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McRel Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks
http://www.mcrel.org/compendium/search.asp
Civics
http://www.mcrel.org/compendium/SubjectTopics.asp?SubjectID=14
Geography
http://www.mcrel.org/compendium/SubjectTopics.asp?SubjectID=8
Language Arts
http://www.mcrel.org/compendium/SubjectTopics.asp?SubjectID=7
United States History
http://www.mcrel.org/compendium/SubjectTopics.asp?SubjectID=5
World History
http://www.mcrel.org/compendium/SubjectTopics.asp?SubjectID=6
Nebraska Social Studies Standards
http://www.education.ne.gov/SS/
Amnesty International UK Teaching Resources (must register to access)
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=301
United Nations Human Richts
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/
The Choices Program
Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University
http://www.choices.edu/index.cfm
Database on Human Rights Education (guides, books: some online, some for purchase)
http://www.unhchr.ch/hredu.nsf/M06En?OpenForm&Start=30&Count=1000&ExpandView
Ease History, Michigan State University (a rich learning environment that supports learning
US history by connecting historical events, campaign ads, & core democratic
values)
http://www.easehistory.org/
Human Rights 101 (project-based site)
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/hr101/index.html
Idaho’s History of Human Rights (with lesson plans)
http://www.idaho-humanrights.org
National Council for the Social Studies Teaching Resources
http://www.socialstudies.org/resources/
Nebraska Studies (NET/NDE website with Nebraska History on timeline and by topic)
http://www.nebraskastudies.org
PBS America Responds (to 9/11) Lesson Plans
http://www.pbs.org/americaresponds/educators.html
United Nations Knowing Your Human Rights (Kit for Middle and High School)
http://www.un.org/geninfo/faq/humanrights/hrights.htm
United Nations News and Media
http://www.unmultimedia.org/
Teaching About the UN: Resources
http://www.un.org/geninfo/faq/factsheets/FS21.HTM
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/Introduction.aspx
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
http://www.udhr.org/history/overview.htm
UniversalDeclarationHumanRights.pdf
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/links/curricula.html
University of Minnesota Human Rights Education Handbook
US Bill of Rights
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights.html
BillOfRights.pdf
US Declaration of Independence
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html
DeclarationOfIndependence.pdf
Future State: Parents and Educators, US Department of State for Youth
http://future.state.gov/educators/lessons/
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Unit I. Why Do We Need Human Rights?
Page 1 of 6 A Case to Consider
REMEMBRANCE (60th Anniversary of Liberation of Auschwitz) aired 01/27/05 on "The PBS NewsHour"
Anne Frank, Lessons in Human Rights and Dignity
http://www.sptimes.com/annefrank/
Anne Frank, The Writer
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/af/htmlsite/
Frontline: Memory of the Camps Transcript
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/camp/campscript.html
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/
Remember Images
http://remember.org/image/
Shoah: Holocaust Links
http://www.iusb.edu/ñshoah/page3.html
Page 2 of 6 Human Rights as a Means to Human Dignity
Human Rights in Action
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/humanrights/index.asp
Page 3 of 6 The Tyranny of States
Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/
Human Rights News: Uzbekistan
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2002/08/09/uzbekistan-two-brutal-deaths-custody
Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/
Muslim Uzbekistan
http://muslimuzbekistan.net/en/index.php
Eurasianet.org: Conviction of 62-Year-Old Mother
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/rights/articles/eav021704.shtml
Rummel, R.J., 1994. Death by Government. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction
Publishers.
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM
Giles, Whittell,"A powder keg that is about to explode", The Times (UK)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-1065098,00.html
Page 4 of 6 The Lessons of History
Afghanistan Today: Civil War and Human Rights
http://www.pbs.org/americaresponds/afghanistantoday.html
Crimes of War Project Sierra Leone Magazine, February 2001
http://www.crimesofwar.org/archive/archive-sierracase.html
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Civil War in Sierra Leone
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/543356/Sierra-Leone/274792/Civil-war
Mamdani, Mahmood, 2001. When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism,
and the Genocide in Rwanda. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University
Press.
