Human Rights: Background Info
Human Rights Websites
- United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human RightsUnited Nations website with many different pathways to learn about human right general and specific issues throughout the world.
- University of Minnesota Human Rights LibraryAn extensive online library of human rights documents hosted by the University of Minnesota.
- HuriSearch: Human Rights Search EngineSearch engine that indexes over 5,000 human rights sites. The basic search allows the user to limit to NGOs, IGOs, National Human Rights Institutions, and Academic Institutions.
Recommended Reference Collections
If you're looking for some alternatives to Wikipedia, try searching for information in these collections of reference books. You'll be able to check facts and learn context for any number of topics.
- Gale Virtual ReferenceA searchable collection of encyclopedias and other references sources.
- Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
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Full text dictionaries, encyclopedias, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press.
Human Rights
Encyclopedia of human rights Offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history. Coverage includes major figures, organizations and institutions, human rights events and crises, and human rights norms.
Encyclopedia of war crimes and genocide Examines the entire history of crimes against humanity, during both wartime and peacetime, with entries on a wide range of relevant topics: human rights, war criminals, trials of war crimes, examples of genocide, international organizations and international law concerning war crimes, and many more.
Encyclopedia of human rights issues since 1945Call Number: JC571 .L2747 1999Reviews the major documents, people, nations, organizations, and incidents related to human rights since the World War II.
Research Handbook on International Human Rights Law Brings together the work leading human rights scholars from all over the world to consider a broad range of human rights topics. The book discusses a wide range of contemporary themes, for example jurisdictional issues, such as human rights in the private sphere and extra-territorial obligations.
