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.
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Privacy, Trust and Social Media - Paliszkiewicz, Joanna; Kuanchin, Chen; Gołuchowski, Jerzy (Routledge, 2024)
The book examines the main issues and challenges associated with privacy and trust on social media in a manner relevant to both practitioners and scholars.
Keywords: 2023-12 December; Privacy

ICA-SAHR First Tuesday Talk by Elena Zhemkova, Co-founder and Executive Director of Memorial, moderated by José Faraldo, professor at the Madrid University Complutense. Event link and details forthcoming - International Council on Archives (2024)
Keywords: 2023-10 November

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan gets 10 years in prison ahead of elections - Ahmed, Munir (Associated Press, 2024)
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, was accused of exposing state secrets by revealing a confidential document at a political rally. Khan was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Keywords: 2024-01 January

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

La CIJ rejette les accusations de "financement du terrorisme" portées par Kiev contre Moscou - France 24 (France 24, 2024)
La Cour internationale de justice (CIJ) a rejeté mercredi les accusations de Kiev selon lesquelles la Russie avait "financé le terrorisme" dans l'est de l'Ukraine, déclarant seulement que Moscou "aurait…
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Netherlands; Russia

UN top court rejects most of Ukraine’s ‘terror financing’ case against Russia - France 24 (France 24, 2024)
The United Nations’ top court on Wednesday mostly rejected Ukraine’s claims that Russia was financing “terrorism” in eastern Ukraine, saying only that Moscow had failed to investigate alleged breaches.
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Netherlands; Russia

Israel y Territorios Palestinos Ocupados: Los Estados deben revocar su cruel decisión de retirar la financiación a la UNRWA - Amnistía Internacional (Amnistía Internacional, 2024)
“La decisión de al menos 11 países donantes de suspender la financiación a la Agencia de la ONU para la Población Refugiada Palestina (UNRWA) tras las denuncias de que algunos miembros de su personal estaban implicados en los ataques del 7 de octubre en el sur de Israel infligirá un golpe devastador a más de […]
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Palestine (permanent observer to the UN)

New Transitional Justice Process Lacks Credibility - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2024)
The Sri Lankan government’s proposed law to create another body to investigate wartime abuses replicates previous failed efforts, ignores the needs of victims, and falls far short of meeting Sri Lanka’s international legal obligations.
Keywords: 2024-01 January

EU to review UNRWA funding, calls for staff probe after allegations - Jones, Mared Gywn (euronews, 2024)
The European Commission said on Monday it will "review" its support to UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, following allegations several of its staff members were involved in the October 7 attacks on Israel
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Palestine (permanent observer to the UN)

L'UE va réexaminer le financement de l'UNRWA - Jones, Mared Gywn (euronews, 2024)
La Commission européenne a déclaré lundi qu'elle allait "réexaminer" son soutien à l'UNRWA, l'agence des Nations unies pour les réfugiés palestiniens, à la suite d'allégations selon lesquelles plusieurs membres de son personnel auraient été impliqués dans les attentats du 7 octobre contre Israël.
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Palestine (permanent observer to the UN)

La UE revisará la financiación de la UNRWA ante las denuncias - Jones, Mared Gywn (euronews, 2024)
La Comisión Europea ha asegurado el lunes que "revisará" su apoyo a la UNRWA, la agencia de la ONU para los refugiados palestinos, tras las acusaciones de que varios miembros de su personal estuvieron implicados en los atentados del 7 de octubre contra Israel.
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Palestine (permanent observer to the UN)

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.
Keywords: 2024-01 January

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.
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Beyond Evidence: The Use of Archives in Transitional Justice - Viebach, Julia; Hovestädt, Dagmar; Lühe, Ulrike (Routledge, 2024)
Drawing on conceptual debates in transitional justice and critical archival studies, as well as empirical cases from various countries around the world, the contributions in this book critically examine the evidentiary value of archives by linking them to a multitude of transitional justice processes, goals and ideals, including remembrance processes, witnessing, reconciliation, non-recurrence, and various struggles against injustices and prevalent violence.
Keywords: 2024-01 January

