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Chapter 16 — The Battle on Behalf of Human Rights Explore Suggested Readings The following readings supplement those suggested in chapter 16 of the text: Amnesty International. Amnesty International Report. Annual. New York: Amnesty International. Berenbaum, Michael. The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. New York: Little, Brown, 1993. Brown, Seyom. Human Rights in World Politics. New York: Longman, 2000. Davies, Miranda. Women and Violence: Realities and Responses Worldwide. New York: St. Martin’s, 1994. Ensalaco, Mark. Children’s Human Rights: Progress and Challenges for Children Worldwide. New York: Littlefield Publishers, Inc.,2005. Frye, Alton. Toward an International Criminal Court? New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1999. Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Random House, 1997. Gurr, Theodore R. Peoples Versus States: Minorities at Risk in the New Century. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2000. Ishay, Micheline. The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004. Kiernan, Ben. The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Walters, Gregory J. Human Rights in Theory and Practice: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1995. Annotated Links The following links will help you explore the themes of chapter 16 on the Web. Amnesty International is one of the premier NGOs in the field of human rights. Of particular concern to Amnesty is the plight of “prisoners of conscience”--people arbitrarily incarcerated and sometimes tortured for the views they hold. Also of concern to Amnesty is the widespread use of the death penalty. As its name suggests, this nongovernmental organization is dedicated to the advancement of freedom in the world. Its most noted publication, Freedom in the World: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties, assigns scores to countries based on the degree of freedom their citizens enjoy. One of the more effective NGOs, the Human Rights Watch investigates and exposes human rights violations around the world. It also presses for the withdrawal of military and economic support from governments that egregiously violate the rights of their people. International
Criminal Justice Resource Center (ICJRC) The ICJRC is a nonpolitical foundation established by American prosecutors to provide support for the prosecution of international war crimes and the rebuilding of domestic courts in war-torn countries abroad. International Rescue
Committee (IRC) The IRC is a nonprofit, nonsectarian voluntary agency providing assistance to refugees around the world. For those who cannot resettle in their own countries, the agency assists their resettlement in alternative countries. University of Minnesota
Human Rights Library This is one of the great source links for human rights information available on the Internet. The site contains over 10,000 documents, a human rights search engine, and links to over 3,400 additional human rights Web sites. First rate. United
Nations Division for the Advancement of Women This UN organization advocates the improvement of the status of women of the world and the achievement of equality between women and men. It sponsors numerous conferences and produces major reports on the status of women.
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