Subject Guide
Catherine Morse
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Clark Library
Hatcher Graduate Library 2 South 734-936-2333
Getting Started with Human Rights Research
- Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd ed.Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction considers the controversies surrounding the human rights movement by focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, equality, health, and discrimination
- Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights LawThis volume explores the principle and history of international human rights law. It addresses questions regarding the sources of human rights, its historical and cultural origins and its universality. It evaluates the effectiveness of procedures and international institutions in enforcing and ensuring compliance with human rights.
Human Rights Studies Online
- Human Rights Studies Online This link opens in a new windowA collection of text and video on human rights crimes in the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Search for reports from Human Rights Organizations
- Policy Commons Topic Search: Human RightsPolicy Commons provides more than 2.8 million+ policy reports, briefs, analyses, and datasets from IGOs, NGOs, and think tanks.
- Overton search results for human rights policy documents from IGOsOverton is a database containing policy documents, guidelines, think tank publications, and working papers
- CIAO This link opens in a new windowFull text of conference proceedings, think tank articles, some journals, and working papers on international affairs.
- PAIS Index This link opens in a new windowContains references to nearly 2 million journal articles and other resources on public affairs and public policy worldwide.
US State Department Reports
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practicesfrom the US State department