By opening up the archives, Canada can finally address its past with Nazi war criminals - McBride, Jared; Rudling, Per (Globe and Mail, 2024)
In Canada, attempts to access records containing information on potential war criminals have been stymied by privacy and national security restrictions. Given the poor record of dealing with Holocaust perpetrators, scholars are now calling for widespread disclosure and declassification of records—comparable with that of the United States—so that Canada can finally address this troubling aspect of its past.
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Gaza : La Cour internationale de justice ordonne à Israël de prévenir tout acte de génocide - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2024)
Le 26 janvier, la Cour internationale de Justice (CIJ) a ordonné la prise de mesures conservatoires dans le cadre de l’affaire portée par l’Afrique du Sud sur la base d’allégations qu’Israël est en train de violer la Convention sur le génocide.
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Gaza : La Cour internationale de justice ordonne à Israël de prévenir tout acte de génocide - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2024)
Le 26 janvier, la Cour internationale de Justice (CIJ) a ordonné la prise de mesures conservatoires dans le cadre de l’affaire portée par l’Afrique du Sud sur la base d’allégations qu’Israël est en train de violer la Convention sur le génocide.
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Gaza: World Court Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2024)
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered provisional measures on January 26, 2024, in South Africa’s case alleging that Israel is violating the Genocide Convention.
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Netherlands

Gaza: World Court Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2024)
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered provisional measures on January 26, 2024, in South Africa’s case alleging that Israel is violating the Genocide Convention.
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Netherlands

Application de la Convention pour la prévention et la répression du crime de génocide dans la Bande de Gaza - International Court of Justice (International Court of Justice, 2024)
Le 29 décembre 2023, l'Afrique du Sud déposait une requête introductive d’instance contre l’État d’Israël concernant des manquements allégués, dans la bande de Gaza, aux obligations découlant de la convention pour la prévention et la répression du crime de génocide
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Application de la Convention pour la prévention et la répression du crime de génocide dans la Bande de Gaza - International Court of Justice (International Court of Justice, 2024)
Le 29 décembre 2023, l'Afrique du Sud déposait une requête introductive d’instance contre l’État d’Israël concernant des manquements allégués, dans la bande de Gaza, aux obligations découlant de la convention pour la prévention et la répression du crime de génocide
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip - International Court of Justice (International Court of Justice, 2024)
29 December 2023, South Africa filed an Application instituting proceedings against Israel concerning alleged violations by Israel of its obligations under the Convention on the “Genocide Convention” in relation to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip - International Court of Justice (International Court of Justice, 2024)
29 December 2023, South Africa filed an Application instituting proceedings against Israel concerning alleged violations by Israel of its obligations under the Convention on the “Genocide Convention” in relation to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Keywords: 2024-01 January

US immigration officials didn’t properly document hysterectomies – watchdog - Levine, Sam (The Guardian, 2024)
Officials didn’t document medical necessity in two cases. Based on that sample, the OIG said it could infer with 95% confidence that between 137 and 217 of 553 major surgical procedures were not properly approved in the timeframe it studied.
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Reproductive rights; US immigration; US news; Women's health

El “Corredor del Cáncer” de Luisiana - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2024)
La industria petroquímica y de combustibles fósiles en el área de Luisiana conocida como “Corredor del Cáncer” ha devastado la salud, la vida y el medioambiente de quienes residen allí.
Keywords: 2024-01 January

