Library Databases

• Academic Search Premier
  Full Text Article Database
  Subject Terms:
  • HUMAN rights
  • HUMAN rights workers
  • HUMAN rights movements
  • HUMAN rights violations
    

• PAIS International
  Article index on public affairs, public and social policies, international relations, 1972 to current
  Subject Headings:
  • Human rights
  • Human rights violations
  • Human rights -- Country of interest
    

• Project Muse
  Full text articles from 300 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals
  Subject Headings:
  • Human rights
  • Human rights advocacy
  • Human rights -- Country of interest
    

• ProQuest
  Full text article database including newspapers and magazines. Check off "Scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed" if you do not want newspaper articles included.
  Subjects:
  • Human rights
  • International law
  • Country of interest

• Wilson OmniFile Full Text
  Full Text database
  Descriptors:
  • Human rights
  • Human rights -- Enforcement issue
  • Civil right

• Encyclopedia of human rights issues since 1945 by Winston E. Langley
  JC571 .L2747 1999
  Features more than 400 entries on incidents and violations, instruments and initiatives, countries and human rights activists

• Historical dictionary of human rights and humanitarian organizations by Robert F. Gorman, Edward S. Mihalkanin
  JC571 .G655 1997
  Alphabetical guide to intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, treaties and agreements, concepts, and individuals that have been instrumental in human rights and humanitarianism. Entries are supplemented by a bibliography, a timeline of key human rights events in the 20th century, from the founding in 1903 of the Woman's Social and Political Union through the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women and appendixes that reproduce several important human rights instruments

• Encyclopedia of human rights / compiled by Edward Lawson
  JC571 .E67 1996
  The encyclopedia analyzes and reproduces the national and international documents and instruments which have affirmed or violated rights. It also includes landmark legal and legislative decisions in the field of human rights. There is also information on more than 130 non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations, such as the UN, the OAS and the Council of Europe.

Library of Congress Subject Headings: HUMAN RIGHTS CIVIL RIGHTS

• Human Rights edited by Nina Redman & Lucille Whalen
  K3240.4 W46 1998
  A bibliographic guide with suggested book titles on human rights

• A Documentary History of Human Rights: A record of the events, documents and speeches that shaped our world edited by Jon E. Lewis
  K3240 .D63 2003
  Three hundred selections that document milestones in the evolution of human rights and freedoms from Hammurabi's Code, Socrates's speech to his judges as recorded by Plato in The Apology, the Magna Carta, and the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights to Martin Luther King's Dream speech.

• The face of Human Rights, edited by Walter Kalin, Lars Muller & Judith Wytenbach
  JC571 .F33 2004
  A new type of book, incorporating a web type sensibility with many intense, full color pictures and primary documents

• Globalization and Human Rights, edited by Alison Brysk
  JC571 .G584 2002.
  This book is the result of a conference at UC Irvine on globalization and human rights. It looks at sweat shops, information technology, the WTO and other current issues. It is aimed at the new generation of concerned citizens taking on the struggle to achieve global human dignity.

• Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Oxford Amnesty lectures at Oxford in 2001 edited by Nicholas Owen
  JC571 .H769513 2003
  The issues explored in the talks include the right of the international community to military intervention in human rights abuses, the ethical and legal difficulties in bringing rights abusers to justice, the human tendency towards racist attitudes, the impact of postcolonialism, and the way in which human evil is represented in photography.

• International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals, edited by Henry J. Steiner & Philip Alston
  K3240 .S74 2000
  This book is designed to be used as a textbook in an international human rights course.It contains a wide range of resources.

• People’s Right’s edited by Philip Alston
  KZ1269 .P46 2001
  In the 1970s the right to self-determination was added to a number of other human rights attributed to groups of people rather than to individuals, including the right of development, peace, a clean environment, and humanitarian assistance. In this volume the current and future significance of these third-generation solidarity rights are examined by leading experts.

• Speak truth to power : human rights defenders who are changing our world by Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, photographs by Eddie Adams
  JC571 .C783
  Presents a collection of fifty profiles of individuals, both famous and unsung, who are struggling to make a difference in the world, including Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Helen Prejean, Desmond Tutu, and Elie Wiesel.

• A question of rights : the UN Declaration, produced and directed by Victoria Schultz , written by Michael Winship and Victoria Schultz ; produced by United Nations Department of Public Information
  JZ4974.U65 Q8 1999 JZ4974.U65 Q8 1999 (Videotape)
  Explains how the concept of universal human rights came about and how the international community overcame the barriers of language, culture, and Cold War politics to create a set of standards designed to protect the freedom, dignity, and quality of life of people everywhere.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Human Rights entry
  This site is an excellent starting point for your research. It contains definitions and explanations of concepts related to Human Rights.

• University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
  The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library site houses more than twenty-five thousand core human rights documents, including several hundred human rights treaties and other primary international human rights instruments. The site also provides access to more than four thousands links and a unique search device for multiple human rights sites. Documents are available in six languages - Arabic, English, French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish.

• EISIL - Electronic Information System for International Law
  EISIL’s goal is to ensure that web searchers can easily locate the highest quality primary materials, authoritative web sites and helpful research guides to international law on the Internet. To this end, EISIL has been designed as an open database of authenticated primary and other materials across the breadth of international law, which until now have been scattered in libraries, archives and specialized web sites.

• Human Rights Watch: Defending Human Rights Worldwide
  Human Rights Watch is the largest human rights organization based in the United States. HWR is made up of lawyers, journalists, academics, and country experts of many nationalities and diverse backgrounds. HRW conducts fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses in all regions of the world. HRW publishes their findings in dozens of books and reports every year, generating extensive coverage in local and international media.

• Amnesty International
  Amnesty International is a worldwide organization of people who campaign for human rights. A I is independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion. There are more than 2.2 million members, supporters and subscribers in over 150 countries and territories. This site is a good place to discover the latest global hot spots for human rights problems and what campaigns Amnetsty International is organizing to resolve them.

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