This page contains additional information and resources related to the Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI).
Finding aids for the HRDI's archival collections are available via the Texas Archival Resources Online (TARO) web portal. These finding aids include collections that are not available online.
Author: David Bliss | Source: TexLibris Blog | Date: April 27, 2020
Author: Susanna Sharpe | Source: TexLibris Blog | Date: July 17, 2019
Author: Vasken Makarian | Source: Not Even Past Blog | Date: March 6, 2017
Author: Theresa E. Polk | Source: Portal | Date: 2016
Autfor: Kent Norsworthy & T-Kay Sangwand | Source: Texas Conference on Digital Libraries | Date: March 21, 2013
Alpert-Abrams, H., Bliss, D., & Carbajal, I. (2019). Post-Custodial Archiving for the Collective Good: Examining Neoliberalism in US-Latin American Archival Partnerships. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 2(1), 1-24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24242/jclis.v2i1.87
Caswell, M. (2014). Toward a survivor-centered approach to records documenting human rights abuse: lessons from community archives. Archival Science, 14(3-4), 307–322. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-014-9220-6
Guberek, T., Muralles, V., & Alpert-Abrams, H. (2019). ‘Irreversible’: The Role of Digitization to Repurpose State Records of Repression. International Journal of Transitional Justice, 13(1), 50–70. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijy035
Heath, F., Kelleher, C., Sangwand, T., & Wood, K. (2010). Confronting challenges of documentation in the digital world: the Human Rights Documentation Initiative at the University of Texas. Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society, 165–178. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-1-84334-594-7.50012-0
Kelleher, C., Sangwand, T., Wood, K., & Kamuronsi, Y. (2010). The Human Rights Documentation Initiative at the University of Texas Libraries. New Review of Information Networking, 15(2), 94–109. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13614576.2010.528342
Kelleher, C. (2017). Archives Without Archives: (Re)Locating and (Re)Defining the Archive Through Post-Custodial Praxis. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 1(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24242/jclis.v1i2.29
Sangwand, T. (2018). Preservation is Political: Enacting Contributive Justice and Decolonizing Transnational Archival Collaborations. KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies 2(1), 10. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/kula.36
AILLA is a digital language archive of recordings, texts, and other multimedia materials in and about the Indigenous languages of Latin America. AILLA's mission is to preserve these materials and make them available to Indigenous Peoples, researchers, and other friends of these languages now and for generations to come.
These digitized documents from the Guatemalan National Police Historical Archive (AHPN) aim to facilitate scholarly and legal research for the study of Guatemalan history and human rights in the region.
The Latin American Digital Initiatives (LADI) repository is a collaborative project that preserves and provides digital access to unique archival documents from a network of Latin American partners with an emphasis on collections documenting human rights issues and underrepresented communities.
The "Safe Havens for Archives at Risk Initiative" seeks to promote safe haven arrangements that comply with good practice standards defined by the "Guiding Principles for Safe Havens for Archives at Risk". Additionally, the initiative acts as a hub to facilitate archives at risk in finding a potential, suitable hosting institution.