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LibGuide for Human Rights Research

This is the best place to start for human rights research. It provides an overview of library resources for human rights, including reference books, databases, articles, journals, archival collections, films, and more.


Library Databases

Research Database Locator - Databases for Human Rights
The University of Connecticut subscribes to over 240 web-based, commercially-produced research and citation databases. Most of these resources are limited to the University of Connecticut community.


Library Collections

Human Rights Film Collection

Over 400 films pertaining to a variety of human rights themes, including genocide, access to food and water, issues of gender and sexuality, education, labor, and poverty. (Films are located on Level 3 of Babbidge Library.)

Romano Human Rights Digital Photograph Collection

Collection of noted photographer Robin Romano's gripping images of child labor from around the world. 218 images are available online through UConn's Digital Mosaic.  To access the images, click the link above, or in Digital Mosaic, type "Romano" into the photograph search box.

Online Reference Books

Titles of online reference books arranged by subject.

Human Rights Archival Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

African National Congress Collection (a small collection of memorabilia collected as part of the UConn ANC Partnership in 1999)

African National Congress Oral History Transcripts Collection (133 transcripts of oral history interviews with leading anti-apartheid activists conducted between 2000 and 2006.)

Alternative Press Collections (independent and counter-culture newspapers and publications from activist movements for social, cultural, and political change. The collection contains thousands of newspapers, serials, books, pamphlets, ephemera and artifacts documenting activist themes and organizations.)

Center for Oral History Interviews Collection (includes interviews with Holocaust survivors in the Connecticut Region conducted in 1980-1981, as well as "Witnesses To Nuremberg, An Oral History Of American Participants At The War Crimes Trials.")

Dodd (Thomas J.) Papers (include materials from the Nuremberg war crimes trial before the International Military Tribunal from 1945-46)

Ho (Fred) Papers (accounts of Asian American culture and experience in the United States)

Human Rights Internet Collection (the publications library of Human Rights Internet, a Canadian NGO which collected human rights publications from around the world, including materials which are not found in any other libraries in North America.)

Impact Visuals Photographic Collection (photographs and slides which document the anti-apartheid movement and 1994 democratic elections in South Africa)

Malka Penn Collection of Children's Books on Human Rights (over 180 children's books and young adult literature dealing with a variety of human rights themes including slavery, the Holocaust, war, and discrimination.)

Mikhailov (Georgi) Collection (photographs and articles regarding Mikhailov's experiences in Soviet Labor camps in Northeast Siberia from 1980-1983)

North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) Archive (over 100 linear feet of materials including holdings on human rights, politics, and socio-economic conditions in Chile, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, and other parts of Central America.)

Refugee Case Files of the International Rescue Committee (records of the New Jersey office of the International Rescue Committee-- some materials in the collection are restricted.)

Tambo (Oliver) Papers (microfilm copies of the papers of anti-apartheid activist, Oliver Tambo; original documents are located at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa)

Xuma (A.B.) Papers (microfilm copies of the papers of anti-apartheid activist, A.B. Xuma; original documents are located at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa)

For more information about the human rights archival collections, please visit the Dodd Center's website.

 

Key Websites for Human Rights


Human Rights Education Resources

  • Minnesota Human Rights Library "trains and assists the work of human rights professionals and volunteers through applied human rights research and educational tools."
  • HuriSearch "a search engine that searches over 4,000 human rights websites," specially designed for educators, activists, and students of human rights.
  • Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) "... an international non-governmental organisation that supports human rights learning; the training of activists and professionals; the development of educational materials and programming; and community-building through on-line technologies."
  • Human Rights and Human Welfare - "... an international review of books and other publications which publishes thematic review essays, book notes, topical research digests, a monthly roundtable forum, and hosts a working papers website."
  • Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: "a department of the United Nations Secretariat, is mandated to promote and protect the enjoyment and full realization, by all people, of all rights established in the Charter of the United Nations and in International Human Rights Laws and Treaties."

US Government Resources

Country Studies

United Nations Document Sources

International Criminal Tribunals and Truth Commissions

Human Rights Non-Governmental Organizations

Research Centers and Data Sources

  • CIRI Human Rights Data  
  • GRI, Social Performance Indicators
  • The Danish Institute for Human Rights: Human Rights Indicators, Country and Regional Data Base
  • The World Bank Group: Data & Statistics
  • Guttmacher Institute: "The Guttmacher Institute is a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education."
  • Institute for Women's Policy Research: "...dedicated to informing and stimulating the debate on public policy issues of critical importance to women and their families ... focuses on issues of poverty and welfare, employment and earnings, work and family issues, health and safety, and women's civic and political participation."
  • Kaiser Family Foundation: "... a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S., with a growing role in global health. ... a non-partisan source of facts, information, and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the public. ... always provided free of charge – from the most sophisticated policy research, to basic facts and numbers..."
  • Population Reference Bureau: "The Population Reference Bureau provides timely and objective information on U.S. and international population trends and their implications."
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