Resources for Theory of Human Rights

Resources for
Political Theory of Human Rights
POLSC 316

Databases
    -Library Databases
    -Free Databases
    -Databases from NYPL
Human Rights Organizations
Human Rights Governmental Organizations
Academic Programs in Human Rights
Other Resources
Library Contact Information

Databases

Library Databases: The following databases can be used to find articles from popular and scholarly publications on human rights.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
    The most multi-disciplinary and general full-text periodicals database. Contains the full
    text of approx. 3,500 journals, with indexing going back to the mid 1970's on some titles.
    Updated daily.

Alt-Press Watch
Full-text of alternative and independent newspapers, magazines and newsletters,
beginning 1995. Updated monthly.

CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online
Full-text source for theory and research in international affairs from Columbia University
Press. 1991-present; updated bi-weekly.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Full-text of American newspapers and magazines from the ethnic, minority and Native
press. Available in both English and Spanish.

JSTOR
    Full text of scholarly journals in arts and science, business and economics, language and
    literature, humanities, and social sciences. Current journals are not entered into the
    database for 2 to 5 years. Searchable by topic or by journal name.

Lexis-Nexis
    Full text database of newspapers and other news sources; legal information including U.S.
    Code, state laws and law reviews; business news and company financial information;
    medical abstracts, biographical information and country and state profiles.

Project Muse
An online collection of full text journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and
other university presses.

PAIS International
    Index to journals, books, proceedings and other sources on the public and social policy
    literature of business, economics, finance, law, international relations, public
    administration, government, political science and other social sciences.

Social Sciences Abstracts
    Index to journal articles in the social sciences, many from scholarly journals. Coverage
    includes addiction, area studies, criminal justice, economics, environment, ethics, family
    studies, gender, geography, gerontology, law, political science, psychology, sociology
    and urban studies.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
    Abstracts and indexes the international serials literature in political science and its
    complementary fields including international relations, law, public administration and
    policy, from 1975 to present.

Free Databases

Amnesty International Library
    http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/index.html
    Search Amnesty International's library of news releases and reports by country, region, or
    theme.

Country Information/Background Notes - U.S. State Department
    http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
    Browse difference countries for information on history, government, political
    conditions, economy, travel, and foreign relations. Also links to Country Studies from the
    Library of Congress, CIA World Factbook, and other information.

Human Rights Reports - U.S. State Department

Country Studies - Library of Congress
    http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
    Searchable database of political, economic, and social information on countries and
    regions around the world.

International Database - U.S. Census Bureau
    http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html
    The International Data Base (IDB) is a computerized data bank containing statistical tables
    of demographic and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.

Project Diana: Online Human Rights Archive
    http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diana/index.html
    Search the Diana documents collection. Also, find human rights cases and website for
    the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal.

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
    http://heiwww.unige.ch/humanrts/
    Search/browse over 6,500 documents related to human rights, including treaties and
    other international instruments, United Nations documents, U.S. human rights documents,
    and refugee and asylum resources.

Databases Available at New York Public Library: These databases can only be accessed from the Humanities and Social Sciences Library. See http://www.nypl.org/databases/ for more information.

FRANCIS
    FRANCIS is a bibliographic database covering the humanities (archaeology, art history,
    history of science, linguistics, literature, philosophy, prehistory, religions), social
    sciences (administration, Latin American studies, computers and law, education,
    ethnology, geography, health, sociology), and economics (economy, energy economics,
    management). Abstracts in French or English are included for many records. (Particularly
    good for non-US materials.)

Left Index
    Provides access to the diversity of literature on the left, with a primary emphasis on
    politically and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside the academy and a
    secondary emphasis on significant but little known sources of news and ideas. Topics
    covered include politics, economics, the labor movement, ecology and environment,
    women's studies, race and ethnicity, social and cultural theory, sociology, are and
    aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization. (Particularly good for
    studying groups outside of the majority - women's rights, gay/lesbian, races)

Bibliography of Asian Studies
    Bibliography of Asian Studies contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects
    pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the
    present. The online BAS contains the full data of all printed editions issued from 1971 to
    the 1991 edition (published 1997), as well as thousands of entries compiled since. To
    bridge the gap in coverage from 1991 to the present, the BAS staff have identified the
    most important 100+ periodicals in Asian Studies, and have given these high priority for
    indexing to make their coverage as up-to-date as possible.

