Human Rights Watch
Books on Human Rights
Bringing Human Rights Home: a History of Human Rights in the United States
The essays examine the centrality of human rights in the early and mid-twentieth-century civil rights movement, the breadth of subnational human rights activism in the face of federal inaction on a range of human rights issues, and the ways both post-9/11 developments and government responses to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina spurred grassroots activism in the United States.
Hidden lives and human rights in the United States : understanding the controversies and tragedies of undocumented immigration
Immigration expert and set editor Lois Lorentzen leads a stellar team of contributors, laying out history, theories, and legislation in the first book; human rights, sexuality, and health in the second; and economics, politics, and morality in the final volume. From family separation, to human trafficking, to notions of citizenship, this provocative study captures the human costs associated with this type of immigration in the United States, questions policies intended to protect the "American way of life," and offers strategies for easing tensions between immigrants and natural-born citizens in everyday life.
Government Documents
United States - Obama Administration
- The Obama Administration Archived Webpages on Social Progress and Equality
- Cabinet Exit Memos - January, 2017
- The Record: Former President Obama on Social Progress
- Fact Sheet: Obama Administration Leadership on International Human Rights - December, 2013
- Executive Order - Strengthening Protections Against Trafficking in Persons in Federal Contracts - September 2012
- Fact Sheet: Working to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Persons Globally - December, 2011
United Nations
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Gender Equality: Why it Matters
- Report: Majority of trafficking victims are women and girls; one-third children
- Commentary on the Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking - Office of the High Commissioner for Human rights, UN