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Subject(s)

• Archives—Political aspects [Browse]

Editor

• Boel, Jens [Browse]
• Canavaggio, Perrine, 1947- [Browse]
• Gonzalez Quintana, Antonio [Browse]

Series

• Routledge approaches to history. [More in this series]
• Routledge Approaches to History Series

Restrictions note

Open access

Summary note

Why and how can records serve as evidence of human rights violations, in particular crimes against humanity, and help the fight against impunity? Archives and Human Rights 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. Through a historical overview and topical case studies from different regions of the world the book discusses how records can concretely support these principles. The current examples also demonstrate how the perception of the role of the archivist has undergone a metamorphosis in recent decades, towards the idea that archivists can and must play an active role in defending basic human rights, first and foremost by enabling access to documentation on human rights violations. Confronting painful memories of the past is a way to make the ghosts disappear and begin building a brighter, more serene future. The establishment of international justice mechanisms and the creation of truth commissions are important elements of this process. The healing begins with the acknowledgment that painful chapters are essential parts of history; archives then play a crucial role by providing evidence. This book is both a tool and an inspiration to use archives in defence of human rights.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed January 16, 2023).

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of authors
• Foreword
• Message from the President of the International Council on Archives
• Introduction
• Part 1 Archives and human rights: a close relationship
• 1 Archives and citizens' 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
• Part 2 Case studies
• 1 Proof
• Africa
• 2 A long walk to justice: archives and the truth and reconciliation process in South Africa
• 3 Tunisia's Truth and Dignity Commission: archives in the pursuit of truth
• 4 The exploitation of the archives of Hissène Habré's political police by the Extraordinary African Chambers
• 5 The Gacaca archive: preserving the memory of post-genocide justice and reconciliation in Rwanda
• Asia
• 6 Memory politics and archives in Sino-Japanese relations
• 7 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
• 8 Spanish military documentation on the Civil War and the dictatorship as an instrument of legal reparations for the victims of the Franco regime
• 9 The "Centres of Remembrance" in post-communist Europe
• 10 A legacy of the DDR: the Stasi Records Archive
• 11 France and the archives of the Algerian War
• 12 Truth, memory, and reconciliation in post-communist societies: the Romanian experience and the Securitate archives
• Latin America
• 13 Archives for memory and justice in Colombia after the Peace Agreements
• 14 Utilisation of the archives of the Peruvian Commission for Truth and Reconciliation (CVR).
• 15 Archives, truth and the democratic transition process in Brazil
• 16 Archives for truth and justice in Argentina: the search for the missing persons
• 17 Chronicle of a backlash foretold: Guatemala's National Police archives, lost and found and lost - and found? - again
• Concluding remarks
• Index.

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ISBN

• 0-429-05462-9
• 0-429-62014-4

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