors que ses supérieurs hiérarchiques, jamais inquiétés, sont morts en toute quiétude au cours de l'instruction ; que nombre de parties civiles ont cru ne faire qu'une bouchée d'un accusé prompt à se défendre, vif à confondre de pseudo-témoins à charge, à nier ses responsabilités historiquement avérées mais judiciairement difficiles à établir cinquante-cinq ans après. Au terme d'un procès-fleuve, une peine de dix ans est prononcée qui ne satisfait ni le Droit, ni l'Histoire, ni la Mémoire. La Cour d'assises innocente Maurice Papon des faits de complicité d'assassinat retenus contre lui par l'instruction et l'arrêté de renvoi ; elle juge l'accusé coupable de complicité d'arrestation et de séquestration, ce qui est peu s'il s'est agi de juger Vichy et son administration ; elle introduit en France la gradation des peines en matière de crime contre l'humanité ; elle esquive, enfin, le grand débat juridique visant à définir ce crime suprême soit comme un crime de droit commun à évaluer selon les intentions présidant à chaque acte, soit comme un " crime de bureau ", s'insérant dans un processus génocidaire plus vaste, où la responsabilité se mesure à l'aune non plus seulement de l'acte de l'individu mais du rôle qu'il assume dans une chaîne criminelle de responsabilité. Le délitement du procès Papon, au fil des audiences, Eric Conan, l'un des rares journalistes à avoir assisté à toutes les audiences, nous le donne à lire dans ce Journal. Il note les propos de chacun, restitue l'atmosphère, tendue, pathétique ou cocasse, livre les moments et les discours clés. Le lecteur de ce document de référence découvre bientôt comment un procès, longtemps jugé improbable, se révéla progressivement un procès impossible.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Commission colombienne de la vérité: la Suisse conserve une copie des archives - Conseil Fédéral (Confédération Suisse - Conseil fédéral, 2023)
Lors de sa séance du 21 juin, le Conseil fédéral a approuvé l’accord portant sur la conservation d’une copie de sauvegarde numérique des archives de la Commission colombienne de la vérité. Le travail de mémoire constitue un élément essentiel des activités de politique de paix que la Suisse mène en Colombie depuis de longues années. En sécurisant des données aussi sensibles, elle soutient durablement le processus de paix en Colombie.
Switzerland
Keywords: 2023-06 June

Les archives des ONG: une mémoire à partager. Guide pratique en 60 questions - Conseil International Des Archives (Conseil International Des Archives, 2005)
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

La protección de los datos personales | Fichas temáticas sobre la Unión Europea | Parlamento Europeo - Consejo de Europa (2022)
Información sobre la protección de los datos personales. Las fichas técnicas ofrecen una visión de conjunto de la integración europea y del papel del Parlamento Europeo.
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

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

Professional ethics and practice in archives and records management in a human rights context - Cook, Michael (Journal of the Society of Archivists, 2006)
This article contains a survey of ethical codes adopted by the Archives and Records Management (ARM) professional associations in Anglophone areas in the 1990s and notes that such codes are in effect standards to set beside other standards. The Museums Association code of ethics is compared, because it is aimed at institutions and not at individual professionals. It can be observed that institutional aims contain a strong ethical component. This is backed by procedural standards and guidelines required by new legislation in the UK (notably Freedom of Information and Data Protection). ARM professionals are faced with growing tensions in the interfaces between them and creators of records, owners of records, users and data subjects. Ethical decisions are constantly being demanded in all these areas. There is then a review of ARM responses to the human rights movement internationally, ranging from the ethical code proposed by the Quintana Report (1997), through subsequent discussions at CITRA, the Vienna Congress of the International Council on Archives (2004) and the University of Liverpool conference on archives and political pressures (2003). The article concludes by proposing that codes of ethics should be extended to direct the work of institutions as well as of individuals, that ethical principles embedded in procedural standards and guidelines should be recognised and codified, and that human rights issues should be explicitly recognised in ARM services through mission and policy statements.
Other Publications

Evidence, memory, identity, and community: four shifting archival paradigms - Cook, Terry (Archival Science, 2013)
This essay argues that archival paradigms over the past 150 years have gone through four phases: from juridical legacy to cultural memory to societal engagement to community archiving. The archivist has been transformed, accordingly, from passive curator to active appraiser to societal mediator to community facilitator. The focus of archival thinking has moved from evidence to memory to identity and community, as the broader intellectual currents have changed from pre-modern to modern to postmodern to contemporary. Community archiving and digital realities offer possibilities for healing these disruptive and sometimes conflicting discourses within our profession.
Other Publications
Keywords: A&DwP website; Archival theory; Community archiving; Evidence; Memory; Paradigm shifts; Professional identity

What is Past is Prologue: A History of Archival Ideas Since 1898, and the Future Paradigm Shift - Cook, Terry (Archivaria, 1997)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Greenland women seek compensation over involuntary birth control - Cooney, Christie (BBC News, 2023)
Some 4,500 women were fitted with coils as part of attempts to limit the territory's population.
Denmark
Keywords: 2023-10 October; Greenland; Sterilization; Women's Rights

USAID Releases Historic LGBTQ-Inclusive Development Policy - Cooper, Alex (Advocate, 2023)
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced its first-ever LGBTQI+ inclusive development policy, which will guide the agency’s inclusion of LGBTQ+ rights support in its programming.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-08 August; Diversity; Inclusion; United States Agency for International Development (USAID); United States of America

How The Globe created the first national database of FOI requests - Cordoso, Tom; Doolittle, Robyn (The Globe and Mail, 2023)
For the Secret Canada project, The Globe sent hundreds of FOI requests across the country, in order to create a database that can be used by everyone.
Canada
Keywords: 2023-06 June; Social Issues

Archives des dictatures sud-américaines. Entre droit à la mémoire et droit à l’oubli - Cornu, Marie; Fromageau, Jérôme; Julien-Laferrière, François; Lavabre, Marie-Claire; Merklen, Denis (Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2023)
Centré sur les pays du Cône Sud (Argentine, Brésil, Chili, Paraguay, Uruguay), l'ouvrage porte sur la période des dictatures militaires inaugurée par le coup d’État au Brésil de 1964 et se termine avec le retour à la démocratie au Chili en 1990. Il traite du sort et de l’utilisation des archives administratives à la chute de ces dictatures, dans une visée internationale.
South America
Keywords: 2023-10 November

Ríos Montt: La muerte y la impunidad llegan juntas - Coronado, Elsa; Pradilla, Alberto (Plaza Pública, 2018)
“Lo más importante para nosotros es que Ríos Montt se murió en manos de la justicia, o sea, huyendo de la justicia. Y logramos la sentencia y la desclasificación de los documentos militares y ese es un paso muy importante”, afirma Antonio Caba, sobreviviente de la masacre de la aldea Ilom, en Chajul, Quiché. Tenía once años cuando el Ejército arrasó con todo. Años más tarde, encontró en una exhumación los restos de sus familiares. Vio sus huesos, reconoció la ropa, recordó el dolor del pasado y cuando los volvió a enterrar sintió la necesidad de justicia.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

CORTE INTERAMERICANA DE DERECHOS HUMANOS CASO ESCHER Y OTROS VS. BRASIL SENTENCIA DE 20 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2009 - Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, 2009)
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos - Inicio - corteidh.or.cr (Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos - Inicio)
Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos - Inicio
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Council of Europe Convention on Access to Official Documents - Council of Europe Treaty Series - No.205 - Council of Europe (Council of Europe, 2009)
This Convention is the first binding international legal instrument to recognise a general right of access to official documents held by public authorities. Transparency of public authorities is a key feature of good governance and an indicator of whether or not a society is genuinely democratic and pluralist. The right of access to official documents is also essential to the self-development of people and to the exercise of fundamental human rights. It also strengthens public authorities’ legitimacy in the eyes of the public, and its confidence in them. This Convention lays down a right of access to official documents. Limitations on this right are only permitted in order to protect certain interests like national security, defence or privacy. The Convention sets forth the minimum standards to be applied in the processing of requests for access to official documents (forms of and charges for access to official documents), review procedure and complementary measures and it has the flexibility required to allow national laws to build on this foundation and provide even greater access to official documents. A Group of Specialists on Access to Official Documents will monitor the i implementation of this Convention by the Parties.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

European convention on the legal status of children born out of wedlock - Council of Europe (Council of Europe, 1978)
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Full text of European Court of Human Rights Decision on the case Kolk and Kislyiy v. Estonia: Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to Crimes against Humanity. - Council of Europe (Derechos.org, 2017)
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Réseaux sociaux. Le Népal interdit TikTok, une question d’“harmonie sociale” - Courrier international (Courrier international, 2023)
L’application préférée de la jeunesse dans le monde “attise la haine religieuse, la violence et encourage les abus sexuels”, selon le gouvernement népalais qui a décidé de couper tout accès au réseau social chinois dans le pays.
Nepal
Keywords: 2023-10 November

Société. Au Japon, une loi pour la “compréhension” des LGBTQI hautement controversée - Courrier international (Courrier international, 2023)
Fruit d’un compromis fait pour ménager les conservateurs, la loi ne convainc pas les minorités sexuelles du pays, qui dénoncent l’incompréhension des responsables politiques du pays.
Japan
Keywords: 2023-06 June

