How Tunisia is finally embracing its Berber culture - Putinja, Isabel (The Independent, 2018)
The revival of Tunisia's traditional heritage is creating new opportunities for cultural tourism, says Isabel Putinja
Section: Travel
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Justiça de Transição. Contornos do Conceito - Quinalha, Renan Honório (Outras Expressões, 2013)
"Um dos aspectos mais interessantes de sua elaboração é chamar a atenção para um ponto aparentemente óbvio, porém pouco problematizado: qual é, afinal, o vínculo entre o conceito de ´justiça de transição´ e aquilo que, anos atrás, a ciência política acadêmica chamou de ´transição´, isto é, os processos de passagem de regimes autoritários para regimes democráticos, ocorridos mais ou menos a partir de meados dos anos 1970 em diversas partes do mundo, inclusive na América Latina e no Brasil?" (Cícero Araújo, Professor Titular de Ciência Política da USP)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

ARCHIVAL POLICIES IN THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS - Quintana, Antonio González (International Council on Archives, 2009)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Archives of the security services of former repressive regimes - Quintana, Antonio González (Unesco, 1997)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Archives of the security services of former repressive regimes - UNESCO Digital Library - Quintana, Antonio González (Unesco, 1997)
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

La política archivística del Gobierno español y la ausencia de gestión del pasado desde el comienzo de la transición - Quintana, Antonio González (Hispania nova, Revista de Historia Contemporánea, 2007)
Most of political parties represented at the Spanish Parliament agreed, after Franco’s death, not to face the recent past. From the beginning of the Spanish political transition has existed neither a policy of memory nor a real archival policy regarding that subject. The management of the records produced by D.N.S.D. (National Delegation of Documentary Services, the information agency of Franco regime in Salamanca), was only focused on improving historical researches. The archives of military courts, used for massive civilian repression in ther forties, thirty years after continue being the biggest gap in Spanish archival legislation. No measures have been adopted to provide accountability about Human Rights violations or to facilitate the spreading of compensations for victims of repression.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Los archivos de la seguridad del Estado de los desaparecidos regímenes - Quintana, Antonio González (foroporlamemoria.info, 1999)
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

POLÍTICAS ARCHIVÍSTICAS PARA LA DEFENSA DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS - Quintana, Antonio González (Consejo Internacional de Archivos, 2008)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights; References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

POLITIQUES ARCHIVISTIQUES POUR LA DÉFENSE DES DROITS DE L’HOMME - Quintana, Antonio González (Conseil International des Archives, 2009)
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Viejos y nuevos retos para los archivos en la defensa de los derechos humanos - Quintana, Antonio González (Comma, 2021)
La relación entre archivos y derechos humanos ha sido intensa desde que se elaborara la Declaración de Derechos del Hombre y del Ciudadano, en 1789. La creación del Registro Civil o de los registros de propiedad junto con otros archivos públicos respondían al reto de hacer posible el ejercicio de aquellos derechos. A ese reto inicial han seguido otros como el de la lucha contra la impunidad de los crímenes contra los derechos humanos, auspiciada por Naciones Unidas. Fue la ocupación de los archivos de la Stasi, en 1990, durante las jornadas de movilización social que precedieron al fin de la República Democrática Alemana, el acontecimiento que marcó una nueva época para los archivos. De ser poderosos instrumentos del poder en los países totalitarios, los archivos de los organismos represivos pasaron a convertirse, en la transición democrática, en herramientas esenciales para la reparación de esas violaciones. Los archiveros, desde el Consejo Internacional de Archivos, se plantearon en 1993 el reto de conservar y proteger el gigantesco legado documental que testimonia la actuación de las policías políticas de estos estados y hacerlo accesible en favor de las políticas de “Justicia Transicional”. Desde entonces, los derechos humanos se han incorporado a la agenda de los archiveros de modo irreversible. Esa agenda incorpora ahora el uso de los archivos para afrontar nuevos retos en defensa de los derechos humanos, como el de luchar contra su violación en el mundo de los negocios o el de garantizar su uso en el entorno electrónico.
Keywords: Comma 2020 1-2; Archives and Human Rights; August 2021

Los archivos en los Principios Ruggie y otros instrumentos internacionales contra las violaciones de derechos humanos en el mundo de los negocios - Quintana, Antonio González; Palacios, Blanca Bazaco; Serrano, Fernanda Vega; Hernández, Lizbeth Barrientos (Informatio. Revista del Instituto de Información de la Facultad de Información y Comunicación, 2018)
Resumen La impunidad de las violaciones de derechos humanos cometidas en el marco de la actividad empresarial ha sido motivo de preocupación para numerosos organismos internacionales en los últimos decenios. Desde las recomendaciones de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos, organismo pionero en esta preocupación, han sido numerosos los instrumentos internacionales que se han elaborado sobre el tema. Pero son los Principios rectores sobre las empresas y los derechos humanos de las Naciones Unidas, aprobados en 2011 a partir del texto elaborado por el relator John Ruggie, el documento de mayor alcance en cuanto a la necesidad de proteger los derechos humanos también en la actividad productora, comercial o financiera. Los veinticinco principios de este texto se dividen en tres bloques, que corresponden a los tres pilares definidos por John Ruggie como marco conceptual de este documento y que son proteger, respetar y reparar. A pesar de que en ningún momento estos principios o los planes nacionales aprobados para su aplicación mencionan los archivos o la gestión documental, un análisis pormenorizado de ellos nos lleva a ver que tanto la gestión documental como los archivos serán herramientas indispensables para que sean aplicables, al igual que ocurre con el resto de los instrumentos internacionales que analizamos en este artículo.
Number: 1
Keywords: Acceso a los archivos; Archivos; Archivos de empresas; Derechos humanos y negocios; Empresas trasnacionales; References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights; References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Acting Piapot chief, other Sask. Indigenous people react to CBC investigation into Buffy Sainte-Marie - Quon, Alexander (CBC News, 2023)
Indigenous idendity - Investigation by CBC revealed details that contradict the songwriter's claims to Indigenous ancestry but Acting chief of Piapot First Nation says "When it comes to Buffy specifically we can't pick and choose which part of our culture we decide to adhere to.… We do have one of our families in our community that did adopt her. Regardless of her ancestry, that adoption in our culture to us is legitimate."
Canada
Keywords: 2023-10 October; Cultural appropriation; Identity Usurpation; Indigenous Identity

Anger in Paris after police kill teen in traffic stop - Radford, Antoinette (BBC News, 2023)
Unrest follows the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old who apparently failed to obey traffic police.
France
Keywords: 2023-06 June

Un totem de la Nation Nisga’a s’apprête à quitter l’Écosse pour revenir en C.-B. - Radio-Canada (Radio-Canada, 2023)
Un totem commémoratif appartenant à la Nation Nisga’a s’apprête à commencer un voyage de rapatriement d’environ un mois de l’Écosse vers le nord-ouest de la Colombie-Britannique.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-08 August; Canada; Nisga'a Nation; Scotland; United Kingdom

Racisme envers les Autochtones : le New England Journal of Medicine fait son mea culpa - Radio-Canada - Espaces autochtones (Radio-Canada, 2024)
Le prestigieux New England Journal of Medicine publie une introspection sur des siècles de médecine injuste et raciste envers les Autochtones. La longue liste des préjugés évoqués permet de réaliser qu’ils sont bien ancrés dans les sociétés occidentales.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Germany Sees More Aggressive Russian Disinformation Campaigns Since Invasion Of Ukraine - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, 2023)
Germany
Keywords: 2023-09 September

International Criminal Court Opens Field Office in Kyiv To Track Russian War Crimes - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, 2023)
The International Criminal Court (ICC) had opened a field office in Kyiv as part of efforts to hold Russian forces accountable for potential war crimes committed during it's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine
Keywords: 2023-09 September

Russian Taxi Law Requiring Companies To Share Data With FSB Goes Into Effect - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, 2023)
A law requiring taxi companies to provide the Federal Security Service (FSB) with data on riders' trips has come into force.
Russian Federation
Keywords: 2023-09 September

War Crimes Trial Opens For Bosnian Serbs Accused Of Rapes, Torture At Prison Camps During 1992-95 War - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, 2023)
The Prosecutor-General’s Office in the indictment said it has statements from 180 witnesses, including three experts, and has submitted more than 900 pieces of evidence.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Keywords: 2023-09 September

Justifying Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations and Climate Change as a Counterexample - Raible, Lea (Blog of the European Journal of International Law: Talk!, 2023)
Extraterritorial human rights obligations are contentious. In the UK, for example, the ECtHR’s findings that armed forces deployed abroad have human rights obligations have met with criticism. Extraterritoriality is also routinely named as one of the most difficult aspects of the next generation of potentially groundbreaking human rights litigation: climate cases.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-07 July; Extraterritorial Application; Human Rights; International Law; Report

Shaping Archaeological Archives: Dialogues between Fieldwork, Museum Collections, and Private Archives - Raja, Rubina (Brepols, 2023)
Most of the book's case studies explore archaeological sites in the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. Some contributions showcase the depth of research on archaeological archives as a representation of past excavations and surveys and the colonial context.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-10 November

Kosovo Courts Try 111 War Suspects Since 1999 - Ramadani, Drenushe; Morina, Die (Balkan Insight, 2018)
From 1999 to 2018, Kosovo courts heard 48 war crimes cases with a total of 111 defendants standing trial, said a new report published by the Humanitarian Law Centre.
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Investigative Outlet Sets Key Test For Media Freedom In S.Africa | Barron's - Rambourd, Gerdense (Barron's, 2023)
The amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism draws its name from the Zulu word for dung beetle – a diligent species that fulfils a crucial role. The tiny South African non-profit specialises in delving into political corruption – "digging dung and fertilizing democracy," its editor-in-chief, Sam Sole, said with a chuckle in a recent interview with AFP.
South Africa
Keywords: 2023-06 June

