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Welcome!
This is a pilot issue of the electronic Newsletter on archives and human rights. The decision to establish it was taken at a meeting of the ICA Working Group on archives and human rights on 23 October 2007. The idea is to share relevant information among archival institutions with significant holdings for human rights investigations and individual archivists with special interests in human rights issues. Continue
18 February 2008
Lille 3000
Dans le cadre des manifestations de Lille 3000 qui se dérouleront à Lille (France) du 14 mars au 12 juillet 2009 sur le thème "Les frontières invisibles en Europe : EAST IS THE NEW WEST IS THE NEW EAST", les Archives départementales du Nord envisagent d'organiser un symposium sur Archives et droits de l'homme dans les pays de l'Europe orientale. Continue
14 mars - 12 juillet 2009
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We, archivists from around the world, were moved to action by the witness of South Africans like Ahmed Kathrada ( Robben Island prisoner number 468/64):
"While we will not forget the brutality of apartheid, we will not want Robben Island to be a monument of our hardship… we would want it to be the triumph of the human spirit against the forces of evil. A triumph of wisdom and largeness of spirit against small minds and pettiness; a triumph of courage and determination over human frailty and weakness"…
We archivists believe, that as guardians of government and personal records, we are responsible for preserving the documents that bear witness to the disappeared, the imprisoned, the tortured and the assassinated wherever in the world human rights are obliterated.
Gabrielle Nishiguchi
Related link: Building on The Spirit of Cape Town
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