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Cambodia Tribunal Monitor
The primary source for news and information on the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. The Cambodia Tribunal Monitor will serve as a source for the latest news on the day-to-day activity of the Tribunal and as a forum for thoughtful discourse and observation. Once the trials formally begin later in 2008, daily tape-delayed video of the court proceedings, as well as guest commentary from leading experts from all over the world will be provided.Center for a Free Cuba
Washington-based, independent, non partisan, institution dedicated to promoting human rights and a transition to democracy in Cuba. Communism and Crimes against Humanity in the Baltic states
A Report to the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation seminar on April 13, 1999 by Andres Küng of Sweden Crimes Against Humanity Latvian Site
Collection of articles in English. Cuba Archive
Seeks to advance human rights through research and scholarship. Its main initiative, the Truth and Memory Project, is documenting the loss of life resulting from the political process known as \"the Cuban Revolution.\" Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam)
Since its inception, DC-Cam has been at the forefront of documenting the myriad crimes and atrocities of the Khmer Rouge era. It was founded after the U.S. Congress passed the Cambodian Genocide Justice Act in April 1994, signed into law by President Clinton. Genocide and Resistance Research Center in Lithuania
The Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania is a state institution which investigates all manifestations of genocide and crimes against humanity, the persecution during the Soviet and Nazi occupations, and the armed and peaceful resistance to the occupations. It also gives juridical evaluations of the perpetrators of the reprisals and genocide, and immortalises the memory of the freedom fighters and genocide victims. Gulag 113
A film about survival and escape from the Soviet Gulag (Realworld Pictures). Gulag Study Support Document Database
A collection of contemporaneous reports of American servicemen in the Soviet Gulag created by the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office and the Joint Commission Support Directorate and maintained by the Library of Congress' Federal Research Division. Gulag: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom
The Soviets established Perm 36, called ITK-6 camp, in 1946 as a logging camp in the forested region of the Ural Mountains near the Siberian border. Holodomor - (Wikipedia)
The Ukrainian famine (1932-1933), or Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор), was one of the largest national catastrophes of the Ukrainian nation in modern history with direct loss of human life in the range of millions (estimates vary). The name Holodomor is specifically applied to the events that took place in territories populated by ethnic Ukrainians. House of Terror
Located in Budapest Hungary, the House of Terror Museum opened in 2002 and is a monument to the memory of those held captive, tortured and killed under both the Soviet and Nazi terror regimes.
Dr. Mária Schmidt is the Director-General of the museum.
Address:
1062 Budapest, Andrássy út 60. Inside the Securitate Archives
A review of the current state of the archives of the Romanian Securitate by Lavinia Stan (Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars). International Campaign for Tibet
Advances the Tibetan cause. Focus today is centered on working with governments to demonstrate meaningful support for Tibet, reaching out to Chinese all over the world, and monitoring conditions inside Tibet. Karta Center
Archive and research center for recent Polish and East European history, specializing in WWII and the communist period. KGB Document Database in the Baltics
The idea for this project was born a long time ago but was not finalised until 2006, when historians from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania met in Vilnius. The project aimed to make public KGB documents from the years of the occupation of the three countries. Killing Fields Museum
The Cambodian Cultural Museum and Killing Fields Memorial (Seattle, Washington). Kresy Siberia Group
Dedicated to researching, remembering and recognizing the Polish citizens deported, enslaved and killed by the Soviet Union during World War Two. Laogai Research Foundation
Dedicated to documenting and exposing systematic abuses of human rights in China, focusing on the forced labor camps (the laogai). Memorial (Russia)
Memorial is a movement which arose in the years of perestroika. Its main task was the awakening and preservation of the societal memory of the severe political persecution in the recent past of the Soviet Union. Moscow Center for Prison Reform
A non-governmental organization founded in 1988 to promote a fair, effective and humane system of criminal justice and punishment. MCPR was founded by former political prisoners with the whole-hearted support of Andrei Sakharov, who actively cooperated with us until his death. One in every four adult men in Russia is a former prisoner. Museum of Communism in Prague
The museum focuses on the totalitarian regime from the February coup in 1948 to its rapid collapse in November 1989. It presents a vivid account of Communism, focusing generally on Czechoslovakia and particularly on Prague. Museum of Occupations - Estonia
The permanent exposition of the Occupations Museum, which was opened in 2003, reflects developments in Estonia from 1940 to 1991, when Estonia was alternately occupied by the Soviet Union, Germany, and by the Soviet Union once more. North Korea Freedom Coalition
Coalition of organizations concerned with human rights in North Korea. Sighet Memorial and Museum to the Victims of Communism in Romania
The Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance was initiated in 1992 by the President of the Civic Alliance, Ana Blandiana, together with Romulus Rusan and an important group of historians, architects and designers. Stasi Records Office
In the archive of the central office in Berlin and in the 14 archives of the outposts of the Federal Commissioner the legacy of the former intelligence service of the GDR developed in the four decades of existence of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) is preserved. The "Wringer" Database
A subset of the Gulag Study Support Document Database. The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania
The main objectives of the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania are gathering of data, documents and testimonies regarding all oppressive actions exerted by the system, as well as the notification of the state’s criminal investigation departments. A major priority is the objective informing of the public on crimes, abuses and instigations to crime, undertaken in the name of ‘class struggle’ by the the communist system. The Institute of National Remembrance; Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation.
Established by act of parliament on December 18, 1998, the Institute is an archive that preserves the memory of WWII, Nazi war crimes, and post-war struggle against
Communism; the Institute is empowered to prosecute war crimes and human rights violations. The Museum of the Occupation of Latvia
The Museum was established in Rīga in 1993 to: provide information about Latvia and its people under two occupying totalitarian regimes from 1940 to 1991;remind the world of the wrongdoings committed by foreign powers against the state and the people of Latvia; and
remember those who perished, who suffered, and who fled the terror of the occupying regimes. UOK - Organization for Information on Communism
Education in Sweden about the legacy of communism in the Baltics. Wei Jingsheng Foundation
The mission of the Wei Jingsheng Foundation to promote the democratization of China and the improvement of human rights condition in China. | 
