Bibliography

NOTE: There is now a course box in the library's website for government documents especially for this class.
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Guides | Philosophy | Collections | Others

Guides

• Robert F. Gorman and Edward S. Mihalkanin, Historical Dictionary of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organisations, Lanham, Md., and London, The Scarecrow Press, 1997, Historical Dictionaries of International Organisations, No. 12.
• Winston E. Langley, Encyclopaedia of Human Rights Issues Since 1945, Westport, Greenwood Press, 1999.
• Edward Lawson, Encyclopaedia of Human Rights, 1991, with the co-operation of the UN centre for human rights. Second Edition, 1996.
• Jack Tobin and Jennifer Green, Guide to Human Rights Research, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School, 1994.

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Philosophy

• Jeremy Waldron, ed. Theories of Rights, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, 1984, 1996, Oxfords University Press.
• Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity, Cambridge Mass, Harvard University Press, 1989, chapter 13 especially.
• M. Walzer, Spheres of Justice. A Defence of Pluralism and Equality, NY, Basic Books, 1983 and ‘Les deux universalismes’, Esprit, no. 187 (1992), pp. 114-33.
• Jeremy Waldron, ed., Nonsense upon Stilts. Bentham, Burke and Marx on the Rights of Man, London, Methuen, 1987.

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Collections of Texts and Documents

• Centre for Human Rights, Human rights. A Compilation of International Instruments, United Nations, New York and Geneva, 1994. 2 volumes.
• P.R. Ghandi ed., Blackstone`s International Human Rights Documents, London, Blackstone Press, 1995.
• Micheline R. Ishay, ed. The Human Rights Reader. Major Political Essays, Speeches, and Documents From the Bible to the Present, New York and London, Routledge, 1997. Especially "Introduction", pp. xiii to xl.
• Goran Melander and Gudmundur Alfredsson, ed. The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Compilation of Human Rights Instruments, The Hague/London/Boston, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1997.
• Esop Patel and Chris Watters, Human Rights. Fundamental Instruments and Documents, Durban, Butterworths, 1994.
• Rebecca Wallace, International Human Rights. Texts and Materials, London, Sweet and Maxwell, 1997. , the official web-site of the United Nations contains reproductions of many documents, chronologies and descriptions of the various departments of the United Nations.

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Others

• Michael R. Anderson, "Human Rights Approaches to Environmental Protection", in Michael R. Anderson and Alan E. Boyle, ed., Human Rights Approaches to Environmental Protection, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1996, p. 1-23.
• Thomas Cromwell, Danielle Pinard and Hélène Dumont, ed. Human rights in the 21^st Century, Thémis, Montréal, 1996, Canadian Institute for the administration of Justice.
• Jack Donelly, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1989.
• ‘Droits de l’homme, droits du singe, droits de l’animal’, Le Débat, 108(janvier-février 2000).
• Marcel Gauchet, La révolution des droits de l’homme, Paris, Gallimard, 1989.
• Raija Hanski and Markku Suksi, ed. An Introduction to the International Protection of Human Rights. A Textbook, Turku/Åbo, 1997, Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University.
• R. Brian Howe, "The Evolution of Human Rights Policy in Ontario", Canadian Journal of Political Science, 24, 4 (1991), pp. 783-802.
• William Kaplan, State and Salvation: The Jehovah’s Witness and Their Fight for Civil Rights, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1989.
• Ross Lambertson, "Activists in the Age of Rights: The Struggle for Human Rights in Canada, 1945-1960", Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Victoria, 1998.
• Paul Gordon Lauren, The Evolution of International Human Rights. Visions Seen. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
• Dominic McGoldrick, The Human Rights Committee. Its Role in the Development of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Oxford, Clarendon, 1996 (1994) Chapter one: "The Origins, Drafting, and Significance of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights", p. 3-43.
• A.H. Robertson, Human Rights in the World, Manchester, University of Manchester Press, 1972.
• Henry J. Steiner and Philip Alston, International Human Rigths in Context. Law, Politics, Morals, second edition, Oxford, Clarendon, 2000.
• Barend Van Der Heijden and Bahia Tahzib-Lie, Reflections on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology, The Hague/Boston/London, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1998, The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign affairs.
• R.J. Vincent, Human Rights and InternationalRrelations, London, Royal Institute of International Affairs and Cambridge University Press, 1986.
• James W. St.G. Walker, ‘Race’, Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada: Historical Case Studies, Waterloo, Osgoode society for Canadian Legal History and Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997.

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