HUM320.Honors.Colloquium.Zaehring

toc =HUM 320: Honors Colloquium=
 * Professor Name Craig Zaehring**



=2007-2008 Topic: Human Rights=

This research guide is for a course called Honors Colloquium, there may be other honor's course with their own research guides. This guide is designed to help you research Honors Colloquium topics. It includes an index of scholarly sources that should be used. Included in the list are websites and search engines that will be helpful in your research. If you have any trouble finding these sources, please ask a librarian for help. Good Luck! Any comments or suggestions are welcome!
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=Books=

Books
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General Terms:

 * "Human Rights"
 * "Genocide"
 * "Human Rights" and war
 * "Torture"

Specific Terms

 * "Women's rights" and Liberia"
 * "Darfur" and "Genocide"
 * "Crime" and Boston"
 * "Genital" and "Mutilation"
 * "Aids" and "Human Rights"
 * "Drug enforcement" and "Race"

New Books
__The Color of Justice: race, entnicity and crime in America:__ HV9950 .W33 2007

The Devil Came on Horseback: bearing witness to the genocide in Darfur: DT159.6.D27 S24 2007

__Come Hell or High Water: hurricane Katrina and the color of disaster__: HV551.4.N47 D97 2006

Reference Books
__Amnesty International Report 2003__, Ridgefield Park, NJ : Amnesty International Publications, 2003. Ref. JC571 .A45 2003 __Human Rights in the United States : a dictionary and documents__, by Rita Cartwright, Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-CLIO, 2000 Ref. KF4747.5 .C37 2000 __Encyclopedia of Human Rights__, compiled by Edward Lawson, Washington, DC : Taylor & Francis, 1996. Ref. JC571 .E67 1996

=Periodicals= Browse these paper journals and magazines in the library's first floor periodical section for articles about human rights.
 * __New Internationalist__: a journal for global justice. Human rights a frequent topic.
 * __Newsweek__
 * __Time__

=Articles= Access to millions of journal, magazine, newspaper and reference source articles through our research databases. Provides full text for more than 3,800 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including over (21,000 article mentioning "human rights", 3,200 articles mentioning genocide, 2,700 mentioning torture and 900 using "human rights" and war.) [|Tutorial] From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. This database has over 17,000 full text articles mentioning "human rights", 2,500 mentioning genocide, 2,500 mentioning torture and 1,300 using "human rights" and war. [|Tutorial] Allows access to a wide range of full-text newspapers as well as business, legal, and reference information sources.
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=Web sites= There are many good Human Rights web sites on the internet. These web sites have been evaluated by library staff. Remember to always evaluate internet resources. To find out more about evaluating web sites, [|Lesley University] has a very good guide.

Search Engines

 * [|Google]
 * [|Altavista]

General Human Rights:

 * [|Amnesty International]
 * [|Human Rights Documentation Center]
 * [|Human Rights First]
 * [|Human Rights Watch]
 * [|United Nations Human Rights]
 * [|U.S. Department of State- Human Rights]

Darfur:

 * [|Darfur: a genocide we can stop]
 * [|Darfur Consortium]
 * [|Darfur Information Center]
 * [|H.I.C.]

Drug Enforcement

 * [|Targeting Blacks: Drug law enforcement and race in the United States]- Human Rights Watch report

Female Genital Mutilation

 * [|Amnesty International USA]
 * [|World Health Organization]
 * [|UNICEF]

Katrina

 * [|Katrina Resources- Northeastern School of Law]

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 * Looking for articles? Search our [|Databases].
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Research guide prepared on 2008 by Wiliam Hoag: whoag@rcc.mass.edu