Travail. Les emplois féminins sont les plus menacés par l’IA - Courrier international (Courrier international, 2023)
Plusieurs études conduites aux États-Unis montrent que les femmes sont plus susceptibles que les hommes de perdre leur emploi du fait de l’automatisation des tâches.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-07 July; Artificial Intelligence; Labor Rights; Women's Rights

Violence. Soixante défenseurs de l’environnement assassinés en 2022 : “une honte” pour la Colombie - Courrier international (Courrier international, 2023)
Selon un rapport de l’ONG Global Witness, la Colombie occupe de nouveau la première place du classement des pays les plus dangereux du monde pour les défenseurs de l’environnement.
Colombia
Keywords: 2023-09 September

Noam Chomsky Teaches a MasterClass on Critical Thinking & Media Literacy | Open Culture - Cowen, Tyler (2023)
Noam Chomsky in a new interview on economist Tyler Cowen's podcast Conversations with Tyler. 'That’s what we’re facing. We know answers, at least possible answers to all of the problems that face us. Open Culture, openculture.com
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-07 July; Critical Thinking; Independant Thinking; Media Literacy; Propaganda

Archives and the Public Good: Accountability and Records in Modern Society - Cox, Richard J.; Wallace, David A. (Journal of Documentation, 2003)
Other Publications
Keywords: Accountability; Archives; Records management

Selected Themes in the Literature on Memory and Their Pertinence to Archives - Craig, Barbara L. (The American Archivist, 2002)
Publisher: Society of American Archivists
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Millions of women are working during menopause, but US law isn't clear on employees' rights or employers' obligations - Crawford, Bridget J.; Waldman, Emily Gold; Cahn, Naomi (The Conversation, 2023)
Three scholars who are writing a book about menopause and the law suggest ways to protect women experiencing it.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-06 June

Justice transitionnelle défaillante en Éthiopie - Crawford, Julia (JusticeInfo.net, 2023)
Malgré un accord de paix, la justice transitionnelle en Éthiopie est en échec et les violences continuent. L'Europe et les États-Unis ont-ils abandonné la justice au profit d'intérêts politiques stratégiques ?
Ethiopia
Keywords: 2023-10 October

El testimonio en una memoria a ciudadana: el informe Nunca Más - Crenzel, Emilio (Estudios: Centro d Estudios Avanzados, 2005)
En este articulo se desarrollará una descripción y análisis delpapel y el lugar que asumen los testimonios que reproduce el informe Nunca Más elaborado por la Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas en 1984 en torno a las desapariciones.Se intentará describir y analizar su contenido y forma, el tono deestas voces, las intervenciones que realiza la CONADEP sobre los mismos y las continuidades y rupturas que presentan con respecto al lugar que ocuparon en los discursos previos acerca de la desaparición de personas.
Publisher: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Section: Estudios: Centro d Estudios Avanzados
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Vancouver’s development destroyed Burrard Inlet. Tsleil-Waututh Nation is determined to save it - Cruickshank, Ainslie (The Narwhal, 2023)
The inlet has slowly suffocated under the weight of the cities and industries built up around it. But it is resilient, and the nation sees what this once bountiful waterway could be again.
Canada
Keywords: 2023-06 June

El derecho de reparación a las víctimas en el derecho internacional : un estudio comparativo entre el derecho internacional de responsabilidad estatal y los principios básicos de reparación de víctimas de derechos humanos - Cruz, Luis M. (Revista de Derecho Político, 2010)
En este artículo se analizan los textos más importantes en el ámbito de reparación a las víctimas en el ámbito internacional y que reflejan las características esenciales tanto del derecho internacional de responsabilidad estatal como del derecho internacional de los derechos humanos. Por un lado, los Artículos sobre la Responsabilidad del Estado por hechos internacionalmente ilícitos, adoptados por la Comisión de Derecho Internacional de las Naciones Unidas en 2001. Por otro lado, los Principios y Directrices Básicos sobre el Derecho de las Víctimas de Violaciones Manifiestas de las Normas Internacionales de Derechos Humanos y de Violaciones Graves del Derecho Internacional Humanitario a Interponer Recursos y Obtener Reparaciones, aprobados por la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas en 2005. Estos textos articulan, cada uno en su ámbito, aquellos principios que han sido aplicados en el los tribunales internacionales y que gozan de un amplio consenso en el derecho internacional. El objetivo del artículo es identificar los elementos comunes así como los elementos característicos de cada uno de ellos, en orden a mostrar sus logros y deficiencias a la hora de reparar a las víctimas de violaciones de derechos humanos.
Number: 77
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights; derecho a una reparación; human rights violations; reparación; reparation; right to a remedy; victims; violaciones de derechos humanos; víctimas

Silencios, contingencias y desafíos: el Archivo de la Vicaría de la Solidaridad en Chile. - Cruz, María Angélica (Los archivos de la represión: Documentos, memoria y verdad, 2002)
Other Publications

Los Archivos de Derechos Humanos en Perú - Cruz, Ruth (Comma, 2010)
Other Publications

Cultural Survival and Partners Submit Report on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights for Mexico’s Universal Periodic Review - Cultural Survival (Cultural Survival, 2021)
Under the public eye, Mexico has shown itself to be a fervent advocate of Indigenous rights at both the international and domestic levels. Nevertheless, violence against Indigenous Peoples is prevalent in the country.
Mexico
Keywords: 2023-08 August; UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)

Cultural Survival y socios presentan informe sobre los derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas para el Examen Periódico Universal de México - Cultural Survival (Cultural Survival, 2022)
Bajo la mirada pública, México se ha mostrado como un ferviente defensor de los derechos Indígenas tanto a nivel internacional como nacional. Además, su Constitución enumera una serie de artículos para la protección de derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas. No obstante, la violencia contra los Pueblos Indígenas prevalece en el país.
Mexico
Keywords: 2023-08 August; UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)

Chapter 2 - Archival institutions - Cunningham, Adrian (Archives: Recordkeeping in Society Topics in Australasian Library and Information Studies, 2005)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

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

The future of conservation in Canada depends on Indigenous protected areas. So what are they? - Cyca, Michell (The Narwhal, 2023)
Canada’s climate commitments rest in Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas — often called IPCAs. While the concept isn’t new, it’s gaining better recognition and funding from, at least, some governments
Canada
Keywords: 2023-06 June

Humanitarian Organizations must ensure protection of data during Emergencies - Daniel O’Malley (ReliefWeb, 2023)
Humanitarian organizations bear the responsibility of ensuring that their systems and procedures for data collection, processing, and utilization align with the best international standards and which data it needs to protect.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-10 October

Forum Paix et Sécurité au Togo: «La démocratie oui, mais il le faut à l'africaine» - Daniel, Serge (RFI, 2023)
Le Forum Paix et Sécurité s'est tenu à Lomé dans la capitale togolaise. Le panel sur « les transitions politiques » en Afrique est le principal thème de cette édition initiée par le Togo avec notamment la participation de l'ONU, de l'UA et de pays du Sahel.
Africa
Keywords: 2023-10 October

Ukraine: Database of Accidents and Victims of Explosive Ordnance - Danish Refugee Council (Relief Web, 2023)
Infographic and dashboard with verified information about the Explosive Ordnance (EO) victims & EO accidents, quantitative and qualitative information indicating the exact coordinates of the incident, information about the injuries received
Ukraine
Keywords: 2023-08 August

Le Portugal durcit les conditions de naturalisation des juifs séfarades - Darcy, Marie-Line (RFI, 2024)
Au Portugal, les descendants des juifs portugais expulsés il y a plus de 500 ans du territoire peuvent obtenir la nationalité. Mais des scandales ont conduit à un durcissement des conditions. Une loi en ce sens a été votée vendredi 5 janvier 2024.
Portugal
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Ahead of presidential elections, Russia rewrites history and promotes nationalism at schools - Daria Dergacheva (Global Voices, 2023)
New history books and classes called "Important Conversation" are prompting the new nationalist propaganda discourse across schools in Russia.
Russian Federation
Keywords: 2023-10 October

Antes de las elecciones presidenciales, Rusia reescribe la historia y promueve el nacionalismo en las escuelas. - Daria Dergacheva (Global Voices, 2023)
Libro escolar falsifica información sobre la invasión a Ucrania y los crímenes de Stalin
Russian Federation
Keywords: 2023-10 October

Risk Data Library Standard: making it easier to work with disaster and climate risk data - Data Blog of the World Bank (Risk Data Library, 2023)
GFDRR releases an open data standard to make it easier to publish, access, share, and use quality disaster and climate risk data.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-10 October

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

State-backed disinformation fuelling anger in China over Fukushima water - Davidson, Helen (The Guardian, 2023)
Reports of abusive behaviour towards Japanese citizens in China in response to wastewater release at nuclear site.
China
Keywords: 2023-09 September; Asia Pacific; China; Energy; Environment; Fukushima; Japan; Japan disaster; Nuclear power; Nuclear waste; World news

Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand - Davidson, Jared (Bridget Williams Books, 2023)
Forced labour haunts the streets we walk today and the spaces we take for granted. Blood and Dirt explains, for the first time, the making of New Zealand and its Pacific empire through the prism of prison labour. Jared Davidson asks us to look beyond the walls of our nineteenth- and early twentieth-century prisons to see penal practice as playing an active, central role in the creation of modern New Zealand. Journeying from the Hohi mission station in the Bay of Islands through to Milford Sound, vast forest plantations, and on to Parliament itself, this vivid and engaging book will change the way you view New Zealand.
New Zealand
Keywords: 2023-08 August; Aoteoroa; Prison Labour

Empire on the cheap — prison labour in the Pacific - Davidson, Jared (E-Tangata, 2023)
“Imprisoned workers were essential to creating the basic infrastructure of New Zealand’s Pacific empire. Government agents needed government buildings, so offenders who couldn’t (or wouldn’t) pay their fines built residencies, courthouses and other imperial premises.” — Jared Davidson.
New Zealand
Keywords: 2023-08 August; Aotearoa; Prison Labour

Margaret Thatcher praised Tony Blair for supporting US after 9/11, files reveal - Davies, Caroline (The Guardian, 2023)
‘I greatly admire the resolve you are showing,’ former PM said in handwritten note released to National Archives.
United Kingdom
Keywords: 2023-07 July; Foreign policy; Margaret Thatcher; National Archives; Politics; September 11 2001; Tony Blair; UK news; US news; World news

The Declaration of the Rights of Woman (September 1791) - De Gouges, Olympe (1791)
Marie Gouze (1748–93) was a self–educated butcher’s daughter from the south of France who, under the name Olympe de Gouges, wrote pamphlets and plays on a variety of issues, including slavery, which she attacked as being founded on greed and blind prejudice. In this pamphlet she provides a declaration of the rights of women to parallel the one for men, thus criticizing the deputies for having forgotten women. She addressed the pamphlet to the Queen, Marie Antoinette, though she also warned the…
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence - de Greiff, Pablo (United Nations, 2014)
The Spanish Civil War and the 40 years of dictatorship that followed left a colossal aftermath in terms of victims of serious human rights and humanitarian law violations, including executions, torture, arbitrary detentions, disappearances, forced labour for prisoners and exile.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Los orígenes del Partido del Socialismo Democrático (1989-1993): el ave fénix roja en Alemania - de la Guardia, Ricardo Martín (Ayer, 2005)
El Partido del Socialismo Democrático (Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus), surgido de la descomposición interna del SED (Sozialistiscbe Einbeitspartei Deutschlands), es un caso relevante de adaptación de los partidos únicos en los regímenes comunistas a la democracia plurípar-tidista. Dadas las peculiaridades de la transición en la República Democrática de Alemania, acelerada por su rápida integración en la República Federal, el SED no tuvo la oportunidad de transformarse en una organización socialdemócrata como en la mayoría de los países del Este, pues ya existían el SPD y, a su izquierda, los Verdes. Este hecho explica la importancia histórica de seguirlo en sus primeros pasos para analizar las dificultades de pervivencia de la estructura del partido único y explicar de esta manera su inserción en el sistema de partidos alemán posterior a la Reunificación. Resulting from the decay of the Socialist Unity Party (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands), the Party of Democratic Socialism or PDS (Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus) typifies the adaptation of Eastern and Central European Communist state parties into multiparty democracy. Given the peculiarities of the GDR's political transition— a process which was accelerated by its rapid integration into the Federal Republic—, the SED had no chance to develop into a Social Democratic party as that political space was already occupied by the SPD and, further left, the Greens. Hence the importance of tracing the origins of the PDS, that is, the old party structure's struggle for survival and its inclusion in the post-unification German party system.
Publisher: [Asociacion de Historia Contemporanea, Marcial Pons Ediciones de Historia]
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Burundi Government Walks Out on UN Review - De Montjoye, Clementine (Human Rights Watch, 2023)
This week, Burundian authorities once again displayed their contempt for human rights by walking out of the country’s review before the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva.
Burundi
Keywords: 2023-07 July; Geneva

Le gouvernement burundais se retire de son examen devant l’ONU - De Montjoye, Clementine (Human Rights Watch, 2023)
Cette semaine, les autorités burundaises ont une fois de plus affiché leur mépris pour les droits humains en se retirant de l’examen périodique de leur pays devant le Comité des droits de l’homme des Nations Unies à Genève.
Burundi
Keywords: 2023-07 July

Migración: los engañosos videos de traficantes de personas que se promocionan en redes sociales como si fueran agencias de viajes para cruzar hacia EE.UU. - Debusmann, Bernd (BBC News Mundo, 2023)
Las organizaciones de tráfico de migrantes están usando plataformas como TikTok y Youtube para promocionar sus servicios.
Americas
Keywords: 2023-07 July

Interpreting Contentious Memory - DeGloma, Thomas; Jacobs, Janet (Bristol University Press, 2023)
Interpreting Contentious Memory - Countermemories and Social Conflicts over the Past; This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study profound conflicts rooted in the past. Addressing issues of racism, genocide, war, nationalism, colonialism and more, it highlights how our interpretations of contentious memories are indispensable to our understandings of contemporary conflicts and identities.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-07 July; Contentious Memory; Genocide; Social Conflicts

No hay mañana sin ayer: batallas por la memoria y consolidación democrática en el Perú - Degregori, Carlos Iván; Portugal, Tamia; Salazar, Gabriel; Aroni, Renzo (IEP, 2015)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Dejusticia - dejusticia.org (Dejusticia)
Con Dejusticia puedes conocer cómo a través de la investigación y la acción defendemos los derechos humanos en Colombia y el Sur Global.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Ceausescu and the Securitate: Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965-1989 - Deletant, Dennis (Routledge, 1995)
First Published in 2017. This book contains Deletant's research and view that an inescapable feature of life in Romania under Ceausescu was the ubiquity of the Securitate or the security police, known officially for much of the period as the Department of State Security of the Ministry of the Interior. He seeks to right the omission in Romanian literature, until now, of the mechanism of terror which Stalin used in Romania to enforce his will and about the organisation of the Department of State Security.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

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

PQ to table legislation seeking expenses of No campaign during 1995 referendum - Denoncourt, Jean-Philippe; Canadian Press (Montreal Gazette, 2023)
The result of the referendum was so close that supporters have often accused the No side of having bent the rules on campaign financing.
Canada
Keywords: 2023-08 August; Fraud; Quebec; Referendum

Dépenses du NON au référendum de 1995: Le PQ veut déposer un projet de loi pour obtenir des documents - Denoncourt, Jean-Philippe; La Presse Canadienne (La Presse, 2023)
Le Parti québécois (PQ) annonce mercredi son intention de déposer un projet de loi à l’Assemblée nationale afin d’obtenir la publication des documents qui concernent le financement du camp du NON lors de la campagne référendaire de 1995.
Canada
Keywords: 2023-08 August; Fraud; Quebec; Referendum

Agreement between the United States of America and France, Claims and Dispute Resolution, TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTS SERIES 15-1101 - Department of State - United States of America (Department of State - United States of America, 2014)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Corporate human rights abuses can be curbed across Africa with buy-in from governments to honour the UN treaty - Dera, Boaventura Monjane and Anesu (Daily Maverick, 2023)
On 28 and 29 June, community members, popular formations and civil society organisations from across the African continent gathered in Johannesburg to participate in the African Regional Indaba on the UN Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights.
Africa
Keywords: 2023-07 July

Mal d'archive : une impression freudienne - Derrida, Jacques (Éditions Galilée, 1995)
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Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Online News Act could see Google, Meta pay combined $234 million to Canadian media - Deschamps, Tara (CBC News, 2023)
The federal government has put a price tag on what it would like to see Google and Facebook spend under an act requiring the tech giants to compensate media for news articles.
Canada
Keywords: 2023-09 September; Indigenous Matters

Archives and the Atlantic Pact: how the NATO Archives preserves and protects the records of an Alliance* - Deserno, Ineke; Roche, Nicholas; Viallet, Barbara; Wintenberger, Etienne (Comma, 2021)
In 2019, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) celebrated 70 years of consultation, consensus and conflict prevention. The same year also marked 20 years since NATO first opened access to its archives to the public. The establishment of the NATO Archives in 1999 was hailed by then Secretary General Javier Solana as an important signal of the Alliance’s commitment to transparency and openness. NATO declassified and publicly disclosed thousands of documents and opened a dedicated Reading Room at NATO Headquarters in Brussels. Behind the scenes, the establishment of the NATO Archives and of the Archives Committee also changed the way in which NATO managed its historical records. Up to this point, there was no NATO-wide policy on archives, no organizational archives and no consistency in any of the traditional archival functions. Starting in 1999, NATO could boast a professional archives programme, implemented by trained archivists and governed by a committee of national experts. The programme can claim a string of successes over the last 20 years, implementing archival strategy in novel and unique ways to respond to NATO’s organizational structure. While the Archives are part of NATO’s political headquarters, NATO itself is composed of multiple formal entities under the overall direction of the North Atlantic Council and the Military Committee, including military commands, civilian agencies, military operations etc. Before 1999, each managed their archival material locally, according to internal procedures. This article outlines the Archives’ strategic policies and its governance, involving national experts of all its 30 member nations; presents its increasingly larger and more robust acquisition programme based on a strong and actively managed retention and disposition strategy; assesses its digital preservation activities; and provides an update on NATO’s declassification and public disclosure programme.

