ENG 207WI: Representing Human Rights in Arts, Literature, and Cinema: Web Resources

Prepared by the United Nations, this site offers a comprehensive guide to various themes and issues related with human rights. It also contains information on international courts and tribunals, world conferences on human rights, and other resources on the subject.

This site is published by Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights.

This UN site makes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights available here.

Artists for Human Rights (AFHR), a non-profit organization, aims to promote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and thus to raise human rights awareness around the world by knowing them, demanding them, and defending them. This site will be helpful to researchers and activists alike.

This site provides information on the history and origin of human rights.

This educational sites also provides information on the history of human rights.

Although more helpful for activists, this site offers excellent information on slavery, human trafficking, and its survivors that the students of human rights might also find beneficial.

This online anthology of American slave narratives provides an excellent opportunity to read a sample of slave narratives, see some of the photographs taken at the time of the interviews, listen to audio files, and access related readings.

Maintained by a digital publishing initiative from the University of North Carolina Library at Chapel Hill, this collection includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920. Also included are many of the biographies of fugitive and former slaves and some significant fictionalized slave narratives published in English before 1920.

The Frederick Douglass site will be especially useful to Douglass scholars.

Maintained by PBS, Speak Truth to Power highlights the stories of worldwide human rights violations and thereby intends to effect change.

This is the official site of the Toni Morrison Society. Hosted by Georgia State University, the purpose of the site is to provide information on the society’s activities which aims to study the life and works of Toni Morrison.

The Ideologies of War, Genocide and Terror site publishes thoughts on societal forms of violence, establishing a resource for scholars around the world.