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Communities of interest working under the CRL umbrella.

HRADP - The Human Rights Archives and Documentation Program (HRADP) facilitates efforts by institutions to identify, preserve, and provide access to human rights-related archives and documentation by...

FOCUS

CRL’s quarterly publication examining the challenges of preservation and access for primary source materials in various fields.

Human Rights Documentation, Winter 2012 - The Winter 2012 issue of CRL’s quarterly newsletter revolves around the theme of human rights documentation, and the issues challenging the survival and integrity of evidence of human rights...

Human Rights Documentation, Winter 2007-08

Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Winter 2006-07

Topic Guides

Providing insights on key source materials in areas of special interest to CRL libraries.

Official Gazettes

Latin American Studies

Human Rights

CRL Reports

Human Rights Electronic Evidence Study - In 2008, the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) was awarded funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to examine the practices and technologies used by human rights monitoring...

Political Communications Web Archive - The Political Communications Web Archive Project was an investigation and planning effort to develop effective methodologies for the systematic, sustainable preservation of Web-based political...

News

CRL Assessing Donations Policy
21 Feb 2023

Associated institutions in Mexico and the US launch the Repository of Documentation on Disappearances in Mexico
21 Mar 2022

Repository of Documentation on Disappearances in Mexico Appoints Advisory Committee
19 Mar 2021

First Principles and Values: Black Lives Matter
15 Jun 2020

CRL Awarded MacArthur Foundation Grant to Support Repository of Documentation on Disappearances of Persons in Mexico
15 Jun 2020

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Past Events

The Global Dimensions of Scholarship and Research Libraries: A Forum on the Future
5 Dec 2012 - 1:00am

Webinar: Human Rights Documentation
11 Jan 2012 - 2:00am

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The Impact of CRL

Stories illustrating CRL’s impact on research, teaching, collection building and preservation.

Unique Arab Diaspora Materials Saved for Future Scholars

The Middle East Materials Project (MEMP) microfilmed Arab-language publications from several diaspora communities in non-Arab countries, continuing to affirm MEMP’s role as a provider of rare and distinctive documentation.

Window Into Lives of Ukrainian Refugees, 1945-1954

In 2015, the Slavic and East European Materials Project at CRL (SEEMP) completed digitization of the Ukrainian Émigré Press Collection, encompassing some 90 titles published between 1945–1954, and now dispersed in collections in Toronto, Cambridge, and New York.

Brazilian Human Rights Evidence Preserved in the Nunca Mais project

Evidence of atrocities in 1960s–70s Brazil, housed at CRL for 25 years, are now available online.

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