The Redman's appeal for justice - Deskaheh (1923)
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Une histoire de la lutte des femmes pour l’égalité au travail - Desrosiers, Éric (Le Devoir, 2023)
La longue et encore incomplète ascension des femmes vers l’égalité dans le monde du travail n’a pas été celle qu’on croyait jusqu’à ce que Claudia Goldin, qui s’est vu décerner le « prix Nobel d’économie » en octobre 2023, y fasse plus la lumière.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-10 October

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.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-12 December

The Nuremberg Laws - Dferriero (National Archives, 2010)
Last Wednesday, I visited the Huntington Library in California to receive the original Nuremberg Laws on behalf of the U.S. Government. The laws were signed by Adolf Hitler and issued by the Third …
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It - Dhruv, Mehrotra (Wired, 2024)
Police around the US say they're justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea, a privacy breach. Without oversight, law enforcement is now able to mix and match technologies in unintended ways, using untested algorithms to predict what a person could look given genetic attributes found in the DNA sample and single out suspects based on unknowable criteria.
Unites States of America
Keywords: 2024-01 January; artificial intelligence; crime; dna; police

VIDÉO. Sénégal : un incendie détruit les archives de l'université Cheick Anta Diop | TV5MONDE - Informations - Diallo, Oumy (TV5 Monde, 2023)
À Dakar, les étudiants de l'université Cheick Anta Diop sont en colère. La semaine dernière, des bâtiments ont été incendiés et des milliers de documents administratifs sont partis en fumée après des manifestations en faveur de l'opposant Ousmane Sonko. Pour certains étudiants, impossible désormais de faire certifier leurs diplômes.
Senegal
Keywords: 2023-06 June

Contested Memories in Chinese and Japanese Foreign Policy - Dian, Matteo (Chandos Publishing, 2017)
Contested Memories in Chinese and Japanese Foreign Policy explores the issue of memory and lack of reconciliation in East Asia. As main East Asian nations have never achieved a common memory of their pasts, in particular, the events of the Second World War and Sino-Japanese War, this book locates the issue of memory within International Relations theory, exploring the theoretical and practical link between the construction of a country’s identity and the formation and contestation of its historical memory and foreign policy.Provides an innovative theoretical frameworkDraws connections between the role of memory and foreign policyUses the interpretative theory of international relationsGives comparative perspective using the cases of China and JapanPresents in-depth analysis of the construction and contestation of national memory in China and Japan
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Directiva 2013/34/UE del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo, de 26 de junio de 2013, sobre los estados financieros anuales, los estados financieros consolidados y otros informes afines de ciertos tipos de empresas, por la que se modifica la Directiva 2006/43/CE del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo y se derogan las Directivas 78/660/CEE y 83/349/CEE del Consejo (Texto pertinente a efectos del EEE) - Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea (Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea, 2013)
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

DIRECTIVA 2014/95/UE DEL PARLAMENTO EUROPEO Y DEL CONSEJO - de 22 de octubre de 2014 - por la que se modifica la Directiva 2013/34/UE en lo que respecta a la divulgación de información no financiera e información sobre diversidad por parte de determinadas grandes empresas y determinados grupos - Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea (Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea, 2014)
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Los 23 kilómetros de conflictos humanos que explican España desde una nave de Vallecas: "Un filón para historiadores y escritores" - Díaz, Ruth (ELMUNDO, 2023)
El Archivo Judicial Territorial, que se prepara ya para la digitalización de sus fondos, acoge tesoros desde el siglo XIX, como las actas de autorización de matrimonio, a la historia cercana, como el atentado de Carrero Blanco
Spain
Keywords: 2023-09 September; Court records; Digitization; Stolen babies

Political Forgiveness - Digeser, Peter (Cornell University Press, 2001)
What does forgiveness mean when it appears in politics, and what is its relationship to other ideas in political philosophy? In Political Forgiveness, P. E. Digeser defends a conception of forgiveness against those who are skeptical of its desirability as a political idea. While much of the previous work on forgiveness reflects theological or psychological perspectives, Digeser offers a concept of political forgiveness that is secular and public rather than religious or personal. It centers on the capacity of victims and creditors to release transgressors and debtors from their moral and financial debts. "If justice is a matter of receiving one's due", he says, "then political forgiveness entails releasing one's due". Nevertheless, political forgiveness remains connected to justice in important ways.Exploring the limits and possibilities of political forgiveness, Digeser considers not only its relationship to justice, but also such issues as who has authority to forgive, the connection between forgiveness and reconciliation, the meaning and scope of group responsibility, the idea of pardoning as a form of political forgiveness, and whether there is an obligation to forgive.
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Keywords: Political Science / General; Political Science / History & Theory; References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

The Condor Years: How Pinochet And His Allies Brought Terrorism To Three Continents - Dinges, John (The New Press, 2005)
A compelling and shocking account? of a brutal campaign of repression in Latin America, based on interviews and previously secret documents (The Miami Herald). Throughout the 1970s, six Latin American governments, led by Chile, formed a military alliance called Operation Condor to carry out kidnappings, torture, and political assassinations across three continents. It was an early ?war on terror? initially encouraged by the CIA?which later backfired on the United States. Hailed by Foreign Affairs as ?remarkable? and ?a major contribution to the historical record,? The Condor Years uncovers the unsettling facts about the secret US relationship with the dictators who created this terrorist organization. Written by award-winning journalist John Dinges and updated to include later developments in the prosecution of Pinochet, the book is a chilling yet dispassionately told history of one of Latin America?s darkest eras. Dinges, himself interrogated in a Chilean torture camp, interviewed participants on both sides and examined thousands of previously secret documents to take the reader inside this underground world of military operatives and diplomats, right-wing spies and left-wing revolutionaries. ?Scrupulous, well-documented.? ?The Washington Post ?Nobody knows what went wrong inside Chile like John Dinges.? ?Seymour Hersh
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Lettre. “Pour une société véritablement démocratique” : trois intellectuels sénégalais interpellent Macky Sall - Diop, Boubacar Boris; Saar, Felwine; Saar, Mohamed Mbougar (Courrier international, 2023)
Après des jours de heurts et la répression qui a suivi, l’essayiste Boubacar Boris Diop, le philosophe Felwine Sarr et l’écrivain lauréat du prix Goncourt Mohamed Mbougar Sarr dénoncent un climat politique empoisonné par une hubris présidentielle et une brutale fermeture de l’espace politique.
Senegal
Keywords: 2023-06 June

Accountability, History, and Archives: Conflicting Priorities or Synthesized Strands? - Dirks, John M. (Archivaria, 2004)
Other Publications

The Ford Foundation's Support For Human Rights Archives. - Divack, Alan (Comma, International Journal on Archives, 2004)
Other Publications

Documents centraux et juridiques, conférences et formations - docip.org
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Implication des jeunes autochtones et ateliers régionaux d'histoire orale - DOCIP - docip.org (docip.org, 2022)
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Information on the 11th UN Forum on Business and Human Rights - docip.org (docip.org, 2022)
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Instance permanente sur les questions autochtones - DOCIP - docip.org (docip.org)
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Mécanisme d'experts sur les droits des peuples autochtones - DOCIP - docip.org (docip.org)
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

El ADN de 27 esclavos muertos hace siglos identifica a 42.000 parientes actuales en EE UU - Domínguez, Nuño (El País, 2023)
Un estudio sin precedentes recupera los orígenes de miles de familias afroamericanas de cuyos ancestros no había registros
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-08 August

Overcoming the apartheid legacy: the special case of the Freedom Charter - Dominy, Graham (Archival Science, 2004)
Other Publications

Overcoming the apartheid legacy: the special case of the Freedom Charter - Dominy, Graham (Archival Science, 2013)
This paper outlines the construction of the ‘‘ofﬁcial’’ archives of the South African apartheid state and the distorted view they contain concerning social and political realities. Therefore, the colonial and apartheid legacies are examined in a broader context as an oppressive social and political system, as well as in the more speciﬁc context of how their legacy is reﬂected in the ofﬁcial archives. The development and popular endorsement of the Freedom Charter of 1955 was a seminal moment of challenge to the increasing oppression of the apartheid state. In later decades, the Freedom Charter became an iconic reference point in the antiapartheid struggle and the inspiration for the construction of a constitutional democracy in the 1990s. The process of its creation stands in stark contrast to the processes of creation of ofﬁcial records and archives. The paper also examines the survival of the Freedom Charter and the struggle to save it from auction in London and secure its safe passage to the National Archives of South Africa. Finally, questions of meaning and ideological signiﬁcance are asked in relation to the role of a National Archives in the current dominant historical narrative.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

