Encyclopedia of Human Rights.  1996

Information on human rights instruments, international organizations, and issues.  Includes articles on children, women, minorities, indigenous peoples, sexual orientation, refugees, religion, equality, genocide, and 168 countries. Arranged in alphabetic order, with cross-references, bibliographies, glossary, and subject index.

International Encyclopedia of Human Rights.   2000

Covers concepts such as asylum, children, democracy, drugs, equality, genocide, hostages, press, slavery, sovereignty, torture, war crimes, and women.   Includes documents and biographies and articles on human rights agencies and NGOs.

Encyclopedia of Human Rights Issues Since 1945.  1999

Short articles cover major human rights issues, events, people, organizations, and instruments and include suggestions for further reading.  Contains the International Bill of Human Rights [1948] and a glossary.

Human Rights: The Essential Reference.   1999

Arranged in four sections: 

• Human Rights before 1948: History
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Overview and Analysis 
• Contemporary Human Rights Movement: Overview, Government Organizations, Nongovernmental Organizations, and Human Rights Activists
• Contemporary Human Rights Issues  

Includes a timeline of significant events in human rights history and suggested further reading.

World at Risk: A Global Issues Sourcebook.   2002

Although not entirely devoted to human rights, this encyclopedia includes articles on cultural preservation, ethnic and regional conflict, genocide, human rights, income inequality, labor and employment, literacy and educational access, refugees, war crimes, and women.  Each article includes an extensive list of suggested reading, Web resources, and excerpts from relevant documents [primary resources].

Dictionary of International Human Rights Law.   1996

Definitions of vocabulary used in the discussion of civil, political, legal, economic, social, cultural, collective, and declaratory rights.  Includes an extensive bibliography on these rights, as well as resources on human rights by world region.

Amnesty International Online

Nongovernmental organization that campaigns for human rights worldwide.  This site consists of news, feature articles, press releases, and documents. Annual reports include updated status of human rights in individual countries.

View a list of AI's current campaigns. Publications are also indexed by themes such as children, detention, discrimination, prisoners, racism, refugees, torture, UN, and women.

Search by country, region, sub-region, or theme from the Library or create a Search with keywords.
For example: sudan and children

Human Rights Watch

An independent, nongovernmental organization that is "dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world."

Publishes reports that can be accessed by country or by issue including arms, children's rights, HIV/AIDS, international justice, prisons, refugees, women's rights, and UN.

International Commission of Jurists

Focuses on the "objective promotion of human rights through the rule of law." Publications can be searched by theme and country. Themes include disappearances, economic, social & cultural rights, gender issues, impunity & reparations, military tribunals, terrorism and torture.

United Nations Human Rights

Provides access to documents, some treaties, and information on activities of the U.N. relating to human rights.  Some of the links connect to:

• Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights
• International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [ICTY]
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda [ICTR]
• Documentation Research Guide - link through various UN divisions to the treaties that are available on the Web, rather than through the UN Treaties Database which is by subscription only
  
  

Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements.  4v.   2003

Focuses on the organization and activities of the United Nations.   Includes articles on individual countries, human rights issues, and major human rights instruments.