Human Rights Documentation

Winter 2007-08 | Volume 27, Number 2 | Download PDF

Human Rights Documentation

In This Issue

Notes on the emergence and development of the international human rights movement.

The Survival of Human Rights-Related Documentation and Evidence

A framework for collecting, preserving, and disseminating human rights-related materials.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Colloquium

A roundtable discussion sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation on the role of research libraries in the collection, preservation, and dissemination of human rights documentation.


Global Resources Forum: "Human Rights Archives and Documentation: Meeting the Needs of Research, Teaching, Advocacy and Justice."

A recent conference at Columbia University, on Human Rights Archives and Documentation.

Special Focus: Aquí (La Paz, Bolivia)

The newspaper Aquí and the human rights struggle in Bolivia during the 1970s and 80s.

Human Rights Before, During, and After World War II

CRL human-rights related collections and archives: the adjudication of World War II era crimes against humanity in Europe and Asia.


CRL Collections: Late 20th Century

CRL collections supporting human rights research in: Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.


The mimeograph room in the Palace of Justice during the Nuremberg Trials in 1946. From Stadarchiv Nuremberg/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.