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	HU OSA 318-0-5
Fonds 318:	Records of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF)
Series 5:	Project Files

Date(s) 1985-1996

Extent and medium 17 Archival boxes, 2 linear meters

Scope and content

This series comprises materials related to projects: meetings, conferences, seminars, fact-finding missions, and trainings, that were organized, sponsored or frequented by IHF and, accordingly, they include correspondence, mission files, and reports.

Prior to the fall of the communist regimes, IHF has conducted quite a few unprecedented human rights missions into the Soviet Union and its satellites. Documents accumulated during missions to and events organized in Budapest, Prague, and Moscow can be found in this series.

One of the most important set of files dating from the transition period is the one related to the fact-finding mission to Croatia in 1993. These contain tens of individual cases of forced evictions of Serb nationals (mainly) working for the former JNA (Yugoslav National Army) on the territory of the newly independent Croatia.

The rest of files from the mid and late nineties deal mainly with events, programs, conferences, and seminars on monitoring, promoting and protecting human rights, intercultural living, and also trial monitoring.

Accruals Expected

Conditions governing access

Some files, especially those on fact-finding missions, contain sensitive data, therefore can be restricted.

Language/scripts of material

English, German, Russian, Serbo-Croatian (principally English and German)

Finding aids

• 17 containers
• Related OSA Reference Information Paper available. (RIP 9: Human Rights)

Related units of description

• HU OSA 318-0-1 Files of the Executive Director, 1979-1995

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed in 2002-2003 and described in April 2003 by Csaba Szilagyi
Online version updated 21 January 2010