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Collected by: University of Texas at Austin Libraries, Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Archived since: Apr, 2009

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The University of Texas Libraries’ Human Rights Documentation Initiative Collection features fragile websites containing human rights documentation and related content from human rights organizations and advocates across the globe. Browse collection by topic, geographic area, language or do a keyword search at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/hrdi/hr_archive.

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Title: ASFADDES: Asociación de Familiares Detenidos-Desaparecidos en Colombia

URL: https://www.asfaddes.org/

Description: This is an updated URL for ASFADDES. Captures of the original can be found here: http://wayback.archive-it.org/1475/*/http://asfaddes.info/ In Spanish. Organization which aids and represents the families of people who are detained or missing in Colombia. The directors and members of ASFADDES have been subject to illegal surveillance and death threats from paramilitary groups. They have filed a petition to the Inter American Human Rights Court to require the Colombian state to provide them with minimum safety guarantees. Site contains news articles, background information on organization and its activities, photographs, and educational information on forced disappearances.

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Subject:   armed conflict and persecution--death threats advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community organizing advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists,  armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries ,  armed conflict and persecution--disappearances

Title: Vigilance Soudan

URL: https://vigilancesoudans.wixsite.com/vigilance-soudans/

Description: This is the most recent website for VS. To see captures of the old site, go here: http://wayback.archive-it.org/1475/*/http://www.vigilsd.org/. In French and English. Maintained by a group of former residents of Sudan. Contains French and English publications of newsletter "Viglance Soudan" as well as news bulletins, links, maps, and chronology of events related to Sudan.

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Subject:   laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--United Nations economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--oil and gas civil and political rights--women's rights armed conflict and persecution--refugees,  armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries ,  armed conflict and persecution--internally displaced persons armed conflict and persecution--genocide

Title: United Nations Organization Mission in DR Congo

URL: https://monusco.unmissions.org/en/

Description: This is the new site for the UN Organization Mission in DR Congo. To see captures of the old site, go here: http://wayback.archive-it.org/1475/*/http://monuc.unmissions.org In English and French. Determined in 2000 according to a UN security council resolution, the UN peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo's mandate includes facilitation of humanitarian assistance and human rights monitoring, with particular attention to vulnerable groups including women, children and demobilized child soldiers. Site contains photographs, newsletters, maps, and press releases for download, audio and video clips, and press coverage.

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Subject:   armed conflict and persecution--weapons--landmines and unexploded ordnance civil and political rights--children's rights armed conflict and persecution--United Nations Peacekeeping armed conflict and persecution--rape and sexual abuse armed conflict and persecution--child soldiers laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--laws and legislation civil and political rights--women's rights,  armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries

Title: Vigilance Soudan

URL: http://www.vigilsd.org/

Description: This is the older website for VS. To see captures of the newer site, go here: http://wayback.archive-it.org/1475/*/https://vigilancesoudans.wixsite.com/vigilance-soudans/ In French and English. Maintained by a group of former residents of Sudan. Contains French and English publications of newsletter "Viglance Soudan" as well as news bulletins, links, maps, and chronology of events related to Sudan.

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Subject:   laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--United Nations economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--oil and gas civil and political rights--women's rights armed conflict and persecution--refugees,  armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries ,  armed conflict and persecution--internally displaced persons armed conflict and persecution--genocide

Title: Procuradaria de Derechos Humanos / Human Rights Ombudsman

URL: http://www.pdh.org.gt/

Description: In Spanish. Contains background information on human rights, ombudsman's functions and areas of work (protection of senior citizens, prisoners, women, workers, handicapped, children and youth, publications, immigrants, indigenous populations, the environment) and news.

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Subject:   economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--drug trafficking economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous peoples laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--organized crime advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners civil and political rights--women's rights,  armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries

Title: United Nations Organization Mission in DR Congo

URL: http://monuc.unmissions.org/

Description: This is the older site for the UN Organization Mission in DR Congo. To see captures of the new site, go here: http://wayback.archive-it.org/1475/*/https://monusco.unmissions.org/en/ In English and French. Determined in 2000 according to a UN security council resolution, the UN peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo's mandate includes facilitation of humanitarian assistance and human rights monitoring, with particular attention to vulnerable groups including women, children and demobilized child soldiers. Site contains photographs, newsletters, maps, and press releases for download, audio and video clips, and press coverage.

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Subject:   armed conflict and persecution--weapons--landmines and unexploded ordnance civil and political rights--children's rights armed conflict and persecution--United Nations Peacekeeping armed conflict and persecution--rape and sexual abuse armed conflict and persecution--child soldiers laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--laws and legislation civil and political rights--women's rights,  armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries

Title: H.I.J.O.S. Guatemala: Hijos e Hijas por la Identidad y la Justicia contra el Olvido y el Silencio / H.I.J.O.S. Guatemala: Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice Against Silence and Forgetting

URL: http://hijosguatemala.8m.com/

Description: In Spanish. Contains art gallery related to the disappeared as well as a photo gallery of some of the disappeared. This organization is run as a collective and subsists solely on donations. It focuses on promoting human rights, justice and activities that denounce state violence in Guatemala. They are specially focused on activities with the youth. members of HIJOS are continuously subject to threats that they should cease their educational and legal activities denouncing state violence (especially the involvement of the military in Human Rights Violations). In June 2008, according to Protectionline - Observatorio para la Proteccion de los Defensores de DDHH, organization members received death threats. Threats come from unidentified persons who are believed to be linked with the military.

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Subject:   armed conflict and persecution--disappearances civil and political rights--discrimination, ethnic and racial armed conflict and persecution--genocide,  armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries ,  advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--identity, ethnic

Title: Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala / Foundation for Forensic Anthropology - Guatemala

URL: http://fafg.org/

Description: In Spanish. Non-profit organization that documents and investigates human rights violations. Carries out forensic investigations to aid the justice system and the families of those disappeared in denouncing and establishing the facts related to human rights violations during Guatemala's violent internal conflict. From 1992-2008, FAFG conducted 946 forensic anthropological investigations related to massacres, arbitrary executions, paramilitary activities, general crime, disasters, forced disappearances, and femicide. FAFG maintains a database with maps, photos, figures and some information on the investigations they have conducted as well as PDFs with their forensic manuals and reviews of their publications reporting on their investigations. Fredy Peccerelli, Omar Girón, José Suassnavar y Leonel Paiz, members of FAFG, received email death threats in May 2008. FAFG has been active since 1997, and its members' security has been compromised since 2002. In their website they document some of these threats. In February 2008, Giron and Peccerelli received death threats to themselves and their families via cellphone.

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Subject:   economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--natural disasters armed conflict and persecution--mass graves armed conflict and persecution--mass killings advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--legal proceedings,  armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries ,  armed conflict and persecution--disappearances laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--forensic anthropology

Title: ASFADDES: Asociación de Familiares Detenidos-Desaparecidos en Colombia / Colombian Association of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared

URL: http://asfaddes.info/

Description: This is an older URL for ASFADDES. Captures of the newer site can be found here: http://wayback.archive-it.org/1475/*/https://www.asfaddes.org/ In Spanish. Organization which aids and represents the families of people who are detained or missing in Colombia. The directors and members of ASFADDES have been subject to illegal surveillance and death threats from paramilitary groups. They have filed a petition to the Inter American Human Rights Court to require the Colombian state to provide them with minimum safety guarantees. Site contains news articles, background information on organization and its activities, photographs, and educational information on forced disappearances.

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Subject:   armed conflict and persecution--death threats advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community organizing advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists,  armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries ,  armed conflict and persecution--disappearances

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