La conspiración y persecución del Estado contra la familia Molina Theissen - Ramón, Simón Antonio (Prensa Comunitaria, 2018)
Por Simón Antonio Ramón Cinco militares del alto mando del ejército y la G-2 de 1981 enfrentan juicio oral y público por la detención clandestina y violación sexual contra Emma Guadalupe Molina Theissen y la desaparición forzada de su hermano Marco Antonio. Estos hechos ocurrieron del 27 de septiembre al 6 de octubre 1981, por ... <a title="La conspiración y persecución del Estado contra la familia Molina Theissen" class="read-more" href="https://prensacomunitaria.org/2018/05/la-conspiracion-y-persecucion-del-estado-contra-la-familia-molina-theissen/" aria-label="More on La conspiración y persecución del Estado contra la familia Molina Theissen">Read more
Section: Guatemala
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

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

An annual survey from the Census Bureau aims for better data on the LGBTQ+ population - Rascoe, Ayesha; Wang, Hansi Lo (NPR, 2023)
The Census Bureau wants to use an annual survey to ask people over the age of 15 about their sexual orientation and gender identity. This data could help enforce civil rights laws.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-09 September; Census; Civil Rights; Population Survey

Scientists lament Southern Ocean ‘data desert’, just as climate crisis brings frightening changes - Readfearn, Graham (The Guardian, 2023)
Loss of sea ice and rising temperatures in the ocean around Antarctica have a huge effect on the Earth’s climate, but the ability to track them is lagging
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-08 August; Antarctica; Climate crisis; Environment; Marine life; Oceans; Polar regions; Sea ice

Femicide in Brazil: Inter-American Condemnation - Reale, Nicolette (Harvard International Review, 2023)
"Due to the governments’ lack of urgency and failure to implement change, international legal institutions have been brought in to help condemn and combat femicide in Latin America."
Brazil
Keywords: 2023-07 July; Feminicide

Los sitios de la memoria: procesos sociales de la commemoración en el Perú - Reátegui, Félix; Instituto de Democracia y Derechos Humanos de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (IDEHPUCP); Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (IDEHPUCP, 2010)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Recognising community truth-telling: An exploration of local truth-telling in Australia - Reconciliation Australia; Deakin University’s Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (Reconciliation Australia, 2023)
The case studies in this report show the many ways community truth-telling initiatives in Australia are being realised and how these efforts contribute to reconciliation.
Australia
Keywords: 2023-09 September

Red de transparencia y acceso a la información - Red de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información (Red de transparencia y acceso a la información)
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Muere Daniel Ellsberg, "el hombre más peligroso de Estados Unidos" que filtró los Papeles del Pentágono - Redacción BBC News Mundo (BBC News Mundo, 2023)
Su filtración de documentos del Pentágono en 1971 reveló mentiras sobre la guerra de Vietnam y llevó a que se le considerara "el hombre más peligroso de EE.UU.".
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-06 June; Espionaje; Estados Unidos; Historia

Guatemala Nunca Mas - Redaccion, El Equipo de (Oficina de Derechos Humanos, 1998)
text in Spanish
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

The global compact on refugees: UNHCR Quick Guide - Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for (The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), 2018)
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Au Brésil, les peuples autochtones remportent une victoire pour leurs terres - Reporterre (Reporterre, le média de l'écologie, 2023)
Cette Cour suprême a rejeté le 21 septembre une proposition de loi qui visait à réduire la protection des terres ancestrales autochtones et à limiter la reconnaissance de nouvelles réserves.
Brazil
Keywords: 2023-09 September

Reporters sans frontières déplore le silence sur l’enlèvement de deux journalistes. - Reporters sans frontières (lemonde.fr, 2023)
Le directeur de Radio Coton Ansongo, Saleck Ag Jiddou, et un animateur de la même station, Moustapha Koné, ont été « enlevés » le 7 novembre par « un groupe armé non identifié ».
Mali
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Freedom Fighter Maria Ressa on How Disinformation Degrades Democracy (MSNBA, 2023)
Nobel Laureate and legendary Filipino-American investigative journalist Maria Ressa has been on the frontlines of the fight for democracy for decades. Ressa knows very well what happens when democracy is eroded and disinformation is rampant. And she knows how not to let it become routine and numbing. And just last week she was acquitted of a contrived tax evasion charge by a court in the Philippines. It's the latest victory, not just for Maria Ressa herself, but for her country's fight for press freedom.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-09 September; Philippines

European rights court says Hungary must feed asylum seekers on border - Reuters (Reuters, 2018)
Hungary must provide food to rejected asylum seekers held in detention camps on its border who are appealing the decision, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said on Thursday.
Keywords: Advocacy Groups; Asylum; Central; Children; Civil Liberties; Civil Rights; Court Cases; Court Decisions; Diplomacy; EUROPE; East European Countries; Eastern Europe; Emerging Market Countries; Ethnic Issues; Europe; European Union; FOOD; Foreign Policy; Fundamental Rights; Government; HUNGARY; Human Rights; Hungary; Immigration; Judicial Process; Lawmaking; Lobbies; MIGRANTS; Non-Governmental Organizations; Politics; Pressure Groups; Race Relations; References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights; Refugees; US; Western Europe; Youth Issues

Germany arrests military officer suspected of spying for Russia - Reuters (Reuters, 2023)
German prosecutors have arrested an officer of the military procurement agency on suspicion of passing secret information to Russian intelligence, the federal prosecutor's office said.
Germany
Keywords: 2023-08 August

Mexican security forces were complicit in kidnapping of 43 student teachers, report reveals - Reuters (The Guardian, 2023)
Report finds army, navy, police and intelligence agencies knew, minute by minute, where the student teachers were
Mexico
Keywords: 2023-07 July; Americas; Mexico; World news

Public Data Getting Harder to Find in Mexico, Civil Rights Group Says - Reuters (US News & World Report, 2023)
Public information in Mexico is becoming more difficult to access under President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI) said on Wednesday as it showed that scores of government databases are no longer updated.
Mexico
Keywords: 2023-08 August

Russia fines Google for not deleting 'fake information' about Ukraine conflict - Reuters (Ynetnews, 2023)
Russia on Thursday fined Alphabet's Google 3 million roubles ($31,845) for not deleting what it said was fake information about what Moscow calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine, the TASS news agency reported. A host of sites are under scrutiny in Russia for failing to remove content that Moscow deems illegal.
Russian Federation
Keywords: 2023-08 August

Guerreros y campesinos. El despojo de la tierra en Colombia - Reyes, Alejandro (Norma, 2008)
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Number: 2
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights; conflicto armado

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

Kazakh Senate Ratifies Deal With China To Exchange Citizens' Personal Data - RFE/RL's Kazakh Service (RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, 2023)
Amid concerns of rights watchdogs, the Kazakh Senate ratified on October 5 an agreement with China on the exchange of personal data of their citizens.
Kazakhstan
Keywords: 2023-10 October

Attaques chimiques en 2013 en Syrie: la justice française émet un mandat d'arrêt contre Bachar el-Assad - RFI (RFI, 2023)
La justice française a émis ce mardi un mandat d'arrêt international contre le président syrien Bachar el-Assad, accusé de complicité de crimes contre l'humanité pour les attaques chimiques perpétrées à l'été 2013 en Syrie.
Syrian Arab Republic
Keywords: 2023-10 November

Au Tchad, la «piscine» d'Hissène Habré finalement rasée? - RFI (RFI, 2024)
Le siège de la Direction de la documentation et de la sécurité (DDS), police politique du régime d'Hissène Habré, a été démoli et ses archives mises en danger. La plus célèbre prison politique risque de connaitre le même sort, s'alarment les victimes.
Chad
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Francia publica "Tintín en el Congo" con un prólogo sobre el contexto colonial - RFI (RFI, 2023)
Un prólogo que no convence a todos, a pesar de las justificaciones. "¡Han desracializado la cubierta!", afirma el historiador Pascal Blanchard.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Il y a 50 ans, l'indépendance de la Guinée-Bissau: des archives méconnues font revivre ce moment (2023)
Il y a cinquante ans, le mouvement indépendantiste bissau-guinéen, le PAIGC proclamait unilatéralement l'indépendance du pays. Des archives méconnues de la radio Liberté, surnommée à l’époque « la voix du PAIGC » permettent de revenir sur cet épisode.
Guinea-Bissau
Keywords: 2023-09 September

L'Église flamande éclaboussée par un scandale d'adoptions forcées - RFI (RFI, 2023)
En Belgique, de nouveaux témoignages de victimes relancent le scandale des adoptions forcées et éclaboussent une nouvelle fois l’Église catholique en Flandre. Près de 30 000 enfants auraient été retirés à leur mère par des religieux entre les années 1950 et 1980 et ils auraient parfois même été vendus à leur famille d’adoption.
Belgium
Keywords: 2023-12 December

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

«Tintin au Congo» ressort avec une préface qui remet le livre dans son contexte de l'époque - RFI (RFI, 2023)
Une préface pour l'ouvrage Tintin au Congo, cela avait déjà été évoqué par le passé, sans jamais se concrétiser. Une réédition de la bande dessinée Tintin au Congo avec - pour la première fois - une préface qui remet le livre dans son contexte de l'époque et qui vient partiellement montrer comment cette œuvre du dessinateur belge Hergé s'inscrit dans une ère du temps favorable à la colonisation.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Los fondos documentales del franquismo en los archivos militares - Rial Quintela, María del Carmen (La alargada sombra del franquismo naturaleza, mecanismos de pervivencia y huellas de la dictadura, 2019)
Section: La alargada sombra del franquismo: naturaleza, mecanismos de pervivencia y huellas de la dictadura
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

The Archive in the Witness: Documentation in Settings of Chronic Insecurity - Riaño-Alcalá, Pilar; Baines, Erin (International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2011)
Abstract1. Through an exchange between members of community-based organizations that document human rights violations in northwest Colombia and northern Uganda
Other Publications

Postcolonial Archives and the Question of Justice - Richards, Jill (The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 2019)

A Memória, a História, o Esquecimento - Ricoeur, Paul (Editora da Unicamp, 2018)
"Esta obra comporta três partes nitidamente delimitadas pelo tema e pelo método. A primeira, que enfoca a memória e os fenômenos mnemônicos, está sob a égide da fenomenologia, no sentido husserliano do termo. A segunda, dedicada à história, procede de uma epistemologia das ciências históricas. A terceira, que culmina numa meditação sobre o esquecimento, enquadra-se numa hermenêutica da condição histórica dos seres humanos que somos. Mas essas três partes não constituem três livros. Embora os três mastros sustentem velames entrelaçados, mas distintos, eles pertencem à mesma embarcação, destinada a uma só e única navegação. De fato, uma problemática comum corre através da fenomenologia da memória, da epistemologia da história e da hermenêutica da condição histórica: a da representação do passado. Perturba-me o inquietante espetáculo que apresentam o excesso de memória aqui, o excesso de esquecimento acolá, sem falar da influência das comemorações e dos erros de memória - e de esquecimento. A idéia de uma política da justa memória é, sob esse aspecto, um de meus temas cívicos confessos." - Paul Ricœur
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

