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Human Rights Resources

ENCYCLOPEDIAS, GUIDES, AND HANDBOOKS

Titles listed as "Doe Reference" are located in the North Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Doe Library; titles listed as "GREF" are in the east end of the North Reading Room of Doe.

  • Encyclopedia of human rights. 2nd ed. E. Lawson.
    Doe Reference JC 571 .E67 1996
    Comprehensive compendium including texts of 200 instruments, descriptions of human rights organizations, status of human rights in countries, etc.
  • Encyclopedia of human rights issues since 1945. W. Langley.
    Doe Reference JC 571 .L2747 1999
  • Encyclopedia of the United Nations. 3rd ed. 4 vols.
    Doe Reference JX 1977 .O82131 2003
    Useful background information on human rights and the relevant conventions, including texts of the major instruments.
  • Great events from history II: human rights series. 5 vols.
    Doe Reference JC 571 .G74 1992
    Articles covering over 460 topics in the history of human rights arranged chronologically from 1900-1991. Each essay provides a summary and impact of the event along with a bibliography and cross-references.
  • Historical dictionary of human rights and humanitarian organizations. R. Gorman.
    Doe Reference JC 571 .G655 1997
  • Human rights encyclopedia. J. Lewis, ed. 3 vols.
    Doe Reference JC 571 .L523 2001
  • Human rights; the essential reference. C. Devine et al.
    Doe Reference K 3240.4 .H847 1999
  • International encyclopedia of human rights: freedoms, abuses, and remedies. R. Maddex.
    Doe Reference JC 571 .M3243 2000
  • United Nations and human rights, 1945-1995. UN Blue Book series v.7
    Goverment Reference K 3240.4 .U55 1995
  • United Nations reference guide in the field of human rights.
    Government Reference K 3236 .U65 1993

GUIDES TO RESEARCH

  • Guide to human rights research. J. Tobin.
    Doe Reference K 3236 .T63 1994
    Comprehensive guide to the literature
  • Guide to international human rights practice. H. Hannum. 2nd ed. 1992.
    Main Stack K3240.4G94
  • Human rights; a reference handbook. N. Redman and L. Whalen. 2nd ed.
    Doe Reference K 3240.4 .W46 1998

DOCUMENT SOURCES

  • Basic documents on human rights. I. Brownlie. 3rd ed.
    Government Reference K 3238 .A1 .B76 1992
  • Human rights: a compilation of international instruments. 7th ed. United Nations.
    Government Reference K 3238 .A1 .H8 2002
  • Human rights in western civilization, 1600-present. J. Maxwell. 2nd ed.
    Doe Reference K 3240.6 .H8785 1994
  • Multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General
    Doe Reference JX 1977 .A3652 .M8 Govt/Stat; latest.

DIRECTORIES

  • Dictionary of human rights advocacy organizations in Africa. S. Saha.
    Doe Reference JC 599 .A36 .S24 1999 Directories
  • Human rights organizations and periodicals directory. D. Christiano. 4th ed.
    Doe Reference KF 4741 .H841 2003 Directories
  • Human rights, refugees, migrants & development: directory of NGO's in OECD countries.
    Government Reference HC 60 .H8663 1993
  • World directory of human rights teaching and research institutions. UNESCO.
    Government Reference JC 571 .W891 2001

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

  • Human rights: a bibliography. A. Carrington, ed.
    Main Stack JC 571 .A12 .H79 2000
  • Human rights in theory and practice; a selected and annotated bibliography. G. Walters.
    Doe Reference JC 571 .A12 .W35 1995
  • Human rights on cd-rom. Centre for Human Rights.
    Doe Reference Desk
    Bibliographic database for UN documents and publications, 1980-1993.
  • Political prisoners and trials: a worldwide annotated bibliography, 1900 through 1993. J. Bennet.
    Main Stack JC 57 1.A12 .B46 1995

ANNUALS


LIBRARY CATALOGS

Check Pathfinder or MELVYL online catalogs under the following headings. For additional subject terms, consult the Library of Congress Subject Headings (4 red vols. near a ref desk). Browse in the stacks for books on human rights in the call number range "JC571-628."

Censorship
Civil rights
Detention of persons
Dissenters
Government, resistance to		 Human rights
Human rights workers
Political crimes and offenses
Political persecution
Political prisoners
Race discrimination 		Refugees, political
Self-determination
Sex discrimination
Social justice
Torture

Publications of human rights organizations can be located by searching under the corporate name in the online catalogs (ex. Amnesty International) or use an Internet search engine to locate the homepage of human rights organizations.


PERIODICALS INDEXES/DATABASES

PERIODICALS

    Unbound periodicals in Doe are located in the Current Periodicals (Heyns Reading Room) and are arranged by call number. Bound volumes are in Main Stack.

