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SAA Human Rights Roundtable approved Word comes from Valerie Love, U Conn’s Curator of Human Rights Collections, that the petition to create a Human Rights Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists has been approved; Valerie made the case here last October. A huge thanks to Valerie and T-Kay Sangwand of U Texas for making this happen; they are eager […] February 12, 2010
New Tactics Dialogue follow-up Earlier this month New Tactics in Human Rights hosted an online dialogue Documenting Human Rights Violations: Choosing the Right Approach featuring practitioners from a variety of fields. Although a bit hard to navigate, there's a wealth of interesting commentary. Here are a few highlights: February 10, 2010
New Tactics dialogue on human rights documentation Documenting Violations: Choosing the Right Approach is an online dialogue being facilitated by New Tactics in Human Rights, beginning today and running through February 5, 2010. January 27, 2010
Haiti earthquake – video and resources We're not tracking the Haiti earthquake ourselves, but here are a few links to those who are... January 13, 2010
Google unmuzzles itself in China Google has received brickbats a-plenty for its stance in China, where, in order to be permitted to operate by the Chinese government, the search company agreed to censor particular "sensitive" search results - Tiananmen, Dalai Lama, democracy, human rights, and so on. January 13, 2010
‘Archives Power’ virtual reading group I've mentioned the book Archives Power: Memory, Accountability and Social Justice by Rand Jimerson on this blog on a few occasions but haven't had a chance to post about it at any length. January 4, 2010
New & of Note An update on the disposition of the archives of the International Criminal Tribunals for former Yugoslavia and Rwanda is available; see The Documentalist for a good summary, courtesy of James Simon. December 7, 2009
Voices of Rwanda video testimony project Our series of video interviews relating to archives and human rights continues on the Hub, with Taylor Krauss, founder/director of Voices of Rwanda. December 1, 2009
Memory and Justice: ICTJ launches new website The International Center for Transitional Justice has recently launched a new website, called Memory and Justice. The site includes a database of information about selected memory sites - public memorials, sites of memory/conscience, and similar accountability projects - and is also intended as a space for highlighting and engendering discussion “about the emerging field of memorialization as a form of accountability for past atrocity.” November 19, 2009
Copyright: three great new resources Copyright Watch: Hosted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, CW includes a user-friendly database of national copyright laws from around the world, and a blog; the site is intended to be a place to share information about copyright legislation and developments on a global level. November 13, 2009
Khmer Legacies: Interview with Socheata Poeuv The Hub is currently featuring a video interview with Socheata Poeuv, a visiting fellow at the Yale University Genocide Studies Program. Poeuv is the founder and director of Khmer Legacies, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the history of the Cambodian genocide by recording video testimonials of its survivors. November 2, 2009
Non-custodial archiving: U Texas and Kigali Memorial Centre Non-custodial archival practices and the UT Libraries Human Rights Documentation Initiative partnership with the Kigali Memorial Centre October 30, 2009
Building a Network for Human Rights Archives and Archivists In recent years, archival institutions and organizations have become increasingly concerned with issues regarding human rights records and archival collections. October 28, 2009
Your Archive Deserves Advocacy Tomorrow is UNESCO World Day for Audivisual Heritage. Our good friends at Audiovisual Preservation Solutions have issued a callout for stories of audiovisual preservation as part of a "project designed to garner support for audiovisual archive preservation planning and project implementation from influencers, policy makers and funding organs," which they have christened YOUR ARCHIVE DESERVES ADVOCACY (YADA). October 26, 2009
Bahrain: video testimony of abuses As the latest Editor's Picks on the Hub show, evidence is emerging of continuing abuses against individuals and human rights defenders in Bahrain. Through these testimonies (in Arabic) individuals report serious mistreatment, abuse and injury at the hands of the Bahraini police. October 22, 2009