Proceedings of the Conference held by the Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research at Columbia University Libraries on 4-6 October 2007. The program featured a conversation with keynote speakers Juan E. Méndez (President of the International Center for Transitional Justice and former UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide) and David Marwell (Director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, A Living Memorial to the Holocaust). Peter Rosenblum (Clinical Professor of Human Rights Law, Columbia University Law School) moderated the conversation. In addition, current approaches to human rights documentation, grassroots activities and new forms of documentation, legal uses of human rights documentation, and academic approaches to the use of human documentation in teaching and research were featured. Over 240 scholars, human rights activists, legal advocates, librarians, and archivists from all over the world attended the conference.
The Web site contains links to the press release as well as to video recordings of all presentations.
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