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/s7027.html
Park, Linda Sue, 2002. When My Name Was Keoko. New York, NY: Houghlin Mifflin
Company.
Page 5 of 6 Cultural Oppressions
Amnesty International It’s in Our Hands: Stop Violence Against Women
http://www.amnestyusa.org/women/document.do?id=420B9277A316E3B280256E3900688792
Amnesty International, Pakistan: Violence Against Women in the Name of
Honour, September 22, 1999, AI INDEX: ASA 33/017/1999
Pakistanis Slam Police Brutality Against Women Runners
http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2005-05/15/article04.shtml
PAKISTAN: Women Face Their Own Crisis
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/1999/10/19/pakistan-women-face-their-own-crisis
Page 6 of 6 Now What Do You Think?
Amnesty International UK Teaching Resources (must register to access)
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=301
Human Rights Education Handbook, University of Minnesota (lesson plans)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
What is Globalization?
http://usforeignpolicy.about.com/od/trade/a/whatisgz.htm
Glossary of Affirmative Action Terms
http://www.sunysb.edu/diversity/Glossary.html
Human Rights Developments
Michigan Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/act_453_elliott_larsen_8772_7.pdf
The Choices Program: Considering the Role of Values in Public Policy
http://www.choices.edu/additional_materials.cfm?id=9
PBS: 100 Days of Slaughter (with link to Pres. Clinton's Apology Speech, Kigali, Rwanda, March 25, 1998)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/evil/etc/slaughter.html
Clinton’s Speech on PBS Frontline
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/evil/etc/script.html
Clinton’s Speech on PBS Online NewsHour
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/africa/jan-june98/rwanda_3-25.html Interview With Iranian Nobel Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi
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Unit II. What are Human Rights and Where Do They Come From?
Page 1 of 15 A Case to Consider
YUGOSLAVIA IN TRANSITION (10/11/00 on PBS "The NewsHour"
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/yugoslavia/july-dec00/transition_10-10.html
History.com: Cold War Overview
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/
PBS NewsHour: A New Constitution for Bosnia (and Background)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/bosnia/july-dec05/holbrooke_11-22.html
UNHCR and ICRC in the former Yugoslavia: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Page 2 of 15 Introduction
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, Switzerland
United Nations
Page 3 of 15 Human Rights as Moral Rights
European Enlightenment
Magna Carta from The British Library
PBS Frontline: The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela
Page 4 of 15 John Locke and Human Rights
The Second Treatise of Civil Government
John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government
Page 5 of 15 John Locke’s Dilemma
John Locke
Page 6 of 15 John Locke and Liberalism
Liberalism by F. A. Hayek
The Rise, Decline, and Reemergence of Classical Liberalism by Amy H. Sturgis
The Soul of Classical Liberalism by James Buchanan
Page 7 of 15 Translating Moral Rights into National Law
Europe in Retrospect: The French Revolution
Fullerton: The French Revolution
The History Guide: Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History — Thomas Paine
PBS: Freedom, A History of the US — Revolution
Page 8 of 15 The American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights
The US Bill of Rights
The US Declaration of Independence
Page 9 of 15 The French Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract
Page 10 of 15 Making Rights Universal: Liberty and Freedom on the International Scene
1915 Armenian Genocide
Covenant of the League of Nations
The 1929 Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War
League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson
Page 11 of 15 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Page 12 of 15 The Importance of the Holocaust
The History Place: Genocide in the 20th Century
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Page 13 of 15 Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms
Britannica Encyclopedia: FDR
Four Freedoms and Norman Rockwell’s Posters
Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms Audio
Official White House site: FDR
Time: Franklin D. Roosevelt bu Doris Kearns Goodwin
Page 14 of 15 Rights for Peace, Not Just Dignity
Britannica: Kant
Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Works
Page 15 of 15 Now What Do You Think?
