These past couple of weeks have been extremely busy, so please excuse the lack of updates.

 Here are a few new human rights titles in Babbidge Library:

Hicks, Elizabeth.  Human Rights and Healthcare. 2007.

Koenig, Matthias.  Democracy and Human Rights in Multicultural Societies.  2007.   

Mapp, Susan C.  Human Rights and Social Justice in Global Perspective:  An Introduction to International Social Work.  2007.

Zaccai, Edwin.  Sustainable Consumption, Ecology and Fair Trade.  2007

Forsythe, David P.  American Foreign Policy in a Gloablized World.  2006.

Forsythe, David P.  International Committee of the Red Cross:  A Neutral Humanitarian Actor.  2007.

From the UConn Advance, October 15, 2007

Oral History Project on Anti-apartheid Struggle Completed, by Michael Kirk

A substantial, wide-ranging oral history of the African National Congress (ANC) and the lives of its leading figures during South Africa’s apartheid years has been donated to the University by the ANC.

The ANC was established in 1912 to provide a political avenue for the struggle for racial equality in South Africa. After apartheid became official policy in 1948, it became the leading anti-apartheid organization.

Interviews with 133 ANC leaders conducted in South Africa between 2000 and 2006 have been transcribed and donated to UConn as part of the University’s partnership with the ANC and the University of Fort Hare in South Africa. Fort Hare also holds a copy  of the transcripts.

The transcripts, ranging in length from seven to 135 pages, will be permanently housed at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center and will be available to scholars, students, and the public.

“The ANC oral histories add a significant dimension to the Dodd Center’s growing collection of human rights materials,” says Thomas Wilsted, director of the Dodd Center.

“The oral histories offer valuable insight into the impact of apartheid on the lives of South Africans and will be a significant resource to faculty and students researching and teaching history and human rights. We also hope to make copies of the oral history transcripts available online for wider access to their content.”

The collection features South Africans being interviewed by other South Africans, a number of whom were trained in the collection of oral histories by Bruce Stave, director of the oral history office at UConn, and his staff.

“Training the South African interviewers proved to be an exciting and stimulating oral history experience for me and my associates,” says Stave, professor emeritus of history.

After an intensive two-week workshop in Cape Town, teams of interviewers fanned out throughout the country to conduct the initial interviews of the project.

They returned to evaluate this work before conducting more taped conversations. Two of the interviewers came to Storrs to earn their M.A. degrees in history.

The topics of the interviews range from the educational system in South Africa, to prison conditions and life under house arrest, life in exile, and the 1994 democratic elections.

“The uniqueness of the ANC transcripts here at UConn is their ability to shed light on the experiences and daily lives of those who actively dismantled the apartheid system,” says Valerie Love, curator for human rights collections at the Dodd Center.

“The oral histories not only give voice to the experiences of black South Africans whose history and experiences went for the most part unrecorded under the apartheid system, they also include interviews with members of the ANC who had been classified as Indians, “coloreds,” and whites so as to illuminate the spectrum of experiences that South African activists endured as a result of their race.”

Amii Omara-Otunnu, executive director of the UConn-ANC Partnership who holds the UNESCO Chair in Comparative Human Rights, says, “The ANC represents something terribly special in the history of human rights. It was the first national party in world history to have a vision of a non-racist society where all people are respected equally.”

The oral histories are particularly important because many ANC leaders limited their written communications for security reasons during the anti-apartheid struggle.

Between 1960 and 1990, many members of the ANC, forced into exile because of their activism, continued their political work against apartheid from outside the country.

After apartheid was ended, the ANC won the country’s first democratic elections in 1994.

In an effort to preserve its history, the party established archives at the University of Fort Hare, a historically black institution, with the goal of collecting historical materials from 33 different countries.

In March 1999, UConn signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the ANC establishing a partnership to foster training, assistance, and cooperation in developing oral histories and archival records of the ANC, and to develop comparative studies in human rights.

As part of the project, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center staff provided archival planning and training for ANC staff. During the period 2000 to 2006, ANC archivists organized more than 3,000 cubic feet of archival collections created during the apartheid years, with support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation.

