17 November 2008

Additional Resources

Books, articles, and Web sites on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Books and Articles

Donnelly, Jack. International Human Rights: Dilemmas in World Politics. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2006.

Donnelly, Jack. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice, second edition. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002.

Glendon, Mary Ann. “Knowing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” Notre Dame Law Review, vol. 73, no. 5 (May 1998): pp. 1153-1190.

Glendon, Mary Ann. A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. New York, NY: Random House, 2001.

Horowitz, Shale, and Albrecht Schnabel, eds. Human Rights and Societies in Transition: Causes, Consequences, Responses. New York, NY: United Nations University Press, 2004.

Hunt, Lynn. Inventing Human Rights: A History. New York, NY: W. W. Norton and Company, 2007.

James, Stephen Andrew. Universal Human Rights: Origins and Development. New York, NY: LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2007.

Lauren, Paul Gordon. The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.

Lyons, Gene M., and James Mayall, eds. International Human Rights in the 21st Century: Protecting the Rights of Groups. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003.

Morsink, Johannes. Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting and Intent. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

Nickel, James W. Making Sense of Human Rights. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2007.

Normand, Roger. Human Rights at the U.N.: The Political History of Universal Justice. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008.

Power, Samantha, and Graham Allison, eds. Realizing Human Rights: Moving From Inspiration to Impact. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2001.

Stone, Geoffrey R. Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism. New York, NY: W. W. Norton and Company, 2004.

Waltz, Susan. “Reclaiming and Rebuilding the History of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” Third World Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 3 (2002): pp. 437-448.

Waltz, Susan. “Universal Human Rights: The Contribution of Muslim States.” Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 4 (2004): pp. 799-844.

Waltz, Susan. “Universalizing Human Rights:  The Role of Small States in the Construction of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 23, no.1 (2001): pp. 44-72.

Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N., Lynn Hunt, and Marilyn B. Young, eds. Human Rights and Revolutions. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000.

Welch, Claude E. Jr., ed. NGOs and Human Rights: Promise and Performance. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

Welch, Claude E. Jr. Protecting Human Rights in Africa: Strategies and Roles of Non-Governmental Organizations. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.

Internet Resources

Free and Equal: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 50
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/1098/ijde/ijde1098.htm

Human Rights in Brief
http://www.america.gov/media/pdf/books/0308_humanrights.pdf#popup

Human Rights: Defending Human Dignity
http://democracy.america.gov/democracy/rights/index.html

Human Rights and Constitutional Rights
http://www.huridocs.org/

HuriSearch, The Human Rights Search Engine
http://www.hurisearch.org

International Convention on Human Rights Research Project
http://draftinghumanrights.berkeley.edu/home

An Introduction to the History of International Human Rights Law
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1010489

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
A teaching tool from Columbia University containing the text, history, and influence of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, biographies of the drafters, and videos of professors discussing the declaration.
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/udhr/index.html

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The most comprehensive collection of translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in 337 different languages.
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/

University of Minnesota, Human Rights Library Links
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/links/links.htm

The U.S. Department of State assumes no responsibility for the content and availability of the resources listed above. All Internet links were active as of November 2008.