Human Rights Reference Sources: A Critical Annotated Bibliography

Abstract

The area of human rights has had significant attention both nationally and internationally in the press and in the political arena. While there is a renewed commitment to human rights advocacy, there is also an upward trend in popular culture of depictions of torture. This article provides critical annotations of English-language reference sources, published since 1990, and available both in print and online, in an effort to aid librarians collecting and weeding materials for human rights research.

Human Trafficking in the United States. Part I. State of the Knowledge

“…Thus, this two-part survey will fill the gap in the library science literature on human trafficking by focusing on the problem in the United States and on the resources produced by the U.S. government agencies that have not been reviewed extensively in the library science literature. This survey may also serve as a complement to the recent review of resources on human rights by Kahl and Davis-Kahl (2010).…”