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Human rights

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:

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Ireland, 1973 - 1974

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 2/33
Scope and Contents Papers on the troubles in Ulster, including: memorandum from the Association for Legal Justice with witness statements alleging ill-treatment by the army and Royal Ulster Constabulary, with responses from William van Straubenzee, Minister of State, Nothern Ireland Office and from 2nd Lord Belstead [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office, earlier John Ganzoni]; correspondence with the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, with reports on conditions in Long Kesh...
Dates: 1973 - 1974
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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"Irish letters", 1974 - 1978

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 2/30
Scope and Contents

Papers relating to Northern Ireland, including: hate mail relating to AFB's visit to the Price sisters [Dolours and Marian Price], both members of the IRA, convicted for their part in the London car bombing campaign, 1973; papers and correspondence on AFB's proposed Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland, with correspondents including John Webb, Chief Clerk, Public Bill Officer.

Dates: 1974 - 1978
Conditions Governing Access: Hate mail on the Price sisters closed for data protection reasons.
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Meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, 1984-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/12
Scope and Contents

Briefing and arrangements for and notes on NK’s meeting with Gorbachev during his visit to London as leader of the Parliamentary Delegation from the Soviet Union. Subjects include the demilitarisation of space, reductions in strategic and nuclear weapons and human rights. Also includes press briefing and transcript of a Weekend World television broadcast on the visit.

Dates: 1984-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Meetings with overseas leaders, 1983-11 - 1992-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/2
Scope and Contents Briefings, notes and correspondence on meetings, with individuals including: Milka Planinc, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, Nov 1983, on human rights issues; Turgut Ozal, Prime Minister of Turkey, on human rights and Cyprus, Feb 1986; Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, on economic issues, nuclear weapons, the development of the United Nations and Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; Hans-Dietrich Genscher,...
Dates: 1983-11 - 1992-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Memorandum submitted by Uruguay to the United Nations on establishing an Attorney-General for human rights, 1951-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/83
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Papers from HL's professional legal career, including articles, memoranda, Opinions, papers for the British legal team at the Nuremberg Trials, and papers relating to cases before the Permanent Court of International Justice, and after the war, its successor the International Court of Justice.

Dates: 1951-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Papers relating to human rights and trade union 'closed shop' cases, December 1979-February 1981, 1979-12 - 1981-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/2/90
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Part 1, 1979: includes briefing note for MT from Ian Gow MP (her Parliamentary Private Secretary), "European convention on human rights", 24 December 1979
Part 2, 1980
Part 3, 1981

Dates: 1979-12 - 1981-02
Conditions Governing Access: Part 1 opened in February 2010; part 2 in March 2011; part 3 in March 2012 It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to the Convention of Human Rights, 1949-06 - 1949-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DSND 9/2/9
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The Movement was founded by the International Committee of the Movements for European Unity, following the Congress of Europe at the Hague in 1948

Dates: 1949-06 - 1949-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open to researchers. Information about closures can be obtained from Churchill Archives Centre.
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Pending correspondence, The majority of folios date from November 1973-January 1974

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 6/5
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Bernard de Bunsen, Chairman of the Africa Bureau, on conditions for African nationals employed by British companies in Namibia; Baroness Tweedsmuir, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on a Question raised by AFB in the House of Lords on Namibia; Joseph Murumbi [former Kenyan Minister of Foreign Affairs] on the treason trial of Kojo Botsio, former Ghanaian Foreign Minister.Also includes: issue of the Chile Monitor on the human rights...
Dates: The majority of folios date from November 1973-January 1974
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Records of Cambridge University Amnesty International, 1992 - 2006

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.XL
Scope and Contents From the Management Group:

The category - Student administration and support records - comprises records relating to student admissions at all levels, graduate students, visiting senior scholars, student careers advice and welfare, together with the records of clubs and societies.

Dates: 1992 - 2006
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Rough [?] lecture notes on the universal declaration of human rights, c 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 2/81
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Includes HL's lectures and class discussion notes from the London School of Economics and Political Science, particularly three series of lectures on peace, disputes and war and also some lectures given at the University of Cambridge and the Hague.

Dates: c 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Soviet family reunification cases, 1985-05 - 1987-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/1/16
Scope and Contents

Correspondence on cases involving the Soviet Union.