La « Cancer Alley » de la Louisiane - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2024)
L’industrie des combustibles fossiles et de la pétrochimie dans une zone de Louisiane surnommée « Cancer Alley » (« Allée du cancer »), a dévasté la santé, la vie et l’environnement des habitants.
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2024)
The fossil fuel and petrochemical industry in the Louisiana area that has come to be known as “Cancer Alley” has devastated the health, lives, and environment of residents.
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Shocking images show why many Aussies are no longer celebrating Australia Day - Sutton, Candace (Daily Mail Online, 2024)
January 26 is 'Australia Day'. It marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet and raising of the Union Flag of Great Britain on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour. It is also a day the day of remembrance of the start of the violent colonization of Australia. The item describes the shocking genocidal process that started on that day.
Keywords: 2024-01 January

‘Our god was locked in a US museum’: the heritage hunters bringing home Nepal’s lost treasures - Adhikari, Rojita (The Guardian, 2024)
Thousands of ancient artefacts have been taken out of the country. These Nepalese citizens are determined to get them back.
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Culture; Global development; Heritage; Nepal; South and central Asia; World news

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

6ème état des lieux du sexisme en France : s'attaquer aux racines du sexisme - Haut Conseil à l'Égalité entre les femmes et les hommes (Haut Conseil à l'Égalité entre les femmes et les hommes, 2024)
Le Haut Conseil à l'Égalité entre les femmes et les hommes (HCE) que vient de faire paraître son rapport annuel 2024. 86 % des femmes déclarent « avoir déjà personnellement vécu une situation sexiste ». « C’est aux racines du sexisme qu’il faut s’attaquer », et « de toute urgence », peut-on lire dans le rapport. « Le sexisme commence à la maison, continue à l’école et explose en ligne. »
Keywords: 2024-01 January

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

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

El presidente Arévalo convoca a la fiscal general de Guatemala a rendir informe sobre temas “de preocupación” - CNN Español (CNN, 2024)
El presidente de Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, informó este viernes que convocó a la fiscal general, Consuelo Porras, a una reunión para rendir un informe sobre temas que calificó como “de preocupación para esta Presidencia: derechos humanos, libertad de expresión, proceso de compras de vacunas contra el covid-19 y protocolos de actuación del Ministerio Público de Guatemala
Keywords: 2024-01 January

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

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

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

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

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

Les abus à l’encontre des journalistes doivent cesser - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2024)
Absence de justice pour une mort suspecte ; le journaliste Dieudonné Niyonsenga détenu dénonce des actes de torture devant un tribunal
Keywords: 2024-01 January

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

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

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

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

Lilian, la última liberada en El Salvador por una muerte neonatal: “Ya estamos todas afuera” - Mahtani, Noor (El País América, 2024)
Tras siete años encarcelada por una emergencia obstétrica, la jueza anula la sentencia por la vulneración de garantías procesales. Desde 2014, 73 mujeres fueron puestas en libertad, pero 11 procesos penales siguen abiertos por aborto
Keywords: 2024-01 January

La Fiscalía lanza consultas públicas para el desarrollo de nuevos principios para avanzar en la comprensión del delito de persecución de género - Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (International Criminal Court, 2024)
La Clínica Internacional de Derechos Humanos y Justicia de Género (HRGJ) y el Fiscal de la Corte Penal Internacional, Sr. Karim A.A. Khan KC se complace en anunciar una nueva iniciativa para promover la rendición de cuentas por el crimen de lesa humanidad de persecución por motivos de género.
Keywords: 2024-01 January

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Principe de Jordan: La Société de soutien à l’enfance des Premières Nations affirme qu’Ottawa échoue - Passafiume, Alessia; Canadian Press (La Presse, 2024)
La Société de soutien à l’enfance et à la famille des Premières Nations affirme que le Canada échoue systématiquement à répondre aux exigences du « principe de Jordan », qui prévoit de financer rapidement les services destinés aux enfants et de déterminer ensuite quel ordre de gouvernement devra payer.
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Casi 141.000 personas pidieron refugio en México en 2023, la mayor cifra en 10 años - Torres, Mauricio (CNN, 2024)
En 2023, 140.982 personas solicitaron refugio al Gobierno de México por diferentes motivos —como la inseguridad o sentir que son perseguidas en sus países de origen—, lo que representa la cifra más alta registrada en una década, de acuerdo con las estadísticas más recientes publicadas por la Comisión Mexicana de Ayuda a Refugiados (Comar)
Keywords: 2024-01 January

