Archives and Human Rights

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).

• 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