From Polders to Postmodernism: A Concise History of Archival Theory - Ridener, John; Cook, Terry (Litwin Books, 2009)
From Polders to Postmodernism is a broad ranging history of the conception and development of the theories that have guided archivists in their work from the late 19th through the early 21st centuries. Narrated through the controversial thread of archival appraisal theory, the book examines how archivists have engaged with theory through the tension between keeping records that reflect objective history "as it happened" and subjective decision making in the archive. Through an interpretive reading of archival theory, distinct periods emerge, with each paradigm contributing unique responses to difficult archival, historical, and theoretical contexts.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

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

Justice and Reconciliation: After the Violence - Rigby, Andrew (Lynne Rienner Pub, 2001)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

The Voice: Australians vote No in historic referendum - Ritchie, Hannah (BBC News, 2023)
The country has overwhelmingly voted No to a proposal aimed at elevating First Nations voices.
Australia
Keywords: 2023-10 October

Invité du matin - Volker Türk (ONU): «L’intelligence artificielle a des potentialités énormes, mais l’espèce humain est en danger» - Rivière, Frédéric
Volker Türk, Haut-Commissaire de l’ONU aux droits de l’Homme est ce lundi 12 juin, Journée spéciale consacrée à l'Intelligence artificielle, l'invité du matin de RFI. Quel peut-être l'apport et l'impact de l'IA sur les êtres humains, les libertés fondamentales et les droits de l'Homme ? Volker Türk qui lance « un appel urgent aux gouvernement et aux entreprises pour qu'ils conçoivent sans tarder des garde-fous efficaces et indispensables », répond aux questions de Frédéric Rivière.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-06 June

Establishing Recognition of Past Injustices: Uses of Archival Records in Documenting the Experience of Japanese Canadians During the Second World War - Roberts-Moore, Judith (Archivaria, 2002)
Other Publications

China's concerning new strategy on human rights: unite the world behind a 'selective' approach - Roberts, Geoffrey (The Conversation, 2023)
China is seeking not merely to resist but to dismantle a foundational idea of the post-Cold War international order – the universality of human rights.
China
Keywords: 2023-09 September

Disinformation reimagined: how AI could erode democracy in the 2024 US elections - Robins-Early, Nick (The Guardian, 2023)
Advances in generative artificial intelligence could supercharge the propaganda playbook, experts warn.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-07 July; Technology; US elections 2024; US news; US politics

Transitional Justice in Tunisia: Innovations, Continuities, Challenges - Robins, Simon; Gready, Paul (Routledge, 2024)
This book engages comprehensively with the dynamics of the transitional justice process in Tunisia and its mechanisms, elaborating lessons for transitional justice practice globally. Grounded in new empirical material as well as a broader awareness of transitional justice, this book provides a thorough assessment of transitional justice in Tunisia.
Tunisia
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Break the rules, save the records: human rights archives and the search for justice in East Timor - Robinson, Geoffrey (Archival Science, 2014)
How do distinctive historical experiences and political regimes shape human rights archives? How do those archives and those experiences in turn influence the way painful pasts are remembered or forgotten? And what can historical accounts tell us about the wisdom of prevailing norms and practices regarding the management and control of human rights records? This paper explores these questions through a close analysis of the history and politics of the principal archive documenting human rights abuse in East Timor. It underscores the work of archival studies scholars who argue that human rights archives are always in some degree shaped by the historical and political context in which they emerge and that conflicts over matters of content, mandate, and rules of access are virtually inevitable. Noting that such conflicts typically pit political authorities against victims and their advocates, it argues that successful human rights archival programs hinge critically on sensitive historical and political analysis and that, under certain conditions, human rights archivists should play a more active role in facilitating the pursuit of justice for victims of human rights abuse. It also makes the case for a move away from large, state-controlled archives toward multiple, smaller archives with varied mandates. Finally, it proposes the adoption of a new hierarchy of interest in the management of archives; away from the long-accepted principles of national sovereignty and inalienability, and in the direction of access to the survivors of human rights violations and their advocates.
Other Publications
Keywords: A&DwP website; Archives; East Timor; Human rights; Inalienability; Justice; National interest; Records; Secrecy; Security; Timor Leste; Truth commissions

Derecho a la Verdad y Derecho Internacional en relación con graves violaciones de los Derechos Humanos - Rodríguez, Jorge (Berg Institute, 2017)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

First, Do No Harm: The US Sexually Transmitted Disease Experiments in Guatemala - Rodriguez, Michael A.; García, Robert (American Journal of Public Health, 2013)
Beginning in 1946, the United States government immorally and unethically—and, arguably, illegally—engaged in research experiments in which more than 5000 uninformed and unconsenting Guatemalan people were intentionally infected with bacteria that cause sexually transmitted diseases. Many have been left untreated to the present day., Although US President Barack Obama apologized in 2010, and although the US Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues found the Guatemalan experiments morally wrong, little if anything has been done to compensate the victims and their families., We explore the backdrop for this unethical medical research and violation of human rights and call for steps the United States should take to provide relief and compensation to Guatemala and its people.
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Indigenous Justice and a New Path for Canada’s Prisons - Rolston, Simon (The Tyee, 2023)
A report offers a blueprint for fixing Indigenous overrepresentation in jails.
Canada
Keywords: 2023-06 June

Political Effects: Trust in Government - Roman, David (Lustration and Transitional Justice: Personnel Systems in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland., 2011)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Czech and Slovak Victims of Coercive Sterilization Await Justice - ROMEA (Romea.cz - Vše o Romech na jednom místě, 2018)
In November 2017, nine governments of the United Nations urged the Czech Republic to provide compensation to women – in particular Romani women and women
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Occasional Paper No. 1 Transitional Justice in Germany after 1945 and after 1990 - Romeike, Sanya (International Nuremberg Principles Academy, 2016)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

EL ARCHIVO DE GUERRA CIVIL DE SALAMANCA. DE LA CAMPAÑA A LA TRANSICIÓN - Romero, Jesús ESPINOSA; López, Sofía RODRÍGUEZ (Paseo documental por el Madrid de antaño, 2015)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

El material humano - Rosa, Rodrigo Rey (Alfaguara, 2017)
Un maestro extraordinario de la fusión entre periodismo y literatura. «El material humano no necesita de retórica alguna, ni de frases más largas que una línea para emocionar al lector: le basta la verdad honesta de la que parte.»Javier Aparicio Maydeu, Babelia «Aunque no lo parezca, aunque no quiera parecerlo, ésta es una obra de ficción.» Durante el otoño de 2005, Rodrigo Rey Rosa visitó a diario el Gabinete de Identificación del recién descubierto archivo secreto de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala: «Más allá de la información que esperaba obtener en ese laberinto de millones de legajos policíacos acumulados durante más de un siglo y conservados por azar, después de aquella visita inicial las circunstancias y el ambiente del Archivo de La Isla habían comenzado a parecerme novelescos, y acaso aun novelables. Una especie de microcaos cuya relación podría servir de coda para la singular danza macabra de nuestro último siglo». De los cuadernos escritos a lo largo de esas visitas surge El material humano, una novela sobrecogedora en la que la siniestra documentación de la represión en su país sirve al autor de telón de fondo para narrar su propia historia. Reseñas:«Este es uno de los mejores libros de Rey Rosa. La prosa sobria y tan bien respirada que le conocemos ahora convive con el estilo polvoriento de las fichas policiales.»Alejandro Zambra, La Tercera «Una obra híbrida, sorprendente, magníficamente construida. [...] Rey Rosa despliega hilos narrativos con admirable maestría, proponiéndonos varios niveles de lectura. Nos prende en sus redes y ya no nos suelta hasta la última página.»Marc Sagaert, Les Lettres françaises «La novela de Rey Rosa navega con éxito en la delgada línea roja que separa la realidad de la ficción, utilizando recursos de ambos territorios para construir un interesante reflejo de la vida cotidiana en un país en el que la violencia institucional y la impunidad establecida colocan en el terreno de la pesadilla.»Enrique Benítez, La Opinión de Málaga «Rodrigo Rey Rosa ha hecho de la sobriedad un efecto de estilo con el que está edificando una de las más notables trayectorias literarias de la literatura latinoamericana.»Ricardo Baixeras, El Periódico de Catalunya «El material humano no es una novela árida sino amena que, además de sobrecoger, engancha al lector.»Iñaki Ezquerra, El Correo «Esta novela de Rodrigo Rey Rosa es -me parece- la más lograda ficción relacionada con la historia reciente de nuestro país. [...] Envidiable capacidad de síntesis. Aproximación minimalista en la descripción. Un novelista como pocos.»Javier Payeras, Siglo XXI (Guatemala)ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONAn extraordinary master at blending journalism and literature. "Human Matter does not need any rhetoric, or phrases any longer than one line to excite the reader: the honest truth that it exudes is just enough." Javier Aparicio Maydeu, Babelia "Although it may not seem so, this is a work of fiction." During the fall of 2005, Rodrigo Rey Rosa visited the Identification Office of the Guatemalan National Police’s newly discovered secret archives on a daily basis: "Far beyond the information I hoped to obtain from that maze of millions of police records accumulated for over a century, and after that initial visit, circumstances and its ambiance had begun to appear novelistic. A kind of small contained chaos which could serve as an ending for the macabre dance that was our last century ». From the notes taken throughout these visits, comes Human Matter, an overwhelming novel in which the sinister documentation of his country’s repression serves the author as the backdrop to tell his own story.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Sino-Japanese Relations: Facing the Past, Looking to the Future? - Rose, Caroline (Routledge, 2004)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Mauricio Macri: "Conmigo se acaban los curros en derechos humanos" - Rosemberg, Jaime (LA NACION, 2014)
El líder de Pro promete bajar la inflación y acepta endeudarse "si es para crecer"
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Médicos judíos del gueto de Varsovia documentaron en secreto los efectos de las políticas nazis de hambruna en un libro redescubierto recientemente - Rosenberg, Irwin; Fitzpatrick, Merry (The Conversation, 2023)
El libro registra los sombríos efectos de una falta casi total de alimentos en el cuerpo humano. Es un tesoro para los médicos que también muestra la dedicación y humanidad de los científicos judíos.
Poland
Keywords: 2023-07 July; Medical Doctor; Nazi; Personal Diary; Starvation; War Crimes; Warshaw Ghetto

