Duke Human Rights Archive: Human Rights in Latin America

Americans for Immigrant Justice (formerly Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center [FIAC]) is a not-for-profit legal assistance organization dedicated to protecting and promoting the basic human rights of immigrants of all nationalities.

Collection (2007-0007) consists of printed material generated by APDHB: posters, books, reports, pamphlets, and fliers. Topics covered in the material include women's rights, children's rights, victims' right, rights education, the state of human rights in Bolivia, state-sponsored torture and kidmapping, government corruption, the massacres of Amayapampa and Capasirca, and political violence in Bolivian history.

Materials from (or related to) the refugee camp for Cuban and Haitian rafters that existed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the bulk of which dates from 1994-1996.

Non-profit organization founded in 1975, based in Washington, DC, whose chief focus is promoting changes in U.S. foreign and military policy in support of global human rights.

Human rights researcher and policy advocate at the Washington Office on Latin America.

The Deena Stryker Photographs collection contains photographs and related materials generated by the journalist, then known as Deena Boyer, during two trips to Cuba between July 1963 and July 1964. During her second trip to the island, she interviewed Fidel and Raúl Castro as well as other major figures in the Cuban Revolution.

Collection (2007-0008) contains printed material published by the organization: booklets, pamphlets, and fliers. Topics covered in the material include workers' rights, sexual workers, youth rights, children's rights, women's rights, LGBT rights, domestic and family violence, and rights education.

Clippings, reports, publications, and photographs from Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Dominican Repulic, Grenada, and other Caribbean countries, collected and produced by the Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean (EPICA).

Former faculty member at the Duke Divinity School, was well known for his work on civil rights and liberation theology.

Collection comprises 100 16x20 black-and-white gelatin silver prints shot by Monroe from 1980 to 1998 in Haiti, in Haitian neighborhoods in Florida, and in Krome Camp, Florida, where Haitian refugees are detained by the U.S. government.

Global Rights is an international human rights advocacy organization headquartered in Washington D.C.

Chilean politician, diplomat, author, and ambassador to the United Nations.

Collection comprises brochures about sexual violence and access to emergency contraception in Guanajuato, and three note cards. Materials are primarily in Spanish, all but one include English translations. There is also a digital video disk created by the organization that provides the historical background for its work since 2000 and a general overview of its programs and outreach efforts (30:08 minutes; in Spanish and English with English subtitles; no credits; master copy not for research, use copy available).

The Mark Danner Papers date from 1970 to 2004 and focus predominately on Danner's coverage of Haiti during the period of unrest that followed President Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier's exile in 1986.

Progressive and activist rabbi. Meyer was particularly involved in calling attention to human rights violations and working with the victims of violent political oppression in South and Central America in the 1970’s and 1980’s and served as a member of CONADEP, Argentina’s truth commission.

A small collection of printed material and ephemara created by Memoria Abierta contains three CD-ROMs, pamphlets, and maps. Acquired as part of the Archive for Human Rights.

The National Coalition for Haitian Rights (NCHR) operated between 1982 and 2006, advocating for the rights of Haitians in the United States, Haiti, and the Caribbean.

Patt Derian was Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs under President Jimmy Carter. After leaving her post Patt remained very active in the human rights community.

Documentary photographer working primarily in Latin America and Asia.

Under the leadership of station directors Jean Dominique and Michèle Montas, Radio Haiti was a voice of social change and democracy, speaking out against oppression and impunity while advocating for human rights and celebrating Haitian culture and heritage.

Robin Kirk is the Faculty co-chair of the Duke University Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute. At the time these files were created, Kirk was serving both as a journalist and a Human Rights Watch researcher. Subject files include notes; research materials; newspaper clippings, magazines; reports, many from human rights organizations; correspondence; copies of governmental documents; notebooks; and other items on human rights, primarily in Peru. There are small amounts of material related to Colombia, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Bolivia.

Founded in 1992 at Duke University, Student Action with Farmworkers is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in Durham, N.C., whose mission is to bring students and farmworkers together to learn about each other’s lives, share resources and skills, improve conditions for farmworkers, and build diverse coalitions working for social change.

The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) is an international human rights advocacy organization headquartered in Washington D.C. The Washington Office on Latin America records span the dates 1962 to 2008 and consist of research and project files on nearly every country in Latin America.