Bibliography of Native North Americans
    The Bibliography of Native North Americans is an electronic publication containing
    citations to literature about native peoples of North America, including Aleuts; Eskimos or
    Inuit of Greenland, northern Canada, Alaska, and eastern Siberia; and other native
    peoples of Canada, the United States, and Mexico north of the northern boundary of
    Mesoamerica (the area of high cultures in Mexico and Central America is not included). It
    contains citations from the cumulative eight volumes of the Ethnographic Bibliography of
    North America, as well as new citations to books, journals, essays, conference papers,
    dissertations, and U.S. and Canadian government documents.

Chicano Database
    The Chicano Database identifies all types of material on Mexican-Americans and
    Chicanos. The Chicano Database includes more than 48,000 records. Records added since
    1992 have expanded its scope to include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto
    Ricans, Cuban-Americans, and Central American immigrants.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index
    HAPI is a subject and author index to articles, documents, reviews, bibliographies, and
    literary works appearing in over 400 scholarly journals and dealing with Latin America,
    the Caribbean, and Hispanic Americans. Journals published in Mexico and Central and
    South America are indexed in full and other journals as they contain material concerning
    Latin America or Hispanics in the United States.

Human Rights Organizations

Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/

Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/

Committee of Concerned Scientists
http://www.libertynet.org/~ccs/

International Federation for Human Rights
http://www.fidh.org/fidh-en/index.htm

Derechos Human Rights
http://www.derechos.org/

Women's Human Rights Resources (University of Toronto)
http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/

Human Rights Monitor
http://www.humanrightsmonitor.org

Institute for War and Peace Reporting
http://www.iwpr.net/home_index_new.html

International Council on Human Rights Policy
http://www.ichrp.org/

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/

International Rescue Committee
http://www.theirc.org/

The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
http://www.cceia.org/homepage.php

Governmental Organizations

United Nations
http://www.un.org/rights/index.html

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
http://www.unhchr.ch/

International Criminal Court
http://www.icc.int/

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
http://www.un.org/law/icc/

European Court of Human Rights
http://www.echr.coe.int/

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (OAS)
http://www.cidh.oas.org

Congressional Human Rights Caucus
http://www.house.gov/lantos/caucus/caucuswebpage.htm

U.S. Department of State - Democracy and Human Rights Page
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/rights/

Academic Programs

Trinity College Human Rights Program
http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/humanrights/

Peace and Conflict Studies - Haverford College
http://www.haverford.edu/catalog/Peace_Conflict_Stud.html

The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies - Univ. of Notre Dame
http://www.nd.edu/~krocinst/index.html

Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights - Webster Univ.
http://www.webster.edu/%7Ewoolflm/cshghr.html

Center for the Study of Human Rights - Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/humanrights/

The Human Rights Program - University of Chicago
http://humanrights.uchicago.edu/

Human Rights Center - University of California, Berkeley
http://www.hrcberkeley.org/

Center for Human Rights - University of Iowa
http://uichr.uiowa.edu/index.shtml

Center for International Human Rights - Northwestern University School of Law
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/depts/clinic/ihr/

Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law - Washington College of Law
http://www.wcl.american.edu/humright/center.cfm
*Publishes Human Rights Brief - available full-text on website or Lexis/Nexis

Human Rights Program - Harvard Law School
http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/HRP/

Center for Human Rights & Conflict Resolution - Fletcher School of Law, Tufts Univ.
http://fletcher.tufts.edu/chrcr/

Human Rights Institute - Columbia Law School
http://www.law.columbia.edu/hri/

Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights - College of Law, University of Cincinnati
http://www.law.uc.edu/morgan/
*Editors of Human Rights Quarterly

Joseph R. Crowley Program in International Human Rights - Fordham Law School
http://law.fordham.edu/crowley.htm

Center for International Human Rights - Yale Law School
http://www.law.yale.edu/outside/html/Centers/cen-schellctr.htm

Other Resources

LANIC - Human Rights in Latin America
    http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/hrights/
    Portal created by the Latin American Network Information Center to web resources on
    human rights in Latin America and internationally.

Library Contact Information

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