Archives and Human Rights

Foreword

Michele Bachelet

Message from the President of the International Council on Archives

David Fricker

Introduction

Jens Boel, Perrine Canavaggio and Antonio González Quintana

Part 1: Archives and Human Rights: A Close Relationship

Jens Boel, Perrine Canavaggio and Antonio González Quintana

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

Trudy Huskamp Peterson

Africa

8. A Long Walk to Justice: Archives and the Truth and Reconciliation Process in South Africa

Graham Dominy

9. Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission: Archives in the Pursuit of Truth

Adel Maïzi

10. The Exploitation of the Archives of Hissène Habré's Political Police by the Extraordinary African Chambers

Henri Thulliez

11. The Gacaca Archive. Preserving the Memory of Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda

Peter Horsman

Asia

12. Memory Politics and Archives in Sino-Japanese Relations

Karl Gustafsson

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

Vincent de Wilde d’Estmael

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

Henar Alonso Rodríguez

15. The ‘Centres of Remembrance’ in Post-Communist Europe

José M. Faraldo

16. A Legacy of the DDR: The Stasi Records Archive

Dagmar Hovestädt

17. France and the Archives of the Algerian War

Gilles Manceron and Gilles Morin

18. Truth, Memory and Reconciliation in Post-Communist Societies: The Romanian Experience and the Securitate Archives

Marius Stan and Vladimir Tismaneanu

Latin America

19. Archives for Memory and Justice in Colombia after the Peace Agreements

Ramón Alberch i Fugueras

20. Utilisation of the Archives of the Peruvian Commission for Truth and Reconciliation

Ruth Elena Borja Santa Cruz

21. Archive, Truth and the Democratic Transition Process in Brazil

Aluf Alba Vilar Elias

22. Archives for Truth and Justice in Argentina: the Search for the Missing Persons

Mariana Nazar

23. Chronicle of a Backlash Foretold. Guatemala’s National Police Archives, Lost and Found and Lost – and Found? – Again

Kirsten Weld

Concluding Remarks

Jens Boel, Perrine Canavaggio and Antonio González Quintana

Biography

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).