Warsaw Ghetto's defiant Jewish doctors secretly documented the medical effects of Nazi starvation policies in a book rediscovered on a library shelf - Rosenberg, Irwin; Fitzpatrick, Merry (The Conversation, 2023)
The story behind the research can be as compelling as the results. Recording the effects of starvation, a group of Jewish doctors demonstrated their dedication to science – and their own humanity.
Poland
Keywords: 2023-07 July; Medical Doctor; Nazi; Personal Diary; Starvation; War Crimes; Warshaw Ghetto

Inside Barbados' Historic Push for Slavery Reparations - Ross, Janell (Time, 2023)
How a tiny island became a global leader in the effort to demand meaningful recompense.
Barbados
Keywords: 2023-07 July; Reconciliation; Reparation; Slavery

Climate Change Deniers Are Blocking Progress, UN Report Suggests for First Time - Roston, Eric (Bloomberg.com, 2018)
The United Nations’ annual assessment of global progress on climate change delivers familiar bad news this year – the problem is getting worse, not better – with a new twist: For the first time, political ideology is singled out for obstructing changes that would slow global warming.
Keywords: Climate Change; Economic Research; Environment; Global Warming; Markets; Media; Paris; Poland; Policy; References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights; business; climate-changed; politics; technology

Archives: utilité publique, exigence démocratique - Roth-Lochner, Barbara; Dubois, Alain (L'Esprit de la Lettre Editions, 2023)
Contre les fake news, la désinformation à grande échelle, les Archives semblent un rempart essentiel. Conserver et garantir l’accès à des informations vérifiées, fiables, devient un réel enjeu démocratique
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-10 November

P. C. Chang and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Roth, Hans Ingvar (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the world's best-known and most translated documents. When it was presented to the United Nations General Assembly in December in 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt, chair of the writing group, called it a new "Magna Carta for all mankind." The passage of time has shown Roosevelt to have been largely correct in her prediction as to the declaration's importance. No other document in the world today can claim a comparable standing in the international community. Roosevelt and French legal expert René Cassin have often been represented as the principal authors of the declaration. But in fact, it resulted from a collaborative effort involving a number of individuals in different capacities. One of the declaration's most important authors was the vice chairman of the Human Rights Commission, Peng Chun Chang (1892-1957), a Chinese diplomat and philosopher whose contribution has been the focus of growing attention in recent years. Indeed, it is Chang who deserves the credit for the universality and religious ecumenism that are now regarded as the declaration's defining features. Despite this, Chang's extraordinary contribution has been overlooked by historians. Peng Chun Chang was a modern-day Renaissance man-teacher, scholar, university chancellor, playwright, diplomat, and politician. A true cosmopolitan, he was deeply involved in the cultural exchange between East and West, and the dramatic events of his life left a profound mark on his intellectual and political work. P. C. Chang and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the first biography of this extraordinary actor on the world stage, who belonged to the same generation as Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek. Drawing on previously unknown sources, it casts new light on Chang's multifaceted life and involvement with one of modern history's most important documents.
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

The Archives of Universal History - Rothschild, Emma (Journal of World History, 2008)
This article looks at early proposals for an international archive, at the different respects in which archives are international or transnational, and at the development since 1946 of the archives of international organizations. It suggests that the history of the UN's involvement with archives is itself a development of historical and even political interest.
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Accounting and reconciling in the balance sheet of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Rousseau, Nicky; Fullard, Madeleine (Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 2009)
A body of critical academic literature has characterized the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as a nation-building enterprise with reconciliation as its core. Although this literature is especially influential within South African scholarship, the association of the TRC with reconciliation has become a far wider orthodoxy. An engagement with the full range of the TRC's hearings, its institutional practice and its seven-volume report demonstrates a more contested perspective, involving a wider range of actors, and contending directions, most notably a drive to establish accountability for human rights’ abuse.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/17447140802393313
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights; South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission; accountability and human rights' abuse; nation-building; reconciliation; transitional justice; truth commissions

En Australie, un référendum pour donner une « voix » aux autochtones au Parlement - Roussel, Léo (Le Soir, 2023)
L’Australie va voter, lors d’un référendum d’ici fin 2023. Les citoyens décideront si, oui ou non, ils autorisent la modification de la Constitution pour y reconnaître les autochtones et la création d’un organe représentatif, d’une « Voix » au Parlement.
Australia
Keywords: 2023-07 July; Referendum; The Voice

Israeli settlers rampage through Palestinian village after Hamas shooting - Rubin, Shira; Taha, Sufian (The Washington Post, 2023)
Armed Israeli settlers rampaged through a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday afternoon, leaving at least one Palestinian dead and 12 injured a day after four Israelis were killed by Hamas gunmen near an Israeli settlement.
Palestine (permanent observer to the UN)
Keywords: 2023-06 June

Archives for a Peaceful Future: A Guidance Note for Working with the Archives of Truth Commissions in Dealing with the Past - Rubli, Sandra (Swisspeace, 2013)
Google-Books-ID: CisEswEACAAJ
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

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

Report of the Special Representative of the SecretaryGeneral on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises - Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework - Ruggie, John (United Nations, 2011)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

La vulnérabilité du monde: Démocraties et violences à l’heure de la globalisation - Ruiz, Leopoldo Múnera; Nanteuil, Matthieu de (Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2021)
La chute du mur de Berlin ne comportait-elle pas la promesse d’une paix durable ? Ce livre analyse la perpétuation de violences de toutes sortes dans un monde dont le totalitarisme ne constitue plus la référence centrale. À l’heure de la globalisation, il montre que ces violences relèvent de dynamiques hétérogènes : conflits armés, mais aussi arbitraire étatique, brutalités du capitalisme, exclusions physiques ou symboliques. Parallèlement, il souligne combien les sociétés résistent à de telles violences, en faisant usage du droit, des politiques publiques, des leviers socio-économiques, des pratiques artistiques. Scandant les différentes parties du livre, trois études manifestent, photos à l’appui, la fonction éthique et politique de l’art. En contrepoint de la barbarie, l’aspiration à la beauté déstabilise la rhétorique de l’oubli, favorise le travail critique et le retour sur soi. Toute la force du livre tient dans le dévoilement de ces poussées contradictoires. Quelle en sera l’issue ? Nul ne le sait. Alors que les interdépendances techniques et économiques n’ont jamais été aussi fortes, notre monde est traversé par des divisions profondes. Le sens commun est en crise. Le projet démocratique y survivra-t-il ? Fruit d’une collaboration pluriannuelle entre l’Université catholique de Louvain et l’Université nationale de Colombie, ce livre réunit les contributions de nombreux spécialistes à travers le monde, issus de disciplines variées (philosophie, droit, sciences politiques, histoire, sociologie, psychologie). Parti d’un intérêt croisé pour un pays - la Colombie - où la violence apparaît comme une caractéristique structurelle, mais qui dispose de l’une des constitutions démocratiques les plus avancées de la région, il étend son champ de préoccupations à l’Amérique latine (Mexique, Pérou, Chili), à l’Afrique (Tunisie, Rwanda), à l’Asie du Sud-Est et à l’Europe.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Archives et processus de criblage dans les sociétés en transition : l’exemple des pays de l’ancien bloc des Pays de l’Est - Rumin, Serge (Gazette des archives, 2007)
Le vetting ou criblage consiste en l’examen minutieux des antécédents d’un candidat à un poste afin de déterminer son aptitude, sur le plan moral, à occuper un poste. Ce procédé est considéré comme un mécanisme de justice transitionnelle, au service tant de la réforme institutionnelle et de la poursuite pénale, que de la recherche collective de la vérité et de la réparation des torts causés aux victimes. L’auteur montre le rôle clé de l’information dans le mécanisme de criblage et les défis que posent la collecte et le traitement de l’information en général. Après avoir identifié le type d’informations utilisé dans un mécanisme de criblage, il met en évidence le lien entre la nature du processus de transition (post-conflit ou post-autoritaire) et le type d’information disponible, et examine en quoi le type d’information utilisé conditionne le mécanisme de criblage. Il montre enfin que le type d’information et les moyens mis en oeuvre pour son traitement affectent substantiellement les résultats du processus.
Other Publications

A Russian anti-LGBTQ+ group is spreading dangerous misinformation across the globe - Russell, John (LGBTQ Nation, 2023)
The group has managed to broaden its global reach by translating its anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda into more than 18 major languages.
Russian Federation
Keywords: 2023-09 September

Rutas del Conflicto - rutasdelconflicto.com (Rutas del Conflicto | El portal periodístico que sigue el rastro del conflicto armado en Colombia)
El portal periodístico que sigue el rastro del conflicto armado en Colombia
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Los archivos de los derechos humanos en el Perú - Ruth Elena Borja Santa Cruz (Historizar el pasado vivo en América Latina, 2007)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Identifying Culturally Sensitive American Indian Material in a Non-tribal Institution - Ryan, Ellen M (Society of American Archivists, 2014)
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Erinnerungsorte der DDR - Sabrow, Martin (C.H.Beck, 2009)
Die DDR gibt es nicht mehr, aber im Gedächtnis lebt sie weiter, als Schreckensort einer Diktatur, in "ostalgischer" Verklärung und vor allem in Erinnerung an die Mühen um ein aufrechtes Leben in gedrückten Verhältnissen. Fünfzig Publizisten und Zeithistoriker präsentieren die wichtigsten Bezugspunkte der Erinnerung an ein untergegangenes Land.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Archives, Truth, and Reconciliation - Sachs, Albie (Archivaria, 2006)
This lecture by Justice Albie Sachs of the South African Constitutional Court recounts his “archive fever.” Archivaria asked Verne Harris of the Nelson Mandela Foundation to prepare a short introduction. RÉSUMÉCet exposé du juge Albie Sachs de la Cour constitutionnelle de l’Afrique du Sud (South African Constitutional Court) évoque sa « fièvre des archives ». Archivaria a demandé à Verne Harris de la Fondation Nelson Mandela de préparer une brève introduction.
Other Publications

