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Actions taken against whistleblowers raise alarm
Employees who courageously blew the whistle on corrupt practices at Telkom and in the health insurance industry have come under fire.
Tanzania launches the National Data Archive
This initiative will enable the general public and other stakeholders to access statistical data online.
Rwanda Genocide Archive officially launched
The Rwanda Genocide Archive was officially launched on 10 December 2010 at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda.
Swakopmund Protocol on the Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Expressions of Folklore
This agreement affirms the principle that local communities are the custodians of their traditional knowledge and empowers them to exercise rights over their knowledge and resources.
Repatriation of museum objects
The Brooklyn Museum in the United States of America is preparing to return about 4 500 pre-Columbian artefacts taken from Costa Rica roughly a century ago.
One City Many Histories, a South African History Online project
This initiative has made information on South Africa’s nine 2010 FIFA World Cup™ host cities previously scattered in diverse specialist literatures broadly available.
Iranian human rights activist jailed for 11 years
An Iranian human rights lawyer has been jailed for actions deemed “detrimental to national security”
Access to Information and the Making of South African Pasts
Invitation to attend a Dialogue Forum: Access to Information and the Making of South African Pasts at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in February 2011.
Concerned about the digitisation of heritage resources? Comment on this draft policy!
The DAC has released a final draft of the National Policy on the Digitisation of Heritage Resources for public review.
Concerned about the visual arts? Comment on this important study!
The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) have released a national study on the visual arts for public comment.
“Made in Translation: Images from and of the Landscape” at Iziko South African Museum
This exhibition draws on copies of rock art from various archives, exploring ways in which translations from and of the landscape have been made.
New H-Net networks
H-Net has established new networks for those interested in citizenship, memory and human rights.
Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative website launched
A dynamic transdisciplinary research group based at the University of Cape Town has launched its new website.
Human Rights Media Centre launches a new publication
“Edge of the Table: Fourteen Cape Flats youths tell their life stories”
