Articles, Book Chapters, and
Conference Papers
Book and Monographs
American Society of International Law's continuously updated and expanded guide for research, with many useful links
Dominican Republic and Central America Free Trade Agreement signed in 2005.
International
Law and Human Rights: Doddel Server
Extensive list of links to United Nations, European
Union, and Organization of the American States human rights documents,
treaties, resolutions and reports. Some links are out of date.
Extensive list of links to international law and human rights resources, documents, reports and websites. Organized by treaties and documents and sites of interest.
Tufts
University Human Rights Page
Extensive list of links to full text human rights
treaties provided by the Edwin Ginn Library at Tufts University.
UNHCHR
List of International Human Rights Instruments (English) (Español)
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights'
list of international treaties, covenants and declarations concerning
human rights. Contains links to full text documents.
United
Nations Treaty Collection
UN collection of treaty declarations and reservations registered with
the Secretary General, available in full text
Site with explanation and breakdown of UN treaties including reservations, declarations, objections and derogation, organized by Treaty or by State
Amnesty International. "The United States should
Ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women," in Laura K. Egendorf (ed), Human Rights: Opposing
Viewpoints, Greenhaven Press, San Diego, CA, 2003.
Annan, Kofi A. "Replacing the Law of Force with
the Force of Law," Human Rights: Journal of the Section of Individual
Rights and Responsibilities, 25, 2 (Spring, 1998).
(Speech celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights and the Genocide Convention).
Balmforth, Kathryn. "The United States should not Ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women," in Laura K. Egendorf (ed), Human Rights: Opposing Viewpoints, Greenhaven Press, San Diego, CA, 2003: pg. 174-177.
Byers, Michael. "The United States has Violated
the Geneva Convention in its Treatment of Terrorist Suspects," in
Laura K. Egendorf (ed), Human Rights: Opposing Viewpoints, Greenhaven
Press, San Diego, CA, 2003: pg. 67-71.
Desgagne, Richard. "Integrating Environmental
Values into the European Convention on Human Rights," American
Journal of International Law, 89, 2 (1995): 263-294.
The relationship between environmental concerns and
the European Convention on Human Rights, viewed from both human rights
and environmental perspectives is explored in this article, illustrating
how the Commission and Court have envisioned the link between enjoyment
of human rights and quality of the environment.
Available
online: subscription or university password may be required
Dugard, John, and Christine Van den Wyngaert. "Reconciling Extradition with Human Rights," American Journal of International Law, 92, 2 (1998): 187-212.
An analysis of the development of human rights
laws as a bar to extradition, paying particular attention to those most
likely to obstruct extradition with suggestion of methods of balancing
the competing interests of human rights and international cooperation
in the suppression of crime.
Available
online: subscription or university password may be required
Washington Working Group on the International Criminal Court . "The United States Should Support the International Criminal Court," in Laura K. Egendorf (ed), Human Rights: Opposing Viewpoints, Greenhaven Press, San Diego, CA, 2003 pg. 156-161.
Lowry, Richard. "The United States has not Violated the Geneva Convention in its Treatment of Terrorist Suspects," in Laura K. Egendorf (ed), Human Rights: Opposing Viewpoints, Greenhaven Press, San Diego, CA, 2003: pg. 72-75.
Meron, Theodor. "The Humanization of Humanitarian
Law," American Journal of International Law, 94, 2 (2000):
239-278.
Article examining how human rights law and principles
of humanity have fostered some welcome developments in the law of war:
reduced reciprocity requirements, increased accountability, and improved
procedures for lawmaking and interpretation
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Morsink, Johannes. "Cultural Genocide, the Universal
Declaration, and the Minority Rights," Human Rights Quarterly,
21, 4 (November, 1999).
(This article that focuses on the lawsuit filed by Yugoslavia against
member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on the legality
of the use of force in Kosovo, Serbia. Rejection of the International
Court of Justice on the request of Yugoslavia for provisional measures;
Effect of reservations to Article IX of genocide convention.)
O'Connell, Mary Ellen. "The UN, NATO, and International
Law after Kosovo," Human Rights Quarterly, 22, 1 (February,
2000): 57-89.
Available
online: subscription or university password may be required
Rhenán Segura, Jorge. "El Tribunal (Penal)
Internacional para la ex-Yugoslavia," Revista Ciencias Penales,
8, 12 (Agosto, 1996): 45-57.
Available at (7-23-2004): http://www.cienciaspenales.org/REVISTA%2012/rhenan12.htm
Rich, Roland. "Bringing Democracy into International
Law," Journal of Democracy, 12, 3 (July, 2001): 20-34.
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Schabas, William A. and Bernard H. Oxman. "International
Decisions," American Journal of International Law, 93, 2 (April
1999).