News from the ICA Section on Archives and Human Rights - 2023-05 (May) - SAHR Newsletter Woking Group (ICA, 2023)

News from the ICA Section on Archives and Human Rights - 2023-06 (June) - SAHR Newsletter Woking Group (ICA, 2023)

News from the ICA Section on Archives and Human Rights - 2023-07 (July) - SAHR Newsletter Woking Group (ICA, 2023)

News from the ICA Section on Archives and Human Rights - 2023-08 (August) - SAHR Newsletter Woking Group (ICA, 2023)

News from the ICA Section on Archives and Human Rights - 2023-09 (September) - SAHR Newsletter Woking Group (ICA, 2023)

News from the ICA Section on Archives and Human Rights - 2023-10 (October) - SAHR Newsletter Woking Group (ICA, 2023)

The History Problem: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia - Saito, Hiro (University of Hawaii Press, 2016)
Seventy years have passed since the end of the Asia-Pacific War, yet Japan remains embroiled in controversy with its neighbors over the war’s commemoration. Among the many points of contention between Japan, China, and South Korea are interpretations of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, apologies and compensation for foreign victims of Japanese aggression, prime ministerial visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, and the war’s portrayal in textbooks. Collectively, these controversies have come to be called the “history problem.” But why has the problem become so intractable? Can it ever be resolved, and if so, how? To answer these questions author Hiro Saito mobilizes the sociology of collective memory and social movements, political theories of apology and reconciliation, psychological research on intergroup conflict, and philosophical reflections on memory and history. The history problem, he argues, is essentially a relational phenomenon caused when nations publicly showcase self-serving versions of the past at key ceremonies and events: Japan, South Korea, and China all focus on what happened to their own citizens with little regard for foreign others. Saito goes on to explore the emergence of a cosmopolitan form of commemoration taking humanity, rather than nationality, as its primary frame of reference, an approach increasingly used by a transnational network of advocacy NGOs, victims of Japan’s past wrongdoings, historians, and educators. When cosmopolitan commemoration is practiced as a collective endeavor by both perpetrators and victims, Saito argues, a resolution of the history problem—and eventual reconciliation—will finally become possible.The History Problem examines a vast corpus of historical material in both English and Japanese, offering provocative findings that challenge orthodox explanations. Written in clear and accessible prose, this uniquely interdisciplinary book will appeal to sociologists, political scientists, and historians researching collective memory, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, and international relations—and to anyone interested in the commemoration of historical wrongs.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Texas was state with most book bans in 2022, report shows - Salam, Erum (The Guardian, 2023)
Number of book challenges nationwide doubled from 2021 as book ban movement gathers speed in Republican-led states.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-09 September; Books; LGBTQ+ rights; Race; Republicans; Texas; US education; US news

Osočení – Pravdivé příběhy lidí z "Cibulkova seznamu" - Salivarová-Škvorecká, Zdena (Nakladatelství Host, 2000)
Publicistika.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Pasado y presente de la violencia en Colombia | Daniel Ricardo Peñaranda Supelano | Universilibros - Sánchez, Gonzalo; Peñaranda, Ricardo (La Carreta Editores E.U., 2007)
📚 Durante los últimos veinte años Pasado y presente se convirtió en un referente de los estudios sobre La Violencia. Cuando aún no se hablaba entre
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Katyn and the Soviet Massacre of 1940: Truth, Justice and Memory - Sanford, George (Routledge, 2005)
The Soviet massacre of Polish prisoners of war at Katyn and in other camps in 1940 was one of the most notorious incidents of the Second World War. The truth about the massacres was long suppressed, both by the Soviet Union, and also by the United States and Britain who wished to hold together their wartime alliance with the Soviet Union. This informative book examines the details of this often overlooked event, shedding light on what took place especially in relation to the massacres at l
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Los nicaragüenses desterrados: esperanza, miedo e incertidumbre - Sanz, José Luis (Elfaro 25, 2023)
Los 220 presos políticos excarcelados el jueves pasado por el régimen de Daniel Ortega celebran la libertad después de años o meses de encierro y tortura, pero muchos dudan de su futuro y tienen miedo a opinar porque temen represalias contra sus familias en Nicaragua. La mitad no tienen parientes o amigos en Estados Unidos y se preguntan cómo reconstruir la vida lejos del lugar y la gente que les importa.
Nicaragua
Keywords: 2023-07 July

Prisoners Expelled from Nicaragua Land in US Limbo - Sanz, José Luis (Elfaro 25, 2023)
The 222 political prisoners banished by the regime of Daniel Ortega last Thursday are celebrating their freedom after years or months of lockdown and torture, but many doubt their future and stifle their opinions out of fear for their family in Nicaragua. Half of them have no family in the U.S. and are wondering how to rebuild a life far from their country and loved ones.
Nicaragua
Keywords: 2023-07 July

Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation - Sardarizadeh, Shayan (BBC News, 2023)
False and misleading posts about the Ukraine conflict continue to go viral on major social media platforms, as Russia's invasion of the country extends beyond 500 days. Some of the most widely shared examples can be found on Twitter, posted by subscribers with a blue tick, who pay for their content to be promoted to other users.
Ukraine
Keywords: 2023-07 July; Propaganda; Technology; Twitter

Kremlin’s propaganda film about Ukraine war plays to empty cinemas - Sauer, Pjotr (The Observer, 2023)
The box-office flop, about a fictional violinist who gets caught up in the atrocities, is further evidence that Russians want to forget about the invasion.
Russian Federation
Keywords: 2023-09 September; Culture; Film; Russia; Ukraine; World news

Russia releases history schoolbook praising Ukraine invasion - Sauer, Pjotr (The Guardian, 2023)
Textbook apparently written in just five months is part of Kremlin’s tightening of control over historical narrative in schools
Russian Federation
Keywords: 2023-08 August; Europe; Russia; Ukraine; World news

The US has a child labor problem – recalling an embarrassing past that Americans may think they've left behind - Saunders, Beth (The Conversation, 2023)
While Lewis Hine’s early-20th century photographs of working children compelled Congress to limit or ban child labor, the US Department of Labor is now under fire for failing to enforce these laws.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-06 June

What Really Happened to JFK? - Sayare, Scott (Intelligencer, 2023)
One thing’s for sure: The CIA doesn’t want you to know.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-10 November

The Schengen Agreement - Schengenvisa (SchengenVisaInfo.com)
The Schengen Agreement signed on June 14, 1985, is a treaty that led most of the European countries towards the abolishment of their national borders, to build a Europe without borders known as the “Schengen Area”.
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Strafverfahren wegen MfS-Unrechts : die Strafprozesse bundesdeutscher Gerichte gegen ehemalige Mitarbeiter des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit der DDR - Schißau, Roland (Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2004)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Mediated Massacre: Digital Nationalism and History Discourse on China's Web - Schneider, Florian (The Journal of Asian Studies, 2018)
On China's web, networked actors ranging from state agencies to private Internet users engage in highly active online discourse. Yet as diverse as this discourse may be, political content remains highly regulated, particularly on issues that affect the legitimacy of the ruling party. A prominent issue in this regard has been modern Chinese history, particularly the "national humiliation" that Japan inflicted on China's populace during events like the 1937 Nanjing Massacre. This article asks how the discourse on this particular event is structured on China's web, and what such practices of digital "remembering" can tell us about nationalism in the information age. Combining content analysis and digital tools, the article shows how the mass-media model that the Chinese authorities and various commercial actors apply to the web ultimately reproduces the very logic of "imagined communities" that makes reconciliation of historical disputes in East Asia so protracted.
Num Pages: 24 Place: Ann Arbor, United Kingdom Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: Asian Studies; Asian history; Chinese languages; Collective memory; Communication; Content analysis; Cultural heritage; Digital broadcasting; Digital media; Discourse; Disputes; Encyclopedias; Government agencies; Historiography; Humiliation; Information sources; International relations; Internet; Knowledge; Legitimacy; Literature; Mass media; Mass murders; Massacres; Memory; Modern history; Narratives; Nation states; National reconciliation; Nationalism; Political Science–International Relations; Political discourse; Political power; Politics; References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights; Social Sciences: Comprehensive Works; Social networks

Disney says in lawsuit that DeSantis-appointed government is failing to release public records - Schneider, Mike (AP News, 2023)
Disney has filed a lawsuit claiming that the oversight government for Walt Disney World, which was taken over by appointees of Gov. Ron DeSantis earlier this year, has failed to release documents and properly preserve records in violation of Florida public records law.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Affaire Disney-DeSantis: Poursuite de Disney pour violation des lois sur les archives publiques - Schneider, Mike; AP News (La Presse, 2023)
Disney a intenté une poursuite affirmant que le district administratif de Walt Disney World, qui a été repris par des personnes nommées par le gouverneur Ron DeSantis au début de l’année, n’avait pas réussi à divulguer des documents et à conserver correctement les dossiers, en violation des lois sur les archives publiques de Floride.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-12 December

German Comedy: Scenes of Life after the Wall - Schneider, Peter (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Re-imagining democracy for the 21st century, possibly without the trappings of the 18th century - Schneier, Bruce (The Conversation, 2023)
The modern representative democracy was the best form of government mid-18th-century technology could invent. The 21st century is a different place scientifically, technically and socially.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-08 August; Democracy

Bahrain court orders main Shiite opposition group dissolved - Schreck, Adam (AP NEWS, 2016)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A court in Bahrain ordered the country's main Shiite opposition group to be dissolved on Sunday, deepening a crackdown on dissent in the strategically important Western-allied kingdom. The order against al-Wefaq marks one of the sharpest blows yet against civil society activists in the Sunni-ruled island nation, which was rocked by widespread protests led by its Shiite majority demanding political reforms five years ago. Bahrain,...
Section: Bahrain
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Wife of Princeton researcher held in Iran urges his release - Schreck, Adam; Tang, Didi (AP NEWS, 2017)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The wife of a Princeton graduate student sentenced to 10 years behind bars in Iran called on authorities there to release him Tuesday, saying the Chinese-American man has been "unjustly imprisoned." Xiyue Wang was arrested nearly a year ago but his confinement only became known Sunday when Iran's judiciary announced his sentence, accusing him of "infiltrating" the country and sending confidential material abroad. The 36-year-old, described by Iranian authorities as holding Chinese and American citizenship, was in Iran doing research for his doctorate in late 19th and early 20th century Eurasian history when he was detained.
Section: Dubai
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

