Google plans to put datacentres in space to meet demand for AI - Booth, Robert (The Guardian, 2025)
US technology company’s engineers want to exploit solar power and the falling cost of rocket launches
Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI); Climate crisis; Computing; Elon Musk; Google; Nvidia; Space; SpaceX; Technology

"Hide Records at Your own Peril," Government Warns Record Managers - Mbungu Harrison & Mwakwaya Raymond (The Coast Media Group, 2025)
Head of Public Service Felix Koskei has warned records managers against unprofessional conduct, including hiding or misplacing files, saying such actions undermine public trust and taint the image of the profession and government institutions.

YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations - Valdez, Nikita Mazurov, Jonah (The Intercept, 2025)
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

EE. UU. logra reducir tareas de Misión de ONU en Colombia y arremete contra Petro y dice que esperará al próximo gobierno - Redacción Colombia (EL ESPECTADOR, 2025)
Se decidieron suprimir dos funciones clave de su mandato: la verificación del cumplimiento de las sentencias restaurativas de la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP) y el seguimiento al capítulo étnico del Acuerdo de Paz de 2016.

EE. UU. logra reducir tareas de Misión de ONU en Colombia y arremete contra Petro y dice que esperará al próximo gobierno - Redacción Colombia (EL ESPECTADOR, 2025)
Se decidieron suprimir dos funciones clave de su mandato: la verificación del cumplimiento de las sentencias restaurativas de la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP) y el seguimiento al capítulo étnico del Acuerdo de Paz de 2016.

Kaya Suraci Researches Human Rights Abuses in El Salvador - Marcos, Andrea (Center for Human Rights, 2025)
"When a spreadsheet of documents mentioning his name became a video call with his family, this work researching atrocities from 40 years in the past gave me new insight into the power of human rights research."

The powerlessness of the ICRC during the Nazi period (Arolsen Archives, 2025)
How and why the Red Cross failed in the face of humanitarian crimes against the civilian population.

Archives in times of war and algorithms: who will guard the memory? - Marimon, Sílvia (Ara in English, 2025)
Barcelona hosts more than 2,000 professionals from 110 countries to discuss the present and future of archives.

Futures_Past Brings Southern African Archives To Life Through Immersive Storytelling (africa.com, 2025)
Six institutions, six powerful histories, and a call to artists to reimagine heritage with immersive arts

The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects - Andrew Deck and Hanaa' Tameez (Nieman Lab, 2025)
Between May and October 2025, homepage snapshots fell by 87% across 100 news publications.

Launch of the Syria Prisons Museum at the National Museum in Damascus (Prisons Museum, 2025)
The Syria Prisons Museum seeks to uncover and document the crimes and violations committed in Syria’s prisons, and to preserve the collective memory of those places. Drawing on live testimonies from former prisoners, the project also relies on documents, photographs, and physical evidence carefully examined and analyzed by the team, in addition to field imaging and 3-D scanning of prisons and detention centers.

Palestine as provenance: archiving against genocide from Gaza to South Lebanon (Jabal Amil) - Ghaddar, J. J. (Archival Science, 2025)
How can we archive against genocide in Gaza and its extension elsewhere in Palestine and surrounding countries like Lebanon in this urgent moment while avoiding the pitfalls of white guilt and paternalistic benevolence? How can we draw on models and practices of mutual aid and solidarity between Lebanon and Palestine to articulate a robust decolonial archival praxis?
Keywords: Gaza genocide; Lebanon; Nakba; Palestine; Provenance; Zionism; archival erasure; digitality; emergency mitigation

Filming what survives - Ibrahim Snoopy; Phil Cox (Africa is a Country, 2020)
Made just as Sudan descended into war, 'Khartoum' captures the beauty, pain, and humanity of a city shaken by violence—and the filmmakers who became refugees alongside their subjects.

A toolbox to deal with misinformation in disaster risk management - Rosa Vicari (The Living Library)
Misinformation significantly challenges disaster risk management by increasing risks and complicating response efforts.

DHS asked Texas for driver’s license data for citizenship checks - Despart, Jen Fifield, Zach (The Texas Tribune, 2025)
It’s the latest step to pool confidential data that the Trump administration claims will help identify noncitizens on voter rolls and tighten immigration enforcement.

À Gaza, l’écocide comme arme de génocide - Blast (Blast, 2025)
Après deux ans de génocide, Gaza est devenu un vaste champ de ruines et de poussière. En plus des bâtiments, l'armée israélienne a détruit toutes les cultures de l'enclave, intoxiqué les sols et souillé les eaux. Une destruction de l'environnement qui pourrait causer des milliers de morts à long terme.

DHS Agreement Reveals Risks of Using Social Security Data for Voter Citizenship Checks - Fifield, Jen (ProPublica, 2025)
A recently released agreement gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security data. It contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy and privacy, experts say.

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders - Davies, Harry; Abraham, Yuval (The Guardian, 2025)
Like other big tech companies, Google and Amazon’s cloud businesses routinely comply with requests from police, prosecutors and security services to hand over customer data to assist investigations. To deal with the threat, officials created a secret warning system: the companies must send signals hidden in payments to the Israeli government, tipping it off when it has disclosed Israeli data to foreign courts or investigators.
Keywords: Amazon; Google; Israel; Technology; US news; World news

Journalism is the oxygen of democracy: How Sudan’s information crisis reflects a global reality (Global Voices, 2025)
Now more than ever, we need to talk about the importance of journalism. This is not about journalism as an abstract ideal, or as an industry fighting for survival, but as a living, breathing force that connects people to the information they need. Protecting journalism is not just about saving newsrooms. It is about safeguarding people’s right to usable, trusted information, which is the very foundation of healthy societies everywhere.

CFP: Seeking Oral Historians for Bloomsbury’s Trans Studies Book Series - Cheryl (Publishing in the Archives Profession, 2025)
Oral historians are warmly invited to write books for Trans Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic. We seek books that give voice to previously unrecognized transgender and nonbinary people and issues, with a special emphasis on topics not well documented in written literature, but for which there are oral archives that allow the recovery of previously forgotten histories. We also welcome books that explore already well-recognized transgender and nonbinary topics that can be examined in greater depth through oral histories.

Interview with editors of “Archivist Actions, Abolitionist Futures” (Issues & Advocacy, 2025)
Alison Clemens is an archivist and librarian, and founding co-coordinator of the Abolition in Special Collections collective. Jess Farrell is an archival consultant at Redstart Works and a community organizer.

At least 49 relatives and colleagues of Afghans in data leak have been killed, study suggests - Taylor, Diane (The Guardian, 2025)
Research also finds 200 of 231 people notified by MoD of breach reported threats to themselves or families
Keywords: Afghanistan; Data protection; Ministry of Defence; Superinjunctions; Taliban; UK news

Vers un « goulag numérique » : comment la Russie développe le contrôle et la surveillance de ses citoyens - Trusov, Iurii (The Conversation, 2025)
Le rapide développement de nombreuses technologies de contrôle et de surveillance tend à transformer la Russie entière, y compris l’espace numérique, en un espace où aucune contestation n’est possible.

Cybercrime Convention ‘a Promise’ That Rights to Privacy, Dignity, Safety Must Be Protected, Secretary-General Says at Signing Ceremony, Calling for Entry into Force (UN Press Release, 2025)
Let us build a cyberspace that respects everyone’s dignity and human rights. And let us ensure that the digital age delivers peace, security and prosperity for all.

Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows - Barratt, Luke; Furneaux, Rosa (The Guardian, 2025)
Executives at world’s biggest datacentre owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities
Keywords: Amazon; E-commerce; Environment; Internet; Technology

« A repository of identity and rights » - Bernard Thomas (Lëtzebuerger Land, 2025)
Roger Hearn, le directeur des secours et des services sociaux de l’UNRWA, sur la digitalisation des archives de l’agence de l’Onu. La question archivistique est éminemment politique: La documentation de I'UNRWA « supports claims to identity, lineage, and origin », rappelle un récent «strategic assessment» commandité par le secrétaire général de l'Onu.

