Archives: Luxury or Requirement ?
Published by the National Swiss Newspaper Le Temps, on 6 December 2016
Authored by Pierre Flückiger, State Archivist, Geneva
Original language : French, Translation by the ICA
As observed here and elsewhere, in countries at war in particular, archives are not only backward-looking objects, but also, and above all, forward-looking objects. This is especially true in the defence of Human Rights, stated Pierre Flückiger, Geneva State Archivist.