General Resources
Major Human Rights Sites
- HURIDOCS
http://www.huridocs.org/
- Global network of organisations concerned with more effective ways of using information for the cause of human rights.
- HURISEARCH
http://www.hurisearch.org/search/
- Search engine for human rights information on the web
- Amnesty International
http://www.amnestyusa.org/
- Click on countries to locate current news and the latest annual report on human rights in a specific country
- Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
http://www.etown.edu/vl/humrts.html
- from the WWW Virtual Library
- Human Rights Library
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/links/links.htm
- from the University of Minnesota
- Librarians Index to the Internet: Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties
http://lii.org/pub/topic/civilliberties
- Links to sites selected under various topics such as Human Rights, Capital Punishment, Affirmative Action, Racial Profiling, Women's Rights, Freedom of Speech, etc.
Topics Related to Human Rights
- Country Human Rights Reports (U.S. Dept.of State)
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/hr/c1470.htm
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- International Humanitarian Law
http://www.icrc.org/eng/ihl
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- Tolerance.org
http://www.tolerance.org/
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Books
Reference 323 DEVINE Human rights: the essential reference
305 KALLEN 2004 Social inequality and social injustice : a human rights perspective.
323 DEALING 2001 Dealing with human rights : Asian and Western views on the value of human rights.
323.01 HAYDEN 2001 The philosophy of human rights
323.0601 Power 2001 Like water on stone: the story of Amnesty International
323.09 ISHAY 2004 The history of human rights : from ancient times to the globalization era.
323.092 CUOMO 2000 Speak truth to power : human rights defenders who are changing our world.
341.481 DRINAN 2001 The mobilization of shame: a world view of human rights
341.481 Fifty 2001 Fifty years after the declaration: the United Nation's record on human rights
Videos
- 323.09 CHAUTAU Chautauqua
- SFCC instructors speak as human rights defenders throughout history. 2002
- MV 12880 The Law
- Application of law to regulate human conduct, including global human rights. 1999
- MV 12942 Speak truth to power
- Honors human rights advocates throughout the world. 2000
- MV 12967 Life: the ongoing story
- How the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. 2000
- MV 13319 In the name of the state : when might makes right
- Profiles Iranian-sponsored terrorism via the Hezbollah and the PLO, Argentina's dirty war, U.S.-backed insurgency in Nicaragua. 2002
- DVD 408 Death by stoning : justice, punishment, and human rights
- Islamic law and the concepts of justice and punishment as they relate to human rights. 2003
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