50 Jahre Zentrale Stelle in Ludwigsburg. Ein Erfahrungsbericht über die letzten zweieinhalb Jahrzehnte - Schrimm, Kurt; Riedel, Joachim (Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 2008)
Vorspann Die Zentrale Stelle in Ludwigsburg ist das Herzstück der justiziellen Ahndung von NSVerbrechen. 1958 gegründet, spielte die einzigartige Institution bei der Einleitung fast aller großen Prozesse eine wichtige Rolle. Der jetzige Leiter und sein Stellvertreter ziehen hier Bilanz und blicken dabei vor allem auf die letzten 25 Jahre zurück, in denen die Zentrale Stelle dazu überging, umfassende eigenständige Ermittlungen im In- und Ausland durchzuführen – und dabei immer wieder beachtliche Erfolge verbuchen konnte.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Where did 20,000 Jews hide from the Holocaust? In Shanghai - Schuerman, Matthew (NPR, 2023)
In the late 1930s, as the Nazis stepped up their persecution of German and Austrian Jews, many countries in the West severely limited the number of visas they granted to refugees. But there was one place refugees could go without even obtaining a visa: Shanghai. An exhibit in New York explores a little-known chapter of World War II.
China
Keywords: 2023-08 August; Holocaust; Shangai

La nación tras el diluvio. Una perspectiva germano-oriental. - Schultz, Helga (Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea, 2000)
Helga Schultz reconsidera la RDA y su forma nacional desde un punto de vista germano-oriental. Entiende la RDA como un intento de construir una peculiar nación socialista alemana, pero laimposibilidad de alcanzar esta aspiración es examinada junto con la sorprendente división entre ambas partes de la nueva Alemania «unida» y la nueva eínicizaci¿n de los alemanes del Este. El articulo revisa también la «sociedad obrera» socialista, como producto del socialismo real.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights; historia; historia contemporánea; historia de España; historia universal; revista

Archives, records, and power: The making of modern memory - Schwartz, Joan M.; Cook, Terry (Archival Science, 2002)
This article serves as the general introduction by the guest editors to the first of two thematic issues of Archival Science that will explore the theme, "archives, records, and power." Archives as institutions and records as documents are generally seen by academic and other users, and by society generally, as passive resources to be .exploited for various historical and cultural purposes. Historians since the mid-nineteenth century, in pursuing the new scientific history, needed an archive that was a neutral repositories of facts. Until very recently, archivists obliged by extolling their own professional myth of impartiality, neutrality, and objectivity. Yet archives are established by the powerful to protect or enhance their position in society. Through archives, the past is controlled. Certain stories are privileged and others marginalized. And archivists are an integral part of this story-telling. In the design of record-keeping systems, in the appraisal and selection of a tiny fragment of all possible records to enter the archive, in approaches to subsequent and ever-changing description and preservation of the archive, and in its patterns of communication and use, archivists continually reshape, reinterpret, and reinvent the archive. This represents enormous power over memory and identity, over the fundamental ways in which society seeks evidence of what its core values are and have been, where it has come from, and where it is going. Archives, then, are not passive storehouses of old stuff', but active sites where social power is negotiated, contested, confirmed. The power of archives, records, and archivists should no longer remain naturalized or denied, but opened to vital debate and transparent accountability.
Keywords: Archival theory; References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights; archives and power relationships; identity formation; representation and reality; social memory

The long road to reconciliation in Burundi - Schwikowski, Martrina (DW, 2023)
Thirty years after the civil war between the Hutu and Tutsi began in Burundi, nobody has forgotten the atrocities. But the country's current conflict is more political than ethnic.
Burundi
Keywords: 2023-10 October

The Emergence of Memory: Conversations with W. G. Sebald - Sebald, W. G. (Seven Stories Press, 2010)
When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with and essays on Sebald, award-winning translator and author Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the writer, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching explorations of historical cruelty, memory, and dislocation. With contributions from poet, essayist, and translator Charles Simic, New Republic editor Ruth Franklin, Bookworm radio host Michael Silverblatt, and more, The Emergence of Memory offers Sebald’s own voice in interviews between 1997 up to a month before his death in 2001. Also included are cogent accounts of almost all of Sebald’s books, thematically linked to events in the contributors’ own lives.Contributors include Carole Angier, Joseph Cuomo, Ruth Franklin, Michael Hofmann, Arthur Lubow, Tim Parks, Michael Silverblatt, Charles Simic, and Eleanor Wachtel.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Austerlitz - Sebald, W.G. (Penguin, 2010)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Secret Canada - A freedom of information project from The Globe and Mail - Secret Canada (Secret Canada, 2023)
Secret Canada helps Canadians understand and use the access system through a database of completed FOI request summaries, guides on how to navigate the filing process and the latest news.
Canada
Keywords: 2023-06 June

Promoting Environmental Democracy: comments submitted by the SAHR towards the UN Human Rights Council in October 2023 | International Council on Archives - Section on Archives and Human Rights (SAHR) (International Council on Archives (ICA), 2023)
ICA SAHR commends the preparation of a comprehensive report by the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment on ‘Promoting Environmental Democracy: procedural elements of the human right to a clean, health and sustainable environment’
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-09 September; Environmental Democracy

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

EE UU, un año después de la sentencia del Supremo que derogó la protección federal del aborto: mapa de un país fracturado. - Seisdedos, Iker (El País, 2023)
Más de 25 millones de mujeres de entre 15 y 44 años, en torno a dos de cada cinco, viven en Estados en los que las condiciones para interrumpir el embarazo se han endurecido
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-06 June

The Canadian museum filled with stolen art - Selkirk, Diane (BBC News, 2023)
The Ni'isjoohl memorial pole has been returned to Canada after being stolen by the British in 1928. Here, it will live out its days alongside hundreds of other appropriated items.
Canada
Keywords: 2023-10 October

A la recherche des disparus de la seconde guerre mondiale : un parcours du combattant dans les archives - Sellem, Denis (Gazette des archives, 2007)
A la recherche des disparus de la Seconde Guerre mondiale : un parcours du combattant dans les archives ; Parti à la recherche de son oncle, Edouard Kalifat, disparu en URSS à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l’auteur retrace les étapes successives d’un parcours solitaire qui l’a mené de ministères en centres d’archives russes et ukrainiens, en passant par l’appel à témoins et le recours aux medias. Devenu un usager des archives expérimenté, il explique les difficultés qu’il a rencontrées au cours de sa quête d’informations, en raison de la complexité et du cloisonnement des circuits institutionnels et associatifs. Elles l’ont incité à élargir sa recherche personnelle à celle de toutes les personnes disparues en URSS dans des conditions analogues et à créer une association spécialisée dans les recherches humanitaires. Il tire de cette expérience unique des recommandations pratiques, destinées à faciliter la tâche des familles confrontées à la disparition de l’un de leurs membres et désemparées. Il invite les administrations concernées à établir à leur intention un guide des démarches à entreprendre. Il presse aussi les archivistes d’élaborer un guide des services d’archives à consulter et de mettre en place des instruments de recueil d’informations et de suivi des dossiers.
Other Publications

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

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

Correos de la Pandemia I, "Ya no podemos seguir ajustándonos al conteo de fallecidos que realiza el ministro" - Sepúlveda, Nicolás; Segovia, Macarena; Olate, Catalina (CIPER Chile, 2023)
Al menos 21 correos electrónicos que circularon entre altos funcionarios del Ministerio de Salud en los momentos más críticos de la pandemia muestran errores e inconsistencias en el conteo de fallecidos, lo que provocaba que se informara al país un número menor de decesos.
Chile
Keywords: 2023-06 June

Pierre Elliott Trudeau avait une unité secrète pour espionner les indépendantistes - Serebrin, Jacob (La Presse, 2023)
De nouvelles révélations au sujet d’une unité ultrasecrète créée au sein du cabinet du premier ministre Pierre Elliott Trudeau pour espionner les souverainistes québécois témoignent de l’ampleur de ce qu’on ignore encore concernant la réponse d’Ottawa au mouvement indépendantiste.
Canada
Keywords: 2023-08 August

Pierre Elliott Trudeau had a secret unit to spy on Quebec separatists - Serebrin, Jacob (DayFR Euro, 2023)
According to an article that has just been published in English in an academic journal, Prime Minister Trudeau’s office created an espionage unit in the 1970s to monitor Quebec sovereignists. The firm had also asked the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to pass on information to it – a request the defunct RCMP security service reportedly resisted.
Canada
Keywords: 2023-08 August

Sites of Conscience: New Approaches to Conflicted Memory - Ševčenko, Liz (Museum International, 2010)
For better or for worse, heritage is a key terrain on which societal conflicts are expressed. Instead of treating conflict over heritage sites defensively, shielding them from attack, we can take proactive steps to offer heritage sites as resources for addressing contested social questions. This article explores strategies used around the world by ‘Sites of Conscience’– heritage sites that foster dialogue on contemporary issues – to help communities to confront the questions that divide them.
Other Publications

Reducir burocracia, menor nivel de idioma y nuevos visados: así corteja Alemania a los trabajadores cualificados - Sevillano, Elena G. (El País, 2023)
El Parlamento alemán aprueba la nueva ley de inmigración con la que quiere paliar su preocupante escasez de mano de obra
Germany
Keywords: 2023-06 June

Les archives nationales bientôt accessibles au public - Sfeir, Edward (Ici Beyrouth, 2023)
Grâce à un financement français et à l’expertise de l’Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA), un programme de préservation et de valorisation des archives des médias publics libanais permettra bientôt au public d’accéder à des décennies d’informations historiques.
Lebanon
Keywords: 2023-07 July; Access; Digitization; Transparency