(Features the case Mugesera versus Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
decided by the Immigration and Refugee Board, Appeal Division, of Canada
as against Leon Mugesera of Rwanda. Denial of residence status on grounds
of genocide).
Scharf, Michael. "The Letter of the Law: The Scope
of the International Legal Obligation to Prosecute Human Rights,"
Law and Contemporary Problems, 59, 4 (Autumn, 1996): 41-61.
Available at (5-11-2005): http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/lcp/articles/lcp59dFall1996p41.htm
Sohn, Louis B. "How American International Lawyers
Prepared for the San Francisco Bill of Rights," American Journal
of International Law, 89, 3 (1995): 540-553.
An examination of the pre-San Francisco Conference
origins of two principal strands of human rights law, the broad nondiscrimination
clause and the addition of economic and social rights to the more traditional
civil and political rights.
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online: subscription or university password may be required
Sohn, Louis B. "The Improvement of the UN Machinery on Human Rights," International Studies Quarterly, 23, 2 (1979): 186-215.
Analysis of the important progress that has taken place
in the last thirty years with respect to the protection of human rights,
both as far as international legislation is concerned and in the more
difficult field of implementation, and the effectiveness of the machinery
developed for these purposes by the United Nations.
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online: subscription or university password may be required
Van Schaack, Beth. "The Crime of Political Genocide: Repairing the Genocide Convention's Blind Spot," Yale Law Journal, 106, 7 (May, 1997): 2259-2291.
Casey, Lee A. and David B. Rivkin,
Jr. "The United States Should Not Support the International Criminal
Court," in Laura K. Egendorf (ed), Human Rights: Opposing Viewpoints,
Greenhaven Press, San Diego, CA, 2003: pg. 162-168.
Yamin, Alicia Ely. "Defining
Questions: Situating Issues of Power in the Formulation of a Right to
Health under International Law," Human Rights Quarterly, 18,
2 (May, 1996): 398-438.
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Chomsky, Noam. The Umbrella of Power: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy, Seven Stories Press, New York, 1999.
Glendon, Mary Ann. A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Random House, New York, 2001.
Kaufman, Natalie Hevener. Human Rights Treaties and the Senate: A History of Opposition, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1990.
Korey, William. NGOs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Curious Grapevine, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998.
Merali, Isfahan and Valerie Oosterveld (eds). Giving Meaning to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2001.
Nickel, James W. Making Sense of Human Rights: Philosophical Reflections on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1987.
Schabas, William A. The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2002.
Full
Text Treaties and Agreements
UN General Assembly resolution 317: entered into force on July 25, 1971.
Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979)
UN General Assembly resolution 34/180: Entered into force on September
3, 1981.
Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)
General Assembly resolution 260 A: entered into force January 12, 1951.
Declaration
on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (1993)
UN General Assembly resolution 48/104.
Declaration
on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
(1960)
UN General Assembly resolution 1514.
Declaration
on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict
(1974)
UN General Assembly resolution 3318.
Declaration
on the Rights and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of
Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and
Fundamental Freedoms (1999)
UN General Assembly resolution 53/144.
Declaration
on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and
Linguistic Minorities (1992)
UN General Assembly resolution 47/135.
Geneva
Convention for the Amelioration of Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in
the Field (1949)
Adopted on August 12, 1949 by the Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment
of International Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War.
Geneva
Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (1949)
Adopted on August 12, 1949 by the diplomatic conference for the establishment
of international conventions for the protection of victims of war.
International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
(1966)
UN General Assembly resolution 2106, accessible through the University
of Minnesota's Human Rights Library.
International
Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid
(1973)
UN General Assembly resolution 3068: entered into force July 18, 1976.
International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
UN General Assembly resolution 2200A, entered into force on March 23,
1976.
International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)
UN General Assembly resolution 2200A, entered into force on January 3,
1976.
Optional
Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
(1966)
UN General Assembly resolution 2200A, entered into force March 23, 1976.
Proclamation
of Teheran (1968)
Proclaimed by the International Conference on Human Rights at Teheran
on May 13, 1968.
Protocol
Amending the Slavery Convention (1953)
UN General Assembly resolution 794: entered into force on December 7,
1953.
Protocol
Relating to the Status of Refugees (1966)
Entered into force on October 4, 1967.
Second
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights (1988)
UN General Assembly resolution 44/128 that aims at the abolition of the
death penalty.
Slavery
Convention (1926)
League of Nations convention aimed at the abolition of slavery: entered
into force March 9, 1927.
Standard
Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (1955)
Adopted by the First United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime
and Treatment of Offenders: Approved by the Economic and Social Council.
Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
UN General Assembly resolution 217A, accessible through the University
of Minnesota's Human Rights Library.