Human Rights & Genocide Studies

Organization seeks to stimulate national and international debate; deepen understanding of the causes of chronic poverty; and provide research, analysis and policy guidance. Site includes working papers, policy briefs, toolbox of resources, etc.

The Kennedy School as a whole reflects a broad range of scholarship on government and policy issues. These papers are ones specifically focused on human rights. Other topics may be of interest, and can be selected via navigation tools at this site.

Human rights is a major research funding area of this foundation. As part of their "What We're Learning," publications and research summaries have been posted in this and other categories at the Foundation's website.

Web site developed by the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center to provide access to the texts of many rights-related documents and links to many other Web-based human rights resources. Offers a set of bibliographies and research guides to human rights issues worldwide and information on education and job opportunities in the field of human rights.

Over 1,100 documents relating to the Nazi invasion and occupation of Norway (1940 -1944) have been digitized and transcribed. They are organized into the “Hostage Case” and the “High Command Case” and feature indictments, arraignments, opening and closing statements, and testimony as well as evidentiary documents and maps from the case files.

2007 World Bank surveys the state of our knowledge and provides new research on the gendered determinants and impacts of migration and remittances as well as on the patterns of labor market participation of women migrants.

Collection of resources arranged by country which provides descriptions and links to aid for migration and displaced persons in various regions. Countries and policy areas may also be selected from various drop-down menus.

A project of the International Organization on Migration and others. They are intended to be frameworks for aggregating, in a structured and systematic manner, existing data and information from international, national and regional sources to support government policies on migration and development and improve policy coherence.

Explore world refugee crisis geographically and chronologically via an interactive map and timeline, from 1975-Present. See Sources & Notes section for links to source material and websites for each country and region. Primarily based on data and reporting from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and it's online refugee data resource.

Organization that tracks money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Includes data on specific national politicians, as well as news and issues profiles such as immigration, bankruptcy, and climate change.

Documents instances of the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. Explore by geographic region or topic. Many reports, publications, and research findings available on the website.

List of groups which have come to the attention of this organization.

Explore and contrast attitudes worldwide concerning Jews. You may use a clickable map, a list of countries, or a compare option to contrast two different countries or regions.

Established in 1978 primarily as an organization dedicated to publishing and promoting the denial of the Jewish Holocaust.

Hate group formed following the US Civil War dedicated to vigilante acts (murder, torture, terrorism) against blacks.

Oldest and one of the most prominent hate speech and racism websites on the internet.

The Archive currently holds more than 4,400 testimonies, which are comprised of over 10,000 recorded hours of videotape. Testimonies are produced in cooperation with 37 affiliated projects across North America, South America, Europe, and Israel, and each project maintains a duplicate collection of locally recorded videotapes. Edited testimony excerpts are available on the program website, as well as on Yale University’s UTube channel.

Provides access to 1,467 full life histories, testimonies of survivors and witnesses to the Holocaust and other genocides for guided exploration.

Hosted by University of South Florida. Provides primary source material that emphasizes sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. The oral histories include first-hand experiences, everyday life, community, and common use terminologies. This is an open collection that will continue to be added to over time.

Over 20 short biographical films based on interviews and family archives gathered and produced by this Vienna and Budapest-based non-profit NGO.

An online publishing project of the Montreal Institute For Genocide and Human Rights Studies of Concordia University. Currently over 30 memoirs are available in their entirety at the website.

Over 360 oral history interviews conducted between 1967 and 2012 with recent immigrants to Minnesota and their American-born children. New oral history projects will continue to be added to this site as they are completed.

Full-length testimonies with Holocaust survivors. Over 50,000 interviews.

Hosted by Texas Tech University Oral History Project of the Vietnam Archive, in collaboration with the United States Marine Corps History and Museums Division, and other institutional repositories.

A non-profit dedicated to fostering a more nuanced, empathy-based understanding of contemporary human rights crises. This is done by amplifying the voices of men and women most closely affected by injustice, and by providing curricular and training support to educators and invested communities. Curriculum plans and lesson guides are available online for all books published by VOW.

