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	HU OSA 318-0-3
Fonds 318:	Records of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF)
Series 3:	Country Files

Date(s) 1988-1999

Extent and medium 126 Archival boxes, 16 linear meters

Scope and content

Contains press releases and clippings, media monitoring materials, memos (fax and e-mail), HR listserv materials, reports and publications from other HRNGOs and letters.

These multiple materials document the human rights situation in the respective countries for a given period of time. Obviously, the focus is mainly directed on human rights violations of various degrees, such as genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and persecution of national minorities, destruction of cultural property, inhuman prison conditions, censorship and breaching of freedom of religion and free expression. A significant quantity of the documents deal with the persecution of human rights activists and the indictment and banning of other human rights advocates, including journalists, writers and scientists.

Containing materials from many different, Western and regional, sources, the voluminous Kosovo-files give a full insight into the humanitarian catastrophe in the Albanian enclave of the former Yugoslavia, from the random clashes and violences through the exodus of Kosovar Albanians to the air raids of the NATO forces.

Accruals Expected

Language/scripts of material

Principally English; very randomly other national languages

Finding aids

• Container list [4-5-1-1] {check container list and labels; 18 boxes of new material arrived in 2006; Csaba}
• Related OSA Reference Information Papers is available. (RIP 9: Human Rights)

Related materials

• HU OSA 323 Records of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee
• HU OSA 324 Records of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• HU OSA 325 Records of the Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights
• HU OSA 326 Records of the Kosova Helsinki Committee
• HU OSA 327 Records of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia
• HU OSA 328 Records of the Albanian Helsinki Committee
• HU OSA 332 Records of the Slovak Helsinki Committee
• HU OSA 334 Records of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee
• HU OSA 341 Publications of Human Rights Watch, 1982-2000

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed in September 2002 and described in February 2003 by Csaba Szilagyi.
Online version updated 18 December 2008