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New Resources

New tool for finding full text journal articles

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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

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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 Books and Films at Homer Babbidge Library

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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.