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

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

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

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

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

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

Et si les réseaux sociaux devenaient une chance pour nos démocraties ? - Alombert, Anne; Cattan, Jean (La Conversation, 2024)
Alors que le président libertarien argentin Javier Milei, a largement profité des réseaux sociaux lors de sa campagne présidentielle, notamment pour séduire les plus jeunes générations, d’autres personnalités politiques envisagent au contraire de quitter ces mêmes réseaux. Force est de constater que depuis de nombreuses années, les réseaux sociaux dominants, dont le modèle d’affaires repose sur l’économie de l’attention favorise structurellement le clash et la polarisation des opinions.
Keywords: 2024-01 January

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
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.
Keywords: 2024-01 January; Gaza; Isreal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conférence « présentation de l’ouvrage archives et droits humains à la mémoire de Louis Joinet » - Archives nationales de France (2024)
Conférence « présentation de l’ouvrage archives et droits humains à la mémoire de Louis Joinet » le mardi 30 janvier 2024, 10 h-12 h. Site de paris – hôtel de…
Keywords: 2023-12 December

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

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

Informe Mundial 2024 - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2024)
Nuestro análisis anual sobre los derechos humanos en el mundo
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Suisse/Gambie : Les crimes de l’ère Jammeh devant la justice - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2024)
Le procès qui s’ouvrira en Suisse le 8 janvier 2024, pour des crimes graves commis en Gambie, représente une avancée significative pour délivrer la justice aux victimes de graves abus.
Keywords: 2023-12 December; 2024-01 January; Switzerland

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

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.
Keywords: 2024-01 January

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.
Keywords: 2024-01 January

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

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

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

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.
Keywords: 2024-01 January

La libération de la prisonnière d’opinion Virginia Laparra marque une victoire contre l’injustice - Amnesty International (Amnesty International, 2024)
Ana Piquer, directrice du programme Amériques à Amnesty International, a déclaré : « Virginia Laparra n’aurait jamais dû passer un seul jour en prison. Nous nous réjouissons qu’elle puisse retrouver ses proches après avoir passé près de deux ans en détention comme prisonnière d’opinion. Sa libération marque un premier pas vers la fin des graves violations des droits humains qu’elle subit en représailles de son travail remarquable en tant que procureure anticorruption ».
Keywords: 2024-01 January

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

Liberación de Virginia Laparra es un triunfo contra la injusticia - Amnistía Internacional (Amnistía Internacional, 2024)
Ana Piquer, directora para las Américas de Amnistía Internacional, declaró: “Virginia Laparra nunca debió pasar ni un día en la cárcel. Es una gran noticia que pueda reunirse de nuevo con sus seres queridos después de casi dos años de ser una presa de conciencia. Su liberación es un primer paso para poner fin a las terribles violaciones de derechos humanos que ha tenido que enfrentar como represalia por su destacado trabajo como fiscal anticorrupción.”
Keywords: 2024-01 January

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Keywords: 2023-12 December

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

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

Censure littéraire : aux Etats-Unis, 3.362 livres interdits et retirés des écoles, facs et bibliothèques - Fried, Aviva (Europe 1, 2023)
Aux Etats-Unis, un phénomène inquiète : la censure des livres. Plus de 3.000 titres ont été retirés des bibliothèques au cours de l'année scolaire 2022-2023, que ce soit dans les écoles, les universités ou dans les établissements publics.
Keywords: 2023-12 December

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

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

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

Rapport mondial 2024 - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2023)
Bilan annuel de HRW sur les droits humains dans le monde
Keywords: 2024-01 January

