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On researching NGOs…

Posted on August 14, 2007 by Jean Cardinale

Instead of just looking at the websites for Amnesty International, Doctors without Borders, and Oxfam, why not check out some books that have been written about these organizations?

Keepers of the Flame : Understanding Amnesty International, by Stephen Hopgood. 2006.

Diplomacy of Conscience : Amnesty International and Changing Human Rights Norms, by Ann Marie Clark. 2001.

Like Water on Stone : the Story of Amnesty International, by Jonathan Power. 2001.

A Cause for Our Times : Oxfam : the First 50 Years, by Maggie Black, 1992.

Bridge of People: a Personal View of Oxfam’s First Forty Years, by Ben Whitaker, 1983.

Hope in Hell : Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders, by Dan Bortolotti, 2006.

Posted on August 13, 2007 by Jean Cardinale

Thanks for your patience while I was away studying human rights violations and genocide– being in class 7 hours a day with 75 pages of reading each night doesn’t allow a lot of time left for updating!

Look for a new post on human rights research tools later today, or tomorrow at the very latest!

Update on updating…

Posted on July 27, 2007 by Jean Cardinale

I’ll be participating in the Human Rights and Genocide Studies Program at the University of Toronto for the next two weeks, so I probably won’t be posting again until I return.

In the meantime, please check out some of the new human rights books at Babbidge Library!

New and Recent Human Rights Books in Babbidge Library

Posted on July 19, 2007 by Jean Cardinale

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 PenÌƒa. 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

Research Tool of the Day: Open CRS

Posted on July 17, 2007 by Jean Cardinale

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

International Financial Statistics Database

Posted on July 16, 2007 by Jean Cardinale

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

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Jean Cardinale

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

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Jean Cardinale

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

Posted on July 10, 2007 by Jean Cardinale

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!

Posted on June 27, 2007 by Jean Cardinale

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.

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