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Title: Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional

URL: http://archivohistoricopn.org/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In Spanish. The Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional (AHPN) is a Guatemalan repository that houses, preserves, processes, and disseminates the records of Guatemala’s National Police. The National Police collaborated with the state during Guatemala's 36-year armed internal conflict which, between 1960 and 1996, claimed 200,000 lives and displaced over one million people. The AHPN has formed a collaboration with University of Texas at Austin to make its records available online (https://ahpn.lib.utexas.edu/about_ahpn). The site contains organizational information, publications about the AHPN's materials, legislation concerning the AHPN, links for requesting information, digital photographs, and other links.

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Subject:   laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--truth commissions armed conflict and persecution--war crimes armed conflict and persecution--displacement,  armed conflict and persecution--disappearances ,  armed conflict and persecution--genocide advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--cultural repositories

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

URL: http://asfaddes.info/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

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

Title: Comisión de Derechos Humanos de El Salvador / Human Rights Commission of El Salvador

URL: http://cdhes.org.sv/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In Spanish. Non-governmental organization that conducts human rights advocacy and education. Focuses on issues of health, poverty, education, justice and migration. Contains documents, news items, and information on how to report human rights violations.

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Subject:   economic, social, and cultural rights advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--archives, libraries, and museums laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists,  armed conflict and persecution--disappearances

Title: Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos / The Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights

URL: http://cmdpdh.org/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In Spanish and some English. The Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos was founded during the 1980s as a non-governmental organization that intervenes with legal measures in cases of human rights abuses and forced disappearances. The site is material rich, with photos videos and podcasts available. It includes detailed information on a variety of cases.

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Subject:   laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--legal proceedings,  armed conflict and persecution--disappearances

Title: Proyecto Desaparecidos

URL: http://desaparecidos.org/main.html

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In Spanish and English. The Desaparecidos Project is an initiative of a variety of human rights scholars and activists who hope to combat forced disappearances and the impunity that often enables them to continue occurring. The website includes current news on government repression of dissent, memorials to disappeared people, testimony of survivors and resources for attorneys.

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Subject:   laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability armed conflict and persecution--political prisoners,  armed conflict and persecution--disappearances

Title: Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team / Equipo Argentino de Antropologia Forense

URL: http://eaaf.typepad.com/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In English, Spanish, French. The EAAF is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that conducts forensic archaeological and anthropological research to investigate human rights violations in Argentina and worldwide. Site contains annual reports from work conducted in different countries in Latin America and around the world, field mission reports, press releases, and videos.

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Subject:   armed conflict and persecution--disappearances ,  laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--forensic anthropology advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations

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

URL: http://fafg.org/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

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: Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas / Center for Human Rights Fray Bartolomé de las Casas

URL: http://frayba.org.mx/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In English and Spanish. Website of Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas (Frayba) Center for Human Rights, a non-profit civil organization. Founded in 1989 through the initiative of Samuel Ruiz García, catholic bishop of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Frayba works in defense and promotion of human rights, especially for the indigenous villages and communities in the state of Chiapas, Mexico.

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Subject:   economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous peoples armed conflict and persecution--extrajudicial executions,  armed conflict and persecution--disappearances ,  advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations

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/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

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: Blog del Instituto de los Derechos Humanos de la UCA / Central American University "José Simeon Cañas" Institute for Human Rights Blog

URL: http://idhuca.blogspot.com/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In Spanish. Blog contains news updates on human rights issues in El Salvador.

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Subject:   laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability,  armed conflict and persecution--disappearances

Title: Human Rights Solidarity [Libya]

URL: http://lhrs.ch/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In Arabic and some English. Contains news, articles, press releases, studies and reports, and links to other resources on human rights violations in Libya. Libya forbids opposition political parties & independent organizations & violators can be executed; therefore there may be no organizations based in Libya itself. Libya has forcibly "disappeared" 258 political prisoners, many for violating Law 71 that bans any group activity oppossed to the regime.

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Subject:   civil and political rights--freedom of assembly civil and political rights--freedom of speech armed conflict and persecution--refugees,  armed conflict and persecution--disappearances

Title: Reiniciar: corporación para la defensa y promoción de derechos humanos / Reinitiate: Corporation for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights

URL: http://reiniciar.org/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In Spanish. Contains news articles, audiovisual materials, PDFs of publications, and opportunities for action. Focuses on the genocide of members of the Unión Patriótica, leftist political party whose members were targeted and killed during the 1980s by military and paramilitary forces. Founded in 1993 by surviving members of UP and others who had worked on human rights in the Barrancabermeja area of Colombia, Reiniciar is a non-profit organization based in Bogota, Colombia that provides human rights advocacy training, documents human rights violations nation wide, and provides legal, humanitarian and psychological aid to survivors of human rights abuses.