Archives for Justice and Peace: The Project for the Recovery of Historical Memory (REMHI) and the National Reconciliation Commission (CNR) - Modern Endangered Archives Program (UCLA Library, 2023)
This project will digitize the REMHI collection, which documents the human rights violations resulting from armed conflict in Guatemala from 1973 into the 1990s.
Keywords: 2023-12 December

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

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

Etat des sources sur les biens culturels issus de contextes coloniaux - Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac.; Musée de l’Armée (2023)
Keywords: 2023-12 December

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

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

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

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

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

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

Les recommandations pour la réconciliation « ne seront pas en place avant 2081 » - Passafiume, Alessia; Canadian Press (La Presse, 2023)
Le rapport 2023 du Yellowhead Institute a constaté qu'aucun appel à l'action de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation n'a été réalisé cette année. Selon ce rapport, si le Canada continue à ce rythme, il ne terminera pas le travail avant 2081.
Keywords: 2023-12 December; Reconciliation; Yellowhead Institute

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

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

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

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

Turkménistan : les femmes toujours en proie à l'insécurité. - Tarp Nurmagambetova, Mia (Global Voices en Français, 2023)
Une femme sur six a subi des violences de la part de son partenaire actuel ou ancien, selon la toute première enquête nationale sur la violence domestique en 2020
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Conference - Journée d'étude “Archiver en temps de guerre” en partenariat avec les Archives Nationales du Monde du Travail - Association des archivistes français (Association des archivistes français, 2023)
La journée d’étude organisée par la Section des archivistes des administrations centrales et des opérateurs de l’État se propose de se pencher sur ce qu’archiver en temps de guerre recouvre à différentes époques, sur différents continents. La journée d'étude se déroule le 26 janvier 2024, à Roubaix, aux Archives nationales du monde du travail
Keywords: 2023-12 December

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

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

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

Turkmenistán continúa siendo inseguro para las mujeres - Tarp Nurmagambetova, Mia (Global Voices en Español, 2023)
Una de cada seis mujeres ha sufrido violencia por parte de su pareja actual, o expareja, según la primera encuesta nacional de violencia doméstica realizada en 2020.
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.
Keywords: 2023-12 December

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.
Keywords: 2023-12 December

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

Videos of stripped detainees in Gaza: A practice condemned under international law? - Gallo, Nathan (The Observers - France 24, 2023)
Israeli authorities say they undressed the detainees as a security measure, but that photos of them in their underwear "serve nobody". The images have sparked debate on the legality of the IDF's arrest procedures. Human Rights Watch told FRANCE 24 that sharing humiliating images of prisoners can amount to a war crime
Keywords: 2023-12 December

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

How Israeli settler violence is forcing Palestinians to flee their homes – video - McKernan, Bethan; Evangelou, Kyri; Doran, Temujin (The Guardian, 2023)
After weeks of intense settler violence in the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October, and despite the decades-long fight to remain in their homes, these communities are now being forced off their land.
Keywords: 2023-12 December; Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestinian territories

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

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

Vidéos de prisonniers dévêtus à Gaza : une pratique condamnable au regard du droit international ? - Gallo, Nathan (Les Observateurs - France 24, 2023)
Les autorités israéliennes, qui déplorent la diffusion de ces images, affirment avoir dévêtu ces prisonniers par mesure de sécurité. Plusieurs interrogations entourent toutefois la légalité de telles pratiques, alors que le partage d'images humiliantes de prisonniers peut être considéré comme un crime de guerre, a indiqué Human Rights Watch à France 24.
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Declaración del Consejo Internacional de Archivos sobre la destrucción de los Archivos Centrales del Municipio de Gaza - International Council on Archives (International Council on Archives, 2023)
El Consejo Internacional de Archivos (ICA) ha tenido conocimiento del bombardeo del edificio de los Archivos Centrales de Gaza y de la biblioteca pública principal, que ha provocado la destrucción de documentos históricos que datan de hace 100 años.
Keywords: 2023-12 December

