A series of non-periodical publications by the Commission for Women and their Rights of the Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos (Permanent Assembly for Human Rights) ranging from 1988 to circa 2006, all concerning women's rights. Some are summaries of conferences, some tackle specific issues (like family violence, reproductive rights or women in the workplace), some are meant as a guide of international declarations, conventions and laws. Many contain resources for women in need of help.
SERPAJ-AL Informa es una publicación mensual del Servicio Paz y Justicia América Latina que reporta noticias de Latinoamérica relacionadas con derechos humanos, desigualdad socioeconómica y procesos democráticos, entre otros tópicos, y también respecto al trabajo realizado por el Servicio Paz y Justicia y sus ramas regionales, siempre desde una perspectiva no-violenta. | spa
From 1976 to 1983, military dictatorship in Argentina overran the population with politically-charged attacks and threats of imprisonment against citizens. In response to this regime, various human rights organizations (HROs) were created. Memoria Abierta is a collective alliance of nine of these HROs that aimed to denounce social injustice and support victims of repression. This online collection includes written works from these groups. The materials document and reflect (1) the history of the HROs and their members, (2) forms of organization and intervention, and (3) the roles that these groups played in a sociopolitical context. The publications include magazines, booklets, newsletters, and newspapers from the 1970’s to today. Publications in the collection include but are not limited to the Magazine of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights (a newspaper covering politics, human rights, and justice advocacy), Bulletin of Relatives of the Disappeared and Detainees for Political Reasons (a periodic publication on missing persons, human rights violations, and HRO activities), and “Paz y Justicia” (a periodic bulletin on human rights in Argentina and Latin America). These publications allow users to explore the history of the human rights movement as well as the sociopolitical context of organizations and interventions within the movement. The materials contextualize the HRO’s within their foundation histories, the challenges that they faced, and the actions they carried out against injustice. For this collection, Memoria Abierta has selected materials that reflect Argentina’s dictatorial state and its consequences that led to organized resistance. The content is especially significant in light of modern-day right-wing governments regaining presence within and surrounding the country. This political climate has created some set-backs in making accessible Argentina’s grim, repressive history. However, this archive takes a huge step towards highlighting the voices of those that advocated for a more democratic and inclusive system-- an ideology that echoes into the present day. Digitized as part of the Modern Endangered Archives Program.
McMillan Library’s unique newspaper collection contains some of the only remaining copies of newspapers from 28 different publishers. The collection includes newspaper coverage of pressing issues such as decolonization, place and identity, colonial legacies, policies and land issues, as well as public memory and consciousness.