The economics and politics of international preservation collaborations: a Malian case study - Dong, Lorraine (Archival Science, 2012)
This paper examines four economic and political themes that are relevant to international heritage preservation and archives efforts. Collaborations that involve multiple players such as industrialized nations, international heritage organizations, and postcolonial or economically developing regions will inevitably be laden with sociopolitical and economic entanglements that affect preservation outcomes and modern cultural development. Drawing on the Timbuktu Manuscripts Project in Mali for context, the paper will first discuss the infrastructural limitations that limit the progress and sustainability of projects that seek to preserve and create greater access to cultural heritage. The second critical theme is the enduring legacy of colonialism and, more specifically, the multiple concepts in Africa regarding cultural and historical evidence. The third theme is the compromise between local and global development advocates, especially in terms of agreeing on access boundaries to cultural materials. The fourth theme is the dialogue that must take place between stakeholders, especially between the host communities and supporting entities. This paper posits that it is necessary to look at the Timbuktu Manuscripts Project and other heritage preservation and archives projects by their high-level commonalities and through deeply contextualized historical lenses in order to cogently discuss the social value of these multinational projects and to help plan future collaborative efforts.
Other Publications
Keywords: A&DwP website; Archives; Cultural heritage; Digitization; Mali; Preservation; Timbuktu

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

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

Racism in Finland: Government minister embroiled in shocking new row - Dougall, David Mac (euronews, 2023)
Minister for Economic Affairs Wille Rydman only took up his role recently, after his predecessor quit for his own racist views and links to neo-Nazi groups.
Finland
Keywords: 2023-07 July

Death Squad Diary: Looking into the Secret Archives of Guatemala’s Bureaucracy of Murder - Doyle, Kate (Harper’s Magazine, 1999)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Deciphering the archives of Guatemala's dirty war - Doyle, Kate (Harper’s Magazine, 2007)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

The Atrocity Files. Deciphering the Archives of Guatemala's Dirty War.The Atrocity Files. - Doyle, Kate; Doyle, Kate (Harper's Magazine, 2007)
Other Publications

Why Guatemala’s Anti-Corruption Commission Faces a New Wave of Efforts to Derail It - Doyle, Kate; Oglesby, Elizabeth (World Politics Review, 2018)
A new attorney general took office in Guatemala last week amid sharp tensions over the role of a United Nations-backed anti-corruption commission that has helped bring high-profile charges against some of the country’s most powerful politicians. Maria Consuelo Porras, a former substitute judge for Guatemala’s Constitutional Court, will run the country’s Public Ministry and direct its criminal, human rights and anti-corruption investigations. The outgoing attorney general, Thelma Aldana, and her predecessor, Claudia Paz y Paz Bailey, showed impressive leadership and independence in investigating and prosecuting these sorts of cases. Now their enemies want those advances reversed. Across Central America, public [...]
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

The Kids on the Night Shift - Dreier, Hannah; Kohut, Meridith (The New York Times, 2023)
For Marcos Cux — and thousands of other migrant children — working dangerous jobs that violate child-labor laws is the only American dream there is.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-09 September; Accomack County (Va); Child Labor; Factory Farming; Guatemala; Illegal Immigration; Immigration and Emigration; Meatpacking Plants and Slaughterhouses; Perdue Farms Inc; Poultry; Tyson Foods Inc; Virginia; Workplace Hazards and Violations; internal-great-read; internal-sub-only

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

A hundred years of striving for equality at global bodies - Dubraz-Dobias, Paule (Geneva Solutions, 2023)
Since the establishment of international organisations, women have struggled to get the deserved recognition, pay and respect for their work as civil servants amid historical, cultural and political constraints. A Genevan historian tells us more.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-06 June

Obstacles to the access, use and transfer of information from archives: a RAMP study - UNESCO Digital Library - Duchein, Michel (Unesco, 1983)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

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

Oral History and Collective Memory: Documenting Refugee Voices and the Challenges of Archival Representation - Dudman, Paul (Atlanti, 2019)

Stories and names: Archival description as narrating records and constructing meanings - Duff, Wendy M.; Harris, Verne (Archival Science, 2002)
The authors of this essay, coming from very different traditions and modes of archival discourse, explore together archival description as a field of archival thinking and practice. Their shared conviction is that records are always in the process of being made, and that the stories of their making are parts of bigger stories understandable only in the ever-changing broader contexts of society. The exploration begins with an interrogation of the traditional and ever-valid questions of the what and the why of archival description. Thereafter they offer a deconstruction of these questions and of the answers commonly proffered. In these sections of the essay their concern is with descriptive architecture, the analysis covering a number of specific architectures and including only oblique references to descriptive standardization. The concluding section attempts to draw out the implications of their analysis for endeavours - irrespective of the architectures being used - to define, and to justify, descriptive standards. Their call is not to dispense with standardization, but rather to create space for a liberatory approach which engages creatively the many dangers of standardization.
Other Publications

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

Online Harassment 2017 - Duggan, Maeve (Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech, 2017)
Roughly four-in-ten Americans have personally experienced online harassment, and 62% consider it a major problem.
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Pandemic treaty talks: Is there room for Indigenous knowledge? - Geneva Solutions - Dupraz-Dobias, Paula (Geneva Solutions, 2023)
Even as global temperatures rose at increasingly alarming rates, it took years before anyone began to listen to their message. Yet year after year, representatives of Indigenous communities attended global climate and biodiversity summits, striving to share their experience with climate change and their traditional knowledge as guardians of vast natural areas. Three years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, it could seem like a case of déjà-vu. In spite of being the most affected by the hea
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-06 June; Pandemic

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

Reflections on the Goal of Archival Appraisal in Democratic Societies - Eastwood, Terry (Archivaria, 2002)
Other Publications

Another Brick In The Great Kremlin Firewall: Mass Internet Outages Part Of 'Sovereign Internet' - Eckel, Mike (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 2024)
Broader and wider than previous outages, the disruptions in Russia's Internet were the latest indication that Russian digital regulators are moving forward to create a "sovereign Internet" to wall off Russia's cyberspace and to restrict the free flow of information.
Russian Federation
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Features; Russia

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

‘Illicit 6’ a threat to information sharing with foreign intelligence bodies - Edmond Campbell (Jamaica Gleaner, 2023)
The non-disclosure of the names of the six parliamentarians who are being investigated by the Integrity Commission (IC) for illicit enrichment could have a chilling effect on information sharing.
Jamaica
Keywords: 2023-09 September

Kenneth Myrie and the ‘missing file’ - Edmond Campbell (Jamaica Gleaner, 2023)
IT WAS a matter that felt like life or death. Kenneth Myrie’s health was declining rapidly and he wanted a copy of his medical records dating back to 2004 to determine what type of medical procedure was carried out on him at the Kingston Public.
Jamaica
Keywords: 2023-07 July

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

Iglesia española indemnizará económicamente a las víctimas de abusos - EFE (CNN Chile, 2023)
La Conferencia Episcopal Española trabaja en la elaboración de un plan de reparación integral a las víctimas de abusos que prevé indemnizaciones económicas, incluso si no hay sentencia judicial porque el abusador haya fallecido o porque el caso haya prescrito. El secretario general de la instancia dijo aún no se ha calculado un monto, e indicó que si existe un fallo de la justicia, este establecerá la cantidad a pagar.
Spain
Keywords: 2023-10 November

El juez archiva el caso Pegasus por la "absoluta" falta de cooperación jurídica de Israel - EFE-Madrid; EUROEFE EURACTIV (EuroEFE, 2023)
El juez de la Audiencia Nacional José Luis Calama ha archivado la investigación por el supuesto espionaje con el programa informático Pegasus del móvil del presidente del Gobierno español, Pedro Sánchez, detectado hasta en cinco ocasiones, así como el de tres ministros ante la «absoluta» falta de cooperación jurídica de Israel.
Spain
Keywords: 2023-07 July

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.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Colombia: un libro incómodo para el poder y un veto a última hora - El Hilo
La periodista Laura Ardila investigó durante años a uno de los clanes políticos más poderosos de Colombia. Pero cuando su libro La costa nostra estaba listo para ser impreso, Editorial Planeta decidió cancelar su publicación. ¿La razón? Que el texto en el que llevaban trabajando dos años implicaba riesgos legales que no estaban dispuestos a asumir. Varios periodistas y autores, incluso de la misma editorial, han criticado ese argumento, y Laura acusa censura previa. En este episodio hablamos con ella sobre su investigación y por qué cree que esta situación tiene que ver con cómo funciona el poder en Colombia. También repasamos cómo se ha desarrollado el caso con la periodista
Colombia
Keywords: 2023-06 June

Sentenciados a vivir sin patria: 10 años sin derechos en República Dominicana - El Hilo (2023)
Hace 10 años, la sentencia 168/13 le quitó la nacionalidad a cientos de miles de personas de ascendencia haitiana en República Dominicana. Hoy, la mayoría sigue en un limbo legal, sin posibilidades de regularizar su situación y en un clima de creciente persecución. Para entender este complejo escenario, conversamos con la corresponsal de Telesur Deisy Toussaint. Ella perdió su nacionalidad durante años por políticas anti-haitianas que preceden a la sentencia. Luego, la periodista Hogla Enecia nos explica la situación actual de los dominicanos descendientes de haitianos una década después de perder su nacionalidad.
Dominican Republic
Keywords: 2023-09 September

