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Living Archives: An Introductory Toolkit for Civil Society Organizations in the Creation of Human Rights Oral Archives and Organizing Their Documentation
Key Guides
Global Initiative for Justice Truth & Reconciliation (GIJTR) (2021), 151 pp.
"This document was developed as an instrument to support civil society organizations (CSOs) in Colombia in the development of oral archives and in the organization of their archival collections. It draws from the experience of GIJTR partners International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC) and
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The Impact of Disinformation on Democratic Processes and Human Rights in the World
Brussels: European Parliament, Directorate General for External Policies of the Union (2021), 54 pp.
"Disinformation undermines human rights and many elements of good quality democracy; but counter-disinformation measures can also have a prejudicial impact on human rights and democracy. COVID-19 compounds both these dynamics and has unleashed more intense waves of disinformation, allied to human ri
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The Human Rights Film Network: Festival resilience in the time of Covid-19
NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies, volume 10, issue 1 (2021), pp. 275-282
"[...] This article focuses on how human rights festivals across the world have creatively and resourcefully resisted and adapted to Covid-19. It analyses the impact of this crisis on festival organisations within their contexts and on the global outreach that was possible thanks to the connections
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Seeing Human Rights: Video Activism as a Proxy Profession
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2021), xiii, 271 pp.
"Visual imagery is at the heart of humanitarian and human rights activism, and video has become a key tool in these efforts. The Saffron Revolution in Myanmar, the Green Movement in Iran, and Black Lives Matter in the United States have all used video to expose injustice. In Seeing Human Rights, San
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Informe regional de vulneración de derechos humanos en la Panamazonía: Tejiendo redes de resistencia y lucha en Colombia, Brasil, Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia. Resumen ejecutivo
Red Eclesial Panamazónica (REPAM) (2021), 20 pp.
"El presente documento es un resumen del Informe Regional de Vulneración de Derechos Humanos en la Panamazonía. Recoge 13 casos de violación sistemática a los derechos humanos de diferentes pueblos indígenas, comunidades campesinas y ribereñas de Colombia, Brasil, Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia. La
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Die fotografische Inszenierung des Verbrechens: Ein Album aus Auschwitz
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 303 pp.
"1944 entstanden im Vernichtungslager Auschwitz-Birkenau eine Vielzahl von Fotografien, die zumeist den SS-Fotografen Bernhard Walter und Ernst Hoffmann zuzuordnen sind. Erhalten blieben die Bilder in Form eines Albums im Besitz der Holocaust-Überlebenden Lili Jacob, die es auf Vermittlung Serge Kl
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Lése-majesté and journalism in Turkey and Europe
"This chapter deals with lèse-majesté laws and their impact on the exercise of freedom of political expression and journalism from the perspective of international human rights law. In doing so, it addresses the chilling effects of the application of a particular crime of lèse-majesté, namely
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#Faith4Rights toolkit
Faith for Rights (2020), 116 pp.
RFA In-Depth Interviews: Uyghur Experiences of Detention in Post-2015 Xinjiang
Radio Free Asia (RFA) (2020), 40 pp.
"This report presents the results of in-depth interviews conducted with eight individuals with recent direct experience inside detention facilities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Findings are based on four face-to-face and four remote interviews conducted between November 201
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"Video Unavailable": Social Media Platforms Remove Evidence of War Crimes
New York: Human Rights Watch (2020), 94 pp.
"Social media platforms are taking down “terrorist and violent extremist content” more and more quickly, often in response to the demands of governments, but in a way that prevents the content from being used to support investigations into serious crimes, including war crimes. “Video Unavailab
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Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation, and Accountability
Key Guides
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020), xvi, 360 pp.
Human Rights Guidance for the Mobile Industry
London: GSMA (2020), 23 pp.
"The aim of this document is to provide an introduction for companies to consider the relevance of the following issues for their operations, as well as inspiration and resources to begin to formalise their management of human rights. It is recognised that many of these issues cannot be solved by on
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Reporting Human Rights, Conflicts, and Peacebuilding: Critical and Global Perspectives
Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxi, 280 pp.
"This book focuses on the reporting of human rights in broadly defined times of conflict. It brings together scholarly and professional perspectives on the role of the media in constructing human rights and peacebuilding options in conflict and post-conflict environments, drawing on case studies fro
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Advanced Digital Technology and Genocide and Mass Atrocities Prevention
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 557-577
"There is no doubt that technology has improved the ability to document war crimes and human rights abuses, even in otherwise inaccessible locations. The world now sees, often in close to real-time, atrocities that would have been lost to the world only a handful of years ago. But does knowing neces
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Citizens and Condemnation: Strategic Uses of International Human Rights Pressure in Authoritarian States
Comparative Political Studies, volume 52, issue 4 (2019), pp. 579-612
"Governments with strict control over the information that their citizens hear from foreign sources are regular targets of human rights pressure, but we know little about how this information matters in the domestic realm. I argue that authoritarian regimes strategically pass on certain types of ext
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Memória e direitos humanos: Desafios contemporâneos
Porto Alegre: Editora Fi (2019), 262 pp.
Pistas para investigar la desaparición y búsqueda de personas: Diálogos con la ausencia
Bogotá: Consejo de Redacción (2019), 208 pp.
"Sin desconocer el esfuerzo del periodismo por contar las historias, cabe reconocer que se han cometido errores en el cubrimiento, de ahí la importancia de los periodistas, ya que el peso que tiene cada pequeña noticia, escrita o leída, puede convertirse en una pieza clave en la reconstrucción d
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