Jens Boel (Member, Executive Committee, ICA / SAHR), Perrine Canavaggio (Member, Executive Committee, ICA / SAHR), Antonio Gonzalez Quintana (ICA Chair / SAHR)

Archives and Human Rights

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Routledge Approaches to History
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 234mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9780367724603
• ISBN-10: 036772460X
• Artikelnr.: 65613678

Autorenporträt

Jens Boel is a Danish archivist and historian. He was the Chief Archivist of UNESCO from 1995 to 2017 and Chair of the International Council on Archives' Section of International Organizations 2000-2004 and 2008-2012. He is co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge-publication: Recordkeeping in International Organizations. Perrine Canavaggio, a French archivist, was head of the Archives of the Presidency of the Republic (1974-1994). Secretary of the International Conference of the Round Table on Archives (2001-2009), she is a member of the Executive Committee of the ICA Section on Archives and Human Rights. Antonio González Quintana is a Spanish archivist. He is the chair of the ICA Section of Archives and Human Rights and has been Deputy General Director of Archives in the Community of Madrid (2010-2018). He is author of Archival Policies in the Protection of Human Rights (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

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