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Human Rights Studies Online
Human Rights Studies Online is a research and learning database providing comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. The collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than thirty additional subjects
Amnesty International Archives
Amnesty International Archives: A Global Movement for Human Rights publishes the records of Amnesty International from the second half of the twentieth century. The material contains minutes, reports, correspondence, first-hand accounts, publicity materials and circulars relating to human rights violations of all kinds in all parts of the world. Amnesty International’s remit of campaigning for an end to human rights abuses means that this archival material inherently relates to the themes of oppression, cruelty and degradation. – Publisher

Amnesty International Library Online Documentation Archive
Click on "Library." Publications including reports, news releases and urgent actions, 1996 to the present. Search by country, region, theme, etc. Documents are available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.
Carter Center
The Carter Center works for international political and civil rights. See "News & Publications" for mulitple types of resources.
Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research (CHRDR)
Columbia University. "...official designated repository for the archives of major Human Rights organizations such as Amnesty International USA, the Committee of Concerned Scientists, Human Rights First, and Human Rights Watch." Also has much more.
Contemporary Women's Issues
Citations and full-text access to global information about women in over 150 countries from journals, newsletters and research reports. Subjects include development, education, family life, gender equity, human rights, and others.
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
U.S. Dept of State annual reports to Congress on the status of internationally recognized human rights practices per country. Online archive from 1999-present.
Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
Five-volume comprehensive coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history. Entries by leading scholars and human rights experts. 2009.
Freedom House: Measurements of Democracy
Includes current, comparative and historical political data (e.g., press freedom) "including charts displaying the status and ratings of countries and territories from 1972 to the present, as well as aggregate and subcategory scores, and information on electoral democracies."

Gender Studies Database
The Gender Studies Database (GSD) combines Women's Studies International, Men's Studies and Sexual Diversity Studies databases with relevant contributions from the Child Development & Adolescent Studies as well as Family & Society Studies Worldwide databases. GSD covers the spectrum of gender engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.

Geneva Conventions
Full text, commentaries and parties to the Geneva Conventions and additional protocols.
Human and Civil Rights
"...primary source documents... on the issues of human and civil rights in the last three centuries. International in scope, this volume contains approximately 200 documents, such as speeches, magazine and newspaper articles, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, essays..."
Human Rights Collections - CRL Global
Primary & secondary resources sorted by region. "... materials ranging from the proceedings of the post-World War II war crimes trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo to the files of the Khmer Rouge Santebal police recovered from the notorious Tuol Sleng Prison in Cambodia. Document types include treaties, speeches, government and NGO publications, reports, addresses from congresses and conventions, newspapers, transcripts, case files, personal diaries..."
Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI)
University of Texas. "...committed to the long-term preservation of fragile and vulnerable records of human rights struggles worldwide, the promotion and secure usage of human rights archival materials, and the advancement of human rights research and advocacy around the world."
Human Rights Organizations Databank
"... currently holds over 10,000 records. Its tables can be searched by name, type, issues addressed, countries the organization works in and other such criteria."
Human Rights Watch
Investigates and exposes human rights violations. Like Amnesty International, HRW is truly one of the leading rights organizations. And like Amnesty, the high quality of its work is reflected in its endorsement and use by governments, the media, activists, scholars and others. Its independence has lent credence to its objectivity.
Human Security Gateway
Good gateway which provides academic articles, journal articles, reports, news, fact sheets, & more from hundreds of human rights related think-tanks, centers, institutes, organizations, news agencies, etc. Start by choosing human rights from among the twenty-one Topics in the top-left drop-down menu to search sources within that topic. Or, search by region or use the Advanced Search.
ICTJ : International Center for Transitional Justice
"...works to help societies in transition address legacies of massive human rights violations and build civic trust in state institutions as protectors of human rights."
International Crisis Group
This non-governmental organization offers numerous reports online that analyze local conditions in countries at risk. Search by country or thematic issue such as international terrorism, climate change, or energy.
International Relations and Security Network (ISN)
ISN is an open-access information service that provides timely and historical analyses of world events related to international security issues, such as peace keeping and arms control.

JSTOR
Provides electronic access to back issues of core scholarly journals including almost 30 in Political Science. To browse the list of archives, click here. Articles have been digitized, providing full-image access.

U.S. Department of State: Human Rights
United Nations : Human Rights
Main page, includes Thematic Issues. See, too, Tools.
United Nations Libraries Research Guides: Human Rights
An excellent guide to UN bodies concerned with human rights. Links to treaties, committees, libraries and databases. Thesaurus and suggestions for search terms for subjects.
United Nations : Universal Periodic Review
UPR "is a unique process which involves a review of the human rights records of all 192 UN Member States once every four years. The UPR is a State-driven process, under the auspices of the Human Rights Council, which provides the opportunity for each State to declare what actions they have taken to improve the human rights situations in their countries and to fulfil their human rights obligations." Includes U.S. report.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The full text of the UN Declaration. "On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights... Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories."
WITNESS
"...uses video to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations" ... "empowers human rights defenders to use video to fight injustice, and to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools that can pressure those in power or with power to act."

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