El golpe militar de Uruguay, en imágenes - El País (El País, 2023)
La noche del 26 de junio de 1973, Aurelio González fue el único fotógrafo testigo de la última sesión del Senado uruguayo antes del golpe de Estado. Pasó la madrugada en vela y a la mañana siguiente captó con su cámara la llegada de los tanques al centro de Montevideo. Esta fotogalería recoge algunas de las imágenes que captó del golpe militar y de las protestas en los meses siguientes.
Uruguay
Keywords: 2023-06 June; Doubts with headig

Transition politique, histoire et mémoire : réflexions sur l’experience de la commission marocaine pour la vérité - El Yazami, Driss (Gazette des archives, 2007)
L’Instance Equité et Réconciliation (IER) a relayé et amplifié un travail de mémoire qui avait été engagé par la société marocaine depuis des années. L’auteur, ancien membre de l’IER, présente les nombreuses questions auxquelles s’est trouvée confrontée cette instance, chargée à la fois d’établir la vérité sur les violations des droits de l’Homme intervenues au Maroc pendant près d’un demi-siècle, d’en expliquer le contexte et d’en préserver la mémoire : question des témoignages oraux, de leur confrontation à d’autres sources, de la préservation des archives publiques et privées et surtout des relations entre mémoire et histoire. Les membres de l’IER ont refusé de donner une version définitive de l’histoire du Maroc indépendant et ont préconisé la mise en oeuvre d’une véritable politique publique de développement des archives, et de soutien à la recherche scientifique et à l’enseignement de l’histoire du temps présent. L’auteur plaide pour la poursuite du travail pédagogique et civique engagé par l’IER, afin de donner au grand public une conscience historique du passé, et de fonder leur sentiment de citoyenneté.
Other Publications

Arquivo, verdade e o proceso de transição democrática no Brasil: o legado da Comissão Nacional da Verdade para a ampliaçãoo da discusão epistemológica arquivística - Elias, Aluf Alba V. (Universidade de Brasília, 2017)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Parliament to vote on groundbreaking EU 'compensation right' against pollution - Elissaiou, Annita (www.euractiv.com, 2023)
Environment and health groups are pushing for more robust measures to protect EU citizens’ fundamental right to health and clean air, in a joint letter sent to MEPs on Thursday.
Europe
Keywords: 2023-07 July

'First of its kind': Scottish museum to return 'stolen' totem to native home - Elliards, Xander (The National, 2023)
A CEREMONY has been held to prepare a “stolen” 37ft memorial totem pole for its return to Canada from Scotland in what is said to be the first transfer of its kind from a UK institution.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-08 August; Indigenous Matters; National Museums Scotland; Nisga'a Nation; Nisga’a Lisims Government; Scotland; United Kingdom

Cambodia: Problematic laws and restrictions on information are threatening digital rights - EngageMedia (Global Voices, 2023)
As internet use and digital technologies flourished in Cambodia, more people are relying on social media to access news and information and to exercise their rights to free expression.
Cambodia
Keywords: 2023-08 August

Exclusive: The UK Has Just Unearthed New 'Top Secret' Colonial-Era Government Files - Engelhart, Katie (Vice, 2015)
The files, some labeled "Top Secret," could shed more light on abuses committed in British colonies during the heyday of the Empire, that successive governments have long kept hidden.
Keywords: Britain; British Empire; Colonialism; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; History; Migrated Archives; National Archives; References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights; Special Collections; VICE News; War and Conflict

Die herbeigeschriebene "Legitimationskrise" Anatomie einer Kampagne gegen die Stasi-Unterlagen-Behörde - Engelmann, Roger (Deutschland Archiv, 2007)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Das MfS-Lexikon: Begriffe, Personen und Strukturen der Staatssicherheit der DDR - Engelmann, Roger; Florath, Bernd; Heidemeyer, Helge; Münkel, Daniela; Polzin, Arno; Süß, Walter (Ch. Links Verlag, 2011)
Zum Ministerium für Staatssicherheit gibt es zahlreiche Einzeluntersuchungen und einige Überblicksdarstellungen. Doch bisher fehlte ein kompaktes Nachschlagewerk, in dem man knapp und präzise alle wichtigen Informationen zum Thema findet. Das vorliegende Lexikon behandelt sowohl die entscheidenden Schlüsselbegriffe als auch die wichtigsten Akteure und die Organisationsstruktur. Dabei wird zugleich das politische Umfeld thematisiert, werden die Auftraggeber und Kooperationspartner genannt. Das Lexikon wurde bewusst für ein breites Publikum entwickelt. Es erschließt den Gegenstand in allgemeinverständlicher Weise und ist mit zahlreichen Querverweisen versehen. Die einzelnen Beiträge sind von Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern der Stasi-Unterlagen-Behörde und anderen Fachleuten verfasst worden.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Volkserhebung gegen den SED-Staat: eine Bestandsaufnahme zum 17. Juni 1953 - Engelmann, Roger; Kowalczuk, Ilko-Sascha (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005)
Der Aufstand vom 17. Juni 1953 ist eines der Schlüsselereignisse in der deutsch-deutschen Geschichte. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes berichten über den Verlauf des Aufstands und stellen die Bezüge zum kommunistischen Machtbereich her. Die Vorgänge im Repressionsapparat, die Gefangenenbefreiungen am 17. Juni, die Entwicklung der Strafpraxis sowie der Ausbau des repressiven Instrumentariums nach der Erhebung bilden einen weiteren Schwerpunkt des Bandes. Abschließende Beiträge betrachten das 'doppelte' Juni-Trauma der Machthaber und der Opposition, die intellektuelle Bewältigung des Geschehens, die Stellung des 17. Juni im nationalen Gedächtnis der alten Bundesrepublik und das Verhältnis von Juni-Aufstand und friedlicher Revolution 1989.
Keywords: History / General; References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Conference Call for Proposals - Colonisation allemande et traitement mémoriel : entre regards croisés, approches récentes et perspectives interdisciplinaires (Lomé, Togo) - Équipe de recherche Fabula (fabula.org, 2023)
En ce XXIe siècle, l'héritage colonial allemand est encore très présent dans l'imaginaire collectif de populations anciennement colonisées principalement. Il est visible à la fois dans la littérature coloniale, les musées, les monuments (y compris les monuments d'honneur ou les mémoriaux) et la photographie coloniale. Ce constat oblige à se pencher sur la question coloniale et d'en souligner la pérennité à travers d'éventuels discours et récits cachés ou occultés dans les représentations et les expositions sur le colonialisme. Il s'inscrit également dans un contexte de résurgence de la mémoire coloniale en Allemagne depuis 2004 qui font intervenir différentes disciplines avec des éléments et des approches plus récents de la question.
Togo
Keywords: 2023-08 August; German Colonialism

Archives in the Ancient World - Ernst, Posner (Harvard University Press, 1972)
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Red-DESC - ESCR-NET (Red-DESC)
La Red Internacional para los Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales conecta a más de 280 ONG, movimientos sociales y activistas de 75 países para construir un movimiento global que haga de los derechos humanos y la justicia social una realidad para todos.
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Transitional Justice after German Reunification: Exposing Unofficial Collaborators - Espindola, Juan (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
How do societies transitioning from oppressive to democratic rule hold accountable those citizens who contributed to maintaining injustice in the ancient regime by secretly denouncing fellow citizens? Is their public identification a way of fulfilling respect for those who suffered harm as a result of their collaboration? And is public identification respectful of denunciators themselves? This book pursues these questions through a multidisciplinary investigation focusing on the denunciators for the East German secret police and the Ministry of State Security and the way in which they have been publicly unveiled in contemporary German society. The book evaluates the justifications that social actors offer to support or oppose public identifications; how targeted collaborators react to this social practice; and whether it achieves its intended purpose. At every stage, the book asks whether the motivations and the consequences of public identifications honor or undermine the value of respect for people.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Sri Lanka: The fate of a protest that toppled a president - Ethirajan, Anbarasan (BBC News, 2023)
One year after Sri Lanka's extraordinary people's protest, what has changed in the country?
Sri Lanka
Keywords: 2023-07 July

Norway to fine Meta nearly $100,000 a day over data use - EURACTIV (www.euractiv.com, 2023)
Norway's data protection agency said on Tuesday (8 August) it would start fining Facebook and Instagram owner Meta nearly $100,000 per day for defying a ban on using users' personal information to target ads.
Norway
Keywords: 2023-08 August

Centre to prosecute alleged war crimes in Ukraine opens in The Hague - Euro News (euronews, 2023)
After months of lobbying from Kyiv, the International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (ICPA) has opened in The Hague, Netherlands. #EuropeNews
Ukraine
Keywords: 2023-07 July; The Natherlands

The Sámi people’s struggles to preserve their tradition - Euro News (euronews, 2023)
Europe's only indigenous people are demanding their rights in Brussels, which are threatened by the ecological transition and the lack of EU policies.
Europe
Keywords: 2023-09 September

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

Dutch Royal Prince Bernhard's Nazi membership revealed - Euronews (euronews, 2023)
The Dutch Royal household has confirmed that Prince Bernhard - prince consort for decades after World War II and husband of former Queen Juliana - was a member of the Nazi party.
Netherlands
Keywords: 2023-10 October

Les Pays-Bas accusés d'avoir espionné les Juifs après la Seconde Guerre mondiale - euronews (euronews, 2023)
Les services secrets auraient surveillé les membres du Comité néerlandais d'Auschwitz et infiltré ses réunions.
Netherlands
Keywords: 2023-12 December

