2020 Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America
Human Rights Archive
Prisoner artwork from Devoto Prison, Buenos Aires, Argentina, circa 1979. Marshall T. Meyer papers
Photo of boys playing drums, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, circa 1994. Americans for Immigrant Justice records
Death row inmate case file, North Carolina, circa 1995. Center for Death Penalty Litigation records
CONADEP identification card, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1984. Marshall T. Meyer papers
Photo and telegram, Civil Rights Movement, USA, 1965 and 1966. Abraham Joshua Heschel papers
About
The Human Rights Archive partners with the human rights community to preserve the history and legacy of human rights around the world. Its archival partners include grassroots organizations and transnational NGOs, religious and political leaders, human rights advocates and artists. The Human Rights Archive’s collections document the impact that organizations and individuals have had on government policy in support of human rights, the important role that these organizations and individuals have played in the development and transformation of the international human rights movement, and the articulation of US social justice movements with the international human rights community.
Traveling Exhibit
"I Have No Right To Be Silent", The Human Rights Legacy of the Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer is a traveling exhibit commemorating the social activism and human rights work of Rabbi Marshall Meyer. Rabbi Marshall Meyer was an ordinary man whose extraordinary convictions, faith, and impetuous personality impelled him to become one of the most important human rights activists during Argentina's Dirty War (1976–1983).
The Center for Death Penalty Litigation records: the Practical and Intellectual Lessons of Archival Processing
From the Collections
Announcing our 2020-2021 Travel Grant Recipients
The Disappeared and Their Editor: the Robert J. Cox Papers
Applications Now Accepted for the 2020-2021 Travel Grant Program
