• 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.” WITNESS November 19, 2009
  • "Treatment of History a Bellwether of Human Rights" The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience has distributed this statement pertaining to the recent raid and seizure of Human Rights Center Memorial's archive (thanks Bryan and Sam for forwarding): WITNESS December 19, 2008
  • Archives of human rights NGO seized by Russian police The St. Petersburg offices of the prominent human rights group Memorial were raided on Thursday by Russian security forces. (Memorial in Grozny is a WITNESS partner.) According to Human Rights Watch: “In the morning of December 4, 2008, seven masked men, armed with batons, broke into the office of the Memorial Research and Information Center […] WITNESS December 5, 2008