Dear Colleagues,

Notes and materials from the symposium, “Human Rights Archives and Documentation: Transforming Ideas Into Practice,” hosted by the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut in March 2008, and co-sponsored by the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research at Columbia University Libraries and the Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Network, are now available on the Dodd Center’s website. The direct link is below.

http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/outreach/human_righ...

The program BARM (= Bangladesh Archives & Records Management) is aiming at creating good conditions for development. The bottom line is: Archives and Records are tools for honest, effective
and democratic government and honest history writing, history teaching and journalism. In 1995 a cooperation between archivists and historians from Bangladesh and Netherlands, was initiated giving advise to the National Archives of Bangladesh (=NAB) on improvement of the Archives & Records Management.
Archives and Records are information sources. These information sources

Dear colleagues,

N° 1 of the "Newsletter on Archives and Human Rights" is now available at the following address: http://www.unesco.org/archives/hrgnews/

Best regards,

Jens Boel
Chief Archivist
UNESCO

27 March 2008

3e Forum mondial des droits de l’Homme (Nantes, France) : inscrivez-vous !
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30 juin – 3 juillet 2008 / 30 June – 3 July 2008 / 30 de junio – 3 de julio de 2008
Cité internationale des congrès Nantes Métropole / Nantes International Convention Centre / Palacio internacional de congresos Nantes Métropole

I am very pleased to have just begun a position at the French National Archives, in the Ancien Régime section. While on leave from the French civil service over a number of years, I had university and research posts in Chile and the United States. Before my time in the academic world, I worked in French departmental archives, the Institut national de l'audiovisuel (film production archives of the French National TV) and at the Direction des Archives de France, in the division that sets archival policies and norms.

A pilot issue (N° 0) of the Newsletter on Archives and Human Rights is now available. You can read it at the following address:

http://www.unesco.org/archives/hrgnews/

You're most welcome to send your comments as well as your input for N° 1. The expected publication date is 18 March 2008.

Jens Boel
Chief Archivist
UNESCO

The Thomas J. Dodd Research Center and the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut would like to invite you to join us for a symposium, “Human Rights Archives and Documentation: Transforming Ideas into Practice.” The Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Network is co-sponsoring the event.

Yale University Press Awarded $1.3 Million Grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
New Haven, CT - January 8, 2008

Yale University Press is pleased to announce that it has received a $1.3 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a digital documentary edition of Stalin's Personal Archive.

The third World Forum on Human Rights will be held in Nantes (France) from 30th June to 3rd July 2008.

More information at http://www.spidh.org/en/home/index.html

P. Canavaggio