Those records are now housed at the University of Fort Hare.

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The ANC Oral History Transcript Collection is open to researchers.  The collection is located at the  Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at UConn, which is open from from 10 AM to 7 PM on Mondays, 10 AM to 4 PM, Tuesday through Friday,  and on Saturdays from 12 to 4 PM during the academic year.

For more information: 

The finding aid for the ANC Oral History Transcripts Collection

Connecticut Public Radio’s Where We Live program which discussed the interviews

The Hartford Courant’s article on the ANC Oral History Transcripts Collection

The Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

The Oral History Office at UConn

Here are the latest additions to the human rights holdings at Babbidge Library.   

Justice and Law 

SOCIAL JUSTICE: THEORIES, ISSUES, AND MOVEMENTS.  By Loretta Capeheart, 2007

GLOBAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT: CROSS-NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES.  Ed. Donatella Della Porta, 2007

HOW TO MAKE OPPORTUNITY EQUAL: RACE AND CONTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE, by Paul Gomberg, 2007

VIOLENCE, CONFLICT, AND WORLD ORDER: CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS ON STATE-SANCTIONED JUSTICE, by Gregg Barak, 2007

CONSTRUCTING JUSTICE AND SECURITY AFTER WAR, by Charles T. Call, 2007

EXPLORING INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS: ESSENTIAL READINGS, by Rhonda L. Callaway, 2007

JUDGES, TRANSITION, AND HUMAN RIGHTS, by John Morison, 2007

EXTRAORDINARY JUSTICE: MILITARY TRIBUNALS IN HISTORICAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT, by Peter Judson Richards, 2007

ATROCITY, PUNISHMENT, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, by Mark A. Drumbl, 2007

CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY: THE STRUGGLE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE, by Geoffrey Robertson, 2006

CONFLICT AND COMPLIANCE: STATE RESPONSES TO INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PRESSURE, by Sonia Cardenas, 2007

WHEN THE STATE NO LONGER KILLS: INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS NORMS AND ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, by San Gmin Bae, 2007

SLAVERY, FREEDOM, AND THE LAW IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD: A BRIEF HISTORY WITH DOCUMENTS, by Sue Peabody, 2007

  Poverty and Economic Rights 

ECONOMIC RIGHTS: CONCEPTUAL, MEASUREMENT, AND POLICY ISSUES, by Shareen Hertel and Lanse Minker, 2007

FREEDOM FROM POVERTY AS A HUMAN RIGHT: WHO OWES WHAT TO THE VERY POOR?, ed. Thomas Pogge, 2007

ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS IN ACTION, ed, Mashood A. Baderin, 2007

MEMBERSHIP-BASED ORGANIZATIONS OF THE POOR, ed. Martha Chen, 2007

BATTLE FOR WELFARE RIGHTS: POLITICS AND POVERTY IN MODERN AMERICA, by Felicia Kornbluh, 2007

UNDER COVER OF SCIENCE: AMERICAN LEGAL-ECONOMIC THEORY AND THE QUEST FOR OBJECTIVITY, by James R. Hackney, 2007

  Human Rights General 

BLOOD AND SOIL: A WORLD HISTORY OF GENOCIDE AND EXTERMINATION FROM SPARTA TO DARFUR, by Ben Kiernan, 2007

WHITE MAN’S BURDEN: WHY THE WEST’S EFFORTS TO AID THE REST HAVE DONE SO MUCH ILL AND SO LITTLE GOOD, by William Easterly, 2007

POSITION OF ALIENS IN RELATION TO THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS, by Helene Lambert, 2006

CRIME, SOCIAL CONTROL AND HUMAN RIGHTS: FROM MORAL PANICS TO STATES OF DENIAL: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF STANLEY COHEN, ed. David Downes, 2007

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE EMPOWERMENT OF MARGINALISED GROUPS: PERSPECTIVES AND STRATEGIES, ed. Debal K. Singharoy, 2001

INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT: CONCEPTUALIZATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, by Thomas George Weiss, 2006