US expands facial recognition technology at borders to track non-citizens - Reuters (The Guardian, 2025)
New regulation will allow US authorities to require non-citizens to be photographed at any point of departure
Keywords: Facial recognition; Technology; US immigration; US news

Génocide au Rwanda : 24 ans de réclusion confirmés en France pour l’ex-médecin Munyemana - RTBF (RTBF, 2025)
L’ancien médecin rwandais Sosthène Munyemana a été condamné à Paris en appel à 24 ans de réclusion criminelle pour sa participation au génocide des Tutsi en 1994 au Rwanda, a-t-on appris vendredi de source judiciaire.

Les talibans bafouent la liberté de la presse (Human Rights Watch, 2025)
Depuis leur prise de contrôle du pays en août 2021, les talibans ont fortement affaibli les médias afghans en recourant à la surveillance et à la censure, et en punissant les professionnels des médias pour des critiques présumées.

Taliban Trample Media Freedom (Human Rights Watch, 2025)
The Taliban have gutted Afghan media since taking control of the country in August 2021 through the use of surveillance and censorship and by punishing media workers for perceived criticism.

Un an après les excuses de Biden, les droits des peuples autochtones aux États-Unis à nouveau fragilisés sous Trump - Félix-Nair, Sonia (The Conversation, 2025)
En octobre 2024, Joe Biden, alors encore président, présentait des excuses historiques aux peuples autochtones des États-Unis, dans la lignée des démarches entreprises par le Canada et par l’Australie en 2008. Un an plus tard, le retour de Donald Trump à la Maison Blanche a marqué un net revirement. Depuis janvier 2025, la nouvelle administration s’emploie à démanteler les avancées obtenues sous Biden et à imposer son propre récit national. Alors que les excuses de 2024 semblaient ouvrir la voie à un dialogue durable, la dynamique actuelle met un frein au processus de réparation historique et alimente les inquiétudes au sein des communautés autochtones.

Don’t use AI to tell you how to vote in election, says Dutch watchdog - France-Presse, Agence (The Guardian, 2025)
Data protection authority says chatbots are ‘clearly biased’, as Netherlands prepares for national poll
Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI); Europe; Netherlands; Technology; World news

Restitutions du patrimoine culturel illicite : un nouveau projet de loi française pourrait changer la donne - Titi, Catharine (The Conversation, 2025)
Le projet de loi sur les restitutions du patrimoine culturel illicite devrait permettre à la France de se positionner à l’avant-garde du débat sur ce sujet.

Togolese authorities threaten greater online speech censorship (Global Voices, 2025)
In Togo, the authorities have restated their intentions to regulate online speech, restricting the use of social media amid heightened political tensions.

Massive leak exposes how China’s ‘Great Firewall’ is being exported to other countries - Ali Rogin (PBS News Weekend, 2025)
For years, China’s government has used what’s known as the “Great Firewall” to censor the internet inside its country and block access to select foreign websites. Now, a document leak shows that a little-known Chinese company is exporting these tools to other countries, including Myanmar, Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Ethiopia.

How Zimbabwe is suppressing journalism (GroundUp News, 2025)
Following arrests and draconian legislation, editors are self-censoring to protect their organisations

Why do reparations for colonialism and slavery matter? (Amnesty International, 2025)
Across the world, people are still suffering the effects of slavery and colonialism and struggling to get the reparations they deserve.

"Immoral mais pratique": au Pakistan, l'exploitation massive d'enfants comme domestiques - AFP (AFP, 2025)
L'enregistrement vidéo et l'article associé traitent du travail domestique illégal des enfants au Pakistan, illustré par plusieurs cas de jeunes filles employées dans des familles aisées, et les conséquences sociales et judiciaires de cette pratique.

Disparitions forcées : coup de filet contre des auteurs présumés - Bergman, David (JusticeInfo.net, 2025)
Le Bangladesh semble s’attaquer de front aux disparitions forcées sous le régime précédent. Le 8 octobre 2025, 24 mandats d’arrêt ont été émis contre des officiers de l’armée présumés responsables de crimes contre l’humanité, et en moins d’une semaine, 13 d’entre eux ont été placés en détention.

Inside the Sudden Collapse of a U.K. Spy Case Against China - Castle, Stephen (The New York Times, 2025)
Evidence prepared for a collapsed espionage trial was published by an under-pressure government in Britain, offering a window into Western countries’ struggle to define Beijing as friend or foe.
Keywords: China; Classified Information and State Secrets; Espionage and Intelligence Services; Great Britain; International Relations; London (England); Security Service (MI5); Starmer, Keir

Inside the Sudden Collapse of a U.K. Spy Case Against China - Castle, Stephen; London, Lizzie Dearden Reporting from (The New York Times, 2025)
Evidence prepared for a collapsed espionage trial was published by an under-pressure government in Britain, offering a window into Western countries’ struggle to define Beijing as friend or foe.
Keywords: China; Classified Information and State Secrets; Espionage and Intelligence Services; Great Britain; International Relations; London (England); Security Service (MI5); Starmer, Keir

CFP: Seeking Material Culture Scholars for Bloombury’s Trans Studies Book Series - Cheryl (Publishing in the Archives Profession, 2025)
Seeking material culture scholars to write and edit books for Trans Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic. We welcome books on transgender and nonbinary l…

EU countries split over extraterritorial in cloud sovereignty definition - Euractiv (Euractiv, 2025)
France is demanding a Council text tackles US data access laws but several smaller countries are pushing in the opposition direction

Reporters - Le viol, arme de guerre de Bachar al-Assad - France 24 (France 24, 2025)
À partir de 2011, le peuple syrien conteste le régime de Bachar al-Assad. Des milliers d’hommes, de femmes et d’enfants sont arrêtés arbitrairement à travers le pays. Le viol et les violences sexuelles…

Ex-Trump adviser John Bolton pleads not guilty to sharing classified information - Lowell, Hugo (The Guardian, 2025)
Ex-national security adviser surrendered to authorities and made court appearance as he faces 18-count indictment
Keywords: Donald Trump; John Bolton; Trump administration; US news; US politics

Djibouti President Urges Preservation of African Heritage - Africa, Dawan (Dawan Africa, 2025)
The inaugural forum in Djibouti brings together 17 African nations to promote digital archiving, legal transparency, and the preservation of Africa’s collective memory.

Beyond Rhetoric - Feminist Leadership for a Transformative Women, Peace and Security Agenda at 25 - Baldoumas, Abigael (Oxfam, 2025)
Twenty-five years after the United Nations adopted Resolution 1325, the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is both a landmark in diplomacy and a study in unfulfilled promise. Its most profound achievement has been to force open a conversation about the gendered power structures that fuel conflict.

Launch of veteran card will be used to test UK government’s digital ID scheme - Booth, Robert (The Guardian, 2025)
Ministers hope scheme for 1.8 million people will show how technology works and ease privacy and security concerns
Keywords: Apps; British army; Identity cards; Military; Politics; Technology; UK civil liberties; UK news

Au Japon aussi, la neutralité des médias est au cœur des débats - Castellvi, César (The Conversation, 2025)
Un récent scandale incite à une plongée dans l’évolution historique du positionnement des médias japonais sur la question de la neutralité politique.

Former Bush adviser charged with amassing top secret files - Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (The Guardian, 2025)
Indian-American Ashley Tellis allegedly obtained US military data and passed envelopes to Chinese officials
Keywords: India; South and central Asia; Trump administration; US national security; US news; US politics; World news

Former Bush adviser charged with amassing top secret files - Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (The Guardian, 2025)
Indian-American Ashley Tellis allegedly obtained US military data and passed envelopes to Chinese officials
Keywords: India; South and central Asia; Trump administration; US national security; US news; US politics; World news

Ces images de manifestations pro-Israël ont été générées par IA - France 24 (France 24, 2025)
Depuis fin septembre, des vidéos impressionnantes montrant d’immenses manifestations pro-israéliennes à Paris, Londres et New York circulent sur les réseaux sociaux, partagées par un compte de soutien…

Pédocriminalité | L’Église néglige trop les victimes, selon un rapport du Vatican - Melki, Clément (La Presse / AFP, 2025)
Représailles « troublantes », négligence, manque de transparence, lenteur : l’Église catholique souffre encore de sévères maux dans l’accompagnement des victimes de violences sexuelles en son sein, malgré des années d’efforts pour lutter contre ce fléau mondial, a révélé une commission du Vatican.

