RESOURCES

Websites

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  
• UN Millennium Development Goals
  
• Video on UN Millennium Development Goals
  
• Links to Human Rights Organizations
  
• Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights
  
• UN Treaties-Information/Signers/Ratification
  The UN human rights treaties are at the core of the international system for the promotion and protection of human rights. Every UN member state is a party to one or more of the eight major human rights treaties. It is a universal human rights legal system, which applies to virtually every child, woman or man in the world.
  
• United Nations Association-USA-East Bay
  
• Rabbis for Human Rights-North America
  
• Progressive Jewish Alliance
  
• Center for Islam and Democracy
  
• Catholic Social Justice Teaching
  
• Education for Justice
  
• Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross Justice Work
  

Books about History of Human Rights and Human Rights Theory

• An-Na'im, Abdullahi. Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Philadelphia: University Press, 1992.
• Broyde, Michael. Human Rights in Judaism: Cultural, Religious, and Political Perspectives. Jason Aronson, 1998
• Bucar, Elizabeth M. and Barbara Barnett. Does Human Rights Need God? Grand Rapids, MI.: Eerdmans, 2005.
• Donnelly, Jack. Universal Human Rights. 2d. ed. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003.
• Drinan, Robert F. The Mobilization of Shame. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002
• Freeman, Michael. Human Rights. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2002
• Gewirth, Alan. The Community of Rights. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
• Glendon, Mary Ann. A World Made New. New York: Random House, 2001.
• Goodman, Lenn Evan. Judaism, Human Rights, and Human Values. Cambridge: University Press, 1997.
• Haas, Michael. International Human Rights: A Comprehensive Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2008.
• Hunt, Lynn. Inventing Human Rights: A History. London: W.W. Norton and Co., 2007.
• Ishay, Micheline R. The History of Human Rights. Berkeley, CA: University Press, 2008.
• Porter, Jean. Nature as Reason: A Thomistic Theory of Natural Law. WB Eerdmans, 2005.
• Sachedina, Abdulziz. The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism. Cambridge: Cambridge Press, 2007.
• Tierney, Brian. The Idea of Natural Rights. GA: Scholars Press, 1997.
• Tuck, Richard. Natural Rights Theories: Their Origin and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
• Traer, Robert. Faith in Human Rights: Support in Religious Traditions for a Global Struggle. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1991.

Videos about Human Rights

• Traveling Film Festival 2008-2009 begins in September 2008 and runs through May 2009.