Archive for Human Rights 

The Archive for Human Rights also collects print material issued by human rights organizations around the world.  These include pamphlets, special reports, annual reports, broadsides, as well as audio-visual material.  RBMSCL human rights print collections can be searched using the LC subject headings and limiting your search to location "Special Collections".

Library of Congress Subject Headings for Human Rights Material

Researchers can use the following list of LC headings to perform subject-based queries for human rights material in all library catalogs. 

General:

• Archive for Human rights (Duke University)
• Human rights
• Human rights advocacy
• Human rights--Government policy--[country]
• Human rights movements [may subdivide geographically]
• Social movements

For documentation:

• United Nations. General Assembly. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• Human rights--Case studies [use for general studies with examples]
• Human rights--Cases [use for the judicial cases]
• Civil rights--Case studies

For activists:

• Human rights workers
• Women human rights workers
• Human rights advocacy

For organizations:

• Non-governmental organizations
• Human rights -- Societies, etc.

For Truth and Reconciliation commission-type work and results:

• Truth commissions
• Reconciliation
• Restorative justice
• Justice, Administration of
• Reparations for historical injustices
• Social justice
• Social integration

For abuses by governments:

• State-sponsored terrorism
• Victims of state-sponsored terrorism
• Disappeared persons--[country]
• Crimes against humanity