La France accusée par l'ONU de «violations graves» des droits des enfants migrants - RFI (RFI, 2025)
Le Comité des droits de l'enfant des Nations Unies conclut dans son rapport publié jeudi 16 octobre 2025 que la France est responsable de violations « graves et systématiques » des droits des enfants migrants non accompagnés. Les experts affirment que beaucoup de jeunes sont exclus du système de protection de l’enfance et vivent dans des conditions jugées dégradantes.

Digital ID: Danes and Estonians find it ‘pretty uncontroversial’ - Bryant, Miranda (The Guardian, 2025)
Citizens have enrolled with little opposition, albeit with some concerns over security and privacy, as UK plans system
Keywords: Apps; Cybercrime; Data protection; Denmark; Estonia; Europe; Hacking; Identity cards; Internet; Politics; Privacy; Surveillance; Technology; UK news

A Photographer Who Brought a Vanished Central European Jewry to Life - Erlanger, Steven (The New York Times, 2025)
Edward Serotta created an archive of 1,230 in-depth interviews with Holocaust survivors about how they lived, both before and after. “Every one of them comes with a story,” he said.
Keywords: Archives and Records; Audio Recordings, Downloads and Streaming; Central Europe; Content Type: Personal Profile; Eastern Europe; Jews and Judaism; Photography; Serotta, Edward; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Vienna (Austria)

La Suprema Corte de México da un paso adelante, pero se queda corta - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2025)
Cuando Martha García, una joven activista con discapacidad y estudiante, se enteró de que la Suprema Corte planeaba modificar un precedente legal que podría debilitar el derecho de las personas con discapacidad a participar en la vida democrática, decidió actuar. / When Martha García, a young activist with a disability and student, learned that the Supreme Court was planning to change a legal precedent that could weaken the right of persons with disabilities to participate in democratic life, she decided to take action.

Les mécanismes de la corruption illustrés par le cas de Malte - Venard, Bertrand (The Conversation, 2025)
À Malte, huit ans après l’assassinat de la journaliste Daphne Caruana Galizia, qui avait sans relâche dénoncé ce fléau, la corruption demeure un phénomène structurel.

Video: Inside Iran’s Museum of American Espionage - Walsh, Declan; Kiazand, Gelareh; Hazell, Jon; Thornell, Christina (The New York Times, 2025)
The enduring animosity between the United States and Iran is reflected inside the walls of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran, now turned into a museum of anti-American propaganda. U.S. involvement in the June Iran-Israel war has resurfaced that shared past.
Keywords: Central Intelligence Agency; Diplomatic Service, Embassies and Consulates; Iran; Israel; Museums; Tehran (Iran); United States International Relations

‘Your basis to live is checked at each and every step’: India’s ID system divides opinion - Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (The Guardian, 2025)
Keir Starmer is considering Aadhaar as model for UK, but detractors warn of ‘digital coercion’ and security breaches
Keywords: Human rights; India; South and central Asia; Technology; UK news; World news

Histoire des goulags : travailler sur les archives d’un pays en guerre - Erner, Guillaume (France Culture, 2025)
Dans sa thèse, Guillaume Minea-Pic revient sur les origines du goulag, cette administration soviétique qui est un vaste réseau de travaux forcés, de camps et de déportation mis en place sous Staline. Le chercheur explique "avant d'être entré dans le langage commun, le goulag, c'est un acronyme qui veut dire administration principale des camps." Le réseau de goulag est selon Guillaume Minea-Pic le plus vaste réseau de camps de concentration du XXème siècle par lequel 3,5 voire 4 millions d'individus sont passés et ont trouvé la mort du fait des mauvais traitements.

Civil society urges Commission to probe Irish privacy watchdog's independence - Euractiv (Euractiv, 2025)
In an open letter, more than 40 civil society organisations have questioned the DPC's independence after it appointed a former Meta lobbyist to be its third commissioner

Call for Articles: Disabilities in Libraries & Information Studies - Cheryl (Publishing in the Archives Profession, 2025)
DisLIS Open for Article Submissions Disabilities in Libraries & Information Studies (DisLIS) is now accepting articles for peer-reviewed, open access publication. This includes o…

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information - Helmore, Edward (The Guardian, 2025)
Defense department policy requires outlets to vow not to obtain unauthorized files and restricts access to some areas
Keywords: CNN; Media; New York Times; Newspapers; Pete Hegseth; The Guardian; Trump administration; US news; US politics; US press and publishing; Washington Post

Against ‘chat control’: we can’t eliminate child abuse by eliminating privacy - Jeremy Malcolm (The Guardian, 2025)
Banning online anonymity tools like Tor won’t stop crime. It will only drive people underground and normalize government control over the internet
Keywords: Children; Privacy; Society; Technology; Tor

Naciones Unidas subraya que el Premio Nobel a Machado “es una oportunidad para recordar a las víctimas y su derecho a la justicia” - Moleiro, Alonso; Singer, Florantonia (EL PAÍS América, 2025)
El Consejo de Derechos Humanos advierte de que el chavismo “continúa persiguiendo a las voces críticas”. El Gobierno de Maduro cierra su Embajada en Noruega tras la concesión del galardón

Restitution row: how Nigeria’s new home for the Benin bronzes ended up with clay replicas - Oltermann, Philip; Egbejule, Eromo (The Guardian, 2025)
The public display of artefacts looted by British colonial forces at the new Museum of West African Art was supposed to be the crowning glory of a decades-long restitution effort. What went wrong?
Keywords: Africa; Benin; British empire; Culture; Germany; Museums; Nigeria; World news

l’ONU salue un pas décisif vers la vérité et la justice pour les disparitions forcées - ONU Info (ONU Info, 2025)
L’ouverture de poursuites contre des personnes accusées d’être responsables de disparitions forcées et d'actes de torture sous le précédent gouvernement au Bangladesh constitue une étape importante vers la reddition de comptes, a déclaré le Haut-Commissaire des Nations Unies aux droits de l’homme.

UN rights chief hails Bangladesh prosecutions over enforced disappearances - UN News (UN News, 2025)
L’ouverture de poursuites contre des personnes accusées d’être responsables de disparitions forcées et d'actes de torture sous le précédent gouvernement au Bangladesh constitue une étape importante vers la reddition de comptes, a déclaré le Haut-Commissaire des Nations Unies aux droits de l’homme.

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people - Wilson, Jason (The Guardian, 2025)
Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’
Keywords: Meta; Technology; US news; World news

The genocide in Srebrenica mustn’t be allowed to remain a niche issue - A conversation with activist Sejfuddin Dizdarevic - Arolsen Archives (Arolsen Archives, 2025)
What drives a person to dedicate themselves tirelessly to education, remembrance, and civic engagement? Born in 1977 in Zenica (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Sejfuddin Dizdarevic came to Germany as a teenager. For him, the genocide in Srebrenica in 1995 marked a decisive turning point in his life.

JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters - Sweney, Mark (The Guardian, 2025)
Investment bank had previously planned for such information from New York workers to be voluntary
Keywords: Banking; Biometrics; Business; JP Morgan; New York; Technology sector; US news; World news

Au Togo, les autorités brandissent la menace d'une plus grande censure du discours en ligne (Global Voices en Français, 2025)
Au Togo, les autorités réitèrent leur désir de contrôler le discours en ligne pour restreindre l'usage des réseaux sociaux dans un contexte de confrontation politique intense

En Togo, autoridades amenazan con más censura el discurso en línea (Global Voices en Español, 2025)
En Togo, las autoridades reiteran su deseo de controlar el discurso en línea para restringir el uso de redes sociales en un contexto de intensa confrontación política.

Dutch want to clarify AI rules instead of delaying them - Maximilian Henning (Euractiv, 2025)
A position paper, obtained by Euractiv, also contains ideas on digital reporting obligations and streamlining privacy rules

New film explores how Caribbean workers helped win second world war - Osuh, Chris (The Guardian, 2025)
Commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, Cornwallis Cloth ends ‘archival silence’ around invaluable West Indian contribution to war effort
Keywords: Black British culture; Caribbean; Imperial War Museums; Second world war; World news

In the dark. Access to key Russian archives is being restricted as the state seeks to tighten its control of historical memory - Alexander Leonidovich (Novaya Gazeta Europe, 2025)
Archive files detailing the fate of millions of Soviet citizens who were executed or imprisoned during the Stalin era have suddenly been made harder for historians to access. The Russian federal archive authority’s decision to limit access to such documents to the relatives of individual victims is both a violation of Russian law and will further hamper the work of historians researching the period. As it is, to date just a quarter of Stalin’s victims are known to historians by name.

