Archives and Human Rights

ISBN-13: 9780367724603 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 330 str.

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Why and how can records serve as evidence of human rights violations, in particular crimes against humanity, and help the fight against impunity? This book shows the close relationship between archives and human rights and discusses the emergence, at the international level, of the principles of the right to truth, justice and reparation

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Foreword  Message from the President of the International Council on Archives  Introduction  Part 1: Archives and Human Rights: A Close Relationship  1. Archives and Citizen Rights  2. Records and Archives Documenting Gross Human Rights Violations  3. Archives and Transitional Justice  4. Archives and the Duty to Remember  5. Archivists for Human Rights  6. Archives and Human Rights Beyond Political Transitions  References  Part 2: Case Studies  7. Proof  Africa  8. A Long Walk to Justice: Archives and the Truth and Reconciliation Process in South Africa  9. Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission: Archives in the Pursuit of Truth  10. The Exploitation of the Archives of Hissène Habré's Political Police by the Extraordinary African Chambers  11. The Gacaca Archive. Preserving the Memory of Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda  Asia  12. Memory Politics and Archives in Sino-Japanese Relations  13. The Use of the Archives of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum and the Documentation Centre of Cambodia by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia  Europe  14. Spanish Military Documentation on the Civil War and the Dictatorship as an Instrument of Legal Reparations for the Victims of the Franco Regime  15. The ‘Centres of Remembrance’ in Post-Communist Europe  16. A Legacy of the DDR: The Stasi Records Archive  17. France and the Archives of the Algerian War  18. Truth, Memory and Reconciliation in Post-Communist Societies: The Romanian Experience and the Securitate Archives  Latin America  19. Archives for Memory and Justice in Colombia after the Peace Agreements  20. Utilisation of the Archives of the Peruvian Commission for Truth and Reconciliation  21. Archive, Truth and the Democratic Transition Process in Brazil  22. Archives for Truth and Justice in Argentina: the Search for the Missing Persons  23. Chronicle of a Backlash Foretold. Guatemala’s National Police Archives, Lost and Found and Lost – and Found? – Again  Concluding Remarks