• Human Rights Documentary Record
• Human Rights Collections @ Columbia Libraries
  
• Major Research Resources and Navigating the Human Rights Web
• Consult an Expert Librarian
  

• Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research (CHRDR)
  Based in the Libraries, CHRDR houses the archives of several prominent human rights organizations and promotes the development of strong general collections to support human rights research.  The archives are managed by Columbia's Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
• Area Studies
  Area and subject specialist librarians who develop interdisciplinary collections covering the following regions/subjects: African Studies, Jewish Studies, Latin American & Iberian Studies, Middle East & Islamic Studies, Russian, Eurasian & E.European Studies, South & Southeast Asian Studies.
• C.V. Starr East Asian Library
  Collections from and about China, Japan, Korea and Tibet, in languages of those countries as well as materials in English and other Western languages about East Asia.
• Lehman Social Sciences Library
  Contemporary collection of social sciences materials, e.g. sociology, political sciences, international affairs. Lehman is also a U.S. federal government document depository.
• Columbia Center for Oral History
  Largest and oldest oral history program in the world; holds recorded interviews and transcripts with several collections related to contemporary and historical human rights topics.
• Butler Library
  Humanities and history collections, e.g. biography, historical works, literary, cultural topics, feature and documentary film.
• Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
  Significant holdings of international law, treaties, IGO documents including the UN, International Court and tribunal records.  Journals and books relevant to HR, esp. legal aspects, treatments.

Map of all Columbia Libraries

• Lehman Library Guide:  Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs: Information Resources 
  Includes subscription and freely available online sources as well as print sources available in the Columbia Libraries

• Columbia Law Library:  International Law and Human Rights Research Guides
  List of several guides on human rights, EU and UN documents, FAQ on HR research, international law and legal guides

• Human Rights Library, University of Minnesota
  One of the largest collections of more than sixty thousand core human rights documents, with access to more than four thousands links.  Also provides a unique search device for multiple human rights sites.

• Univ. of Connecticut Guide: Human Rights Resources
  Extensive set of pages highlighting a range of resources.

• Lehman Library Guide, Population, Migration and Refugee Studies

AnthropologyPlus

Columbia International Affairs Online

Contemporary Women's Issues

Gender Studies

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

International Political Science Abstracts

JSTOR: the Scholarly Journal Archive

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) International

Popline  (Population, family planning and health issues)

ProQuest (set of many article and news databases.  Relevant ones include Int'l Bibliography of the Social Sciences, PAIS, ProQuest Research Library: Social Sciences; Sociological Abstracts; Worldwide Political Science Abstracts)

Social Science Citation Index (Web of Science)

Social Sciences Full Text

SocINDEX (Sociology and related disciplines)

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Use FIND ARTICLES to search multiple databases simultaneously
See all of our Library Databases

• Africa-Wide: NiPAD
• Bibliography of Asian Studies (East, Southeast, and South Asia)
• EastView Universal Databases and ABSEES (Russia / CIS / East Europe)
• HAPI Online (Latin American Studies) and Caribbean Abstracts
• Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies

Click on to find full text or print holdings of a journal at Columbia.
Journal not available at Columbia?  Use Interlibrary Loan to request electronic delivery of articles.

Cambridge Histories Online

CountryWatch.com: website to the world

eiu.com (Economist Intelligence Unit publications)

Europa World Plus  (covers all countries of the world)

World Factbook (Central Intelligence Agency)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

News

• Factiva
• ISI Emerging Markets
• World News Connection

Region-Specific News

• AllAfrica.Com
• Balkan Insight
• East View Universal Databases (Russia / CIS)
• Latin American Newsstand
• MidEastWire.com
• Samachar.com -and- Economic & Political Weekly (South Asia)

• CLIO Columbia’s Online Catalog and New Arrivals for discovering newly acquired items
  
• PEGASUS Columbia Law Library Catalog
• WorldCat Online catalog with over 95 million records from libraries in the U.S. and selected countries
• Human Rights Library (U. Minnesota) Bibliographies section
• Human Rights and Human Welfare An international review of books and other publications
• Human Rights: a Bibliography 5 volume print edition, published in 2000.
  

Item not at Columbia?

Borrow Direct  Expedited book delivery service from libraries in the northeastern U.S.

InterLibrary Loan  Article and book delivery service covering U.S. academic libraries

• Lehman HR Guide, see Advocacy Organizations and Primary Documents Sections
• Human Rights Library-- NGO links (University of Minnesota)
• United Nations Documentation: Research Guide Human Rights (UN)
• A Brief Guide to finding UN Human Rights Documents (UN)
• Guide to the United Nations (Columbia Law Library)
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Historical Record of Drafting Process (UN)
• Universal Human Rights Index - country-specific human rights information; conclusions and recommendations addressed by UN independent experts
  
• United Nations Human Rights Website and Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
  
• ReliefWeb (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)
• Human Rights Library, IGO page
• Directory of Development Organizations

• Resources for Researching Country Conditions (Human Rights Library, Univ. Minnesota)
• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Reports and Documents
• Human Rights and Governance in Africa (Columbia University guide)
• Human Rights, Latin American Network Information Center
• Demographic and Health Surveys
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (U.S. Department of State )
• World Bank e-Library (Columbia Libraries)

• Hurisearch Search over 5,000 human rights websites (more information)
• TANDIS Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Information System
• Human Rights Library metasearch
• Google Scholar
  Configure for using Columbia Library resources> About Scholar -> Library Links > Preferences
  
• Human Rights Web Archive Columbia-based project to capture and archive HR websites

• WITNESS media archive  and WITNESS YouTube Channel
• Amnesty International USA YouTube Channel
• Human Rights Watch YouTube Channel
• Human Rights First YouTube Channel

A network of specialists within the library contribute to building our human rights collections.

General questions about human rights and Columbia's archives:  chrdr@columbia.edu

Area Studies (offices in Lehman Library) develops collections from and about several world regions:

• African Studies, Yuusuf Caruso, caruso@columbia.edu
• Jewish Studies, Michelle Chesner, mc3395@columbia.edu
• Latin American & Iberian Studies, Sean Knowlton, sean.knowlton@columbia.edu
• Russian/Eurasian/E.European Studies, Robert H. Davis, rhd2106@columbia.edu
• Middle East & Islamic Studies, (currently vacant), contact mideast@libraries.cul.columbia.edu
• South and Southeast Asian Studies, (currently vacant), contact southasia@libraries.cul.columbia.edu

Starr East Asian Library  China, Japan, Korea, Tibet and general works on East Asian region

• starr@libraries.cul.columbia.edu

Lehman Library

• Fadi Dagher, Social Sciences Librarian, fd2102@columbia.edu
• Digital Social Science Center

Butler Library

• U.S., UK and W. European History librarians, ref-ref@columbia.edu

Law Library

• Reference staff (212) 854-3743