Former premier of Nunavut calls on Carney to stop victimizing Inuit - Sanders, Leane (APTN News, 2025)
The former premier of Nunavut is calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to end the federal government’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit against Canada over an “International Biological Experiments” program undertaken in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

This Adoptee Discovered a Trove of Documents in a Nun’s Basement. The Rare Vietnam War Records May Rewrite the Story of Operation Babylift - Strochlic, Nina (Smithsonian Magazine, 2025)
The April 1975 effort matched more than 2,800 infants and children evacuated from Vietnam with adoptive families. Today, the adoptees are searching for clues to their past—and reflecting on the complicated legacy of their evacuation

This Adoptee Discovered a Trove of Documents in a Nun’s Basement. The Rare Vietnam War Records May Rewrite the Story of Operation Babylift - Strochlic, Nina (Smithsonian Magazine, 2025)
The April 1975 effort matched more than 2,800 infants and children evacuated from Vietnam with adoptive families. Today, the adoptees are searching for clues to their past—and reflecting on the complicated legacy of their evacuation

Robert Badinter et l'abolition de la peine de mort - Grandbesançon, Laure (France Inter, 2025)
Plongée dans l'odyssée d'un homme juste qui a consacré sa vie à défendre la dignité humaine. Le sujet de l'émission étant un peu délicat, Laure Grandbesançon recommande d'écouter ce podcast en famille.

Beyond an Archive of Suffering, PUCL's Manipur Report Is a Challenge to India's Conscience - Ranjan Solomon (The Wire, 2025)
This article draws from a critique of the PUCL report submitted to the organisation by Ranjan Solomon.

Russia Restricts Access to Stalin-Era Purge Archives (Odessa Journal, 2025)
Russian archives block historians from accessing Stalin-era files, citing security, limiting research on millions repressed during Soviet purges.

Senegal Adopts Access-to-Information Law, Joining Africa’s Transparency Wave - Agency, Ecofin (Ecofin Agency, 2025)
Senegal enacts law granting universal access to public information. Reform aims to boost transparency, job access for youth. AFIC praises move as part of Africa-wide transparency trend.

Institutional memory of Palestinian Public Institutions under the war: Post-October 2023 - Eman Redwan, Imad Kahil, Johannes Sauerland, Patricia Valencia Gallego, Fateh Hamarsheh (Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance, 2025)
This report presents the first comprehensive assessment of the destruction and loss of public records in Palestinian institutions in the Gaza Strip, following the outbreak of war in October 2023. “Institutional memory”, defined as the archived records and documented knowledge of institutions, is a cornerstone of effective governance, particularly in the justice and security sectors. It underpins transparency, continuity, accountability, and the protection of public and private rights.

Aux origines de la liberté académique, de l’Allemagne aux États-Unis - Fernandes, Camille (The Conversation, 2025)
Essentielle aux échanges d’idées et au développement de la recherche, la liberté académique subit aujourd’hui des attaques aux États-Unis, un pays qui ont contribué à son essor.

Morgentaler, le féminisme et l’avortement au Québec - Vigneault, Alexandre (La Presse, 2025)
On ne peut éviter de mentionner le nom du Dr Morgentaler lorsqu’on parle de l’avortement au Québec. Son parcours fait l’objet d’une importante bande dessinée. Or, dans l’ombre de ce célèbre médecin, de très nombreuses femmes ont aussi désobéi pour obtenir le droit de choisir. Une lutte féministe courageuse que raconte l’historienne Marie-Laurence Raby dans un essai éclairant intitulé Braver l’interdit.

Objetivo: matar al periodista - Yakovenko, Beatriz Lecumberri, Margaryta Yakovenko, Perfiles de Margaryta (El País, 2025)
El ejército de Israel ha matado a dos centenares de informadores en Gaza en los últimos dos años, mientras el Gobierno de Netanyahu prohíbe la entrada de la prensa internacional a la Franja. Es una situación inédita en los conflictos bélicos. Los reporteros palestinos son los ojos y oídos del mundo, los únicos testigos que documentan una masacre que ha causado ya más de 65.000 muertos.

Old wounds reopened for Tamils as mass grave discovered since the civil war - Canisius (ABC News, 2025)
A shocking mass grave discovery in Sri Lanka reignites global attention on one of the world's highest cases of unresolved enforced disappearances.
Keywords: Amnesty International; Chemmani grave; excavation; human rights; sri lanka mass grave; sri lankan civil war; sri lankan tamil; tamil; tamil community; war

Indigenous Peoples grapple with claims downplaying the history of residential schools - Passafiume, Alessia (CTVNews, 2025)
As Indigenous Peoples marked the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation this week, they also had to confront a persistent problem: public figures claiming the history of residential schools has been exaggerated or falsified.

Pensionnats pour Autochtones: Des Premières Nations dénoncent le déni de la réalité historique - Passafiume, Alessia (La Presse, 2025)
Un certain nombre de personnalités publiques prétendent que la tragédie des pensionnats pour Autochtones est grandement exagérée ou même carrément déformée, dénoncent des Premières Nations.

Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom - Perkins, Tom (The Guardian, 2025)
Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought
Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI); Business; Chemical industry; Climate crisis; Environment; Health; Pfas; Technology

The World's First Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects Wants Its Collection to Shrink, Not Grow - Feldman, Ella (Smithsonian Magazine, 2025)
Visitors can explore 3D renderings of stolen artworks, historical artifacts, rare books and more in UNESCO's new digital museum

«Orwell 2 + 2 = 5»: décortiquer la tyrannie - Lévesque, François (Le Devoir, 2025)
"Orwell 2 + 2 = 5", le percutant documentaire du cinéaste haïtien Raoul Peck consacré à l’auteur de 1984 et aux théories de ce dernier démonte les mécanismes, comme la désinformation et la déshumanisation, qui permettent aux systèmes autoritaires de se mettre en place.

Face au chaos climatique, les Touareg renoncent à leur nomadisme millénaire - Reporterre (Reporterre, le média de l'écologie - Indépendant et en accès libre, 2025)
Sécheresses, urbanisation... Dans le Sahel, les Touareg sont poussés à la sédentarisation. Moussa Ag Mohamed Lehbib, de l'ONG Tamsidhalt, décrit le sentiment de perte et la nécessaire adaptation au chaos climatique de ces nomades.

Thousands of Germans access Stasi files, 35 years after reunification - DPA International (DPA International, 2025)
Tens of thousands of Germans continue to consult their files from the Stasi, the former East German state security agency, as the country prepares to mark 35 years since reunification on Friday. The Federal Archives received 16,213 applications from citizens for access to files in the first half of 2025, a spokesman told dpa on Thursday.

‘This is strength’: stories of enslaved Africans in Grenada will be made into searchable archive - Abdul, Geneva; Osuh, Chris (The Guardian, 2025)
Depths of Paradise project backed by British family and created by Stephen Lewis, a descendant of survivors
Keywords: Americas; Grenada; Slavery; UK news; World news

Le consentement israélien au génocide - Levy, Gideon (Le Monde diplomatique, 2025)
Journaliste au quotidien « Haaretz », Gideon Levy a passé sa carrière à dénoncer l’occupation des territoires palestiniens, la colonisation, les expulsions, le chantage à l’antisémitisme. Depuis deux ans, il est l’une des rares voix dans son pays à s’élever contre le bain de sang à Gaza. Comment une telle tragédie a-t-elle pu se dérouler dans le silence et l’indifférence de la plupart des Israéliens?