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

Trial of ex-Rwandan officials involved in 1994 genocide kicks off - Euronews (euronews, 2023)
This is the sixth trial in Belgium's capital linked to the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda that killed hundreds of thousands of people.
Rwanda
Keywords: 2023-10 October; Rwanda

Trump stored and refused to return documents, felony indictment says - Euronews; Associated Press (euronews, 2023)
Donald Trump improperly stored in his Florida estate sensitive documents on nuclear capabilities, repeatedly enlisted aides and lawyers to help him hide records demanded by investigators and cavalierly showed off a Pentagon “plan of attack” and classified map, according to a felony indictment.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-06 June

Película sobre el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos - European Court of Human Rights (European Court of Human Rights, 2023)
Dirigido a una amplia audiencia, este vídeo explica el funcionamiento del Tribunal, recuerda los desafíos a los que se enfrenta y demuestra el alcance de su actividad a través de ejemplos jurisprudenciales.
Europe
Keywords: 2023-10 November

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

Archives of the People, by the People, for the People - Evans, Max (The American Archivist, 2007)
Archivists today are caught between an expanding volume of records and a growing public expectation that every page in every document is online and indexed. With so many records and so few resources to provide on-demand access to them, the problem seems intractable. More money alone is not the answer; larger appropriations or donations cannot solve this problem. Instead, archivists must fundamentally shift the way they think about their roles and develop alternative means and methods for doing archival work.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Toward an Abolitionist Archival Practice - Eve Glazier (Barnard Center for Research on Women, 2023)
In the space of the archival encounter is a chance to practice a radically different way of relating with the past and the people who made it.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-08 August

DIFC issues first-of-its-kind adequacy decision regarding the California Consumer Privacy Act - Fahaam, Tariq Al (Zamya, 2023)
The decision facilitates personal data transfers between DIFC and California-based entities in accordance with the DP Law 2020
United Arab Emirates
Keywords: 2023-08 August

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

Las redes del terror: Las policías secretas comunistas y su legado - Faraldo, Jose Maria (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2018)
El libro LAS REDES DEL TERROR de JOSE MARIA FARALDO en Casa del Libro: ¡descubre las mejores ofertas y envíos gratis!
ISBN: 9788417088989
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

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

'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

Does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Implicitly Guarantee a Right to Habeas Corpus? - Farrell, Brian (Human Rights Brief, 2008)
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Olympe De Gouges - Faucheux, Michel (GALLIMARD, 2017)
"Femme, réveille-toi !". Comment faire entendre sa voix en ce XVIIIe siècle qui grouille de paroles alors que grandit le silence divin ? Quel langage trouver pour avoir le sentiment d'être soi ? Comment exister à ce moment où la politique devient un théâtre de l'idéal mais aussi de la cruauté ? Comment, en somme, faire en sorte que "si la femme a le droit de monter sur l'échafaud", elle puisse aussi avoir le droit de "monter à la tribune" ? Voici quelques-unes des questions auxquelles tente de répondre cette biographie de Marie Gouze, dite Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793), auteur d'une oeuvre essentielle comprenant pièces de théâtre et écrits politiques, dont la célèbre Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Modern slavery: Pakistan’s latest climate change curse - Fazli, Shehryar (Al Jazeera, 2023)
Opinion: As Pakistan finds itself in another unpredictable monsoon season, vulnerable farming communities face a resurgence of indentured servitude and other forms of modern slavery.
Pakistan
Keywords: 2023-09 September; Climate Change

À Gaza les défenseur⋅es des droits humains sont en danger de mort - Fédération internationale pour les droits humains (Fédération internationale pour les droits humains, 2023)
Le personnel des organisations internationales est presque totalement inopérant: les violations des droits humains perpétrés actuellement ne peuvent pas être documentées, ce qui renforce le cycle de l’impunité pour les crimes internationaux.
Palestine (permanent observer to the UN)
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Toward a History of the Term “Anti-Semitism” - Feldman, David (The American Historical Review, 2018)
This essay traces the changing meanings of the term “anti-Semitism” from the late nineteenth century to the present. Focusing on Britain, it demonstrates that anti-Semitism, like any other concept, has a history—but in this case, one that remains largely uncharted. The essay draws a contrast between early usages of the term that regarded anti-Semitism as a specifically modern phenomenon and later meanings that have conceived anti-Semitism as a continuous and deep-seated malaise. Changes in the history of the concept of anti-Semitism were closely bound up with the history of minority rights and with the changing relationship of Jews to states. The foundation of the State of Israel in 1948 was a revolution in the relationship of Jews to state power that also led to radical changes in the meanings of anti-Semitism. Acknowledging the sedimented layers of meaning that lie within the concept of anti-Semitism will help us understand why the term has become so contentious in the present.
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Even in a democracy like Canada, journalists often face efforts to keep information from the public - Fenlon, Brodie (CBC News, 2023)
Media spend time and money fighting lack of access, publication bans, secret trials.
Canada
Keywords: 2023-08 August; Democracy

Archives and Transitional Justice in Chile: A Crucial Relationship - Ferrara, Anita (Human Rights Review, 2021)
Other Publications

Open Memory: Using inter-institutional cooperation to facilitate access to human rights. - Ferrari, Damian (New Tactics Project of the Center for Victims and Torture., 2005)
Other Publications

Privacy: Algorithms and Society - Filimowicz, Michael (Routledge, 2023)
Privacy: Algorithms and Society focuses on encryption technologies and privacy debates in journalistic crypto-cultures, countersurveillance technologies, digital advertising, and cellular location data. Important questions are raised such as: How much information will we be allowed to keep private through the use of encryption on our computational devices? What rights do we have to secure and personalized channels of communication, and how should those be balanced by the state’s interests in maintaining order and degrading the capacity of criminals and rival state actors to organize through data channels?
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-09 September

Māori most at risk of declining civil and political human rights - Finlay Dunseath, Stuff (Māori Television, 2023)
The Human Rights Commission's Claire Charters (pictured in 2021) said the data painted a dire picture of the upholding of Māori civil rights.
New Zealand
Keywords: 2023-06 June

Liberty, equality … embroidery: the political power of textile art - Fisher, Alice (The Observer, 2023)
A series of exhibitions this summer and autumn highlight the protest woven into stitchwork
United Kingdom
Keywords: 2023-07 July; Art; Art and design; Craft; Culture; Sewing; UK news

The populist rewriting of Polish history is a warning to us all - Flieger, Estera (The Guardian, 2019)
Thirty years after communism ended, Poland’s past is again being manipulated for political motives, says Polish journalist Estera Flieger
Keywords: Europe; European Union; Poland; References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights; Second world war; World news

Gestión de los servicios de computación en la nube en el sistema de las Naciones Unidas - Flores Callejas, Jorge; Dumitriu (Naciones Unidas, 2019)
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Gangsters are the villains in 'Killers of the Flower Moon,' but the biggest thief of Native American wealth was the US government - Fodder, Torivio (The Conversation, 2023)
The Osage murders of the 1920s are just one episode in nearly two centuries of stealing land and resources from Native Americans. Much of this theft was guided and sanctioned by federal law.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-10 October

Research on Roma health and access to healthcare: state of the art and future challenges - Földes, Maria Eva; Covaci, Alina (International Journal of Public Health, 2012)
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

To Remember and Forget: Archives, Memory, and Culture - Foote, Kenneth E. (The American Archivist, 1990)
The idea of archives as collective memory is sometimes employed as a metaphor for discussing the social and cultural role of archives. It is argued here that the idea is more than a metaphor and is supported by theories that would view collections of documents and material artifacts as means of extending the temporal and spatial range of communication. Archives, along with other communicational resources such as oral and ritual tradition, help to transfer information–and thereby sustain memory–from generation to generation. Two examples illustrate the interrelationship of archives and memory within this broadened view of communication and culture. The first arises from attempts to find ways to warn future generations of the location of radioactive waste repositories. The second revolves around pressure to efface from cultural landscapes evidence of tragic events that people wish to forget.
Publisher: Society of American Archivists
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

The Admissibility of Business Records as Legal Evidence: A Review of the Business Records Exception to the Hearsay Rule in Canada - Force, Donald C. (Archivaria, 2014)
Records professionals play an important role in increasing the likelihood that business records will be admitted as evidence. This article discusses the business records exception to the hearsay rule and the ways in which business records may be tendered as evidence in Canada. By reviewing Canadian case law, the author examines several criteria that could contribute to a judge’s decision to admit a business record as evidence and identifies ways that records professionals can help their organization satisfy each of the criteria. It is argued that the act of sound and structured recordkeeping helps an organization increase the likelihood that its business records will be admitted as evidence. RÉSUMÉ Les spécialistes en gestion de l’information jouent un rôle important afin d’augmenter la probabilité que les documents d’archives des entreprises soient admis comme preuves. Cet article discute du cas des documents d’archives des entreprises comme exception à la règle et il examine les façons dont ils peuvent être mis en adjudication au Canada. En faisant l’étude de la jurisprudence canadienne, l’auteur examine plusieurs critères qui pourraient contribuer à la décision d’un juge d’admettre comme preuve un document d’archives d’entreprise et il identifie les façons dont les spécialistes en gestion de l’information peuvent venir en aide à leur organisation en satisfaisant à chacun de ces critères. L’auteur affirme qu’une gestion des documents solide et structurée permet à une institution d’augmenter la probabilité que ses documents d’archives d’entreprise soient admis comme preuve.
Other Publications
Keywords: A&DwP website

