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Search the most comprehensive set of declassified government documents covering U.S. foreign involvement from post-World War II through the 21st century. Continues to add content through ongoing FOIA requests.
A multimedia collection of primary and secondary resources including documentary films, providing context, analysis, interpretation and documentation concerning major global human rights issues of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Most U.S. agencies have electronic reading rooms, which are searchable databases that provide access to FOIA documents. Use the search terms "electronic reading room" + the federal department of interest to find a reading room. Search the The FBI's FOIA Electronic Reading Room, known as "The Vault".
A secret Salvadoran military document that was used to target Salvadoran citizens. It is the first confidential document from the Salvadoran military to be made public. Downloadable as a PDF or Excel document.
Press Release. Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States, 2015.
HRI is a leader in providing access to documentation produced by human rights organizations and disseminating information on human rights issues around the world. HRI produces the Human Rights Documents Online database.
The detailed story of how torture became acceptable during the Bush presidency through the uncovering of hundreds of secret memos and decisions, and how countless FOIA requests and other sources of information were finally made accessible. The goal has now expanded to become “the online institutional memory for essential evidence of torture…in connection with the conduct of hostilities in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as in the broader context of the ‘global war on terror.’”
A video interview with Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Icelandic politician, writer and activist, where she describes the ideological background of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative
A video interview with Ville Oksanen talking about the background and goals of the Lex Snowden initiative and the need to strengthen users’ rights and protection on the Internet .
El Salvadoran Billboard
A reminder of a massacre that took place during the Salvadoran Civil War. The mural's inscription reads: "They tore out the flower, but the roots are returning among us."
