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Human Rights

Selections from the LADI Repository

October 30, 2020

BY DAVID A. BLISS THE LATIN AMERICAN DIGITAL INITIATIVES (LADI) website holds archival collections from six of the Benson’s post-custodial archival partner organizations in Latin America. Beginning in 2014, Benson archivists worked with partner institutions to digitize and describe collections … [Read more...] about Selections from the LADI Repository

Tagged With: Black Diaspora, Human Rights, LADI, Latin American Digital Initiatives, LLILAS Benson, post-custodial archives

21 años de paz, 21 millones de documentos: Una reflexión sobre el portal digital del Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala

April 19, 2018

POR HANNAH ALPERT-ABRAMS | traducido por Susanna Sharpe ¿Cómo le hacemos para entender 80 millones de páginas de documentos históricos? Esta pregunta es de naturaleza filosófica. Se trata del poder de la mente para asimilar un número tan grande de documentos. El Archivo Histórico de la … [Read more...] about 21 años de paz, 21 millones de documentos: Una reflexión sobre el portal digital del Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala

Tagged With: AHPN, Digital archives, Digital humanities, Guatemala, Guatemala armed conflict, Human Rights, Indigenous Issues

Archiving Human Rights Documentation: The Promise of the Post-Custodial Approach in Latin America

August 5, 2016

BY THERESA E. POLK Guatemala’s internal armed conflict was brutal by all accounts, and justice for human rights violations has been notoriously difficult to attain in its wake. Yet there have also been some critical milestones, including convictions in 2010 for the forced disappearance of labor … [Read more...] about Archiving Human Rights Documentation: The Promise of the Post-Custodial Approach in Latin America

Tagged With: archiving, Benson Latin American Collection, Black Diaspora, Central America, Human Rights, post-custodial archives, Theresa Polk

Struggles and Obstacles in Indigenous Women’s Fight for Justice in Guatemala

July 29, 2016

BY IRMA ALICIA VELÁSQUEZ NIMATUJ Transitional justice refers to measures both judicial and non-judicial that are intended to redress large-scale human rights abuses. In this article, I focus on two recent cases of transitional justice in Guatemala. The first is the 2013 trial against General and … [Read more...] about Struggles and Obstacles in Indigenous Women’s Fight for Justice in Guatemala

Tagged With: Daniel Hernández-Salazar, Guatemala, Guatemala armed conflict, Human Rights, Indigenous Issues, indigenous women, Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj, LLILAS, Ríos Montt, Sepur Zarco, war crimes trial

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