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Network Of Concerned Historians (NCH) no.49 (Annual Report 2007)

The Annual Report 2007 of the Network of Concerned Historians (NCH), 73 pages, is now available in a print-friendly version (pdf) at the following link:

http://www.concernedhistorians.org/images/ar/07.pdf

**This is the 13th Annual Report of the NCH. It contains news about the domain where history and human rights intersect. It reports about the censorship of history, the persecution of historians around the globe, and related topics. It covers 75 countries and is sent to more than 700 historians and others interested in the past all over the world.

**The following countries are listed in the Report: Afghanistan; Algeria; Argentina; Australia; Austria; Belarus; Bolivia; Bosnia-Herzegovina; Brazil; Burundi; Cambodia; Central African Republic; Chad; Chile; China; Colombia; Congo [Dem. Rep.]; Council of Europe; Croatia; Denmark; Ecuador; Egypt; El Salvador; Estonia; Ethiopia; France; Germany; Ghana; Greece; Grenada; Guatemala; Guinea; Hungary; India; Indonesia; Iran; Iraq; Ivory Coast; Japan; Kazakhstan; Kenya; Korea, North; Lebanon; Liberia; Libya; Macedonia; Malaysia; Mexico; Mongolia; Morocco/Western Sahara; Namibia; Nepal; Netherlands; New Zealand; Paraguay; Peru; Poland; Romania; Rwanda; Serbia; Sierra Leone; Slovakia; Slovenia; South Africa; Spain; Sudan; Switzerland; Syria; Thailand; Timor Leste; Turkey; Uganda; United Kingdom; United Nations; United States; Uruguay; Uzbekistan.

**Previous Annual Reports, covering the years 1995 to 2006, can be consulted on the NCH website. All Annual Reports were compiled by Antoon De Baets and revised by Ingrid Sennema. The fact that NCH presents this news does not imply that it shares the views and beliefs of the historians and others mentioned in it.

The CORE TASKS of NCH:

1. Campaigning on behalf of censored or persecuted historians and others concerned with the past (1995-2007). Includes a list of the current status of cases.
2. Issuing of Annual Reports with historical news from international human rights organizations (1995-2007).

In addition, statistical information is provided on: circulars per year; geographical distribution of cases (in campaigns and in Annual Reports); occupation and gender in campaigns.

INFO about NCH-related matters

1. Codes of ethics and similar instruments: general codes; codes related to history.

2. Topics of interest to historians: basic human rights; copyright; customary rules of international humanitarian law; democracy, disappearances; future generations; genocide; heritage; holocaust; impunity; international humanitarian law; prescription & imprescriptibility; reparation; right to the truth; victims; will.

3. Legal (courts and cases): International Court of Justice; International Criminal Court; international legal decisions and judgments of prime importance for historians.

4. Regions & countries

WHAT DOES NCH DO?

NCH (established on 13 October 1995) serves as a link between concerned historians and human rights organizations. It deploys activities in three fields:

Action
NCH forwards to its participants urgent actions for persecuted and censored historians (and others who write about the past) issued by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Amnesty International, Article 19, Human Rights Watch, Index on Censorship, International PEN Writers in Prison Committee, the Network of Education and Academic Rights, and Scholars at Risk.

Information
NCH forwards to its participants news about the domain where history and human rights intersect, as reported by the international human rights organizations listed above. It reports about the censorship of history, the persecution of historians around the globe, and related topics.

Research
NCH collects data on persecuted and censored historians-preferably by electronic mail-and forwards them to the appropriate human rights organizations listed above. NCH does not produce action-oriented information itself. It has no funding and no research capacity to do this.

Principles
Universality: NCH works for bona fide historians everywhere, regardless of where they live, in democratic or non-democratic countries…

Impartiality : …and regardless of who they are, mainstream historians or their opponents.

Independence: NCH receives no subsidies.

Distance: Presenting information does not imply that NCH shares the views of historians or others mentioned in it.

Dr. A. De Baets
History Department
University of Groningen
P.O. Box 716
9700 AS Groningen
The Netherlands.
Fax: (31.50) 363.72.53
E-mail: antoondebaets@concernedhistorians.org

http://www.concernedhistorians.org