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Human rights

Here are entered works on the rights of persons regardless of their legal, socioeconomic or cultural status and as recognized by the international community. Works on citizens' rights as established by law and protected by constitution are entered under Civil rights.

Some works on human rights cataloged before 1987 may be found under Civil rights.

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• Human rights -- Afghanistan
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• Human rights -- Bahrain
• Human rights -- Belarus
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• Human rights -- Brazil
• Human rights -- Burma
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• Human rights -- Cameroon
• Human rights -- Canada
• Human rights -- Case studies
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• Human rights -- Central America
• Human rights -- Chile
• Human rights -- China
• Human rights -- Colombia
• Human rights -- Commonwealth countries
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• Human rights -- Congresses
• Human rights -- Cross-cultural studies
• Human rights -- Cuba
• Human rights -- Czechoslovakia
• Human rights -- Data processing
• Human rights -- Developing countries
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• Human rights -- Egypt
• Human rights -- El Salvador
• Human rights -- Europe
• Human rights -- Europe, Eastern
• Human rights -- France
• Human rights -- Georgia (Republic)
• Human rights -- Germany
• Human rights -- Government policy
• Human rights -- Great Britain
• Human rights -- Guatemala
• Human rights -- Health aspects
• Human rights -- History
• Human rights -- India
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• Human rights -- International cooperation
• Human rights -- Iraq
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• Human rights -- Japan
• Human rights -- Jordan
• Human rights -- Kenya
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• Human rights -- Kosovo (Republic)
• Human rights -- Latin America
• Human rights -- Lebanon
• Human rights -- Liberia
• Human rights -- Libya
• Human rights -- Malaysia
• Human rights -- Mexican-American Border Region
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• Human rights -- Middle East
• Human rights -- Montana
• Human rights -- Morocco
• Human rights -- Nigeria
• Human rights -- Northern Ireland
• Human rights -- Pakistan
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• Human rights -- Periodicals
• Human rights -- Philosophy
• Human rights -- Press coverage
• Human rights -- Religious aspects
• Human rights -- Romania
• Human rights -- Russia (Federation)
• Human rights -- Rwanda
• Human rights -- Senegal
• Human rights -- Serbia
• Human rights -- Somalia
• Human rights -- South Africa
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• Human rights -- Soviet Union
• Human rights -- Statistics
• Human rights -- Study and teaching
• Human rights -- Sudan
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• Human rights -- Thailand
• Human rights -- Tunisia
• Human rights -- Turkey
• Human rights -- Uganda
• Human rights -- Ukraine
• Human rights -- United Arab Emirates
• Human rights -- United States
• Human rights -- Uzbekistan
• Human rights -- Venezuela
• Children's rights
• Civil rights
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• Right to labor
• Right to life
• Right to water
• Sexual rights
• Slavery -- Law and legislation
• Women's rights

• Basic rights
• Civil rights (International law)
• Human rights -- Law and legislation
• Rights, Human
• Rights of man