UK government resumes row with Apple by demanding access to British users’ data - Milmo, Dan (The Guardian, 2025)
New access order by Home Office would seek access to the tech company’s encrypted cloud backups
Keywords: Apple; Cloud computing; Computing; Data protection; Home Office; Law; Politics; Technology; Telecoms; UK news; US news

Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured - Tahana, Jamie (The Guardian, 2025)
Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by Māori today
Keywords: Asia Pacific; Māori; New Zealand; University of Oxford

White Work and Reparative Genealogy: Reckoning with Ancestral Debt as a Path to Racial Reparations - Watkins, Mary (Spinger, 2025)
White Work and Reparative Genealogy invites white-identifying readers on a courageous journey into the heart of ancestral memory, historical accountability, and racial repair.

La répression mondiale des défenseurs de l’environnement menace l’action climatique - Amnesty France (Amnesty France, 2025)
Le combat des défenseur·es de l’environnement est essentiel pour l'action climatique. Chaque jour, ils et elles s’engagent pour protéger les terres, les forêts et les océans. Pourtant, ces défenseur·es sont victimes d'une répression mondiale.

Crackdown on forced disappearance alleged perpetrators - Bergam, David (JusticeInfo.net, 2025)
Bangladesh seems to be tackling head-on the scourge of enforced disappearances under the former regime. On 8 October 2025, 24 arrest warrants were issued against army officers allegedly responsible for crimes against humanity, and within a week, 13 had been detained.

‘Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5' Review: Raoul's Peck's Vital Film Shows How We're Living In A ‘1984'-Style Dystopia - Carey, Matthew (MSN, 2025)
Raoul Peck's vital documentary Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5, which premiered tonight at the Cannes Film Festival, makes it startlingly clear the degree to which we are living in Orwellian times. The parallels between the nightmare of 1984 – where Big Brother dictates every facet of life – and Trump's America have not been properly acknowledged. This film does that. T

Gathering Together, We Decide - Tamez, Margo; Bejarano, Cynthia; Sheperd, Jefrey P. (UAPress, 2025)
For Christina Leza, Gathering Together, We Decide brings together a broad range of community, academic, and artistic voices to reflect on the colonized state of Indigenous lands on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and to envision decolonized Indigenous futures.

Freedom of Information Law in China: From Imperial Court Dairies to Open Government Information Regulations - Tang, Yong (Spinger, 2025)
This book assesses and critiques the legal right of access to government-held information in China with a special focus on legislative history, rationales, statutory language and efficacy of the Open Government Information (OGI) Regulations enacted in 2007 by the Chinese government.

Peuples autochtones: Kent Monkman, artiste crie du Manitoba, déconstruit l'histoire canadienne - François, Catherine (TV5MONDE - Informations, 2025)
Rencontre avec l'artiste Kent Monkman qui redonne place aux peuples autochtones et déconstruit l'histoire coloniale au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal.

Remembering the Children of Papenhorst - Arolsen Archives (Arolsen Archives, 2025)
Their names were Viktor, Luisa, Jurji or Irene – 28 gravestones at the cemetery in Nienhagen near Celle commemorate the children of Polish and Russian forced laborers who died in the “Polish children’s home” in Papenhorst during the Nazi era.

Enquêter sur les crimes de guerre : les déplacements forcés - Ng, Vivian (Global Investigative Journalism Network, 2025)
Ce chapitre résume les éléments essentiels à prendre en compte dans une enquête sur les déplacements forcés, afin de comprendre l'impact des déplacements involontaires de personnes loin de leur lieu de résidence, fuyant les conflits, la violence et les persécutions.

Investigating War Crimes: Forced Displacement - Ng, Vivian (Global Investigative Journalism Network, 2025)
More than 122 million people have been forcibly displaced, according to the UN Refugee Agency as of June 2024 — an increase of 5.3 million, compared to the end of 2023. Those fleeing are being pushed out by persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations, and breakdowns in public order.

Sudan conflict: RSF accused of crimes against humanity over el-Fasher siege - Ursher, Barbara Plett; Macaulay, Cecilia (2025)
The group has allegedly carried out murder, rape and other crimes, a UN report says.

La dent - La décolonisation selon Lumumba - Sceneario - Pitz, Nicolas; Lecrenier, Pierre (Glenat, 2025)
Cet album, qui a pour objectif de suivre le parcours de Patrice Lumumba du moment où il obtient sa carte d’immatriculé jusqu’à ses derniers jours, nous parle surtout de la situation extrêmement complexe qui va amener la Belgique à abandonner bon gré mal gré son protectorat au Congo. On sent très bien la tension qui monte et le rôle de plus en plus important que joue Lumumba au fil des années dans cette lutte pour la décolonisation.

Principles in Indigenous Archival Repatriation (PINAR) - Society of American Archivists (Society of American Archivists, 2025)
The SAA Archival Repatriation Committee offers this set of Principles, which aligns with the SAA Core Values Statement and Code of Ethics, and the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials, to center repatriation and ethical returns as a core responsibility for archivists and institutions with holdings pertaining to Indigenous peoples.

Seloua Luste Boulbina : Malaise dans la décolonisation - Luste Boulbina, Seloua (Les presses du réel, 2025)
Les aberrations coloniales ne se sont pas évaporées. Leurs empreintes et leurs recompositions s'observent, aujourd'hui encore, un peu partout dans le monde. Leurs conséquences sont patentes. Au Nord et au Sud. L'existence sociale des Kanak de Nouvelle-Calédonie s'est-elle véritablement et profondément améliorée ? Qu'est-ce qui, en Haïti, hante encore ses citoyens ?

Hollow Land - Weizman, Eyal (Penguin Books, 2024)
In this new edition, Weizman explains how the events following the invasion of Gaza in October 2023 bear witness to the continuing policies of oppression. He details how this book became a foundational text for Forensic Architecture.

Hollow Land - Weizman, Eyal (Penguin Books, 2024)
In this new edition, Weizman explains how the events following the invasion of Gaza in October 2023 bear witness to the continuing policies of oppression. He details how this book became a foundational text for Forensic Architecture.

Repoliticizing a generation - Amber Murrey (Africa is a Country, 2021)
Thirty-eight years after Thomas Sankara’s assassination, the struggle for justice and self-determination endures—from stalled archives and unfulfilled verdicts to new calls for pan-African renewal and a 21st-century anti-imperialist front.

Sixty years on from the 1965 Indonesian genocide (Inside Indonesia’s Newsletter, 2025)
This edition of Inside Indonesia commemorates the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the 1965–1966 genocide, when an estimated half a million men, women and children were murdered for their real or perceived support of the Indonesian Communist Party.

Rescuing the UNRWA Archive: Saving Palestinian History amidst the Gaza Genocide - Kelcey, Jo; Irfan, Anne (History Workshop Journal, 2025)
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has entailed extensive attacks on Palestinian heritage and history, including institutional archives which preserve historical documents, like that of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). In this article, we trace how a small team of UNRWA staff successfully resisted these attacks by rescuing the agency’s archival materials and transferring them out of Gaza.

Musk calls Anti-Defamation League ‘hate group’ for documenting Christian extremism - Robins-Early, Nick (The Guardian, 2025)
Organization earlier this year came to the tech mogul’s aid over his widely criticized salutes at Trump’s inauguration
Keywords: Antisemitism; Charlie Kirk shooting; Christianity; Donald Trump; Elon Musk; Far right (US); Germany; Technology; US news

Jo-Ann found her mum in 1991. Quiet changes will hurt the chance for others - Dennien, Matt (Brisbane Times, 2025)
A shift in Queensland’s approach to allowing adopted people or their families to access information to reunite has cast a shadow over three decades of reform.
Keywords: Adoption; Birth, death and marriage registration; Privacy; Queensland

Britain Is Introducing a Digital ID. Here’s How It Is Expected to Work. - Chutel, Lynsey (The New York Times, 2025)
The government said the new system would help to curb illegal migration, but opponents said it would infringe on citizens’ privacy.
Keywords: Corbyn, Jeremy (1949- ); Farage, Nigel (1964- ); Foreign Workers; Great Britain; Identification Devices; Illegal Immigration; Labour Party (Great Britain); Open Rights Group; Privacy; Starmer, Keir; Swinney, John R

Ireland's privacy watchdog opens probe into sale of citizens' phone locations - Euractiv (Euractiv, 2025)
One of the online data brokers is located in Ireland, the Data Protection Commission told Euractiv, another is in an unspecified EU country

