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
Human Rights
21 años de paz, 21 millones de documentos: Una reflexión sobre el portal digital del Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala
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
Archiving Human Rights Documentation: The Promise of the Post-Custodial Approach in Latin America
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
Struggles and Obstacles in Indigenous Women’s Fight for Justice in Guatemala
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