International Politics of Human Rights (Alter)

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Sources for Biographical Information

Selected Reference Sources

Human Rights Watch world report
Latest volume in MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)
323.4905 H918
1992-2006 in Main Library collection at call number
323.4905 H918

Human rights : the essential reference / Carol Devine, Carol Rae Hansen, Ralph Wilde ... [et al.]. ; edited by Hilary Poole.
MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)
323 D495h

Encyclopedia of human rights issues since 1945 / Winston E. Langley
MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)
323.03 L283e

Historical dictionary of human rights and humanitarian organizations / Robert F. Gorman, Edward S. Mihalkanin
MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)
323.025 G671h

Encyclopedia of human rights
MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)
L 323.403 E56 1996

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