Among the archives, you can find love, community and history - Aino Pihlak (Xtra Magazine, 2025)
Queer and trans archives preserve our past—they also offer community space that is essential to our future

When I was married at 13 I was told refusal would end in my death. Now girls in Iraq as young as nine face the same fate - Ali, Shams (The Guardian, 2025)
A new law legitimises violence and entrenches control over the bodies of millions of women and girls like me
Keywords: Children; Children's rights; Family; Forced marriage; Global development; Human rights; Iraq; Life and style; Marriage; Middle East and north Africa; Society; Women's rights and gender equality; World news

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians - Davies, Harry; Abraham, Yuval (The Guardian, 2025)
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
Keywords: Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestine; Surveillance; West Bank; World news

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians - Davies, Harry; Abraham, Yuval (The Guardian, 2025)
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
Keywords: Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestine; Surveillance; West Bank; World news

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians - Davies, Harry; Abraham, Yuval (The Guardian, 2025)
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
Keywords: Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestine; Surveillance; West Bank; World news

Escaping Gaza City, while reporting on its destruction - Hough, Lucy; Tantesh, Malak A.; Abrahams, Ruth; Khaleeli, Homa; Kent, Sami; Abrahams, Presented by Lucy Houghwith Malak A. Tantesh; produced by Ruth; Khaleeli, Brian McNamara; executive producer Homa (The Guardian, 2025)
Malak A Tantesh on fleeing the Israeli ground offensive in Gaza and becoming a reporter in the most dangerous place on Earth for journalists
Keywords: Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestine; World news

A New Lawsuit Alleges the Gun Industry Exploited Firearm Owners’ Data for Political Gain - Johnson, Corey G. (ProPublica, 2025)
The federal court complaint filed this week closely mirrors the findings of a ProPublica investigation that detailed a decades-long secret program operated by the gun industry’s largest trade group.

The Librarians review – the heroic women battling against book bans and censorship - Clarke, Cath (The Guardian, 2025)
Kim A Snyder’s documentary highlights the defenders of young readers’ rights to see their lives in print facing rightwing attacks
Keywords: Books; Censorship; Culture; Documentary films; Film; Libraries; World news

New Human Rights Watch report links Syrian Government to March coastal massacres, criticizes lack of transparency and accountability in investigation - SyriacPress (SyriacPress, 2025)
A new report released this week by Human Rights Watch, Syrians for Truth and Justice, and Syrian Archive has accused the Syrian Government of failing to confront senior officials’ roles in widespread atrocities carried out during March 2025 in the country’s coastal and central regions.

US border patrol collected DNA from thousands of US citizens for years, data shows - Bhuiyan, Johana (The Guardian, 2025)
CBP officers took DNA samples from about 2,000 citizens, some as young as 14 and many who never faced criminal charges, new analysis shows
Keywords: DNA database; Privacy; Technology; US immigration; US news

Tasmanian right to information review makes 43 recommendations, including release of cabinet information - Holmes, Adam (ABC News, 2025)
From pulp mills to stadiums, Tasmanians don't have access to information about how and why decisions are made. A review of the state's transparency system says this — and many other things — should change.
Keywords: Tasmanian government; government documents; government transparency; right to information; rti

Letters found on eBay cast light on UK families who benefited from slavery - Osuh, Chris (The Guardian, 2025)
Researcher Malik Al Nasir bought historical documents while investigating his family history – and began building an archive
Keywords: Books; Guyana; Lancashire; Politics past; Research; Slavery; UK news; University of Cambridge

Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir - Bhuiyan, Johana (The Guardian, 2025)
For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency. Now, a cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how Palantir helps Ice with investigations and on-the-ground enforcement
Keywords: Ice (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement); Palantir; Peter Thiel; Technology; US immigration; US news; US policing

Depuis Vienne, l’Algérie exige la divulgation complète des archives nucléaires françaises dans le Sud - Awras (Awras, 2025)
Algeria is calling on France to disclose all archives related to nuclear explosions and tests in the south, including maps of radioactive waste disposal sites and contaminated equipment.

Depuis Vienne, l’Algérie exige la divulgation complète des archives nucléaires françaises dans le Sud - Awras (Awras, 2025)
Algeria is calling on France to disclose all archives related to nuclear explosions and tests in the south, including maps of radioactive waste disposal sites and contaminated equipment.

Pentagon demands journalists sign pledge not to gather certain information - Yang, Maya (The Guardian, 2025)
If they don’t agree to limits, including restricting movement within building, Pentagon press passes will be revoked
Keywords: Media; Pete Hegseth; Trump administration; US constitution and civil liberties; US military; US news; US politics

Persecuted and Branded “Anti-Social” (Arolsen Archives, 2025)
Millions of people were persecuted and murdered by the Nazis. After the war, the Federal Compensation Act was drawn up to set out who was entitled to compensation. But this law was based on a narrow definition of who qualified as a victim of persecution. People who had been persecuted as “anti-social elements” were not included. Their suffering was not officially acknowledged by the German parliament until 2020.

Call for Applications: 2026 Penn State Global Asias Summer Institute: Vitalizing Global Asias: Artifacts & Archives - Cheryl (Publishing in the Archives Profession, 2025)
2026 Penn State Global Asias Summer Institute VITALIZING GLOBAL ASIAS: ARTIFACTS & ARCHIVES Penn State University and the Global Asias Initiative invites applicants for its annual Global Asias Summer Institute.

Monash IVF pauses donor treatments in NSW as it conducts review of patient records - Cockburn, Paige (ABC News, 2025)
Patients have been left blindsided by Monash IVF's decision to temporarily halt treatments using donated eggs and sperm in New South Wales.
Keywords: Monash IVF; New South Wales; donor; egg donor; fertility; fertility clinic; ivf; sperm donor

“I Have Not Surrendered”: Leonard Peltier Remains Committed to Indigenous Rights - Goodman, Amy (Truthout, 2025)
In this interview, Peltier discusses his time in (and release from) prison, his ongoing struggle for Indigenous rights, and more.

Intersex people in Europe face ‘alarming’ rise in violence, EU finds - Kassam, Ashifa (The Guardian, 2025)
Increase in violence since 2019 is linked to online campaigns seeking to sow disinformation and fuel hatred
Keywords: Europe; Inequality; LGBTQ+ rights; Online abuse; Society; Transgender; World news

UK’s public sector broadcasters demand more prominence on YouTube to combat misinformation - Michael Savage Media (The Guardian, 2025)
How can we archive against genocide in Gaza and its extension elsewhere in Palestine and surrounding countries like Lebanon in this urgent moment while avoiding the pitfalls of white guilt and paternalistic benevolence?
Keywords: BBC; Channel 4; ITV; Media; Public service broadcasting; Technology; Television industry; UK news; YouTube

Traumatisme et résilience : une étude de l’Université McGill se penche sur les effets persistants des violences sexuelles commises pendant le génocide rwandais (Salle de presse - McGill University, 2025)
Une étude menée par des chercheuses de l’Université McGill offre une incursion dans la mémoire intergénérationnelle du Rwanda post-génocide et se penche sur les expériences des enfants nés de violences sexuelles liées au conflit et de leurs mères

Almost Destroyed: Chinese Canadian records at Library and Archives Canada - Chow, June (Active History, 2025)
A century after the Chinese Exclusion Act introduced its requirement for mass registration, the records created in this hostile context are being used to pursue collective healing, grounded in the personal, painful work of recovering ancestors who lived through the shame and regret of exclusion in silence.

‘We Are in a Zero State’: Scenes From the Ashes of Nepal’s Capital - Kathmandu, Atul Loke Reporting from; Nepal (The New York Times, 2025)
Arson attacks during protests in Nepal destroyed buildings, court files and even records of international agreements and state investments.
Keywords: Arson; Corruption (Institutional); Demonstrations, Protests and Riots; Fires and Firefighters; Karki, Sushila; Nepal; Politics and Government; internal-open-access-from-nl

Mali. Semaine de la réconciliation. Traditions, symboles et récits: la riposte citoyenne aux années de violence - Moussa Konaté, Diemba (Le360 Afrique, 2025)
Le Premier ministre, Abdoulaye Maïga, a lancé à Bamako la Semaine nationale de la réconciliation qui vise, du 15 au 21 septembre, à encourager toutes les composantes de la nation malienne, tant à l’intérieur qu’à l’extérieur du pays, à réfléchir aux voies qui favorisent le retour de la paix, synonyme de cohésion nationale.

