This page contains a list of online resources that may be helpful for assembling interdisciplinary lessons related to human rights. If you have any suggestions of additional resources, please send us a message at teachinghrts@gmail.com.
Toolkits for Teaching Human Rights
APSA Human Rights Teaching Toolkit: This multidisciplinary collection of human rights syllabi and teaching tools from across the field has been assembled by members of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association
Books and Articles
Human Rights 101 offers an overview of human rights intended for a one-day or two-day reading and discussion for any interested class. It may be downloaded and distributed without cost to faculty or students.
Facing State Violence: Truth, Justice, and Healing: Reader compiled in conjunction with an interdisciplinary conference held at Pacific School of Religion on November 17, 2007.
Radical Teacher 103 (2015): Volume on the “Radical Teaching about Human Rights” with theoretical and practical insights into the teaching of different human rights issues and documents.
Archives
Georgetown University Library: Genocide, primary sources
Harvard Law School’s Nuremberg Trials Project
Teach Beyond Borders: Resources for Teaching about the Rights of Non-Citizens
The National Security Archive’s “The Torture Archive”
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
University of Connecticut Romano Archives
University of Connecticut: The Human Rights Collections (including the Thomas J. Dodd Papers)
Syllabi and Teaching Resources
CSWE Katherine A. Kendall Institute for International Social Work
Radical Teacher: Teaching Against Trumpism
Teaching and Learning with The New York Times
Teach Beyond Borders: Teaching Resources on the Rights of Non-Citizens
Teaching and Research Centers
The Anna Julia Cooper Center, Wake Forest University (Race and Intersectionality)