'We must remember our past so that we do not repeat it' - Forde, Helen (Journal of the Society of Archivists, 2004)
The theme of the 2003 CITRA conference concentrated on archives and human rights and the problems associated with the status, use and collection of such archives. It provided a global view of large-scale denial of human rights, and gave insight into different views and perceptions. In the UK the issue is less the mass denial of human rights, more the recurrent denial to individuals. How does the UK measure up in terms of trying to prevent the abuse of such rights? Will the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act make a difference? Raising awareness is a first step, but more action is needed in order to avoid any repetition of past failures.
Other Publications

Post‐totalitarian national identity: public memory in Germany and Russia - Forest, Benjamin; Johnson, Juliet; Till, Karen (Social & Cultural Geography, 2004)
Through a comparative analysis of Germany and Russia, this paper explores how participation in the memorialization process affects and reflects national identity formation in post‐totalitarian societies. These post‐totalitarian societies face the common problem of re‐presenting their national character as civic and democratic, in great part because their national identities were closely bound to oppressive regimes. Through a comparison of three memorial sites—Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial in Germany, and Lubianka Square and the Park of Arts in Russia—we argue that even where dramatic reductions in state power and the opening of civil society have occurred, a simple elite–public dichotomy cannot adequately capture the nature of participation in the process of memory re‐formation. Rather, mutual interactions among multiple publics and elites, differing in kind and intensity across contexts, combine to form a complex pastiche of public memory that both interprets a nation's past and suggests desirable models for its future. The domination of a ‘Western’ style of memorialization in former East Germany illustrates how even relatively open debates can lead to the exclusion of certain representations of the nation. Nonetheless, Germany has had comparatively vigorous public debates about memorializing its totalitarian periods. In contrast, Russian elite groups have typically circumvented or manipulated participation in the memorialization process, reflecting both a reluctance to deal with Russia's totalitarian past and a emerging national identity less civic and democratic than in Germany.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/1464936042000252778
Keywords: Germany; References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights; Russia; monuments and memorials; politics of memory; public memory

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

Inuit leader warns of Labrador group's 'illegitimate claims' to Inuit identity - Forester, Brett (CBC News, 2023)
The head of the national organization for Inuit in Canada is warning the public about what he calls “illegitimate claims to Inuit rights” being advanced by a self-identified Indigenous group in south and central Labrador.
Canada
Keywords: 2023-10 November

National archives to digitize, transfer 6 million pages of Indian day school records, official says | CBC News - Forester, Brett (CBC News, 2023)
Canada's national archives is working to identify, digitize and transfer six million pages of federal Indian day school records to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR), the department head says.
Canada
Keywords: 2023-08 August; Digitization; Library and Archives Canada; National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR); Reconciliation; Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Canada

Le Canada a tenté d’affaiblir la déclaration de l’ONU sur les droits des Autochtones - Forester, Brett; Radio-Canada - Espaces autochtones (Radio-Canada, 2024)
Le Canada a dirigé des manœuvres pour réduire la portée de la Déclaration des Nations unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones (DNUDPA). Ottawa a travaillé en secret avec l’Australie pour produire un texte alternatif édulcoré au début des années 2000, démontrent des documents du gouvernement australien.
Canada
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Le Canada a tenté d’affaiblir la déclaration de l’ONU sur les droits des Autochtones - Forester, Brett; Radio-Canada - Espaces autochtones (Radio-Canada, 2024)
Le Canada a dirigé des manœuvres pour réduire la portée de la Déclaration des Nations unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones (DNUDPA). Ottawa a travaillé en secret avec l’Australie pour produire un texte alternatif édulcoré au début des années 2000, démontrent des documents du gouvernement australien.
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

Here comes the ... child bride? Despite legal restrictions, underage marriage persists in rural Egypt - Al-Monitor: Independent, trusted coverage of the Middle East - Fouad, Ahmed (Al-monitor.com, 2015)
Underage marriages are still widespread in some parts of Egypt as the judicial system has failed to prevent marriage officiants from taking bribes to perform illegal unions.
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Microfísica do poder - Foucault, Michel (Paz & Terra, 2021)
"Composta por textos escritos na década de 1970, Microfísica do poder foi elaborado por Foucault na perspectiva de construir resistências específicas aos variados dispositivos do poder. Microfísica do poder é uma coletânea de artigos, cursos, entrevistas e debates, em que Foucault analisa questões relacionadas à medicina, à psiquiatria, à geografia, à economia, mas também ao hospital, à prisão, à justiça, ao Estado, ao papel do intelectual, à sexualidade etc. Esses textos têm como tema central o poder nas sociedades modernas: sua configuração, sua difusão no corpo social, seu exercício em instituições, sua relação com a produção da verdade, as resistências que suscita. Além disso, eles explicam o método genealógico elaborado por Foucault para analisar como e por que os saberes se constituem a partir de práticas políticas e econômicas.Há três novidades principais nos textos desta coletânea: primeiro, rejeitar a identificação entre poder e aparelho de Estado, dando importância à rede de poderes moleculares que se expande por toda a sociedade; segundo, caracterizar o poder não apenas como repressivo, mas também como disciplinar, normalizador; terceiro, analisar o saber como peça de um dispositivo político que o produz e é intensificado por ele.Ao escrever esses textos, acreditando na eficácia das resistências específicas aos variados dispositivos do poder, Foucault desejou se insurgir contra a dominação burguesa que os próprios saberes sobre o homem ajudaram a criar e aperfeiçoar. Não será essa uma das razões do sucesso deste livro?Um compilado de analises gerais do grande filósofo Michel Foucault, Microfísica do poder reúne a partir de diversas peças cientificas análises e contextos essenciais para entender as dinâmicas de poder na sociedade e todas as suas nuances.“Onde há poder, ele se exerce. Ninguém é, propriamente falando, seu titular; e, no entanto, ele sempre se exerce em determinada direção, com uns de um lado e outros do outro; não se sabe ao certo quem o detém; mas se sabe quem não o possui.” - Michel Foucault "
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Mary Robinson: ‘everyone has core human rights’ - Foulkes, Imogen (SWI swissinfo.ch, 2023)
In 1997, Robinson’s friends warned her – in vain – not to take the job of UN Human Rights Commissioner. She talks about the challenges of the role.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-10 November

Mary Robinson: «Tout le monde possède des droits fondamentaux» - Foulkes, Imogen (SWI swissinfo.ch, 2023)
Mary Robinson fut la première femme présidente d’Irlande avant d’occuper ce que certains appellent le plus dur job à l’ONU: cheffe des droits humains. Portrait.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-10 November

Michelle Bachelet: «La Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme reste d’actualité» - Foulkes, Imogen (SWI swissinfo.ch, 2023)
Ancienne cheffe des droits humains de l'ONU, Michelle Bachelet a fait face à de nombreux défis, du Covid à l’invasion de l’Ukraine. Portrait.
Worldwide
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

How Edie Windsor helped LGBTQ+ Americans gain civil rights – The Forward - Fox, Peter (Forward, 2023)
Remembering Edie Windsor, who paved the way for out and proud Americans like me.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-06 June

“Pensé que nos llevaban para matarnos”: los niños que fueron separados de su familia injustamente como resultado del trabajo de una ONG estadounidense - Francavilla, Chiara; Afreh-Nuamah, Kwakye; Boateng, Kyenkyenhene (BBC News Mundo, 2023)
El trabajo de la ONG International Justice Mission en Ghana fue puesto en cuestión por una investigación de BBC Africa Eye que reveló irregularidades en la forma en la que separan a algunos niños de sus familias.
Ghana
Keywords: 2023-07 July

Abus sexuels dans l'Église : 200 000 victimes en Espagne, selon une commission indépendante - France 24 (France 24, 2023)
Une commission indépendante espagnole a révélé que plus de 200 000 personnes auraient été victimes d'agressions sexuelles de la part de religieux alors qu'elles étaient mineures.
Spain
Keywords: 2023-10 October

"Comme si on me poignardait" : au Groenland, des victimes de contraception forcée réclament justice - France 24 (France 24, 2023)
À partir de la fin des années 1960, le Danemark a fait poser un stérilet à de nombreuses Groenlandaises, souvent de jeunes adolescentes, à leur insu et sans leur consentement. Après être longtemps restées silencieuses, les victimes réclament aujourd'hui des réparations.
Denmark
Keywords: 2023-10 November

De 1947 à 2023, un conflit israélo-palestinien complexe et dans l’impasse - France 24 (France 24, 2023)
Le conflit israélo-palestinien a été de nouveau ravivé après l’offensive surprise lancée par le Hamas contre Israël. En représailles, l’État hébreu a ordonné un "siège complet" de la bande de Gaza contrôlée par le mouvement islamiste palestinien.
Israel
Keywords: 2023-10 October

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

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