LibGuides: Human Rights: Find Books

Books in the TCC LIBRARY Catalog

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Human Rights
Civil Rights
Political Persecution

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TCC uses the Library of Congress call numbers to categorize books by broad subject areas on the shelves. Browse both the circulating and reference book stacks to find books on your topic in these areas:
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Featured Books at TCC

Debating Human Rights by Daniel P. L. Chong
Call Number: Southeast Campus JC571 .C5534
Chong introduces the theory and practice of international human rights by examining fourteen controversies in the field.
Just Business: multinational corporations and human rights by John Ruggie
Call Number: Southeast Campus HF5387 .R84
One of the most vexing human rights issues of our time has been how to protect the rights of individuals and communities worldwide in an age of globalization and multinational business. Indeed, from Indonesian sweatshops to oil-based violence in Nigeria, the countries and organizations could not agree. In 2005, the United Nations appointed John Gerard Ruggie to the modest task of clarifying the main issues.
Keeping Hope Alive by Hawa Abdi; Sarah J. Robbins (As told to)
Call Number: Southeast CT2208.H39 A3
The moving memoir of one brave woman who, along with her daughters, has kept 90,000 of her fellow citizens safe, healthy, and educated for over 20 years in Somalia. Dr. Hawa Abdi, "the Mother Teresa of Somalia" and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, is the founder of a massive camp for internally displaced people located a few miles from war-torn Mogadishu, Somalia. Since 1991, when the Somali government collapsed, famine struck, and aid groups fled, she has dedicated herself to providing help for people whose lives have been shattered by violence and poverty. Dr. Abdi's story of incomprehensible bravery and perseverance will inspire readers everywhere.
The Most Human Right: Why Free Speech Is Everything by Eric Heinze
Call Number: Metro Campus K3254 .H45
A bold, groundbreaking argument by a world-renowned expert that unless we treat free speech as the fundamental human right, there can be no others. What are human rights? Are they laid out definitively in the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights or the US Bill of Rights? Are they items on a checklist-dignity, justice, progress, standard of living, health care, housing? In The Most Human Right, Eric Heinze explains why global human rights systems have failed. International organizations constantly report on how governments manage human goods, such as fair trials, humane conditions of detention, healthcare, or housing. But to appease autocratic regimes, experts have ignored the primacy of free speech. He explains how free speech distinguishes human rights from other ideas about justice, past and present.

Opposing Viewpoints books with essays on Human Rights issues

Opposing Viewpoints is a series of individual books that provides pro/con persuasive essays on a single topic.
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Slavery and Human Trafficking
Call Number: West Campus HT861 .S375
Essays are arranged in a pro/con format to offer more than one opinion on issues surrounding contemporary slavery. Questions with essays include; Whether sex trafficking is a serious problem?; How legal policy toward sex work affect sex trafficking?; and How immigration policy affects human trafficking? Is sex trafficking a worldwide problem? Does sex trafficking spike during the Super Bowl? Does the Nordic Model protect trafficking victims?
Afghanistan: Opposing Viewpoints
Call Number: Southeast and West Campuses DS371.4 .A328