HUMAN RIGHTS

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In the 20th century alone, more than 20 million people died as a result of . Still millions of others endured violence, oppression, and violations of their basic human rights, yet survived to tell their stories. Genocide and atrocity crimes show humanity at its worst. They lead us to question our very nature—what it means to be human. Despite their horrors, they must be documented and they must be studied. In doing so, we hope to understand them.

Human Rights Studies Online is the crimes and capture efforts at a research database providing “To deny people their human reconciliation. comprehensive, comparative • Reference material such as maps, documentation, analysis, and rights is to challenge their bibliographies, descriptions of the interpretation of major human rights very humanity.” violations and atrocity crimes worldwide events and document questions – Nelson Mandela from 1900 to 2010. Upon completion, created by experts that provide key the collection will include 75,000 pages overviews and analysis of events. of text and 150 hours of video that give many of which have never before been • Links to third-party Web content, voice to the countless victims of human available digitally. including resources local and rights crimes in the 20th and early 21st contemporaneous to the events. centuries. • Documentaries, interviews, monographs, essays, and articles These materials work together to The collection provides primary and help explore significant questions and secondary materials across multiple that help contextualize the primary sources and clarify the breadth of the themes, such as how these violations media formats and content types for could have been prevented, what events. each selected event, including Armenia, common patterns are associated with , Cambodia, Bosnia- • Selected works of art and literature these crimes, and what impact can be Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and that memorialize those affected by made by government intervention. more than thirty additional subjects. Resources for each topic guide users through the full scope of the event, from the historical context that made Key Human Rights Events and Areas such violations possible through the international response, prosecution of • General Context: • • Peruvian Internal perpetrators, and steps toward rebuilding. Human Rights • Darfur Conflict Resources to support the study of the Violations, War • East Timor • Russia-Chechnya events include: Crimes, Crimes against • Rwanda Humanity, Genocide • Ethiopia-Eritrea Conflict • Contemporary personal accounts • Global Counter • Salvadoran and artifacts, such as diaries, letters, • , 2001–2010 • Sierra Leone Civil War individual papers, identity cards, • Al- • • South African Apartheid ration cards, arrest warrants, and • Algerian Civil War documentation of confiscation of • Herero and Namaqua • Sri Lankan Civil War • ’s property and forcible detention. Genocide (Namibia) • Stolen Generation • Bangladesh Liberation Through these documents students • Holocaust (Australian Aboriginal War begin to understand the impact of • Children) • Brazil Military policies on individuals. • The Troubles, Northern Dictatorships • Indonesian Massacres • Contemporaneous footage, Ireland • Burma-Myanmar • Israeli-Palestinian photographs, and NGO press releases • Uganda - Lord’s Conflict Conflict that show how events were portrayed Resistance Army in the media and the efforts of NGOs • Burundi 1972 • Kosovo War • Yugoslav Wars: to raise public awareness of these • Liberian Civil War • Burundi 1993 Bosniaks, Serbs, Croats atrocity crimes. • Cambodia • Nanking, China • Government, NGO, and court • Chad • Nigerian-Biafran War documentation, including memos, • - Pinochet Regime • Ottoman Empire and reports, court transcripts, and Armenia testimonies from victims and witnesses,

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LATIN AMERICA Military Coup In Operation Sofia: Chile In 1973 Documenting Getty Images Genocide in 1973-1990: Chile Seattle, WA: Getty Images. District of Columbia: National Security Archive, 1982.

BOSNIA Map of Bosnia Final Bosnia Statement William J. Clinton Presidential Hawkins, Ardenia R. Final Bosnia Library & Museum. Statement. Records of Genocide in the Former Yugoslavia, William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum, 1995.

CAMBODIA Cambodia: Genocide: A Personal Narrative Digital Archive of Cambodian Holocaust Survivors, 2011, originally published 2011 A personal narrative about the , written by Soy Gemza.

Cambodia Dreams , England: SW Pictures, 2008 Eighteen years in the making, Cambodia Dreams is the stunning documentary about a Cambodian family divided by the proxy war that ravaged the country in the 1970’s and led to civil war and revolution. RWANDA Action Plan for Voluntary Repatriation of Rwandan Refugees Records Concerning the Genocide in Rwanda in 1994, William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum, 10 August 1994.

Coexist Directed by Adam Mazo; produced by Suzanne Tzuanos (Boston, MA: American Public Television, 2014)

http://alexanderstreet.com | 3 ADVISORY BOARD The project is curated with assistance from an advisory board of respected scholars in the field. Testimonials

Laetitia Atlani-Duault, Adam Jones, Professor, Research Professor in Social Political Science at “As compelling and challenging as Anthropology at UMR 912 University of British (IRD/INSERM/AMU); Visiting Columbia, Okanagan it is comprehensive, Human Rights Professor at Columbia Campus University Studies Online is an immensely Laura McGrew, Consultant, Olivier Bercault, Adjunct Peacebuilding and Conflict valuable, even unparalleled, resource Professor specializing in Transformation not only for expanding awareness armed conflicts, refugee issues and international David Scheffer, Mayer about mass atrocity crimes— criminal prosecutions at Brown/Robert A. Helman University of San Francisco Professor of Law; Director, genocide, war crimes, ethnic Center for International Phillip A. Cantrell, Associate Human Rights at cleansing, — Professor; Asian History, Northwestern University African History, World and other human rights abuses but History at Longwood Ruti Teitel, Ernst C. Stiefel University Professor of Comparative also for encouraging resistance Law at New York Law Catherine Filloux, Social- School and Visiting against them. Its content can bring justice and human-rights Professor at the London playwright; Cofounder of School of Economics one to tears but inspire defiance as Theatre Without Borders, well.” New York —John K. Roth, Edward J. Sexton Professor of Pamela Graham, Director Philosophy Emeritus, Claremont McKenna of the Center for Human Rights Documentation College & Research at Columbia University “Human Rights Studies Online is an KEY CONTENT PARTNERS impressive and invaluable collection that pulls together the documents, VIDEOS history and first person accounts of American Public Television Journeyman Pictures modern human rights atrocities.” Berkeley Media Norwegian Film Institute — Elizabeth Becker, International Affairs Journalist Break Thru Films Nova-T BBC SW Pictures National Film Board of Shadow Films “This is an invaluable resource for any Canada Witness Chip Taylor Zed institution with programs in political Communications science, peace studies, or just a firm Dream Catchers Films TEXT AND IMAGES Filmakers Library Getty Images commitment to educate students on John McLean Media social justice issues.” — Kellian Clink, Reference Librarian, Minnesota State University

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