Magna Carta from The British Library
English Petition of Right
English Bill of Rights
Declaration of Independence
US Constitution
US Bill of Rights
US Constitutional Amendments 11 - 27
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet)
Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau’s The Social Contract
John Locke
Locke’s The Second Treatise of Civil Government
John Locke: Chapter 2. The State of Nature
Great Voyages, The History of Western Philosophy
Thomas Hobbes
Hobbes’ Moral and Political Philosophy
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Oath of the Tennis Court
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
French Constitution of 1791
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (IrinNews.org)
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Page 1 of 7 A Case to Consider
REMEMBERING THE PAST, aired 04/09/04 on PBS "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" (scroll down this page)
Genocide: A Word Is a Word Is a Word
Nuremberg Trials
Reagan’s Address on Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1987
Page 2 of 7 Introduction
United Nations: International Law
International Committee of the Red Cross
Page 3 of 7 Main Sources of International Law
International Court of Justice
ICRC: Treaties and customary international humanitarian law
NAFTA
Page 4 of 7 Human Rights Treaties and Their Purpose
About the OAS
Council of Europe
Page 5 of 7 Main Human Rights Treaties
ICCPR (Civil and Political Rights)
ICESCR (Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights)
CEDAW (Women’s Rights)
CRC (Rights of the Child)
Convention Against Torture
CERD (Racial Discrimination)
Genocide Convention
Apartheid Convention (word document)
Child Labor Convention
Migrant Workers Convention
Slavery Convention
Page 6 of 7 Treaties and Sovereignty
US Senate: Treaties
Wikipedia: USA Patriot Act
Page 7 of 7 Now What Do You Think?
United States Constitution
United States Bill of Rights
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
International Covenant on Economics, Social, and Cultural Rights
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Speak Truth to Power: Defenders
Frontline: The World’s Most Wanted Man
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs: Britain and Its Allies Stall U.N. Probe of Serb Atrocities
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Unit IV. International Humanitarian Law
Page 1 of 5 A Case to Consider
Exploring Humanitarian Law: Forced from Home a student film)
Henry Dunant
Humanitarian Law University of Minnesota
International Committee of the Red Cross
Exploring Humanitarian Law (International Committee of the Red Cross)
Accountability in War (ICRC)
http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/review-869-p5/
Ivorian Children Look at War and the Law
http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/calender-abidjan
Page 2 of 5 The Purpose of International Humanitarian Law
ICC statutes
Iraqi Prisoner Abuse Courts Martial
The My Lai Courts-Martial
PBS: The My Lai Massacre
Treatment of Prisoners of War
Page 3 of 5 International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Laws
ICRC: International Humanitarian Law
The Law of Armed Conflict: Basic Knowledge (pdf file)
International Humanitarian Law — Comparison between Geneva and Hague Law
Page 4 of 5 Ratification of International Humanitarian Treaties
International Committee of the Red Cross
Crimes of War Project
Page 5 of 5 Now What Do You Think?