  • Columbia human rights law review. (KJ602A2C62 Law)

  • Harvard human rights journal. (KJ602A2H37 Law)

  • Human rights; a quarterly review of the office of UNHCHR. (JC571H863)

  • Human rights law journal. (KJ602A2H88 Law-UN Room)

  • Human rights quarterly: a comparative and international journal of the social sciences, philosophy, and law. (JC571U64 Main)

  • Human Rights Watch [reports]. (JC571 H863 Doe Ref-current five years only; also available on HRW website)
    Brief reports documenting current human rights abuses in countries/regions around the world.

  • Index on censorship. [Writers and Scholars International] (K9N31 Main)
    Presents issues on censorship of writers world-wide.

  • International human rights reports. (KJ602A2I565 Law)

  • International journal of human rights.(JC571 I593 Main)

  • Netherlands quarterly of human rights.(KJ602A2N49 Law)

  • South African journal on human rights. (JC599S7S66 Main)

  • Yale human rights and development law journal.

NEWS SOURCES

For access to the following web databases to go to the Library web page http://lib.berkeley.edu. Under "Find Information" click on "Articles" and then "News Article Databases."

  • Lexis/Nexis Academic.
    Full-text database of news, legal, and business sources.

  • Access World News.
    • Full text of over 700 international sources and 600 US newspapers on political, economic, and social events at the local, state, national and international levels. See also Global NewsBank 1996- for full text international news from 1500 newspapers, wire services, radio and TV broadcasts and periodicals. All sources translated to English.

  • World News Connection. 1996-
    • Full text of translations of foreign broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government statements, etc. Index for 1975-1996 is accessible through NewsBank's FBIS Electronic Index with articles on fiche in News/Micro Room.

GOVERNMENT INFORMATION

Indexes | UN Document Sources

Ask at Doe Ref Desk, 2nd floor, Doe for assistance with these resources.

    Indexes

  • Lexis/Nexis Congressional.
    Indexes congressional publications from 1970 to present and provides full text of bills, laws, regulations, testimony, and other congressional sources.

  • Lexis/Nexis Statistical.
    Indexes federal, state, and international statistical sources and provides links to online text where available. Publications are also available on microfiche. Ask at Doe Ref Desk.

  • UNBISnet.
    Compilation of ten databases providing bibliographic access to UN and non-UN publications. Includes full text of resolutions, voting records, and citations to speeches and agendas.

  • Access UN.
    1944- Indexes United Nations documents with links to online text where available; documents also available on fiche, 1983 to present as well as in paper. Check for periodic reports by states parties to various international human rights agreements and reports of the Special Rapporteurs on the status of human rights in particular countries.

UN Documents Sources

The most comprehensive source for UN human rights documentation is the home page of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. This site provides electronic text of the human rights treaty and charter based bodies and periodic reports by states, press releases, etc.

For a guide to the documents issued by the various human rights committees see http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/spechr.htm. A print version, though dated, is entitled United Nations reference guide in the field of human rights (K3236.U65 1993 Gov Ref). It provides UN document symbols for all UN studies and reports on human rights and related aspects, arranged in broad categories, with more specific subject and regional indexes.

Additionally, UN-I-QUE, a reference database of the Dag Hammarskjöld (UN) Library that indexes selected UN documents from 1946 to present. With the UN symbol number, reports can be found in the UN fiche collection in GREF (Microfiche 10982). We may also have paper copies of recent reports.

Sessional reports issued by treaty or charter based bodies can be found online at UNHCHR or through AccessUN (documents available on fiche in GREF as Microfiche 10982). We also get paper copies though our collection may not always be up to date. Latest issues of the following are found in GREF. Previous issues are in Main Stacks. LC call # are given as well as the UN symbol number (used for fiche collection).

  • Report of the Commission on Human Rights. (JX1977A61.H96) Fiche: E/CN.4/...
  • Report of the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. (JX1977A61E36) Fiche: E/C.12/...
  • Report of the Committee Against Torture. (JX1977A41.T67) Fiche: CAT/C...
  • Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. (JX1977A41W6)
  • Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. (JX1977A41.D54)
  • Report of the Committee on the Rights of the Child. (JX1977.A41C47)
  • Report of the Human Rights Committee. (JX1977A41.H85)

    • INTERNET SOURCES

    • Council of Europe Human Rights
      Provides access to the European Court of Human Rights and other relevant human rights instruments for Europe.
    • Derechos Human Rights
      The first internet based human rights organization. Works with human rights situations in countries.
    • Human Rights Internet.
      • International NGO, documentation center, and publishing house in Canada. See section: UN Processes and Documentation and click on "For the Record: The UN Human Rights System" which provides an annual country-by-country overview of human rights issues with links to relevant UN documents. Reports available from 1997 to present.
    • University of Minnesota Human Rights Library.
      • A joint project of Yale Law School, Univ. of Toronto Law School and the University of Minnesota. Each site has different information - Yale focuses on human rights legal cases and documents, and Toronto on women's human rights resources.


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