Did you know? Open CRS provides free access to documents published by the Congressional Research Service on a variety of human rights issues, including the genocide in Darfur, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and human trafficking. For more information, go to http://www.opencrs.com
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International Financial Statistics Database
The library now has access to the International Financial Statistics Database online! Previously, access to the database was only available via CD-Rom at the reference desk; now users can access this resource from any campus computer or from home via UConn’s Virtual Private Network (VPN.)
Human Rights Film Collection Updated in Homer
The Human Rights Film Collection listing in HOMER, UConn’s online public access catalog has been updated and now includes over 300 film titles.
To search for films on human rights, go to the main HOMER page: http://homerweb.lib.uconn.edu/
In the box on the upper right, click on the “Limit To:” menu bar and scroll down and select “videorecording.” Then type “Human Rights” in the Search Terms box, and for Type of Search, select “Keyword–Relevance.” Click on the search button, and you will have a list of films.
New tool for finding full text journal articles
Our Womens Studies librarian has developed a brief video tutorial which shows how to use the UConn Links tool to locate journal articles full text. http://www.lib.uconn.edu/using/tutorials/instruction/Viewlets/UConnLinksGen/UConnLinksGen_viewlet_swf.html
If you are using a database and find a citation for an article that you want, all you have to do is click on the UConn Links button and it will determine if we have access to the article full text in a different database, and if so, it provides the link to take you there. If not, it directs you to a window to request the article through Document Delivery/Inter-Library Loan (ILL).
Human Rights Database Locator
Human Rights has been added to the library’s research database locator: http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/bySubject.php
With this new resource, the Top 5 databases for human rights are now together in one place, as well as links to the human rights subject guide, and 10 more databases for general human rights research.
For more specialized human rights subject research, see the journal articles page on the human rights research website: http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/bysubject/humanrights/hrdatabases.html, and scroll down for links to suggested resources for selected human rights topics, including economic rights, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, war and conflict, health, and education.
New Human Rights Research Guide!
I’ve developed a new human rights research guide to showcase human rights resources at UConn. Please check it out and let me know what you think!
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/bysubject/humanrights/index.html
My sincerest gratitute to UConn’s women’s studies librarian, Kathy Labadorf, who provided me with the design template.
New Human Rights Books and Films at Homer Babbidge Library
Summer is a great time for research, and Babbidge Library has a number of new resources available for human rights.
Human Rights General
Mahoney, John. Challenge of Human Rights: Origin, Development and Significance. JC571 .M25 2007
Fisclin, Daniel. Concise Guide to Global Human Rights. JC571 .F58 2007
Li, Xiaorong. Ethics, Human Rights and Culture: Beyond Relativism and Universalism JC571 .L52828 2006
Andreassen, Bard. Development as a Human Right: Legal, Political, and Economic Dimensions. JC571 .N636 2003
Delaet, Debra L. Global Struggle for Human Rights: Universal Principles in World Politics. JC571 .D374 2006
Landman, Todd. Studying Human Rights. JC571 .L249 2006
Perry, Michael J. Toward a Theory of Human Rights: Religion, Law, Courts. JC571 .P4215 2007
Child Labor
Wiener, Myron. Child and the State in
India: Child Labor and Education Policy in Comparative Perspective. HD6250.I42 W45 2000
Williams, Mary E. Child Labor and Sweatshops. HD6231 .C455 2006
Hindman, Hugh D. Child Labor: An American History. HD6250.U3 H53 2002
Cigno, Alessandro. Economics of Child Labour. HD6231 .C47 2005
Cathryne L. Schmitz. Child Labor: A Global View. HD6231 .C453 2004
Conflict and Peacebuilding
Bouris, Erica. Complex Political Victims. JC571 .B6725 2007
Mertus, Julie. Human Rights and Conflict: Exploring the Link Between Rights, Law, and Peacebuilding. JC571 .C68727 2006
Daly, Erin. Finding Common Ground: Reconciliation in Divided Societies. JC571 .D332 2007
Govier, Trudy. Taking Wrongs Seriously: Acknowledgment, Reconciliation, and the Politics of Sustainable Peace. JC578 .G68 2006
Rothbart, Daniel. Identity, Morality, and Threat: Studies in Violent Conflict HM1121 .I34 2006
Economic Rights
Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda. Economic Rights in Canada and the
United States. JC599.C2 E36 2006
Fair Trade
Fridell, Gavin. Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice. HD9199.D44 F75 2007
Nicholls, Alex. Fair Trade: Market-Driven Ethical Consumption. HF1379 .N53 2005
Littrell, Mary Ann. Social Responsibility in the Global Market: Fair Trade of Cultural Products. HD2341 .L58 1999
Gender Issues
Billet, Bret. Cultural Relativism in the Face of the West: The Plight of Women and Female Children. JC571 .B542 2007
Genocide
Prunier, Gerard.
Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide. DT159.6.D27 P78 2005
Global Development
Peerenboom, R.P.
China Modernizes: Threat to the West or Model for the Rest? JC599.C6 P43 2007
Labor
Reynolds, David B. Taking the High Road: Communities Organize for Economic Change. HN65 .R477 2002
Reynolds, David B. Partnering for Change: Unions and Community Groups Build Coalitions for Economic Justice. HD8072.5 .P375 2004
Gold, Michael Evan. Introduction to Labor Law. KF3319 .G62 1998
Living Wage
Pollin, Robert. Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy. HD4918 .P65 2000
Glickman, Laurence B. Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society. HD6983 .G475 1999
Weinbaum, Eve S. To Move a Mountain: Fighting the Global Economy in
Appalachia. HD5708.55.U62 A558 2004
Levin-Waldman, Oren M. Political Economy of the Living Wage: A Study of Four Cities. HD4975 .L428 2005
Quigley, William P. Ending Poverty as We Know it: Guaranteeing a Right to a Job at a Living Wage. HD4975 .Q54 2003
Race Issues
Harrison, Faye V. Resisting Racism and Xenophobia: Global Perspectives on Race, Gender and Human Rights. JC571 .R4752 2005
Jung, Moon-Kie. Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii’s Interracial Labor Movement. HD8083.H3 J86 2006
New Films on Human Rights
Transnational Tradeswomen. 2006. HD6073.B92 A85 2006
A documentary by former construction worker, Vivian Price, depicting the contemporary and historical roles of women in the construction industry in
Asia. Women have been performing construction work in
Asia for centuries; however industrialization is not benefiting women, as their jobs are being replaced by machinery. The film shows that technological progress does not always result in gender equality or the alleviation of poverty.
In the Tall Grass. 2006. KTD182.9 .I5 2006
This documentary of post-genocide Rwanda depicts the Hutu and Tutsi in
Rwanda’s unique reconciliation process: Gacaca, a network of grassroots community courts. The film explores the challenges for countries transitioning from violence to peace.
Welcome to the New Human Rights Research Blog
This blog has several goals:
1. To provide human rights research tools to students and faculty at the University of Connecticut, as well as researchers at other universities and the interested general public.
2. To showcase human rights resources available through the Homer Babbidge Library and Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut.
3. To provide information about human rights programs and events on the UConn campuses and surrounding areas.