• Human Rights Archives & Documentation
• Human Rights Initiative
• Internships

• Collaborations
• Connecticut History Online
• UConn-ANC Partnership

• Professional Associations
• Association of Centers for the Study of Congress
• New England Archivists
• Society of American Archivists

Human Rights Archives and Documentation:
Transforming Ideas into Practice

Resources for Human Rights Archives

Upcoming Events and Conferences

Resources for Human Rights Archives

• Human Rights Archives Listserv-- Created in March 2008 to foster communication among the human rights archives community; hosted by the University of Connecticut

• (New!) Human Rights Archives Documentation Project (HRADP) at CRL
  
  
• (New!) Selected Bibliography on Human Rights Archives

• International Council on Archives (ICA) Archives and Human Rights Working Group
  Contact:  Perrine Canavaggio
  
  
• ICA Archives and Human Rights Newsletter
  
  
• ICA-- Archival Solidarity – Links archival projects and people worldwide
  Contact:  Nancy Marrelli
  
  
• Endangered Archives Program at the British Library
  
  
• Archivists without Borders
  
  
• UNESCO Archives Portal
  Contact:  Jens Boel

Upcoming Events and Conferences

• 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.”
  
  
  • The University of Connecticut will organize an informal human rights archives gathering in San Francisco, details TBA.
    
    
• December 10-12, 2008,  Mexico City, Mexico.  “International Forum on Archives & Human Rights.”
  
  
• May 15 - 17, 2009, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) Annual Conference: "Rights, Responsibilities, Trust: Archives and Public Affairs"
  
  
  • ACA 2009 Call for Proposals

Past Events:

• June 30- July 3, 2008,  Nantes, France.  “3rd World Forum on Human Rights.”
  

• May 30-31, 2008.  Olsztyn, Poland.  “8th International Conference on Human Rights: Right to Knowledge and Information in a Heterogenic Society.” 

• May 2-3, 2008,  Ann Arbor, MI.  “Archives and the Ethics of Memory Construction.”

• March 31- April 2, 2008,  Ramallah, Palestine.  “International Conference on Libraries from Human Rights Perspective.” 
  
  
• March 3-4, 2008, Storrs, CT. "Human Rights Archives and Documentation: Transforming Ideas into Practice."
  
  
• October 4-5, 2007, New York, NY . "Human Rights Archives and Documentation: Meeting the Needs of Research, Teaching, Advocacy, and Social Justice."
  

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