International Monitor Institute records, 1990-2003.

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International Monitor Institute records, 1990-2003.

The International Monitor Institute records primarily consist of audiovisual materials related to IMI's documentation of contemporary conflicts and human rights violations around the world. Countries represented include: Burma (Myanmar), Bosnia and Hercegovina, Cambodia, Kuwait, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Thailand. Includes master and use copies of approximately 6000 videocassettes and 100 audio tapes and audiocassettes. The video and audio material is indexed by an extensive database developed by IMI which includes keywords, air dates, segment producer, segment title, and in some cases, transcripts and stills from the video. There are also many photographs and slides taken in the same regions, depicting destruction in areas of conflict, forced labor, refugees and refugee camps, and protests. The majority of the photos were taken on the Burma/Thai border, in Bosnia and Hercegovina, and refugee camps in Rwanda. Finally, there are some organizational records, including an extensive database of the audiovisual components. Acquired as part of the Archive for Human Rights. Addition (2007-0070) (approx. 4000 items, 120 linear ft.; dated 1990-2002) contains master and use copies of videocassettes related to human rights violations around the world.

10,100 items (530 lin. ft.)

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Archive for Human Rights (Duke University)

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International Monitor Institute

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Non-profit agency, primarily to assist international war-crimes tribunals by collecting, indexing and organizing visual evidence of violations of international human rights law. Operated between 1993 and 2003. Pippa Scott, IMI's creator, was a founding partner of Lorimar Productions (producer of such TV hits as "The Waltons" and "Dallas") and went on to establish Linden Productions in 1987. Linden is committed to developing documentary films about current issues. Linden's latest production is "K...

Scott, Pippa, 1935-

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