This research guide highlights resources that will be useful to completing the writing assignments in this class. Please see the Center's website for information about our human rights collections.

• UN Office of the  High Commisioner for Human Rights,  List of Human Rights Issues
• Univ. Minnesota Human Rights Library Topic Guides
• NY TIMES topics
  • Human Trafficking
  • Female Genital Mutilation
  • Child Labor
  • HIV/AIDs

USE these databases to find entries and background articles on your topic in reference books.

• Reference Universe
• Credo Reference
• Gale Virtual Reference Library

• Basic Documents on Human Rights [print holdings]
  
• A Dictionary of Human Rights, 2nd ed. [print holdings]
  
• Encyclopedia of Human Rights Issues Since 1945 [print holdings]
  
• Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements. 3rd ed. [print holdings]
• Human Rights Encyclopedia [print holdings]
• Human Rights: The Essential Reference [print holdings]
• Human rights worldwide : a reference handbook [print holdings] OR View preview in Google books
• Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World [print holdings]
• Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy [print holdings]
• Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
• Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered History in US [print holdings]
• Encyclopedia of prostitution and sex work [print holdings]
• The Greenwood encyclopedia of children’s issues worldwide [print holdings]
• New slavery : a reference handbook [print holdings] OR View Preview in Google Books
  
• Oxford African American Studies Center
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States [print holdings]
• Routledge international encyclopedia of women : global women’s issues and knowledge [print holdings]

• CountryWatch
• Europa World Plus  (political & economic info about all countries)
• Economist Intelligence Unit - EIU Publications
• Encyclopedia of Islam & the Muslim World [print holdings]
• Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (online in the Gale Virtual Reference Library) [print holdings]
• Encyclopedia of Modern Asia [print holdings]
• Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East & North Africa
• Historical Dictionary of Civil Wars in Africa [print holdings]
• New Encyclopedia of Africa [print holdings]
  

• Hurisearch
  Search over 4500 human rights websites—Read more
• Human Rights Library metasearch
• Google Scholar [Configure Scholar Preferences --> Library Links for Columbia]

• Amnesty International
  • http://www.amnesty.org/en/library [search library of documents]
  • http://www.amnesty.org/en/human-rights [browse publications by country/topic]
  • http://report2009.amnesty.org/en/ [State of theWorld’s Human Rights]
• UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Annual Reports
• U.S. Dept. of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
• ECHO Annual Reviews (European Commission on Humanitarian Aid)
• European Commission, EU Report on Human Rights
• Freedom in the World: Political Rights and Civil Liberties
• Human Rights Watch 2009 World Report  [Reports for previous years]
• International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Annual Report
• International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights Annual Report
• The State of the World's Children UNICEF Annual
• The State of the World's Refugees UN High Commissioner for Refugees publications
• World Refugee Survey, US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants

CLIO - Columbia's Online Catalog

Use these standard Subject Headings:

• female circumcision (for female genital mutilation)
• child soldiers
• human trafficking OR forced labor
• Human rights
• Human rights advocacy
• Human rights--Government policy--[country]
• Human rights movements [may subdivide geographically]

• Book Review Index Plus
  
• H-Net Reviews
  
• Human Rights and Human Welfare 
  Brief reviews and lists of new human rights books
  
• New York Review of Books