Trudy Huskamp Peterson

Certified Archivist

ICA HRWG/SAHR News commentary topics, December 2009-April 2023

2009-12 to 2012-07           Universal Declaration of Human Rights

2012-08 to 2013-06           Principles of Access

 

2013-07           Biometric databases

2013-08           Records of identity

2013-09           Use of records in international trials, Pablo de Grieff’s UN report on truth commissions

2013-10            International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh

2013-11            Prosecution and destruction of archives

2013-12            Year in review

 

2014-01            Photos from Syria morgue (“Caesar photos”)

2014-02            Ukraine and duplication of records preventing total information destruction

2014-03            Records and Germany’s prosecution of Ivan Demjanjuk

2014-04            Armenia/Turkey/records of diplomacy

2014-05            Right to be forgotten

2014-06            Redacting and data mining for mosaics

2014-07            Ecuador human medical samples

2014-08            Records kept by anti-state groups

2014-09            Videos as evidence

2014-10            Interviews and their use in prosecution

2014-11            End of 5 years recap

2014-12            Year in review

 

2015-01            Records of temporary bodies

2014-02            Architecture of prisons and Vietnam

2015-03            Satellite images

2015-04            Statistics

2015-05            Report on “Basic Principles on the Role of Archivists and Records Managers in Support of Human Rights”

2015-06            Documenting marriage

2015-07            Tracking Indian statue theft

2015-08            Refugees and documents

2015-09            ICA meeting report

2015-10            Business archives/ICA plans

2015-11            Climate change

2015-12            Year in review

 

2016-01            Corruption

2016-02            True information, true copies

2016-03            “Basic Principles” status

2016-04            Microfilm conversion to digital

2016-05            Court records in Argentina, Bangladesh, African chambers

2016-06            European Union privacy rules (written by Giulia Barrera)

2016-07            Opening of World War II diaries, displaced items

2016-08            ICA Congress events, “Basic Principles”

2016-09            Meeting on archives at risk

2016-10            Voting records

2016-11            Missing persons

2016-12            Year in review

 

2017-01            Archives and accusations

2017-02            Dare to know what is in archives

2017-03            DNA as information carrier

2017-04            Archives under threat in Argentina, Bolivia, Hungary, Japan and Russia

2017-05            Facebook deletion policy

2017-06            Identity politics and archival action

2017-07            Forum shopping and court records

2017-08            Human rights documentation disappearing on social media

2017-09            Fake news

2017-10            Open government records through 1945

2017-11            Climate change

2017-12            2017 in review

 

2018-01            DNA and identity

2018-02            Artificial intelligence and big data

2018-03            Border conflicts

2018-04            IS files taken by the New York Times

2018-05            Faith, conflict and archives

2018-06            Special courts and archives

2018-07            ICC’s Bemba acquittal and Guatemala’s Molina Theisssen trial consequences

2018-08            DNA samples as archives

2018-09            Geography and risk to archives

2018-10            70 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and business archives

2018-11            Neglect of records violates human rights

2018-12            2018 in review

 

2019-01            Records and the search for the disappeared

2019-02            Repatriating ISIS-affiliated persons

2019-03            Map the location of historical archives and current records in face of climate change

2019-04            Crimes that go unpunished

2019-05            Artificial intelligence

2019-06            Disbelief and records

2019-07            Operation Condor trial in Rome

2019-08            Documents needed after natural disasters

2019-09            Documents of identity

2019-10            Photographs of the dead

2019-11            Ten years of the News

2019-12            2019 in review

 

2020-01            Archives and archivists in danger

2020-02            Guatemala archives in danger

2020-03            COVID-19 and archives

2020-04            Prison records of releases during COVID-19 crisis

2020-05            Archives in the age of COVID-19 and public protest

2020-06            Power to commemorate, power to restrict social media

2020-07            Equality, equity, and equal access to archives

2020-08            Uncertain statistics

2020-09            Treaties and agreements with non-state bodies

2020-10            Memorialization: dividing and healing

2020-11            Archives affected by climate change—an ICA demonstration project

2020-12            2020 in review

 

2021-01            The assassination of Lokman Slim

2021-02            Archives in danger

2021-03            CORRUPTION!

2021-04            Talking about archives law

2021-05            Apologies required

2021-06            Where are the records of informed consent?

2021-07            The “at least” problem

2021-08            The digital records paradox

2021-09`           White flags of COVID-19

2021-10            Meta?

2021-11            Preserving archives, protecting peace

2021-12            Archives: a potent bulwark against human rights violations

 

2022-01            That flying horse, the Pegasus software

2022-02            Archives against denialism

2022-03            Ukraine’s archives in war

2022-04            Destruction, damage and documentation in the Ukraine war

2022-05            Government archives: alike and unlike

2022-06            Out of Business, the temporary international courts

2022-07            Organized threats to nongovernmental organizations

2022-08            The August lull

2022-09            The bottom of a deep well, speech by Judge Rosario Salvatore Aitala

2022-10            Fuel and climate change

2022-11            The hole that is Al-Hol

2022-12            2022 in review

 

2023-01            Solely the nature of the crime

2023-02            Citizenship is complicated

2023-03            Bias in, bias out

2023-04            Thanks and farewell