T&T Project

Ancestral Memories
Acknowledgement: Artist Vicki Couzens, Gunditjmara Tribe. Koorie Heritage Trust Inc. collection.

Exposure Draft Position Statement: Human Rights, Indigenous Communities in Australia and the Archives

• Background
• Recommendation to Archival Profession, Archival Institutions and Records Authorities
• Human Rights Principles and Related Archival Requirements
  • Principle of Self-Determination and the Exercise of Cultural Rights as Human Rights
  • Principle of Non-Discrimination
  • Principle of the Right to Know the Truth and the Right of Reply
  • Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a Collective
    • Implications for Principle of Privacy: Extension to Indigenous Family, Community and Deceased Person’s Community as a Human Right
• Records as Social Entities
• Sources
• Acknowledgement