Information-related Items: Jobs, Opportunities, Publications

Jobs:

Apply for an Indexer/Cataloguer job with Pambazuka by 1 December 2009.

Apply for the Web Content Coordinator position with Forced Migration Online by 6 January 2010.

Opportunities:

Attend ICAR's seminar on "Gathering Evidence Effectively," London, 8 December 2009.

Participate in the Center for Research Libraries' "Human Rights Electronic Evidence Study," "a study of how NGOs think about and engage with digital documentation as a form of evidence for human rights activities (whether activism, scholarship, or legal action)." For more information, read the overview.

Publications:

Documenting Truth (International Center for Transitional Justice, Jan. 2009) [text]
- "Documentary materials -- whether governmental records and papers, court transcripts, newspaper articles and pamphlets, personal diaries and letters, or audio, video and oral testimony -- enhance our understanding of the past in our effort to build a more just future."

Human Rights Council and International Criminal Court: The New Challenges for Human Rights Communications (HURIDOCS, Feb. 2009) [text]
- Report of a conference that reflected "upon how information about human rights can be communicated more effectively by NGOs to institutions such as the Human Rights Council (HRC) and its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and to the International Criminal Court (ICC)."

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