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Human Rights

A series of inter-related guides to library and online resources concerning human rights:

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
International Humanitarian Law
http://www.icrc.org/eng/ihl
Tolerance.org
http://www.tolerance.org/

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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