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

Mojgan Ilanlou, documentariste iranienne, raconte le combat des femmes dans une société patriarcale - Shamsodinnezhad, Vahic (RFI, 2023)
Mojgan Ilanlou est l’une des premières cinéastes iraniennes à être sortie sans voile au début du mouvement Femme, Vie, Liberté. Elle a ensuite partagé des photos d’elle accompagnées du hashtag « cette ville doit s’habituer à me voir ». Un acte qui lui a valu cinq mois d’emprisonnement. La réalisatrice croit à la force de documentaire dans le changement des mentalités et des traditions.
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Keywords: 2023-08 August

Heritage, Indigenous Doing, and Wellbeing: Voices of Country - Sheehan, Norm; Jones, David S; Creighton, Joss; Harrington, Sheldon (Routlledge, 2024)
Heritage, Indigenous Doing and Wellbeing presents an Aboriginal Australian relational understanding of the world that offers a counter-narrative to the Western notion of heritage and new insights into the potential for sustaining the complex systems that support all life. From an Indigenous Australian perspective, the Western concept of heritage is intentionally exclusionary and supports social, political, economic, and environmental injustice.
Australia
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Project MIRRA: Memory - Identity - Rights in Records - Access - Shepherd, Elizabeth; Hoyle, Victoria; Lomas, Elizabeth (Comma, 2021)
Many people who grew up in care have gaps in their childhood memories and unanswered questions about their early lives. In the absence of family photos and stories they turn to records held by the local authorities and charities that looked after them. Accessing these records is a practically and emotionally challenging process. Response times are often long and the records received are redacted because they include confidential information about “third parties’” who are often family and carers. The language and ideas contained reflect the prejudices and assumptions of previous times. Some files are extremely long and confusing, whereas others only have a few pages to cover a whole childhood. Records may have been lost or destroyed altogether. Very few services are available to support people through the experience. MIRRA: Memory-Identity-Rights in Records-Access is a participatory action research project carried out at the Department of Information Studies at University College London since 2017 that explores these issues. It considered how child social care records have been created, kept and used in public and voluntary organizations in England from 1970 to the present. The research is co-produced with care leavers in partnership with The Care Leavers’ Association and reflects on how what it is recorded about a childhood can affect the individual concerned throughout their life. This article republishes edited blog posts produced during the research project. The original blogs in full are available at https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/mirra/.
Keywords: Comma 2020 1-2; Archives and Human Rights; August 2021

Towards a human-centred participatory approach to child social care recordkeeping - Shepherd, Elizabeth; Hoyle, Victoria; Lomas, Elizabeth; Flinn, Andrew; Sexton, Anna (Archival Science, 2020)
In 2019, there were over 75,000 children and young people in out-of-home care in England and Wales. Recent estimates suggest that up to half a million British people were in state or voluntary care as children, around 1% of the adult population. While individual experiences vary enormously by time and place, care-experienced people share in common the intensive documentation of their lives by social workers, educators, health professionals and associated practitioners. A complex, fragmented legislative and regulatory framework governs the creation and use of these records at the national level. Under UK law, a ‘care file’ must be retained for at least 75 years, so that a substantial legacy of care data is held across the public, voluntary and private sectors. MIRRA: Memory—Identity—Rights in Records—Access, a participatory research project co-produced with care leavers, investigated recordkeeping practices in child social care from multiple perspectives. Interviews, focus groups and workshops with stakeholders identified critical failings in the creation, use, management and access to care records, which do not account for the needs and capabilities of multiple stakeholders. These failings have a direct impact on the well-being and health of care-experienced people throughout their lives. MIRRA researchers developed a human-centred participatory recordkeeping approach to child social care, which this article describes. The approach combines the participatory continuum model (Rolan in Arch Sci 17(3):195–225. https://doi.org/10.1007/ s10502-016-9267-7, 2017) and the capabilities approach to social work, rooting child social care recordkeeping in information rights principles. The article makes a contribution to the literature that discusses archival science within a human rights and ethics framework and reflects on trauma-informed practice for information professionals. It also provides guidance on practice improvements for child social care recording.
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Rethinking Heritage in Precarious Times Coloniality, Climate Change, and Covid-19 - Shepperd, Nick (Routledge, 2023)
Rethinking Heritage in Precarious Times sets a fresh agenda for Heritage Studies by reflecting upon the unprecedented nature of the contemporary moment. In doing so, the volume also calls into question established ideas, ways of working, and understandings of the future. Presenting contributions by leading figures in the field of Heritage Studies, Indigenous scholars, and scholars from across the global north and global south, the volume engages with the most pressing issues of today: coloniality, the climate emergency, the Covid-19 pandemic, structural racism, growing social and economic inequality, and the ongoing struggle for dignity and restitution.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-07 July; Colonialism; Covid-19; Pandemic

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

History textbooks and the wars in Asia: divided memories - Shin, Gi-Wook; Sneider, Daniel C. (Routledge, 2011)
OCLC: ocn651914367
Keywords: 20th century; East Asia; Historiography; History; Military Historiography; History; Military Study and teaching (Secondary); History; Military Textbooks; Nationalism and education; Nationalism and historiography; References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights; Social aspects

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

Fighting to the End of Life Without Parole in the US: “We Aren’t our Worst Mistake” - Sibbald, Kristen (Human Rights Watch, 2023)
Joseph Bell was 26 years old when a California judge sentenced him to life without the possibility of parole (LWOP) for his role in a murder and robbery. He didn’t pull the trigger, but was sentenced to LWOP under the “felony murder rule.”
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-06 June

State Coordinated Violence in Chad under Hissène Habré - Silva, Romesh; Klingner, Jeff; Weikart, Scott (Human Rights Data Analysis Group, 2010)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Exhibition - ‘Women in Revolt!’ at Tate Britain is a deliciously angry tour de force of feminist art - Silver, Hannah (wallpaper.com, 2023)
‘Women in Revolt!’ puts feminist art from 1970 – 1990 under the spotlight at Tate Britain - Until 2024-04-07 at Tate Britain, London
United Kingdom
Keywords: 2023-10 November

Little space for dissent as Algeria sends researcher, journalist to jail - Simon Speakman Cordall (Al Jazeera, 2023)
Canadian-Algerian researcher among those sentenced for ‘publishing sensitive information’.
Algeria
Keywords: 2023-08 August; 2023-09 September

Sixty years of sound: The cassette’s past, present and future in Egypt - Simon, Andrew (Al Jazeera, 2023)
On its birthday, Al Jazeera looks beyond the cassette’s invention in Europe and at its life in Egypt. Adawiya, Imam and Kishk used the technology to circumvent censorship and reach a mass audience in the absence of Egyptian radio, which came under state control in 1934 and refused to give them airtime.
Egypt
Keywords: 2023-09 September

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

Zimbabwe’s ‘Patriotic Act’ erodes freedoms and may be a tool for repression - Sithole, Tinashe (The Conversation, 2023)
Opposition activists have previously been accused of treason and unpatriotic behaviour for expressing concerns about human rights abuses.
Zimbabwe
Keywords: 2023-07 July

L'affaire Papon - Slitinski, Michel (Editions Alain Moreau, 1983)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Encoded Archival Description (EAD) - Society of American Archivists (Society of American Archivists, 2015)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Le Paraguay : la terreur racontée par elle-même - Solis Azuaga, Gabriela (Gazette des archives, 2007)
Le Paraguay : la terreur racontée par elle-même. ; Gabriela Solís Azuaga présente dans cet article son témoignage vécu du stronisme, régime despotique du général Stroessner que le Paraguay a subi pendant 35 ans. Après avoir présenté brièvement le Paraguay et son histoire, l’auteur tente de définir ce régime, atypique à plus d’un titre. La découverte en 1992 des archives de la police politique du stronisme, archives dites de la terreur, a permis à certaines familles de connaître la vérité sur le sort de leurs disparus et d’obtenir justice. Mais l’intérêt de ce fonds dépasse le cadre national puisqu’on y trouve les fichiers et dossiers de l’Opération Condor qui concernent les pays d’Amérique latine impliqués dans ce plan coordonné de répression. L’auteur conclut en constatant que le temps du travail de mémoire n’est pas encore arrivé au Paraguay, alors que la compréhension du passé permettrait de résoudre les difficultés auxquelles il est toujours confronté.
Other Publications

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

Tutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission | South African History Online - South African History Online: Towards a People’s History (sahistory.org.za)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Silence, Accessibility, and Reading Against the Grain: Examining Voices of the Marginalized in the India Office Records - Sowry, Nathan (InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, 2012)
This paper deals with issues of power and silencing of the “Other” within colonial archives, particularly regarding British East India Company records of an attempted mutiny of Bengali sepoys and Javanese aristocrats in 1815, now housed in the India Office Records of the British Library. It recommends incorporating a postcolonial approach and reading records against the grain in order to recover these marginalized voices. The body of this paper is broken into three sections. The first section introduces the historical context of the attempted mutiny, questions the incomplete nature of archival and colonial records, and discusses the archivist’s responsibility to present as complete a record as possible. The second section discusses the introduction and importance of postmodern theory to the archival field. Particularly significant are arguments by practicing archivists who advocate reading records against the grain to recover voices of the marginalized, how this can be incorporated into archival practice, and the ensuing difficulties which may emerge. Finally, the third section discusses problems of access to colonial records such as those held in the India Office Records, and how the practices of digitization, international cooperation and preservation, and reading records against the grain are able to produce a plurality of voices.
Other Publications
Keywords: A&DwP website

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

Indian child brides sold in 'package deals' to Gulf men - Srivastava, Roli (news.trust.org, 2017)
"I was 14 and our neighbour told us that a rich Arab boy was looking for a bride. We went to meet him. He was not a boy. He was 62"
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

Mapping with deep meaning: Preserving memory in El Salvador - Stacey, Megan (Western News, 2023)
Western University Libraries (London, Ontario, Canada) is contributing to Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador by capturing the history of Salvadoran Civil War
El Salvador
Keywords: 2023-10 November

EU sanctions Russians over Ukraine war disinformation - Staff Writer (2023)
"We are targeting those carrying out information manipulation and interference as part of a broader hybrid campaign by Russia against the EU and the member states," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said
Europe
Keywords: 2023-07 July

