POLI 190: Human Rights and Human Resilience

Find UN documents related to human rights in the DAG Discovery online database. The website contains several finding guides to official UN documents, voting data, speeches, maps, and open access publications. The platform provides access to UN-produced materials in digital format and bibliographic records for print UN documents starting in 1979.

Human Rights Watch conducts investigations of human rights abuses around the world. The staff of 80 investigators actively research and report on more than 90 countries.The Human Rights Watch reports are searchable by country, topic, and date.

Amnesty international "produces reports based on rigorous and independent research. These reports document patterns of human rights abuses and provide a blueprint for change."

"The annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – the Human Rights Reports – cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agreements. The U.S. Department of State submits reports on all countries receiving assistance and all United Nations member states to the U.S. Congress in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Trade Act of 1974."