Manheim, Mary H., 1999. The Bone Lady: Life As a Forensic Anthropologist. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
Hague Law
Customary International Humanitarian Law: Questions and Answers
Peace Treaty of Versailles
Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Atlantic Charter
New York Times: Overview: The Iraq War
GlobalSecurity: Kurdistan — Kurdish Conflict
Human Rights Watch: Genocide in Iraq, The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds
Human Rights Watch: International Humanitarian Law Issues in a Potential War in Iraq
Geneva Law on POW Rights
Sample POW stories
Sample civilian victims in war stories
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Page 1 of 7 A Case to Consider
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and Optional Protocols
Associated Press: Rights of Foreigners on Death Row Examined (pdf file)
BBC: Gap and Nike: No Sweat
Death Penalty Information Center: Foreign Nationals and the Death Penalty in the US
MSNBC: Justices to review foreigners on death row
PBS: No Sweat: Labor’s Pains
Page 2 of 7 Introduction
UN International Human Rights Treaties: Basic International Rules
Page 3 of 7 Human Rights Treaties Becoming Part of US Law
Finding US Law in Treaties
International Agreements and US Law
Page 4 of 7 Human Rights Treaties Becoming Part of US Law: Q & A
ICCPR
Parties to the Rome Statute
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
The United States and the International Criminal Court
US RUDs for Treaty for the Rights of Women (pdf file)
Page 5 of 7 Human Rights Treaties Becoming Part of US Law: Ratification
Reservations to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Amnesty International: CEDAW (not signed by US)
Fox News: Critics Slam UN Treaty on Women’s Rights
Page 6 of 7 Customary International Law (CIL) as Part of US Law
Breaking Silence: The Case that Changed Human Rights
PBS: Trial History — Filártiga v. Peña-Irala
Page 7 of 7 Now What Do You Think?
A TIME TO KILL (1996) Plot Summary
Declaration of Independence
Oklahoma City Bombing Trial
Department of Justice Report on Ruby Ridge, Idaho
Washington Post: The Waco Siege
BBC Country Profile: Rwanda
Quotes about Thoreau’s CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
"Transcendental Legacy: Political Reform" by Antonio Casado da Rocha
"Philosophy of Law: Civil Disobedience" by Peter Suber
"History of Mass Nonviolent Action" from ACT UP
House of Representatives Support for Genocide Convention
Prevent Genocide International
Sand Creek Massacre National Historical Site
Wounded Knee Massacre
Cherokee Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Profile of American Terror Suspect Zacarias Moussaoui
US Patriot Act
International Criminal Court (ICC)
Person of Interest
US Constitution
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Law of Armed Conflict: Basic Knowledge (pdf file)
Law of Armed Conflict document
International Law and the Use of Force
Hague Law
ICCPR (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights)
ICESCR (International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights)
CEDAW (Convention on Elimiation of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women)
CRC (Convention on the Rights of the Child)
Convention Against Torture
CERD (International Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination)
Genocide Convention
The International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) Summary
Women’s Rights and Economic Change, Number 3, August 2002
"Convention on the Rights of the Child", Wikipedia
UNESCO: Child and Young Adult Soldiers
US Dept. of Labor: Youth and Labor
Child Labor in the US
The History Place: Child Labor in America
Bureau of International Labor Affairs
International Child Labor Laws
Human Rights Watch: Facts About Child Soldiers
BBC: Gap and Nike: No Sweat
PBS: No Sweat: Labor’s Pains
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Unit VI. International Implementation, Monitoring, and Enforcement
Page 1 of 11 A Case to Consider
PRISONER ABUSE REPORT, aired 03/10/05 on PBS The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
BBC: Legal limbo of Guantánamo’s prisoners
MSNBC: Guantánamo detentions ruled unconstitutional
US: Pentagon Detention Guidelines Entrench Illegality
PBS NewsHour: Allegations of Abuse
Page 2 of 11 Introduction
International Obligations and Access to Remedies
International Protection of Human Rights
Page 3 of 11 The United Nations
United Nations System
United Nations System of Organizations
Page 4 of 11 The United Nations: Subsidiary Bodies
UN Security Council
UN General Assembly
Reform of Human Rights Commission
"Annan says rights body harming UN"
Page 5 of 11 Treaty-Based Monitoring Instruments
US State Dept Assessment on HR violations of every state except US
Page 6 of 11 International Tribunals
United Nations: International Law
Page 7 of 11 International Court of Justice (World Court)
CNN: Two Recent Decisions on Israel’s Security Barrier
International Court of Justice: Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro
International Court of Justice
Nicaragua v. the United States
Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro
Page 8 of 11 Ad Hoc Criminal Courts and Hybrid Criminal Courts
Berga: Soldiers of Another War
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Milosevic Trial Coverage
Milosevic Tribunal Calls BBC Witness
Rebels Face Sierra Leone Tribunal
The Special Court for Sierra Leone
Human Rights First: The Special Court for Sierra Leone
Page 9 of 11 International Criminal Court (ICC)
ICC and the Congo
ICC and Uganda
ICC Under Fire Over Uganda Probe
Page 10 of 11 Success Depends on Voluntary Cooperation
Toward Successful Peace-Keeping: Remembering Croatia
US Dept. of State: Humanitarian Success Stories In Afghanistan
US Dept. of State: Successful Cooperation on UN Middle East Resolution
Page 11 of 11 Now What Do You Think?
