Defining human rights archives: introduction to the special double issue on archives and human rights

摘要

The majority of the papers in this special double issue on archives and human rights were originally presented at the symposium "The Antonym of Forgetting: Global Perspectives on Human Rights Archives," which was held October 18 and 19, 2013, at the University of California, Los Angeles.1 The symposium explored the complex political, ethical, legal, and cultural challenges faced in the creation, preservation, and use of records documenting human rights crises. In bringing together an international group of archivists and scholars whose work addresses archival issues in a broad range of countries-South Africa, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Bosnia, Croatia, Rwanda, and the United States-the symposium provided an opportunity to develop interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of archival theory and practice, human rights, history, anthropology, and law.