New Issue of "Focus on Global Resources" Spotlights Human Rights Documentation

The Winter 2012 issue (Volume 31, Number 2) of Focus on Global Resources from the Center for Research Libraries is now available online.
Articles:

In This Issue

This FOCUS revolves around the theme of human rights documentation and the issues surrounding the survival and integrity of evidence of human rights violations.

Human Rights and Electronic Media: a CRL Study

This article discusses some of practices and technologies used by human rights monitoring groups to collect electronic documentation, as part of CRL’s electronic evidence assessment funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

The Archivo Historico de la Policia Nacional de Guatemala at the University of Texas

The Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala consists of approximately 80 million documents, about 12 million of which have been digitized and will soon be available from the University of Texas at Austin website. These documents, dating from 1882 to 1996, chronicle the activities of Guatemala’s National Police, the enforcers of the country’s oppressive military dictatorship during 36 years of internal armed conflict.

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