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Subject:   civil and political rights--political identity advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--memorials and commemoration events armed conflict and persecution--refugees civil and political rights--political parties and movements,  armed conflict and persecution--disappearances

Title: Grupo Tortura Nunca Mais

URL: http://torturanuncamais-rj.org.br/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In Portuguese. Grupo Tortura Nunca Mais/RJ (GTNM/RJ) is a Brazilian non-profit founded in 1985 to advocate for the rights of current and former political prisoners, organize anti-torture campaigns, provide physical and psychological care for those affected by state violence, and record the history of the military dictatorship which ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985. Site contains news, publications, information on disappeared people, and links.

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Subject:   laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--truth commissions,  armed conflict and persecution--disappearances ,  advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations armed conflict and persecution--torture civil and political rights--freedom of speech armed conflict and persecution--political prisoners

Title: China Tian Wang Human Rights Service

URL: http://www.64tianwang.com/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In Chinese and some English. Began in 1999 as a web service for missing persons searches. Conducts human rights activities in 30 mainland provinces and cities.

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Subject:   laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--impunity civil and political rights--freedom of speech armed conflict and persecution--corporal punishment laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners civil and political rights--discrimination, political,  armed conflict and persecution--disappearances

Title: Association pour la Protection des Droits Humains et des Personnes Detenues / Association for the Protection of Human Rights and Detained Persons

URL: http://www.aprodh.org/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: This is the older site for APRODH, but to see captures of the newer site, go here: http://wayback.archive-it.org/1475/*/https://www.aprodhasbl.org/ In French, some English. Contains information on human rights abuses, such as sexual violence and torture, in Burundi. APRODH is a non-profuit organization based in Burundi that seeks to combat torture, sexual violence and the abuse of human rights of prisoners by soldiers and police in Burundi.

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Subject:   armed conflict and persecution--rape and sexual abuse civil and political rights--discrimination, gender armed conflict and persecution--torture,  armed conflict and persecution--disappearances

Title: Association pour la Protection des Droits Humains et des Personnes Detenues

URL: http://www.aprodhasbl.org/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: This is the updated site for APRODH, but to see captures of the older site, go here: http://wayback.archive-it.org/1475/*/http://www.aprodh.org/ In French, some English. Contains information on human rights abuses, such as sexual violence and torture, in Burundi. APRODH is a non-profuit organization based in Burundi that seeks to combat torture, sexual violence and the abuse of human rights of prisoners by soldiers and police in Burundi.

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Subject:   armed conflict and persecution--rape and sexual abuse civil and political rights--discrimination, gender armed conflict and persecution--torture,  armed conflict and persecution--disappearances

Title: Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento / Consultants for Human Rights and Displacement

URL: http://www.codhes.org/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In Spanish. Formed in 1992, CODHES is a non-governmental organization that promotes human rights in Colombia, with a special emphasis in assisting those who have been violently displaced by the internal conflict and state violence. Contains bulletins, statistics, reports, list of publications, calendar of events, and links to other resources.

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Subject:   armed conflict and persecution--displacement economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights armed conflict and persecution--internally displaced persons civil and political rights--elections and electoral activities,  armed conflict and persecution--disappearances ,  advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations

Title: Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras / Committee of Family Members of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras

URL: http://www.cofadeh.hn

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In Spanish. Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras / Committee of Family Members of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) is a non-governmental organization founded in the 1980s to support the families of people "disappeared" by the Honduran government. The organization conducts legal advocacy work to counter legal impunity of perpetrators, and COFADEH manages a documentation center with testimonies of family members of the disappeared.

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Subject:   laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--testimony,  armed conflict and persecution--disappearances ,  advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations

Title: Human Rights for All / Les Droits de L'Homme pour Tous

URL: http://www.fidh.org/-english-

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In French, English, Spanish, and Arabic. FIDH aims at obtaining effective improvements in the protection of victims, the prevention of human rights violations and the sanction of their perpetrators worldwide. Focuses on human rights defenders, international justice, terrorism, death penalty, women's rights, forced disppearances, globalization, migration and asylum. Site contains news on each area of focus, information on intergovernmental organizations, and copies of financial statements.

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Subject:   laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--asylum economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--globalization laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--impunity laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--detention civil and political rights--women's rights civil and political rights--elections and electoral activities laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--death penalty,  armed conflict and persecution--disappearances ,  advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations

Title: Manipur Update

URL: http://www.geocities.com/manipurupdate

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In English. The Manipur Update is a monthly newsletter published by Human Rights Alert. Human Rights Alert is a non-governmental, voluntary organization of individuals committed to the cause of human rights. Its members are drawn from human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers, academics, health workers and community workers of Manipur. The mission of the publication is to represent the conditions of the Manipur people since their incorporation into India by the British. Articles cover disappearances, women's experiences, rape, first person accounts, and lists of victims.

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Subject:   civil and political rights--rape and sexual abuse advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--eyewitness documentation armed conflict and persecution--domestic violence armed conflict and persecution--mass killings civil and political rights--discrimination, gender,  armed conflict and persecution--disappearances

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

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

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

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

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