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The Nigerian Freedom of Information Act
After five years of consideration, the Act has been passed!
Five new African sites inscribed on the World Heritage List
Sites in Kenya, Ethiopia, Senegal and Sudan have been awarded World Heritage Status
International Council of Archives: Human Rights Working Group
Read the July newsletter!
The 17th Annual Report of the Network of Concerned Historians
Read this report if you’re concerned about the intersection of history and human rights.
Tunisians discover secret archive in Paris
Refugees find a rich haul of documents in an abandoned building formerly known as the Tunisian Cultural Centre.
The Museo Memorial de la Resistencia Dominicana
This museum houses material relating to the struggle for human rights in the Domonican Republic
Archiving the Egyptian revolution
Historians and archivists are working with the National Library and Archives to collect materials that document the revolution.
The Journal of Social History
A special issue of this journal focuses on historical memory and social justice annd explores some of the ways in which ‘shameful’ legacies have been dealt.
The 9th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture
Read Professor Ismail Serageldin’s Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture: The Making of Social Justice: Pluralism, Cohesion and Social Participation
The South African Constitutional Court upholds the right to express the truth
A landmark Constitutional Court judgement, in the case The Citizen and others vs McBride, upholds the rights of victims of apartheid era abuses, the media and the public to speak the truth about crimes amnestied by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
New inscriptions on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register
Forty five new documents and/or documentary collections have been inscribed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register which now includes 238 items.
Yale University opens access to digital images
Digital images of the university’s cultural collections are now available online for free!
Report from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
This report, about the seminar on experiences of archives as a means to guarantee the right to the truth, stresses the importance of archives for judicial accountability, non-judicial truth-seeking processes, and for reparations
New digital tool helps Serbians prosecute war criminals
New open source software makes it easier to access information in digitised archives.