Survivor Stories
Preventing Genocide: summary of a Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust, 26 - 28 January 2000 presentation)
Prevent Genocide International
Genocide Convention
Robert H: Jackson Report to President about Nuremberg Trials
Tokyo War Crimes Trials
Japan War Crime Trials
American Forces Press Service: US Withdraws from International Criminal Court Treaty
Washington College of Law: Human Rights Brief — A Global Court?
Freedom House (non-governmental organization)
Freedom in the World Country Ratings
League of Nations Timeline
League of Nations Photo Archive
Research Guide to League of Nations Documents and Publications
League of Nations: History Learning Site
United Nations: History Learning Site
United Nations Official Site
Milestones in United Nations History
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
UN Human Rights
Human Rights Council (formerly Commission on Human Rights)
US Human Rights Record in 1999
A Few Good Men Plot Summary
BBC: Legal limbo of Guantánamo’s prisoners
PBS NewsHour: Allegations of Abuse
Wikipedia: Abu Ghraib Torture and Prisoner Abuse
The New Yorker: Torture at Abu Ghraib
HRW: The Road to Abu Ghraib
Iraqi Prisoner Abuse Courts Martial
Convention Against Torture
United Nations System of Organization: Definitions
United Nations System: Principal Organs Chart
Principal Organs of the UN
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Human Security Report Project
Reuters Foundation: Emergencies
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
International Criminal Court (ICC)
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
Genocide Convention
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Unit I. Myanmar
Page 1 of 5 Introduction
Frontline World video — Burma: State of Fear
Nobel Peace Prize, Aung San Suu Kyi
BBC News Profile, Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi’s Site
Britannica: National League for Democracy
Karen Human Rights Group
Myanmar news on Yahoo
Newshour Extra: Myanmar
Wikipedia: Aung San Suu Kyi
Page 2 of 5 Current History
Asian Info: Myanmar History
National Geographic: Myanmar
Political and Economic History of Myanmar
World Desk Reference: Burma (Myanmar) Chronology
Page 3 of 5 Effects of Oppression
Amnesty International: MYANMAR, Torture of Ethnic Minority Women
Burma Peace Foundation: Dossier on Forced Labour
Human Rights Watch: They Came and Destroyed Our Village Again, June 2005
Nation/World: Myanmar’s ethnic minorities endure decades of brutality from the military junta
Spiegel Online: The Silent Genocide of Myanmar
US State Department: Burma
Page 4 of 5 Responses from the International Community
CNN: US: Myanmar expels U.N. diplomat
NY Times: Justices Limit the Reach of US Antitrust Law in Transactions
Reuters: Massachusetts Myanmar Trade Law Struck Down
Page 5 of 5 Now What Do You Think?
Application for Asylum Form I-589
CNN: Myanmar
The Japanese Government provides grant assistance for Libraries in Myanmar Refugee Camps
Myanmar's junta faces rebuke at UN General
Myanmar Refugees in Bangladesh: Nowhere to Go
Myanmar Video Stories on CNN
Political Asylum & Refugee Status
Resettlement of Myanmar refugees under way from northern Thai camp
Seattle Times: Myanmar’s Refugees
Taipei Times: Thai senators blast Myanmar refugee locations
Thousands of Refugees from Myanmar, March 12, 1997
UN Children’s Fund
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Universal Declaration of Human Rights Doctrine
US Rebuke to Myanmar Is Defeated by UN Vetoes
World Food Organization
World Health Organization: Myanmar
Page 5 of 5 Unit References
Amnesty International Report 2007. Myanmar.
