Rule-of-law tools for post-conflict states : archives

This tool aims to provide guidance to United Nations field missions, transitional administrations and civil society on the management, reform, use and preservation of archives to help guarantee and enforce human rights, particularly the right to the truth. The tool focuses on the means to strengthen archives through the identification of good practice for the management of different types of records and archives, highlighting considerations and issues for reform, and setting out steps and strategies. It also addresses which records are the most pertinent to various transitional justice processes and identify key issues for the preservation of the records they produce.
1. Archives and the right to know the truth -- 2. Reforming archival institutions and managing archives -- 3. Using records in transitional justice processes -- 4. Managing and preserving the records of transitional justice institutions -- 5. The role of the international community -- Annex. Summary.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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