HUMAN RIGHTS
Scope|Subject
Headings|Overview
Sources|Circulating
Books|Periodicals, Journals
& Trade Publications|Web
Sites
SCOPE: Human rights are expectations that individuals place on society to meet their basic needs. Some of these rights include religious, freedom, free expression, and physical safety. (Palmisano, World of Sociology) The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing of all the resources available in the library, but as a selective sampling of the many types of materials available.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Books dealing with human rights are listed in the Baddour Library’s online catalog under the following subject headings:
Civil rights
Human rights
There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
CQ Researcher (online database):
Issues and Controversies database from Facts on
File
KF 4747.5.C37 2000 Human Rights in the United States: A
Dictionary and Documents
JC 571.L523 2001 The Human Rights Encyclopedia
K 3240.4H847 1999 Human Rights: The Essential
Reference
Some representative books from the Circulating collection located upstairs in the Baddour Library are:
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Edmundson, William A. An Introduction to
Rights. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2004.
Ishay, Micheline.
The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the
Globalization Era. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2004.
Orend, Brian. Human Rights: Concept and
Context. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview
Press, 2002.
Petschauer, Peter. Human Space: Personal Rights in a
Threatening World. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1997.
Schoenberger, Karl. Levi’s Children: Coming to Terms with
Human Rights in the Global Marketplace. New York: Grove Press, 2000.
Talbott, W.J.
Which Rights Should be Universal? New York: Oxford
University Press,
2005.
Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focus on the topic of human rights are:
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the link for a list of full text journals
available through our databases in:
WEB SITES
Human Rights Web
http://www.hrweb.org/
Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/
MIT Center For
International Studies
http://web.mit.edu/cis/
Focuses on human rights and security studies.
Sections on programs and publications.
Updated
11/10/2008
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