• Human Rights in the Age of Platforms (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), ed. by Rikke Frank Jørgensen (PDF files at MIT Press)
• Can Human Rights Survive? (Hamlyn Lectures, #57; Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2006), by C. A. Gearty (PDF in the UK)
• The Globalization of Human Rights (Tokyo and New York: United Nations University Press, c2003), ed. by Jean-Marc Coicaud, Michael W. Doyle, and Anne-Marie Gardner (page images at Google)
• Manual on Human Rights Reporting, Under Six Major International Human Rights Instruments (revised edition; c1997), by United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Institute for Training and Research, and United Nations Staff College Project (PDF at ohchr.org)
• New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, c2018), ed. by Molly K. Land and Jay D. Aronson, contrib. by Lea Bishop Shaver, Dalindyebo Shabalala, Thérèse Murphy, Laura A. Dickinson, Mark Latonero, John Emerson, Margaret L. Satterthwaite, Anshul Vikram Pandey, Ella McPherson, Lisl Brunner, Rikke Frank Jørgensen, G. Alex Sinha, and Enrique Piraces (HTML and PDF with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century: A Living Document in a Changing World (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016), ed. by Gordon Brown (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Blame It on the WTO? A Human Rights Critique (Creative Commons version; Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press, c2011), by Sarah Joseph (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• National Human Rights Institutions: History, Principles, Roles and Responsibilities (professional training series #4, revision 1, 2010), by United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • in English: PDF at ohchr.org
  • in Arabic: PDF at ohchr.org
• Undermining Democracy: 21st Century Authoritarians (2009), by Freedom House (U.S.), RFE/RL, and Radio Free Asia (PDF at freedomhouse.org)
• Human Rights and Elections (professional training series #2; 1994), by United Nations Centre for Human Rights
  • in English: PDF at ohchr.org
  • in Arabic: PDF at ohchr.org
  • in Russian: PDF at ohchr.org
• Human Rights and Social Work (professional training series #1; 1994), by United Nations Centre for Human Rights
  • in English: PDF at ohchr.org
  • in Russian: PDF at ohchr.org
• Lethal in Disguise 2: How Crowd-Control Weapons Impact Health and Human Rights (second edition of a report first issued in 2016; Physicians for Human Rights and International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations, 2023), by Rohini J. Haar, Scott Reynhout, and Michael Power (PDF with commentary at lethalindisguise.org)
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, November 21, 1991 (Washington: GPO, 1992), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• The United Kingdom and Human Rights (Hamlyn Lectures, #42; London: Stevens and Sons/Sweet and Maxwell, 1991), by Claire Palley (PDF in the UK)
• Technicians of Human Dignity: Bodies, Souls, and the Making of Intrinsic Worth (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016), by Gaymon Bennett (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• WHO QualityRights Tool Kit: Assessing and Improving Quality and Human Rights in Mental Health and Social Care Facilities (with supplementary documents; c2012), by World Health Organization (PDF with commentary at who.int)
• A World Charter for Human Rights (ca.1948), by American Jewish Committee (PDF at ajcarchives.org)
• The Right to Water: From Concept to Implementation (c2006), by World Water Council (PDF at worldwatercouncil.org)
• Istanbul Protocol: Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (2004), by United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (PDF at ohchr.org)
• I am a Man of Peace: Writings Inspired by the Maynooth University Ken Saro-Wiwa Collection (Ottawa: Daraja Press, 2020), ed. by Helen Fallon (PDF with commentary in Ireland)
• Business and Human Rights in a Time of Change (1999), by Christopher L. Avery (HTML at business-humanrights.org)
• Freedom, Law and Justice (Hamlyn Lectures, #50; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1999), by Stephen Sedley (PDF in the UK)
• Surveillance Giants: How the Business Model of Google and Facebook Threatens human Rights (in multiple languages; 2019), by Amnesty International (PDF files with commentary at amnesty.org)
• Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2016), by Kelly Oliver (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women's Human Rights (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2016), by Eileen M. Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Child Health and Human Rights (1994), by James P. Grant (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Human Rights and Pre-Trial Detention: A Handbook of International Standards Relating to Pre-Trial Detention (professional training series #3; 1994), by United Nations Centre for Human Rights and United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch (PDF at ohchr.org)
• Defending Civil Society: Report (second edition; 2012), by World Movement for Democracy, International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, and National Endowment for Democracy (U.S.) (PDF at movedemocracy.org)
• Freedom of Religion Under Bills of Rights (c2012), ed. by Paul Babie and Neville Rochow (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies (New York: Social Science Research Council, 2007), ed. by Alexander Mayer-Rieckh and Pablo De Greiff (PDF with commentary at ssrc.org)
• Freedom From Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2005), by George Kent (PDF with commentary at Georgetown)
• Human Security for All: A Tribute to Sergio Vieira de Mello (New York: Fordham University Press, and Center for International Health and Coooperation, 2004), ed. by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• The Right to Water (Geneva: World Health Organization, c2003), by Lindsay Knight, ed. by Gregory Hartl
  • PDF files at worldwatercouncil.org
  • page images at Google
• Common Rights and Expectations: Primary International Treaties Protecting The Rights of All People, by United Nations, ed. by John Bart Gerald (HTML at nightslantern.ca)
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights, by United Nations
  • HTML and PDF at un.org
  • in over 500 languages: HTML and PDF at ohchr.org
• Human Rights, Solidarity and Subsidiarity: Essays Toward a Social Ontology, by Carlos Eduardo Maldonado (PDF at crvp.org)

• The Future of Afghanistan (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2009), ed. by J. Alexander Thier (PDF with commentary at usip.org)
• Detained and Denied in Afghanistan: How to Make U.S. Detention Comply With the Law (New York: Human Rights First, c2011), by Daphne Eviatar (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• The Tensions between Culture and Human Rights: Emancipatory Social Work and Afrocentricity in a Global World (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2021), ed. by Vishanthie Sewpaul, Linda Kreitzer, and Tanusha Raniga (PDF files at University of Calgary)
• In Search of Safety: The Forcible Displaced and Human Rights in Africa (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• False Freedom: Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2005), by Elijah Zarwan (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Algeria: Civilian Population Caught in a Spiral of Violence (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF files at amnesty.org)
• Human Rights and Reform: Changing the Face of North African Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Susan Eileen Waltz (HTML at UC Press)

• Still Not Fully Protected: Rights to Freedom of Expression and Information under Angola's New Press Law (2006), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML with commentary at hrw.org)

• A Good Life: Human Rights and Encounters With Modernity (2013), by Mary Edmunds (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• The Catholic Human Rights Tradition and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (ACSJC occasional paper #21; North Blackburn, Vic.: Collins Dove, 1994), by Sandie Cornish (PDF in Australia)

• Weaponizing Tear Gas: Bahrain's Unprecedented Use of Toxic Chemical Agents Against Civilians (Cambrige, MA and Washington: Physicians for Human Rights, 2012), by Richard Sollom and Holly Atkinson (PDF with commentary at physiciansforhumanrights.org)

• Republic of Belarus: Turning Back the Clock (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1998), by Malcolm Hawkes (HTML at hrw.org)
• Republic of Belarus: Violations of Academic Freedom (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1999), by Malcolm Hawkes (HTML at hrw.org)
• Republic of Belarus: Crushing Civil Society (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1997), by Diederik Lohman and Malcolm Hawkes (HTML at hrw.org)

• Human Rights Education Resourcebook (second edition, 2000), ed. by Frank Elbers (HTML at hrea.org)

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