Human Rights Archives and Documentation:
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Organizations and Resources for Human Rights Archives

Human Rights Archives Email Listserv-- Click here to join! The Human Rights Archives Listserv was created in March 2008 to foster communication among the human rights archives community. The listserv is hosted by the University of Connecticut

October 27, 2009, Berkeley, California. "Human Rights Advocacy, Mobilizing Action in the Visual Age." Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley.
November 5-8, 2009, Montréal, Québec, Canada. “Remembering War, Genocide and other Human Rights Violations: Oral History, New Media and the Arts.” The Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling & the Montreal Life Stories Project, Concordia University.
November, 11, 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. "Seminar Recording Mass Violence: Media and Collective Memory of Severe Injustice." Huizinga Institute and The Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam.
December 5, 2009, Washington DC. "The Conscience Un-Conference: Using Social Media for Good." The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
August 10-14, 2010, Washington DC. Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting.
September 1-3, 2010, Manchester, England. Society of Archivists Annual Conference.

Guide to Documenting Community Organizations, published by the Central New York Library Resources Council, 1993
ICA Publication: The Records of NGOs, Memory... To Be Shared. A Practical Guide in 60 Questions, 2004
(Also available in Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese, German, and Croatian)
ICA Archives and Human Rights Newsletter, October 2008
Status of the ICA Human Rights Working Group, October 2008
Huridocs Documentation Centre -- Provides information for smaller NGOs to assist them with their library and archival programs
Special Report 170: Temporary Courts, Permanent Records, Trudy Huskamp Peterson, United States Institute of Peace, 2006
Final Acts: A Guide to Preserving Records of Truth Commissions, Trudy Huskamp Peterson, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005
“Application of ISAD(G) for Human Rights Archives,” Trudy Huskamp Peterson, 2005

September 21, 2009, Bueno Aires, Argentina. Regional Meeting on Archives and Human Rights, Panel "Archive and testimony," Memoria Abierta.
September 10-11, 2009, York, England. "Responsibility to the Story: Testimony and Ethics in Human Rights Research and Narratives." Alcuin Research Resource Centre, University of York.
June 25-27, 2009, Dublin, Ireland. "Photography and International Conflict." The University College Dublin Clinton Institute for American Studies
June 19, 2009, New York, New York. 2009 Open Video Conference: Human Rights and Indigenous Media: Dilemmas, Challenges and Opportunities. New York University.
June 4-5, 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmo, Sweden. International Conference on "Memory, Archives and Human Rights."

May 15 - 17, 2009, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) Annual Conference: "Rights, Responsibilities, Trust: Archives and Public Affairs"
May 4-5, 2009, Berkeley, California. "The Soul of the New Machine: Human Rights, Technology, and New Media." Human Rights Center at the University of California Berkeley.
December 9-11, 2008, Mexico City, Mexico. “Primer Foro Internacional de Archivos y Derechos Humanos" (First International Forum on Archives & Human Rights)
November 6-7, 2008, Montevideo, Uruguay. " Acceso a los Archivos de Derechos Humanos: Modelos y Experiencias" (Accessing Human Rights Archives: Models and Experiences)
September 5, 2008, Paris, France. "The Right to Know, the Right to Truth: How Archives and Records help Combat Impunity"
July 21-27, 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. “16th International Council on Archives Congress.”
August 26-30, 2008, San Francisco, CA. “Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting.”

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