HumanRights.gov

HumanRights.gov is the official United States Government (USG) website for human rights related information. The site’s search function links users directly with news, reports and explanatory information from the State Department, USG agencies and other resources, allowing for easy access to publicly available documents. We provide a one-stop site for researching the USG’s involvement in human rights.

"This subpage of the official human rights section of the US Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor http://www.state.gov/j/drl/hr/ features some of the same documents found on the parent page (e.g., the Country Reports), but includes more documents and is, in general, a more lively site. It is rich with up-to-the-minute human rights-related official remarks, statements, reports, and press releases of the president, secretary of state, ambassadors, diplomats, and other US government officials and representatives.. . . . important and worthwhile sections--titled News, Reports, and References. 

News includes ten issues from which to choose, and Reports are sorted by types. Users may also initiate queries via the search box that appears on every page, and then narrow their searches using a list of options. Also on each page is a Finder by region, type, and country, but this feature is not very useful: the relevance of the results returned and their sequence are unclear. 

Better sites exist for finding UN charters and other key international documents and information. However, for a US-centric view, the References part of HumanRights.gov offers a good US Human Rights Documents section with relevant speeches by various presidents, and a chronology--though some (especially the oldest) attributions within the latter are debatable. Overall this is a useful site for finding the most up-to-date official positions of the US government on international human rights concerns. Summing Up: Recommended by ACRL's June Choice, .  -- L. E. Lyons, Northwestern University

and check our library collection for resources on Human Rights, ebooks, books, Videos

Cultural diversity, heritage and human rights intersections in theory and practice

The global new deal : economic and social human rights in world politics / William F. Felice.

The last utopia: human rights in history

The a to z of human rights and humanitarian organizations