Human+Rights

=Researching Human Rights...= The keywords and Dewy Decimal Numbers are to assist you in your research on Human Rights. It is your task to define the terms that you want to use when searching for materials. Doing a keyword search will give you many more titles than a subject search and may help you focus your results.

=Print Resources= Designed for course use, and organized thematically, each section of the text offers a brief introduction followed by important readings on subjects ranging. =Non-Print Resources=
 * Amnesty International . **//We are all born free : the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in pictures//** **//. London://** Frances Lincoln Children's, 2008. A commemorative edition of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as adopted in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly offers insight into the world's shared views about the rights of all people, with illustrations by artists from around the world.
 * Dundley, William. **//Human Rights (Compact Research Series).//** San Diego, CA : ReferencePoint Press, 2008. At a glance sections gives sufficient topic summaries. Objective overviews provides background and content. Offers a selection Primary sources quotes highlighting conflict opinions. Highlighting key people and advocacy groups and related organization sections to assist in further research
 * Brooks, Thom. **//The global Justice Reader//**‎. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2008.
 * Gibney, Mark. **//International human rights law : returning to universal principles//**. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008. This clear and compelling book challenges the reader to re-think the entire basis for human rights. Mark Gibney persuasively advocates for a much broader reading of the law on state responsibility, calling for measures to provide victims the effective remedy that international human rights law promises.
 * **//The Power of Human Rights (Rights and Wrongs Series).//** San Francisco : Video Project; 1994.[Video] 20 mins. An introduction to the issue of human rights. Presents three segments: the history of modern human rights since World War II; an interview with international mediator Adam Curle and; a visit to El Puente Academy in Brooklyn, the first human rights school in the world.
 * **//Human Rights in the World Today//**. The Video Project, 1993 [Video]30 mins. Vol #3 Women under attack Three short films on human rights violations against women. Contains: 1. Rape and war - investigates how systematic rape is used as a weapon of war in Iraq, Bosnia, Somalia and Kashmir. 2. World women's movement - Charlotte Bunch, Director of Rutger's Global Leadership Institute for women describes the emerging global women's movement and 3. Female mutilation - excerpts from Alice Walker's novel and film about forced genital mutilation in Africa and Asia.

=**Remote Access to Online Databases**= The library offers remote access to online databases through EBSCOhost. Select Academic Research & Reference - High School and narrow your search through using the following databases:
 * Canadian Reference Centre
 * Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
 * History Reference Center

=Internet Resources= This is an annotated list of United Nations, governmental, and non-governmental Internet sites that provide full-text documents about human rights
 * **Amnesty International**→[|http://www.amnesty.org]Click on Learn about Human Rights at [] to find information by Country or Topic . For the annual report and other publications, click on []
 * **Human Rights Watch →**Click on Browse by Region, Country or Topic for human rights information. [|http://www.hrw.org]
 * **Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights**→ This site includes country reports, texts of treaties and conventions, fact sheets on human rights, links to other United Nations bodies involved in human rights. []
 * **Two major subsections are:**
 * **Human Rights Bodies-** This section contains all UN bodies overseeing different areas of human rights.[]
 * **International Law-** This area contains all UN conventions and protocols on different aspects of human rights. []
 * **UN Watch**→ Full-text reports from this organization monitor United Nations work on human rights. [|http://www.unwatch.org]