Human rights/Bibliography

The philosophical debate

• Ahmed An-Na'im, Abdullah (ed) Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: A Quest for Consensus, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992
• Beitz, Charles R. The Idea of Human Rights, Oxford University Press, 2009
• Bentham, Jeremy Anarchical Fallacies. William Tait, 1843
• Blattberg, Charles: The Ironic Tragedy of Human Rights, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009
• Dworkin, Ronald Taking Rights Seriously, Harvard University Press, 1977 (PDF)
• Ignatieff, Michael: Human Rights as Politics and Human Rights as Idolatry (lectures delivered at Princeton University April 4–7, 2000)
• Marx, Karl On The Jewish Question, 1844
• Paine, Thomas The Rights of Man, (ebook) 1792
• Raz, Joseph: Human Rights Without Foundations Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14/2007.
• Sen, Amartya The Idea of Justice, Alan Lane, 2009 (Chapter 17 Human Rights and Global Imperatives)
• Wells, H G The Rights of Man, or what are we fighting for?, Penguin. 1940 (analysis)

Legal aspects

• International Law, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2012
• Davis, Howard: Human Law Directions, Oxford University Press, 2009
• Shelton, Dinah: An Introduction to the History of International Human Rights Law, George Washington University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 346, 2007
• Peerenboom, Randall: Human Rights and Rule of Law: What's the Relationship?, Georgetown Journal of International Law, Vol. 36, 2005
• Weissbrodt, David and de la Vega, Connie International Human Rights Law: An Introduction, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007
• Bayefsky, Anne F. (ed) The UN Human Rights Treaty System in the 21st Century, Kluwer, 2000

Policy statements

• US Human Rights Policy, Department of State, 2012
• Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, Council of the European Union, 2009
• Principles of Germany's human rights policy, Federal Foreign Office, 2012
• UK Human Rights and Democracy Report, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2012

Implementation

• Enhancing Parliament’s role in relation to human rights judgments, UK Joint Committee on Human Rights, 2010
• Human Rights Inquiry, Report of the The Equality and Human Rights Commission (UK), 2008
• André Nollkaemper and Rosanne Van Alebeek: The Legal Status Of Decisions by Human Rights Treaty Bodies in National Law, Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2011-02, 2011

Compliance

• Universal Human Rights Index, United Nations
• Human Rights Reports, US Department of State
• International Religious Freedom Report for 2011, US Department of State
• Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties, Freedom House
• Joint Reports to the Universal Periodic Review, US Human Rights Network,2010
• Human Rights Watch World Report 2012.
• Amnesty Annual Report 2012
• European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Annual Report, 2011