Déclaration du Conseil International des Archives sur la destruction des archives centrales de la municipalité de Gaza - International Council on Archives (International Council on Archives, 2023)
Le Conseil International des Archives (ICA) a été informé de l'annonce du bombardement du bâtiment des archives centrales de Gaza et de la principale bibliothèque publique, qui a entraîné la destruction de documents historiques datant d'une centaine d'années.
Keywords: 2023-12 December

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

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

Publication par le Bureau du Procureur d’un nouveau Document de politique générale relatif aux enfants - International Criminal Court (ICC) (International Criminal Court (ICC), 2023)
Alors que nous sommes témoins de la souffrance des enfants dans le monde entier, le Bureau du Procureur publie un nouveau document de politique générale relatif aux enfants afin de remédier à leur sous‑représentation historique et à leur manque de participation dans les procédures de justice pénale internationale.
Keywords: 2023-12 December

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

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

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

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

Prison avec sursis pour trois militaires accusés de violences sexuelles - Agence France-Presse; Charles, Frédéric (RFI, 2023)
La décision était très attendue. Rina Gonoi, une ancienne soldate, avait été la première à dénoncer publiquement les agressions sexuelles dans l'armée japonaise et à porter plainte devant la justice pour de tels faits contre trois de ses anciens collègues.
Keywords: 2023-12 December

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

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

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

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

« Sans preuve matérielle, quelle vérité judiciaire ? » - Ponselet, Gaelle (JusticeInfo.net, 2023)
Les avocats des Rwandais Séraphin Twahirwa et Pierre Basabosé, accusés d'avoir participé au génocide de 1994, présentent leurs lignes de défense en Belgique.
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.
Keywords: 2023-12 December

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

75 años de la Declaración Universal ¿Qué se ha conseguido? - Ilaria, Federico (euronews, 2023)
Este 10 de diciembre se celebra un momento histórico: el 75º aniversario de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos, un texto fundacional que marcó un importante punto de inflexión en la historia mundial. Pero, ¿qué es este tratado y sigue siendo tan crucial como siempre?
Keywords: 2023-12 December

75 ans après la Déclaration universelle, quel bilan pour les droits humains ? - Ilaria, Federico (euronews, 2023)
Le 10 décembre marque un moment historique : le 75e anniversaire de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme, un texte fondateur qui a marqué un tournant majeur dans l'histoire mondiale.
Keywords: 2023-12 December

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

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.
Keywords: 2023-12 December

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

À la Une: au Pérou, l’ex-président Alberto Fujimori est sorti de prison - Paget, Christophe (RFI, 2023)
La libération de l'ancien dirigeant autoritaire a déclenché un tollé dans le pays andin. Il purgeait une peine de 25 ans pour avoir dirigé des escadrons de la mort contre des personnes supposées subversives.
Keywords: 2023-12 December

« Ils sont les fondateurs d'une milice impitoyable à Kigali » - Ponselet, Gaelle (JusticeInfo.net, 2023)
Lors de leur procès en Belgique pour génocide, deux hommes sont présentés par la procureure comme étant à l'origine d'un groupe Interahamwe meurtrier à Kigali, en 1994.
Keywords: 2023-12 December

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 ».
Keywords: 2023-12 December

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

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

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

Burundi: Amendez la loi relative aux violences basées sur le genre - Amnesty International (Amnesty International, 2023)
La Loi relative aux violences basées sur le genre adoptée au Burundi en 2016 a constitué une avancée majeure. Cependant, le texte de loi est encore en-deça des meilleures pratiques aux niveaux régional et international, et dans certains cas affaiblit plus qu’il ne renforce la lutte contre la violence liée au genre. Cette synthèse contient des propositions pour assurer une meilleure protection, y compris en modifiant la loi.
Keywords: 2023-12 December