Trump’s war on science leaves US public health experts reeling: ‘There will be lasting damage’ - Tait, Robert (The Guardian, 2025)
Career experts warn of decades of progress lost as administration fires staff, slashes budgets and buries data
Keywords: Climate science; Donald Trump; Science; Trump administration; US healthcare; US news

Draghi calls for deep cuts to privacy rules and pause on 'high risk' AI Act (Euractiv, 2025)
Influential Italian economist calls for "radical simplification" of GDPR on the one-year anniversary of his landmark report on European competitiveness

Russia Indoctrinates Children From Occupied Ukraine at 210 Sites, Study Says - Andrew E. Kramer (The New York Times, 2025)
War crime investigators at Yale discovered a program of re-education and military and police training that was larger than estimated earlier.
Keywords: Children and Childhood; Orphans and Orphanages; Politics and Government; Putin, Vladimir V; Russia; Ukraine; Yale University

Russia Indoctrinates Children From Occupied Ukraine at 210 Sites, Study Says - Andrew E. Kramer (The New York Times, 2025)
War crime investigators at Yale discovered a program of re-education and military and police training that was larger than estimated earlier.
Keywords: Children and Childhood; Orphans and Orphanages; Politics and Government; Putin, Vladimir V; Russia; Ukraine; Yale University

Call for Papers: Queer/Trans History Conference 2026 - Cheryl (Publishing in the Archives Profession, 2025)
The LGBTQ+ History Association is pleased to announce a call for papers for its fourth conference, the Queer/Trans History Conference* 2026 (#QTHC26), to be held at the University of Michigan.

Trois ans après la mort de Mahsa Amini, les femmes ont conquis une liberté "irréversible" - Makooi, Bakar (France 24, 2025)
Trois ans après la mort de Mahsa Amini, la société iranienne connaît des changements "irréversibles". Dans les rues de Téhéran comme dans les villes de provinces, les femmes s’affranchissent peu à peu du voile et des contraintes imposées, malgré une répression toujours présente.

Confidentialité des documents gouvernementaux, un accès divergeant - Radio-Canada (OHdio | Radio-Canada, 2025)
La loi sur l’accès à l’information varie d’une province à l’autre. Des gouvernements ou des organismes peuvent rendre publiques ou pas certaines informations.

Syria Prisons Museum digital torture archive opens in Damascus (The New Arab, 2025)
The Syria Prisons Museum will provide an immersive experience paying homage to victims and survivors of the Assads’ brutal prison system.

Activist and writer Ruth Weiss lived life of service - Fisher, Nicola (DW, 2025)
Ruth Weiss, a Jewish journalist, author and human rights activist, was a tireless opponent of apartheid who used her pen to fight hatred and racism. A look at her extraordinary life.

Limitation review – bloodshed and chaos of Georgia’s coup d’etat comes alive from the archive - Le, Phuong (The Guardian, 2025)
Seaming together many different records of the civil war in the early 1990s we see a country’s fracture unfold through a crowd of partisan views
Keywords: Culture; Documentary films; Europe; Film; Georgia; World news

Irlande du Nord: cinquante ans après le «Bloody Sunday», le procès historique d'un soldat britannique - Pénard, Clémence (RFI, 2025)
Un ancien soldat britannique est jugé à partir de ce lundi 15 septembre 2025, à Belfast, pour deux meurtres et cinq tentatives de meurtre lors des événements du « Bloody Sunday », en Irlande du Nord. Le dimanche 30 janvier 1972, à Derry, des parachutistes britanniques avaient ouvert le feu sur une manifestation pacifique de militants catholiques, faisant treize morts. Aucun soldat n'avait encore été jugé.

MI5 concedes it ‘unlawfully’ obtained data from former BBC journalist - Savage, Michael (The Guardian, 2025)
Revelation relating to then Northern Ireland home affairs correspondent, Vincent Kearney, a ‘matter of grave concern’
Keywords: BBC; Human rights; MI5; Media; Northern Ireland; UK news; UK security and counter-terrorism

‘I woke up and there was no water’: Gaza’s human rights defenders in their own words - Lawlor, Mary (The Guardian, 2025)
A UN special rapporteur shares the stories of those trying to record the horrors of Gaza even as they live through them
Keywords: Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestine; United Nations; World news

The Bright Side: Iraq's Yazidis rediscover their lost history in photos found in a museum archive - France 24 (France 24, 2025)
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have been scouring the university's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology to create a visual archive of Iraq's Yazidi communities from photos left behind.

Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book is a horrifying document - Donegan, Moira (The Guardian, 2025)
Conspiracy theorists wonder about what Epstein and his powerful friends may have done to cover up his crimes. But they barely were covered up
Keywords: Donald Trump; Ghislaine Maxwell; Jeffrey Epstein; Peter Mandelson; US news

South Africa reopens inquest into death of anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko - France 24 (France 24, 2025)
In tonight's edition: a South African court has reopened an inquest into the death of anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko, 48 years after he died of brain injuries in police custody.

Yes, this is who we are: America’s 250-year history of political violence - Valsania, Maurizio (The Conversation, 2025)
The US has long fused politics and violence, often through firearms. To claim that such shootings betray ‘who we are’ is to forget that the US was founded on this form of political violence.

Kashmiri representatives urge UNHRC to act against Indian repression in IIOJK - Kashmir Media Service (KMS News, 2025)
Kashmiri representatives Altaf Hussain Wani, Shamim Shawl and Advocate Parvez Ahmed Shah have urged the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to urgently intervene against India’s escalating repression in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, warning that durable peace in South Asia is impossible without granting the Kashmiris their UN-mandated right to self-determination.

Body parts taken without consent for museum display, coroner finds - Lohberger, Loretta (ABC News, 2025)
A Tasmanian coroner has released his findings from an investigation into 177 human specimens held in the collection of a university museum without the consent or knowledge of families. The investigation required complex manual searches and reconciliation of records with "very little additional resources" provided to the Coroners' Office to do the work.
Keywords: Rodda Museum; Tasmania; The University of Tasmania; autopsy specimens; body parts kept without permission; coronial findings

Re-activating Indigenous Knowledge from Oral History: Landscape and In Greenland - Mønsted, Asta (Routledge, 2025)
This book focuses on Greenlandic oral history and how to better understand people, their cultural remains, and their landscape through their own stories. It offers a way to consult Inuit oral history that opens a perspective on houses and landscapes that may otherwise be invisible to the barren eye. Working with and re-activating Indigenous knowledge of Greenland, the study draws on more than two thousand stories collected between 1735 and 1981, preserved, and later enrolled in an online and searchable database.

A Guide to Censorship in China - Palmer, James (Foreign Policy, 2025)
Strange processes determine what does—or doesn’t—get published.

Defence won't have to keep some war records under law change - Pennington, Phil (RNZ, 2025)
A proposed law change to the Public Records Act would let the New Zealand Defence Force seek an exemption from its legal duty to keep records if it is in multinational deployment. This could make any war crimes harder to prove.
Keywords: Public Records Act; Regulatory Systems (Internal Affairs) Amendment Bill; War records

Liberté d'expression, crédibilité des élections : l'inquiétant recul de la démocratie dans le monde - Goulard, Constance (Les Echos, 2025)
Après plusieurs décennies de progrès, la démocratie est de plus en plus menacée dans le monde, selon un rapport de l'organisation intergouvernementale IDEA International. La liberté de la presse, en particulier, régresse dans un quart des 173 pays observés

Victoria is on the cusp of signing a Treaty with Indigenous people. It could change lives - McManus, Justin (The Conversation, 2025)
If passed, potentially later this month, it will deliver a formal apology to First Peoples, embed Aboriginal truth-telling in schools and restore traditional names to parks and waterways

Résister. Petite histoire des luttes contemporaines - Varlin, Eugène (Le Club de Mediapart, 2025)
Les révolutions ne sont pas des processus linéaires. Elles se déroulent sur le temps long et sont rythmées par des rebondissements. Les nouvelles luttes mettent en évidence, dans l’opinion publique, des dominations et des violences. Le voile se lève car les luttes paient.

