Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the UN’s first Commission on Human Rights in 1947-48, which drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Photo courtesy of FDR Presidential Library and Museum.

Human Rights and Freedom from State Tyranny

Human Rights and Freedom from State Tyranny: Resources

Resources

Essential Principles and History

Avalon Project. Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy. See, e.g.:

European Court for Human Rights.

Human Rights Web: A Summary of United Nations Agreements on Human Rights (1997). See links for:

  • Slavery Convention of 1926.
  • Convention on the Prevention of Genocide and the Geneva Conventions.
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
  • Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.

International Criminal Court (home page).

Locke, John
Two Treatises of Government,” 1690. Guttenberg Project (PDF).

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Four Freedoms Speech (annual address to Congress: 1941).

UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

Human Rights Organizations

Anti-Slavery International.

Freedom House.

Human Rights Watch.

International Federation of Human Rights (home page).

Global Policy Forum: International Special Tribunals.

Holocaust information sites

Jewish Virtual Library: The Holocaust Wing.

JewishGen: The Forgotten Camps

Nordhausen: Boelzke Kazerne” by Sergeant Ragene Harris.

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (home page).

"Judgment at Nuremberg" (directed by Stanley Kramer, 1961).

Indonesia

Economist magazine. Topics Index: Indonesian Politics.

The New York Times. World: Times Topics: Indonesia. See, e.g.,:

Foreign Policy
    “Indonesia’s Election Winner Has a Dark Past and a Cute Image,” February 14, 2024.

Freedom in the World 2024 Indonesia Country Report.
Human Rights Watch 2024 Indonesia Country Report.

Other Resources

Amnesty International Indonesia 2022 Report.

Congressional Research Service: Indonesia Overview

International Center for Non-for-Profit Law (ICNL)
Civil Society Monitor: Indonesia (updated 2023).

U.S. Department of State Human Rights Country Reports (go to current year Country Reports on Human Rights Practices and scroll down to East Asia and Pacific/Indonesia).

Morocco

Economist magazine. Morocco.

The New York Times. World Times Topics: Morocco. See, e.g.:

Freedom in the World: 2024 Morocco Country Report

Human Rights Watch: 2024 Morocco and Western Sahara Country Report.

Other Resources

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Morocco page.
The New Morocco Constitution: Real Change or More of the Same?” (2011).

U.S. Department of State Human Rights Country Reports (go to current year Country Reports on Human Rights Practices and scroll down to Near East (Middle East and North Africa/Morocco).

North Korea

Economist magazine. Topics Index: North Korea. See, e.g.:

The New York Times. Times Topics: North Korea.

Freedom in the World Survey 2024 North Korea Country Report

Human Rights Watch 2024 North Korea Country Report & North Korea Page.

Other Resources

The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (Home Page).
The Hidden Gulag. Fourth Edition, 2015.

United Nations Human Rights Council. See, e.g.:

U.S. Department of State Human Rights Country Reports (go to current year Country Reports on Human Rights Practices and scroll down to East Asia and Pacific/North Korea).

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