Title: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Source/Sponsoring Agency: University of Texas at Austin; University of Texas Libraries

URL: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/hrdi

Date Checked: 6/22/2012      Status: Active

Date Annotated: 5/24/2012

Topics: Human Rights Law; International Law

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Contents: The Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI) is a project of the University of Texas Libraries to preserve and provide access to material that documents human rights violations throughout the world. The HRDI prioritizes materials that are particularly fragile and susceptible to loss, preserving materials in the University of Texas's collections and also partnering with outside organizations worldwide to assist with their preservation projects. Current HRDI partners include Free Burma Rangers, the Kigali Memorial Centre (Rwanda), and the Texas After Violence Project. HRDI will consider partnering with additional organizations. HRDI provides three primary resources through its website: a gateway to the University of Texas Libraries' human rights collections, links to the websites of human rights organizations, and digital copies of human rights websites, archived by the Internet Archive's Archive-It service. These archived websites can be searched on HRDI's site or on the Archive-It site, but note that searches on HRDI's site are limited to identifying information only and therefore are best used to locate sites generally (e.g. to locate websites about Rwanda). Searches on the Archive-It website search full text and are more appropriate for specific searches. Some HRDI material is not yet available to the public because of privacy and safety concerns for the survivors of human rights crimes documented in the material.

Author of Annotation: I. Haight