Forcées de se prostituer | Des femmes sud-coréennes visent l’armée américaine dans une action en justice - Lee, Claire (La Presse, 2025)
Plus d’une centaine de femmes sud-coréennes, forcées de se prostituer pour des militaires américains entre les années 1950 et 1980, ont lancé une action en justice inédite accusant les États-Unis de violences sexuelles, ont annoncé mardi leurs avocats

UN cooperates with National Archives to restore historical monuments and build capacity (Afghan Voice Agency (AVA), 2025)
The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative in Afghanistan promised in a meeting with the head of the National Archives of the Ministry of Information and Culture that the organization will cooperate with the National Archives in the field of restoration of monuments, training of professional staff and building capacity.

Because no one asked: Archiving the Rohingya past - Amin, Naseef Faruque (The Daily Star, 2025)
It began with a question, the kind of question that arrives quietly, almost like a sigh.

Demonizing Immigrants in the 1880s - Gershon, Livia (JSTOR Daily, 2025)
American newspapers portrayed members of immigrant groups as potential anarchists, linking the ideology to other anxieties and stereotypes about foreigners.

FIDH denounces heinous U.S. sanctions against leading Palestinian human rights organisations (International Federation for Human Rights, 2025)
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) denounces in the strongest terms the heinous designations imposed by the United States on three major Palestinian human rights organisations – Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) – all members of FIDH. At a time when Palestinians face an ongoing genocide, these measures seek to silence those documenting atrocities, fighting for justice and accountability.

FIDH denounces heinous U.S. sanctions against leading Palestinian human rights organisations (International Federation for Human Rights, 2025)
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) denounces in the strongest terms the heinous designations imposed by the United States on three major Palestinian human rights organisations – Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) – all members of FIDH. At a time when Palestinians face an ongoing genocide, these measures seek to silence those documenting atrocities, fighting for justice and accountability.

FIDH denounces heinous U.S. sanctions against leading Palestinian human rights organisations (International Federation for Human Rights, 2025)
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) denounces in the strongest terms the heinous designations imposed by the United States on three major Palestinian human rights organisations – Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) – all members of FIDH. At a time when Palestinians face an ongoing genocide, these measures seek to silence those documenting atrocities, fighting for justice and accountability.

Proving War Crimes: Archives, Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice - Archives, Cécile Chemin- (Medium, 2025)
This is a very broad overview introducing the role of archives for the protection of human rights, reparation work and transitional justice.

US imposes sanctions on Palestinians for requesting war crimes inquiry - Christou, William (The Guardian, 2025)
Rights groups in Gaza and Ramallah had asked international criminal court to investigate Israel over genocide claims
Keywords: Gaza; Human rights; International criminal court; International criminal justice; Israel-Gaza war; Law; Middle East and north Africa; Palestinian territories; Trump administration; US foreign policy; US news; US politics; World news

US imposes sanctions on Palestinians for requesting war crimes inquiry - Christou, William (The Guardian, 2025)
Rights groups in Gaza and Ramallah had asked international criminal court to investigate Israel over genocide claims
Keywords: Gaza; Human rights; International criminal court; International criminal justice; Israel-Gaza war; Law; Middle East and north Africa; Palestinian territories; Trump administration; US foreign policy; US news; US politics; World news

En criminalisant l’homosexualité, le Burkina Faso renoue avec «l’homophobie coloniale» - Gagné, Charles (Fugues, 2025)
Le pouvoir burkinabè, dirigé par le capitaine Ibrahim Traoré, a voté la pénalisation de l’homosexualité le 1er septembre. Un signal fort du rejet de l’Occident par le Burkina Faso, qui rejoint en cela la politique des autres pays membres de l’Alliance des États du Sahel.

Digital authoritarianism is on the rise: Australia should take note - Nicholas Morieson, Ihsan Yilmaz (Lowy Institute, 2025)
Democracies are increasingly using the tools of digital control under the guise of national security.

The missing half: The urgent need for more women’s representation in the media - UN News (UN News, 2025)
Women make up half of the world’s population but receive only 26 per cent of media coverage, according to the latest UN-backed Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) report, the world’s largest study on gender representation in news media.

Affaire Ben Barka : les révélations déclassifiées des archives diplomatiques belges - Brahim, Haiji (Le Club de Mediapart, 2025)
Declassified Belgian diplomatic archives shed new light on the Ben Barka affair and redraw the political portrait of the Moroccan opposition leader on the eve of his abduction.

Affaire Ben Barka : les révélations déclassifiées des archives diplomatiques belges - Brahim, Haiji (Le Club de Mediapart, 2025)
Declassified Belgian diplomatic archives shed new light on the Ben Barka affair and redraw the political portrait of the Moroccan opposition leader on the eve of his abduction.

‘Unrestrained’ Chinese Cyberattackers May Have Stolen Data From Almost Every American - Goldman, Adam (The New York Times, 2025)
Information collected during the yearslong Salt Typhoon attack could allow Beijing’s intelligence services to track targets from the United States and dozens of other countries.
Keywords: China; Cyberattacks and Hackers; Cyberwarfare and Defense; Defense and Military Forces; Espionage and Intelligence Services; International Relations; Surveillance of Citizens by Government; United States Politics and Government

Les femmes, la moitié du monde mais seulement un quart de l’actualité - ONU Info (ONU Info, 2025)
Les femmes constituent la moitié de l’humanité, mais n’occupent qu’un quart de l’actualité, alerte un nouveau rapport du Projet mondial de suivi des médias, soutenu par ONU Femmes.

Meta ‘eavesdropping’ on Flo exposes how period apps are a data… - Andjela Milivojevic (TBIJ, 2025)
Tech giant was found to have illegally collected user info – but this could be a landmark moment for data privacy

US House committee releases more than 33,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein files - Anguiano, Dani (The Guardian, 2025)
Files appear to contain information already in public domain as calls grow for release of all pertinent documents
Keywords: House of Representatives; Jeffrey Epstein; Rape and sexual assault; US news; US politics

Alberta pauses book ban after schools remove Handmaid’s Tale, 1984 and other classics - Cecco, Leyland (The Guardian, 2025)
The province says it will review its controversial policy after outcry over removing beloved novels from classrooms
Keywords: Books; Canada; Culture; World news

Activistas digitales indígenas en México afirman su autodeterminación frente a la inteligencia artificial - Mercedes Caso (Rising Voices en Español, 2025)
¿Qué significa la inteligencia artificial para las lenguas indígenas de México? Durante dos días, activistas digitales reflexionaron sobre cómo estas tecnologías pueden revitalizar o amenazar sus idiomas y culturas.

Excuses officielles, restitutions, indemnisations : mieux panser les plaies du colonialisme - ONU Info (ONU Info, 2025)
Réparer les séquelles de l'esclavage et du colonialisme est essentiel pour briser le racisme systémique et les inégalités qui frappent les personnes d'ascendance africaine à travers le monde, affirme l’ONU dans un rapport publié mercredi.

‘Smart’ (or Machiavellian?) surveillance: The power of terminology - Tactical Tech (Global Voices, 2025)
The Israeli military “offers an important insight into how the latest technologies can be adopted for widespread monitoring and control.”

‘Reparatory justice’ key to ending racism against Africans and their descendants - UN News (UN News, 2025)
Governments, academia and other stakeholders must “double down on delivering reparatory justice” for people from the African diaspora, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a report published on Wednesday.

‘Artefacts were just sitting in suitcases in people’s homes’: the London museum preserving Somali culture - Abdi, Sundus (The Guardian, 2025)
The UK’s first dedicated space for Somali heritage has built its collection from 15 years of donations. Culture House’s founders explain the power of giving a permanent home to a community’s heritage and hopes
Keywords: Architecture; Art and design; Culture; Exhibitions; Heritage; Museums; Somalia

‘Artefacts were just sitting in suitcases in people’s homes’: the London museum preserving Somali culture - Abdi, Sundus (The Guardian, 2025)
The UK’s first dedicated space for Somali heritage has built its collection from 15 years of donations. Culture House’s founders explain the power of giving a permanent home to a community’s heritage and hopes
Keywords: Architecture; Art and design; Culture; Exhibitions; Heritage; Museums; Somalia