Majority Rule, Minority Rights: Resources

The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy (2008). New Haven: Yale Law School. Contains descriptions of and links to relevant documents, including:

• 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, 1865–70.
• Civil Rights Act of 1964, July 2, 1964.
• Constitution of the United States, 1787 and Bill of Rights.
• Voting Rights Act of 1965, August 6, 1965.

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (France, 1789).

European Court of Human Rights (home page).

Human Rights Web, "A Summary of United Nations Agreements on Human Rights" (1997). Includes descriptions and links to relevant documents, such as:

• The Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities.

Other Resources

Bouie, Jamelle   
“The Enlightenment’s Dark Side,” Slate, June 5, 2018.

Coates, Ta-Nehisi   
“The Slave Society Defined,” The Atlantic, September 11, 2011.

Foner, Eric   
“A Regional Reign of Terror,” The New York Review of Books, April 6, 2023.

Hannah-Jones, Nikole
“The ‘Colorblindness’ Trap: How a Civil Rights Ideal Got Hijacked,” The New Times Magazine,” March 13, 2024.

King Jr., Martin Luther.

• “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963.
• Nobel Peace Prize Speech (December 10, 1964).

Lewis, John, with Aydin, Andrew and Powell, Nate

• March: Books One-Three, graphic non-fiction (Top-Shelf Productions).
• “Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of the Nation” July 30, 2020, The New York Times.

Mill, John Stuart, On Liberty (essay available online at Project Guttenberg).

Müller, Jans-Werner
Democracy Rules (New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 2003). 

Robert's Rules of Order Revised, 1915 (summary version).

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

Economist magazine: Topics: Netherlands.

The New York Times: Times Topics: Netherlands.

• “Collapse of Dutch Government Highlights Europe’s New Migration Politics,” July 9, 2023.
• “Nuance is Difficult When It Involves Nazis, a Museum Finds,” January 28, 2023.

Freedom in the World 2024 Netherlands Country Report.

Other Resources

Dutch Review 
Zwarte Piet: The Full Guide to the Netherlands’ Most Controversial Tradition (November 22, 2022).

Frank, Anne. 
The Diary of a Young Girl (available in several editions). See also Anne Frank Museum web site.

Kramer, Jane. 
"The Dutch Model: Multiculturalism and Muslim Immigrants.” The New Yorker, April 3, 2006.

Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands. Ethnic Minorities and Integration: Outlook for the Future, The Hague: 2004.

U.S. Dept. of State Human Rights Country Reports (go to current year Country Reports on Human Rights Practices and scroll down to Europe and Eurasia/Netherlands).

Economist magazine: Topics: Turkey.

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

• “The State Failed These People,” Opinion by Lydia Polgreen, Mar. 10, 2023.
• “As Tough Elections Loom in Turkey, Erdogan Spends for Victory,“ Jan. 27, 2023.
• “Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul.” Travel Section, February 2, 2014.

Freedom in the World 2024 Turkey Country Report.

Human Rights Watch: 2024 Turkey Country Report.

Other Resources

Al-Monitor 
“Turkey Resurrects Deadly Article 301 Against Dissent,” (Oct. 24, 2019)

Amnesty International: Turkey.

OSCE Election Observation Mission: 2023 Turkey Presidential Elections.

U.S. Dept. of State Human Rights Country Reports (go to current year Country Reports on Human Rights Practices and scroll down to Europe and Eurasia/Turkey).

Economist magazine: Topics: Sudan.

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

•  “General’s Fight in Sudan Brings a Year of War,” April 15, 2024.
• “Rival Generals Unleash Fighting in Sudan,” April 15, 2023.
• “Sudan Military & Pro-Democracy Coalition Sign Peace Deal,” Dec. 5, 2022. “200,000 Dead, One Lone Defendant As Darfur Trial Starts,” April 5, 2022.
• “From Russia With Love: A Putin Ally Mines Gold,” June 5, 2022.
• “Democracy is Life: The Grassroots Movement Taking on Sudan’s Generals, Feb. 7, 2022.
• The New York Times Magazine
  "The War the World Forgot," by Nicholas Casey, August 11, 2024.

Freedom in the World 2024 Sudan Country Report.

Human Rights Watch 2024 Sudan Country Report.

Other Resources

Dabanga (an independent news site) 
“Charter for the Forces of Freedom and Change Signed in Capital,” Oct. 2021.

Foreign Policy 
“Sudan’s Failed Democracy is a Disaster for Women,” August 4, 2023.

New York Review of Books. "Genocide in Slow Motion" by Nicholas D. Kristof. February 9, 2006.

Sudanese Civil Society Declaration of Principles, July 23, 2023.

U.S. Dept. of State Human Rights Country Reports (go to current year Country Reports on Human Rights Practices and scroll down to Africa/Sudan).