Human Rights Research at UConn

Human Rights Resources

The Human Rights Research Guide provides information about how to find human rights books, journals, articles, databases, films, and archival collections.

Introduction to Human Rights Archival Collections

This guide is designed for human rights classes and anyone interested in learning more about human rights primary sources at the Dodd Center.

Human Rights Library and Archival Research Blog

This blog is managed by the Curator of Human Rights Collections at the University of Connecticut.

Human Rights Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center 

The Human Rights Collections at in the Archives and Special Collections at the University Libraries developed in conjunction with the opening of the Dodd Center in 1995.  Significant human rights collections at the Dodd Center include the Thomas J. Dodd Papers, which document his work as Chief Trial Counsel at the Nuremberg Trials, as well as oral histories and documentation gathered in partnership with the African National Congress in South Africa. Other important human rights collections include the records and library of Human Rights Internet, the records of the Coalition for International Justice, and the Refugee Case Files of the International Rescue Committee. Photographic collections, such as the Impact Visuals Photograph Collection, the Romano Human Rights Digital Photograph Collection, and the Clift Human Rights Photography Collection document international human rights violations and struggles for social justice.  The Dodd Center also holds transcripts of interviews conducted by the Center for Oral History at the University of Connecticut, including interviews with Holocaust survivors in the Connecticut region and with American participants at the Nuremburg War Crimes Trials. 

Additional human rights materials can be found in the Alternative Press Collection, which contains thousands of national and international newspapers, serials, books, pamphlets, ephemera and artifacts documenting activist themes and organizations, spanning from the 1800s to the present.  

Contact the curator, betsy.pittman@uconn.edu for further information about these and other library and archival resources.

The Dodd Research Center collects:

Human Rights Collections at the Dodd Center include:

For more information about the human rights archival collections, please visit the Dodd Center's website.

 

Additional Human Rights Resources at UConn:

UNESCO Chair & Institute of Comparative Human Rights: UNESCO Chair

UConn-ANC Partnership: UCONN-ANC