Rights

Gems

• Jeremy Waldron, "One Another’s Equals: The Basis of Human Equality."  The Gifford Lectures.  2015.  University of Edinburgh.  A superb six part lecture series on human rights.
  

The Data

• United States Department of State Human Rights Reports.  a rich source of data.  "The annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – the Human Rights Reports – cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agreements. The U.S. Department of State submits reports on all countries receiving assistance and all United Nations member states to the U.S. Congress in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Trade Act of 1974." Organized by year, country, and issue.

Major Historical Figures in Rights Theories

The Narratives

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The Law

The Issues

Bibliography

Stanford Enclyclopedia of Philosophy    This is the single best online resource in philosophy.  The articles are carefully done and meticulously reviewed and are updated as needed.  The model for an online encyclopedia.

• Wenar, Leif, "Rights", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2015/entries/rights/>.
• Nickel, James, "Human Rights", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2014/entries/rights-human/>.
• Altman, Andrew, "Civil Rights", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2013 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2013/entries/civil-rights/>.
• Mack, Eric, "Robert Nozick's Political Philosophy", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2015/entries/nozick-political/>
• Vallentyne, Peter and van der Vossen, Bas, "Libertarianism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2014/entries/libertarianism/>.
• Tomaselli, Sylvana, "Mary Wollstonecraft", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2016/entries/wollstonecraft/>.

Important Documents in the History of Human Rights

• The US Bill of Rights
• French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
• UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• United Nations Agreements on Human Rights

Some Human Rights Jouranls

• Human Rights Law Review.  Includes access to a small number of free articles.
• Human Rights Quarterly.  A wide-ranging and informative journal that treats a wide array of human rights topics.
• Human Rights Review.  Again, a wide range of topics relating to human rights, with some articles available for free.
• Journal of Human Rights and the Environment.  A comparatively new journal (first issue, 2010), many of the articles available for free.  Its focus is on environmental issues and human rights, founded "in order to provide an academic forum in which a sustained inter-disciplinary conversation can take place concerning the links, reticulations, distinctions and analogies between human and environmental rights, issues, discourses, laws, institutions, policies and strategies. "
• International Journal of Human Rights.  "covers an exceptionally broad spectrum of human rights issues: human rights and the law, race, religion, gender, children, class, refugees and immigration. In addition to these general areas, the journal publishes articles and reports on the human rights aspects of: genocide, torture, capital punishment and the laws of war and war crimes. To encourage debate, the editors publish Forum pieces and discussion papers from authorative writers in the field."  A wide-ranging and rich selection of topics.
• Journal of Human Rights.  Published quarterly by the University of Conneticut.  Good special issue on LGBT rights, with free access.

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