Between 1974 and 1981, archivists at the Wisconsin Historical Society interviewed 22 survivors and two American witnesses. They collected 156 hours of audio and 3,400 transcribed pages, and this website offers all of these materials, in their entirety, for the first time.

Project of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Timeline of events incorporating primary source documents for years 1939-1965, with primary focus on year 1963. Resources for educators (lesson plans, etc.) and students (chronologies & bibliographies) also available on site.

The U.S. Department of Education conducts the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), formerly the Elementary and Secondary School Survey (E&S Survey), to collect data on key education and civil rights issues in our nation's public schools. The CRDC collects a variety of information including, student enrollment and educational programs and services, disaggregated by race/ethnicity, sex, limited English proficiency and disability.

The selected images in this online exhibition tell a story of struggle, community challenges, and hope for Black Miami in the 20th century. Through a combination of personal papers, books, professional photography, fliers and reports of civil rights activities this exhibition on Black Miami presents a sobering glimpse at what was and illustrates a path of civic involvement and pride.

An attempt to compile in one on-line resource a variety of records and photographs that document the history of civil rights in the state. A central focus of the project is to insure that both documents and illustrations were included, in the belief that photographs, cartoons, drawings, etc., are also important research tools.

Based on the idea that regular and unannounced visits to all places of detention are one of the most effective ways to prevent torture, Jean-Jacques Gautier set about developing a universal system for visiting places of detention. To achieve his vision, he founded the Swiss Committee against Torture which later became the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT). Since then, the APT has assumed a leading role in preventing torture worldwide.

The Program for Torture Victims provides medical, psychological, and social services to survivors, conduct ongoing research on treatment methods, and provide training to legal and health care professionals as well as the general public about the effects of torture on the individual and society. See especially their learning & research content.

Declassified & Released to Public December 3, 2014. Also available are the CIA's Comments on the Senate Select committee on Intelligence Report on the Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation Program (June 2013).

The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) is an open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world and includes more than 125,000 cases. May be searched, or browsed by date, region, country, perpetrator, weapon type, attack type, or target type.

Complete digital copy of law from the U.S. National Archives.

On the National Public Radio program, "Tell Me More," Michel Martin speaks with historians Charles Cobb and Taylor Branch about the legacy of the Act and what it accomplished.

Archival images and commentary from authors, scholars, journalists and activists, on the impact and continuing influence of this legislation.

Title VII of the act created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to implement the law. This webpage from the U.S. National Archives offers lesson plans and digital content for teachers and others.

Interviews and oral histories of activists involved in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Actions and events discussed in the interviews include the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963), the Albany Movement (1961), the Freedom Rides (1961), the Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965), the Orangeburg Massacre (1968), sit-ins, voter registration drives in the South, and the murder of fourteen year old Emmett Till in 1955.

Interactive essay and exhibit from Congress.

Historical information and Senate links relating to the Act.

Article from the (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion-Ledger (July 1, 2014), on links between assassination of Medger Evers in Jackson, Mississippi in June 11, 1963, and the passing of the Civil Rights Act one year later.

A non-governmental organization that promotes women's human rights by working internationally to combat sexual exploitation in all its forms. CATW was the first international non-governmental organization to focus on human trafficking. The website includes information on CATW’s campaigns, “fact books” country studies which are an “effort to collect facts, statistics and known cases on global sexual exploitation,” and an extensive list of web-based resources about global sexual trafficking and prostitution.

Project of United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF). Includes information, fact sheets, online and linked resources for this topic. Their "suggested resources" factsheet lists a selection of films and books on this issue.

Information, publications, and other federal government resources on this topic.

Information and resources made available by this agency's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.

The first volume's major focus is on poverty and well-being, culture, environment, contemporary education, health, human rights, & Emerging Issues. Volume 2 focuses on access to health care services.

Activities, documents, and other web resources and content produced by the UN's Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Focus includes democracy, human rights, and governance; land tenure; natural resource management; food security; education; economic growth; infrastructure; and others.