Background Notes: Burma. State Department.
Conditions in Burma and US Policy Toward Burma for the Period September 28, 2005-March 27, 2006. April 17, 2006. State Department.
US Calls for Release of Aung San Suu Kyi and Other Political Prisoners. May 23, 2007. State Department Press Release.
Myanmar Ethnic Minorities: Targets of Repression. June 2001, Amnesty International.
Burma: U.N. Must Act to End Attacks on Karen. May 3, 2006. Human Rights Watch.
They Came and Destroyed Our Village Again. June 2005. Human Rights Watch.
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Unit II. Bosnia
Page 1 of 6 Introduction
Frontline World video: Bosnia: The Men Who Got Away
Saint John’s University, Bosnia Feature Story
BBC News: Bosnia-Hercegovina
Peace Pledge Union: Genocide, Bosnia 1995
Wikipedia: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Page 2 of 6 Current History
BBC News: Milosevic’s Yugoslavia
Ethnic Nationalism and International Conflict: The Case of Serbia
Infoplease: Bosnia and Herzegovina
US State Department: Bosnia and Herzegovina
US State Department: Croatia
US State Department: Macedonia
US State Department: Montenegro
US State Department: Serbia
US State Department: Slovenia
Page 3 of 6 Bosnia and the International Court of Justice
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Acceptance of Compulsory Jurisdiction of International Court of Justice, August 2, 1946
Chinese Journal of International Law: The Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice — How "Compulsory" Is It?
International Court of Justice
Page 4 of 6 Genocide
BBC News: General Ratko Mladic
Genocide Convention
Prevent Genocide International Bosnian Resources
Srebrenica, A Cry from the Grave
UN Case Information Sheet on Radko Mladic
United Human Rights Council: Bosnia Genocide
UN International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia Indictment Against Radko Mladic
Page 5 of 6 Responses from the International Community
Genocide Convention
ICJ: Application of the Genocide Convention to Bosnia Case
Jurist: Serbia not guilty of Bosnia genocide but broke law by not preventing Srebrenica
Page 6 of 6 Now What Do You Think?
1995 Congressional Hearings: Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina
The History Place: Genocide in the 20th Century — Bosnia-Herzegovina
Map of Europe 1991
Page 6 of 6 Unit References
BBC News: Timeline: Siege of Srebrenica. June 9, 2005.
Frontline/World Rough Cut: Dark Shadows. 2005.
Hawton, Nick, June 1, 2007. Net tightens on fugitive Mladic. BBC News.
International Court of Justice: How the Court Works.
International Court of Justice: Press Release, February 26, 2007.
International Court of Justice: Summary of the Judgment of 11 July 1996.
State Department: Background Notes: Bosnia and Herzegovina, February 2007.
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Unit III. Democratic Republic of the Congo
Page 1 of 5 Introduction
Wide Angle video: Democracy in the Rough
Amnesty International: Children at War
CIA Fact Book: Democratic Republic of the Congo
US Embassy in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
US State Department: Profile Democratic Republic of the Congo
Page 2 of 5 Current History
BBC News: Timeline of Congo History
Biography Laurent Kabila
Hutu-Tutsi Conflict
International Monetary Fund
Mobutu Dies in Exile in Morocco
Mobutu Sese Seko
MONUC Mission in the Congo
Pretoria Accord
RCD
Rwanda’s Tormentors Emerge from the Forest to Haunt Congo
Summary of Lusaka Accord 1999
The World Bank
Page 3 of 5 Results of War
Congo: Grappling with Malnutrition and Post-Conflict Woes
Congolese Face Malnutrition
Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Forgotten Emergency
DRC: Illegal Resource Exploitation
Human Rights Watch: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Online Newshour: Crisis in the Congo
Reuters NewsAlert: Violence Makes Congo Access Tough for NGOs
Seeking Justice: The Prosecution of Sexual Violence in the Congo War
UN Condemns Congo Exploitation
UN Panel on Congo Exploitation Calls For Embargo
World Food Programme: The Congo
Page 4 of 5 Responses from the International Community
Annan Admits UN DR Congo Abuses
Congo News
Questions and Answers on the Arrest of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo
Trial Watch: Thomas Lubanga Dyilo
United Nations Role in the Congo
Page 5 of 5 Now What Do You Think?
