Open-Source Materials (Open Access)
This section includes some open-source materials, platforms and databases that we will use during the semester. The below list is not exhaustive and you have to always refer to the schedule for the detailed required readings each week. However, this list will help you find free and accessible sources for your own research when writing the midterm and final papers.
Main Book
Philip Alston, International Human Rights (New York, NYU Law, 2024)
This book examines the world of contemporary human rights, including legal norms, political contexts and moral ideals. It acknowledges the regime’s strengths and weaknesses, and focuses on today’s principal challenges. These include the struggles against resurgent racism and anti-gender ideology, the implications of new technologies for fact-finding and many other parts of the regime, the continuing marginality of economic, social and cultural rights, radical inequality, climate change, and the evermore central role of the private sector.
Open Access Journals
The below journals have some open access articles. Zero-cost articles usually have next to them the below logo to signify that they are open access.
Business and Human Rights Journal
Journal of Human Rights Practice
Human Rights Reports and Databases
Youtube Channels
International Federation for Human Rights
Open-Access Online Archives
The below list is from Columbia University Library
Genocide Archive of Rwanda
“The archive consists of a”digital collection of items related to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, pre-genocide history and post-genocide reconstruction processes.”
South African History Archive
“The South African History Archive (SAHA) is an independent human rights archive dedicated to documenting, supporting and promoting greater awareness of past and contemporary struggles for justice through archival practices and outreach, and the utilisation of access to information laws.”
Syrian Archive
“Syrian Archive is a Syrian led project that aims to preserve, enhance and memorialise documentation of human rights violations and other crimes committed by all parties to conflict in Syria for use in advocacy, justice and accountability.”
Human Rights Web Archive
“Archived collection of 800+ human rights related websites, collected from 2008-present. HRWA is a collecting initiative of the Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research at Columbia University Libraries.”
International Tribunals Web Archive
Developed by the U.S. Library of Congress, the International Tribunals Web Archive contains selected websites on the most important international courts and tribunals created since World War II to adjudicate legal issues of a transnational nature.
Library of Congress Human Rights Related Web Archives
Explore a range of web collections, including LGBTQ+, civil rights, women’s and gender studies, and collections on Egypt, Afghanistan, Burma/Myanmar, and other countries.