HUMANITARIAN DIPLOMACY: PRACTITIONERS AND THEIR CRAFT, ed. Larry Minear, 2007

 Indigenous People 

TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT ABORIGINAL HISTORY, by Bain Attwood, 2005

HONOUR AMONG NATIONS?: TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, ed. Marcia Langton, 2005

INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCE: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES, ed. Roger C.A. Maaka, 2006

INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AND UNITED NATIONS STANDARDS: SELF-DETERMINATION, CULTURE AND LAND, by Alexandra Xanthaki, 2007

 Torture 

PHENOMENON OF TORTURE: READINGS AND COMMENTARY, ed. William F. Schulz, 2007

AMERICAN TORTURE: FROM THE COLD WAR TO ABU GHRAIB AND BEYOND, by Michael Otterman, 2007

 Russia and Chechnya 

RUSSIA’S ISLAMIC THREAT, by Gordon M. Hahn, 2007

CHECHNYA: FROM NATIONALISM TO JIHAD, by James Hughes, 2007

CHECHNYA: LIFE IN A WAR-TORN SOCIETY, by Valerii Aleksandrovich Tishkov, 2004

  Health 

READINGS IN COMPARATIVE HEALTH LAW AND BIOETHICS, by Timothy S. Jost, 2007

Sex and Gender 

LIMITS OF BODILY INTEGRITY: ABORTION, ADULTERY, AND RAPE LEGISLATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, by Ruth Austin Miller, 2007

SEXUAL POLITICS AND THE EUROPEAN UNION: THE NEW FEMINIST CHALLENGE, ed. R. Amy Elman, 1996

SEXUAL SUBORDINATION AND STATE INTERVENTION: COM- PARING SWEDEN AND THE UNITED STATES, by R. Amy Elman, 1996

LAW AND SEXUALITY: THE GLOBAL ARENA, ed. Carl F. Stychin, 2001

POLITICS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES, THE EUROPEAN UNION, AND GERMANY, by Kathrin S. Zippel, 2006

SEXUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: A GLOBAL OVERVIEW, ed. Helmut Graupner, 2005

  Nigeria 

WOMEN AND CONFLICT IN THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR, by Egodi Uchendu, 2007

BIAFRA REVISITED, by Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe, 2007

SURVIVING IN BIAFRA: THE STORY OF THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR, by Alfred Obiora, Uzokwe, 2003

Sorry for the lack of updates this week.  The beginning of the semester is extremely busy for library staff as well!

New Human Rights Titles in Babbidge Library:

European Convention on Human Rights:  Achievements, Problems, and Prospects.  S.C. Greer, 2006.

People’s History of the European Court of Human Rights.  Goldhaber, Michael D.  2007.

Securitising Russia:  The Domestic Politics of Putin.  Bacon, Edwin, 2006. 

Nazi War Crimes, US Intelligence, and Selective Prosecution at Nuremberg: Controversies Regarding the Role of the Office of Strategic Services.  Salter, Michael, 2007.

Travesty:  The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the Corruption of International Justice.  Laughland, John, 2007.

Humanitarian Imperialism:  Using Human Rights to Sell War.  Bricmont, J.  2006. 

American Torture:  From the Cold War to Abu Graib and Beyond.  Otterman, Michael, 2007.

Beyond sovereignty : Britain, empire and transnationalism,  c. 1880-1950 / edited by Kevin Grant, Philippa Levine and Frank Trentmann.  DA16 .B556 2007 

Ethics in action : the ethical challenges of international human rights nongovernmental organizations / edited by Daniel A. Bell, Jean-Marc Coicaud.  JZ4850 .E84 2007 

Global justice, global institutions / edited by Daniel Weinstock.  JC578 .G57 2007 

Globalization and health [electronic resource] / edited by  IchiroÌ„ Kawachi, Sarah Wamala.  E-book Guantanamo Bay and the judicial-moral treatment of the other / edited by Clark Butler.  Greater Hartford Library  HV6432 .G825 2007 

Handbook of restorative justice / edited by Gerry Johnstone and Daniel W. Van Ness.  HV8688 .H35 2007 