Declassified protocols indicate Golda Meir considered Palestinian statehood - Staff, Toi (The Times of Israel, 2023)
Documents show that former prime minister gave serious thought to possibility of formation of a Palestinian entity, despite public comments.
Israel
Keywords: 2023-08 August; Golda Meir; Palestine; Palestinian Statehood

Prezentul trecutului recent: Lustraţie şi decomunizare în postcomunism - Stan, Lavinia (Curtea Veche, 2010)
Read reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. O lucrare de anvergura, volumul de fata examineaza modul in care toate tarile est europene pos…
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union: Reckoning with the communist past - Stan, Lavinia (Routledge, 2010)
During the last two decades, the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have attempted to address the numerous human rights abuses that characterized the decades of communist rule. This book examines the main processes of transitional justice that permitted societies in those countries to come to terms with their recent past. It explores lustration, the banning of communist officials and secret political police officers and informers from post-communist politic, ordinary citizens’ access to the remaining archives compiled on them by the communist secret police, as well as trials and court proceedings launched against former communist officials and secret agents for their human rights trespasses. Individual chapters explore the progress of transitional justice in Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Slovenia and the successor states of the former Soviet Union. The chapters explain why different countries have employed different models to come to terms with their communist past; assess each country’s relative successes and failures; and probe the efficacy of country-specific legislation to attain the transitional justice goals for which it was developed. The book draws together the country cases into a comprehensive comparative analysis of the determinants of post-communist transitional justice, that will be relevant not only to scholars of post-communist transition, but also to anyone interested in transitional justice in other contexts.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Truth Commissions in Post-Communism: The Overlooked Solution? - Stan, Lavinia (The Open Political Science Journal, 2009)
Despite their increased popularity in Latin America, Africa and Asia, truth commissions have remained an overlooked solution to coming to terms with the recent human rights abuses perpetrated in communist Europe. Since the start of the democratization process in the early 1990s, only Germany, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and Romania have employed truth commissions as methods to reckon with communist crimes. These five commissions share important similarities and differences in terms of their organizational structure, goals, activity, and efficacy. The scarcity of truth commissions in post-communist Europe is explained by the nature of communist repression, the legitimacy of the communist regime as a home-grown versus an externally-imposed political set of institutions and practices, and the use of lustration and access to secret files as methods to obtain truth, justice and reconciliation in posttotalitarian times.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Post-Communist Transitional Justice: Lessons from Twenty-Five Years of Experience - Stan, Lavinia; Nedelsky, Nadya (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Taking stock of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the collapse of the communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe, this volume explores the ways these societies have grappled with the serious human rights violations of past regimes. It focuses on the most important factors that have shaped the nature, speed, and sequence of transitional justice programs in the period spanning the tumultuous revolutions that brought about the collapse of the communist dictatorships and the consolidation of new democratic regimes. Contributors explain why leaders made certain choices, discuss the challenges they faced, and explore the role of under-studied actors and grassroots strategies. Written by recognized experts with an unparalleled grasp of the region's communist and post-communist reality, this volume addresses far-reaching reckoning, redress, and retribution policy choices. It is an engaging and carefully crafted volume, and it covers a wide variety of cases and discusses key transitional justice theories using both qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Constitution of the Republic of South Africa [No. 108 of 1996] - STATUTES OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA-CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (STATUTES OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA-CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, 1996)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

The potential and challenges of open data for crisis information management and aid efficiency - Stauffacher, Daniel; Hattotuwa, Sanjana; Weekes, Barbara (ICT for Peace Foundation, 2012)
Other Publications
Keywords: A&DwP website

Harassment and attacks on human rights activists in Palestine are rarely punished. - Stein, Sam (The Progressive Magazine, 2023)
A recent trial of an attack by an Israeli settler on a U.S. citizen shows how difficult it is to obtain justice when harassment and attacks on human rights activists are committed.
Palestine (permanent observer to the UN)
Keywords: 2023-10 October; Israel

Naomi Klein on “Selective” Information About Israel and Gaza (2023)
Host Brian Stelter joins Naomi Klein to discuss how right-wing podcasters helped create “a parallel reality,” and the challenges of understanding what’s happening on the ground in Israel and Gaza as an information war plays out alongside the carnage.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-10 November

La Isla: Archives of a Tragedy - Stelzner, Uli (2009)
In July 2005 a huge explosion in the Guatemalan Capital leads to the discovery of the historic archive of the National Police. On the grounds of the today's Police Academy used to be located the island, the secret prison of notori...
IMDb ID: tt1590791 event-location: Germany, Guatemala
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Q & A: Why US advocates want more power to probe Indigenous boarding schools - Stepansky, Joseph (Al Jazeera, 2023)
Ben Barnes, chief of the Shawnee Tribe, tells Al Jazeera that advocates do not want the truth ‘sifted through a sieve’. Starting from around 1819 and continuing through the 1960s, generations of Indigenous children were separated from their families and sent to the institutions, run by government or missionary organisations. Washington released the results of a first-of-its-kind investigation into the boarding schools and their policies.
United States of America
Keywords: 2023-09 September; Boarding schools; Forced child removal; Shawnee Tribe

'Canadians would be shocked': Survivors describe treatment at Nanaimo Indian Hospita - Sterritt, Angela; Dufresne, Manjula (CBC, 2018)
Survivors and experts say the treatment at the second-largest Indian hospital in Canada was allegedly harsh and abusive, and claim patients weren't told why they were being physically restrained and sometimes held for many years.
Keywords: References - Comma (2020 1-2); Archives and Human Rights

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

Archival Landscape: Archives and Human Rights - Stinnett, Graham (Progressive Librarian: A Journal for Critical Studies & Progressive Politics in Librarianship, 2009)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Treading the ground of contested memory: archivists and the human rights movement in Chile - Strauss, Amanda (Archival Science, 2015)
This article proposes a new definition of social justice that is based in liberation theology. It questions the relationship between archival practice and social justice and asks how (and whether) social justice can (or should be) a transformative force in the archival profession. These theoretical questions are examined through a case study of human rights archives. The author travelled to Chile in December 2011 to interview archivists and human rights activists and visit human rights archives, museums, and memorials. The article identifies three archival processes by which archivists in Chile engage in social justice activism: the act of documenting human rights violations that dictator Augusto Pinochet perpetrated during his rule from 1973 to 1990; by continually acquiring new documents that bear witness to these violations; and by providing, indeed encouraging and promoting, access to these materials. The article argues that the way that human rights archivists carry out these archival processes allows the community to participate in building both the archives and the memory of the dictatorship. It concludes by stating that this connection between the archives and the community is one of the primary ways in which social justice can be integrated into the archival profession.
Other Publications
Keywords: A&DwP website; Chile; Human rights; Liberation theology; Memory; Social justice

¿Existe un lugar seguro para proteger tu rostro? - Stroehlein, Andrew (Human Rights Watch, 2023)
¿Ha tenido alguna vez la sensación de que alguien te sigue? Tus temores pueden estar justificados, ya que las nuevas tecnologías facilitan más que nunca la vigilancia.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-10 October; Government; Social Security

Global Demand for Universal Social Security - Stroehlein, Andrew (Human Rights Watch, 2023)
Governments and international financial institutions should make a commitment to create social security systems that enable everyone to realize their rights.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-10 October; Government; Social Security

La denuncia de genocidio contra Israel ante la Corte Internacional de Justicia - Stroehlein, Andrew (Human Rights Watch, 2024)
Mañana será un día importante para el gobierno de Israel y el pueblo palestino, así como para la historia de la justicia internacional. El más alto tribunal del mundo iniciará las audiencias sobre las acusaciones de genocidio en Gaza.
Israel
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Gaza; Isreal

La denuncia de genocidio contra Israel ante la Corte Internacional de Justicia - Stroehlein, Andrew (Human Rights Watch, 2024)
Mañana será un día importante para el gobierno de Israel y el pueblo palestino, así como para la historia de la justicia internacional. El más alto tribunal del mundo iniciará las audiencias sobre las acusaciones de genocidio en Gaza.
South Africa
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Gaza; Isreal

Une pierre angulaire des droits humains - Stroehlein, Andrew (Human Rights Watch, 2023)
Il est logique de qualifier la sécurité sociale de « pierre angulaire » des droits humains, car de nombreux autres droits en dépendent, comme le droit à l'éducation ou à la santé.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2023-10 October; Government; Social Security

The Workings of Human Rights, Law and Justice: A Journey from Nepal to Nobel Nominee - Subedi, Surya (Routledge & CRC Press, 2024)
Drawing on the personal experience of a leading international jurist, this book provides insights into the workings of international law and human rights from a global perspective. The work follows the author’s remarkable journey from a simple village in Nepal to becoming an international jurist acclaimed for his innovative academic and influential practical legal work and nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. While much has been written on international human rights law, this inspirational memoir casts a new light on the working of human rights, law, and justice through the eyes of a leading actor. It provides a valuable contribution to the study of justice and human rights and the importance of individual action.
Worldwide
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Mort de Nahel : quand la police française va-t-elle enfin changer ? - Süddeutsche Zeitung (Courrier International, 2023)
La mort de Nahel M., abattu par un policier à Nanterre le 27 juin, émeut la presse internationale. Pour ce quotidien de centre gauche allemand, il est grand temps que la France change de cap dans la question récurrente des violences policières. Car, dans l’Hexagone, les forces de sécurité protègent d’abord l’État et non ses citoyens.
France
Keywords: 2023-06 June

Dissolution des Soulèvements de la terre : le collectif annonce un recours devant le Conseil d’État - SudOuest.fr; Agence France-Presse (SudOuest.fr, 2023)
Dissous en Conseil des ministres ce mercredi, le groupement écologiste annonce déposer un recours devant le Conseil d’État.
France
Keywords: 2023-06 June

Press Conference by the Chief Cabinet Secretary June 3, 2016 (PM) - Suga, Yoshihide (Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet, 2016)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Press Conference by the Chief Cabinet Secretary November 9, 2015 (AM) - Suga, Yoshihide (Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet, 2015)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Press Conference by the Chief Cabinet Secretary October 13, 2015 (AM) - Suga, Yoshihide (Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet, 2015)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights

Press Conference by the Chief Cabinet Secretary October 14, 2016 (PM) - Suga, Yoshihide (Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet, 2016)
Keywords: References - Boel et al. (2021); Archives and Human Rights