Dates: 1985-05 - 1987-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Soviet Family Reunification Cases and Soviet Jewry, 1987-02 - 1987-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/1/17
Scope and Contents

Correspondence on cases involving the Soviet Union.

Dates: 1987-02 - 1987-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Soviet family reunification cases: Nikolai Baranov, 1983-11 - 1987-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/1/15
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Subjects include: Central America; relations with the Soviet Union, including NK's involvement in various human rights cases; the Middle East; sanctions against South Africa; meetings with African leaders; Eastern Europe.

Dates: 1983-11 - 1987-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Soviet family reunification cases: Sasha Blonsky, 1984-11 - 1987-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/1/14
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Subjects include: Central America; relations with the Soviet Union, including NK's involvement in various human rights cases; the Middle East; sanctions against South Africa; meetings with African leaders; Eastern Europe.

Dates: 1984-11 - 1987-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Soviet family reunification cases: Soviet Jews, 1984-11 - 1987-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/1/13
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Subjects include: Central America; relations with the Soviet Union, including NK's involvement in various human rights cases; the Middle East; sanctions against South Africa; meetings with African leaders; Eastern Europe.

Dates: 1984-11 - 1987-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Soviet Jews, 1984-04 - 1988-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/1/8
Scope and Contents

Correspondence on human rights cases.

Dates: 1984-04 - 1988-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Soviet Jews: general background, 1984-09 - 1988-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/1/12
Scope and Contents

Correspondence on human rights cases.

Dates: 1984-09 - 1988-04
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Soviet Jews: Raoul Wallenberg Case, 1984-11 - 1985-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/1/9
Scope and Contents

Correspondence on human rights cases.

Dates: 1984-11 - 1985-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Law of Nature, the Law of Nations and the Rights of Man, 1943-05 - 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 2/79
Scope and Contents

Rough draft for a lecture [?] given by HL at Chatham House for the Royal Institute of International Affairs on an International Bill of the Rights of Man, June 1943. [He also gave three public lectures on the same topic at Cambridge in the preceding month, and published the resulting paper in 1944].

Dates: 1943-05 - 1944
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Law of Nature, the Law of Nations and the Rights of Man, 1943-05 - 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 2/80
Scope and Contents

Annotated copy of a lecture given by HL at Chatham House for the Royal Institute of International Affairs on an International Bill of the Rights of Man, June 1943. [He also gave three public lectures on the same topic at Cambridge in the preceding month, and published the resulting paper in 1944].

Dates: 1943-05 - 1944
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Transcript of interview: Dame Audrey Glover, 2021

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 204
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2021
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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Transcript of interview: David Snoxell, 2007

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 111
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2007
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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Various lectures and articles, 1938 - 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 2/94
Scope and Contents Includes: lecture on sovereignty and federation in international law; talk for the BBC on an International Bill of Rights, 1951; paper on the future of neutrality, c1942; revised annotated versions of HL's lecture "The Reality of the Law of Nations", 1941 [see also 2/77]; review by HL of "World Peace Through World Law" by Grenville Clark and Louis Sohn, 1958 (added by Lord McNair); lecture given at Chatham House, "Some Recent Developments in the Law of Neutrality", c 1941; address to the...
Dates: 1938 - 1958
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Various lectures, articles and memoranda, 1925 - 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 2/93
Scope and Contents Includes: annotated text of HL's first article, "Westlake and International Law of Today" [1925]; annotated typescript of HL's paper on Professor E H Carr’s view of international morality (see also LAUT 4/23); text of HL's paper "Realism, especially in international relations" (1953); annotated memorandum on the persecution of the Jews in Germany; copy of a BBC broadcast by HL on human rights ["Towards an International Bill of Rights", 1949]; text of HL's lecture at the Hague, "The Place of...
Dates: 1925 - 1953
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Visit to Moscow, 1984-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/11
Scope and Contents

Includes: briefings for NK’s visit to the Soviet Union, particularly on defence and human rights; notes of NK’s meeting with President Konstantin Chernenko on arms reduction; speech notes; programmes and arrangements for various visits; transcript of an interview by NK for Radio Moscow; information for press.

Dates: 1984-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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