Native Americans and the environment : perspectives on the ecological Indian / edited and with an introduction by Michael E. Harkin and David Rich Lewis GF501 .N37 2007 

Protecting The Human Rights of Comfort Women, Serial No.110-16, February 15, 2007, 110-1 Hearing, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs.   Babbidge Federal Documents-Level B, Call Number Y 4.F 76/1:H 88/66 

Writing toward hope: the literature of human rights in Latin America / [edited by] Marjorie AgosiÌn.  PQ7083 .W75 2007 

Human rights abuses and systemic racism through the criminalization of survival: an ethnographic exploration of juvenile detention in a New England city/ William T. Armaline.  Babbidge Theses-Level A  Call Number: Thesis S63 2007 Arma 

Philosophical thinking about death and dying / Vincent  Barry.   BD444 .B37 2007 

Cultural relativism in the face of the West : the plight of women and children / Bret L. Billet.  JC571 .B542 2007 

Freedoms and solidarities : in pursuit of human rights / Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada.  JC571 .B5518 2007 

Complex political victims / Erica Bouris.  JC571 .B6725 2007 

Finding common ground : reconciliation in divided societies/ Erin Daly and Jeremy Sarkin.  JC571 .D332 2007 

International human rights / Jack Donnelly.  JC571 .D753 2007 Echoes of violence : letters from a war reporter / Carolin Emcke.  D860 .E5313 2007 

The Ministry of Special Cases / Nathan Englander.  PS3555.N424 M56 2007 

Human rights and wrongs : slavery, terror, genocide / Helen Fein.  Greater Hartford Library  JC571 .F423 2007 

The concise guide to global human rights / Daniel Fischlin, Martha Nandorfy.  JC571 .F58 2007 

Justice and the social contract : essays on Rawlsian political philosophy / Samuel Freeman.  JC578 .F697 2007 

The terrorist conjunction : the United States, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and al-QaÌ„’ida / Alfred G. Gerteiny ; foreword by Jean Ziegler.  Stamford Library HV6431 .G47 2007 

Inventing human rights : a history / Lynn Hunt.  JC585 .H89 2007

 Imperialism and human rights : colonial discourses of rights and liberties in African history / Bonny Ibhawoh.  KQC572 .I24 2007 

From civil rights to human rights : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for economic justice / Thomas F. Jackson. Greater Hartford Library E185.97.K5 J34 2007 

Genocide : modern crimes against humanity / Brendan January.  Dodd Research Center C4693 (Reading Room Use Only)

Human rights in turmoil : facing threats, consolidating achievements / by SteÌphanie Lagoutte, Hans-Otto Sanoand Peter Scharff Smith.  K3240 .L34 2007 

 The challenge of human rights : origin, development, and significance / Jack Mahoney.  JC571 .M25 2007 

War crimes and just war / Larry May. B105.W3 M39 2007 

Making sense of human rights / James W. Nickel.  JC571 .N49 2007

 Latina activists across borders : women’s grassroots organizing in Mexico and Texas / Milagros Peña.  Greater Hartford Library  HN49.W6 P46 2007 

Toward a theory of human rights : religion, law, courts /Michael J. Perry.  JC571 .P4215 2007 

Detainee operations at Guantanamo Bay : hearing before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, hearing held June 29, 2005.  Babbidge Federal Documents-Level B.  Call Number: Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2005-2006/37 

Examination of a fundamental human right : the 2006 International Religious Freedom Report : hearing before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, December 21, 2006. Babbidge Federal Documents-Level B  Call Number: Y 4.IN 8/16:EX

China‘s national and local regulations on religion : recent developments in legislation and implementation:  roundtable before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, November 20, 2006.  Babbidge Federal Documents-Level B  Call Number: Y 4.C 44:R 27/6 

Cannibal Island : death in a Siberian gulag / Nicolas Werth; foreword by Jan T. Gross ; translated from the French by Steven Rendall.  DK771.O2 W4713 2007 

State terrorism in Latin America : Chile, Argentina, and international human rights / Thomas C. Wright.  Greater Hartford Library