Coltan mining in the Congo River Basin
Conflict and Food Insecurity by Ellen Messer and Marc J. Cohen
Conflicts in Africa: The Democratic Republic of the Congo
Congo War and the Role of Coltan by Natalie D. Ware, American University
Definitions of Globalization
The Democratic Republic of the Congo: Guns, Money and Cell Phones
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Illegal Resource Exploitation and Unregulated Weapons Flows
Do American economic interests threaten democracy in the Congo?
Friends of the Congo: What’s Needed to Prevent the Deaths of Millions More
Globalization
Global Politics: The Globalization of Disease, When Congo Sneezes, Will California Get a Cold?
Mainstream Media: War, Propaganda and the Media
Republic of Congo: Growth Prospects are Strong, but Social, Environmental Pressures from Globalization Need More Attention
The Sudan Tribune: Globalization and the African kinship network system: will it sustain?
Sustainable development, a challenge in a globalized environment by Prof. W. Tim G. Richardson
UN Condemns Congo Exploitation
UN Panel on Congo Exploitation Calls for Embargo Against Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda,
By Edith Lederer
Page 5 of 5 Unit References
ICC Newsletter, November 2006, #10.
State Department: Background Notes: Democratic Republic of the Congo, June 2007.
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GENOCIDE AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Unit IV. Darfur
Page 1 of 6 Introduction
Now with David Brancaccio video: Politics and Economy: Journalist Julie Flint on Darfur
National Geographic News: Sudan’s Lost Boys Come of Age
Frontline World: Sudan
Reuters News. Debating Darfur: What’s at stake?
Reuters News. French President Nicolas Sarkozy calls on the world to be firm with Sudan
Reuters News. The United States orders economic sanctions against Sudan
Page 2 of 6 Current History
BBC World News: Sudan’s Shadowy Arab Militia
CBS News, 60 Minutes: Witnessing Genocide in Sudan
CRS Report for Congress, Sudan: The Crisis in Darfur and Status of the North-South Peace Agreement 2007
Documenting Atrocities in Darfur
Genocide Convention
US Holocaust Memorial Museum: Voices on Genocide Prevention
Who are the Janjaweed?
Page 3 of 6 Responses from the International Community
African Union
Coalition for an Effective African Court on Human and Peoples Rights. Darfur: Arrest Warrants Issued Against Ahmad Muhammad Harun and "Ali Kushayb"
Relief Web. Sudan: Kuwaiti Red Crescent continues to provide aid to Darfur
Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia: Saudi Red Crescent Society sends humanitarian aid to Darfur
Trial Watch: Ahmad Mohammad Harun
UN Mission in Sudan
Page 4 of 6 International Red Cross and Red Crescent
American Red Cross
American Red Cross Introduction to Humanitarian Law
ICRC: Sudan/Darfur: Red Cross and Red Crescent teams respond to the crisis
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Iraqi Red Crescent says nearly 2.3 million Iraqis internally displaced, mostly women, children
US Agency for International Development: Sudan
Page 5 of 6 Peacekeeping, Criminal Justice, Humanitarian Aid
International Crisis Group: Crisis in Darfur
Oxfam International Humanitarian agencies warn Darfur operations approaching breaking point
UNHCR to resume protection activities in South Darfur
USAID from the American People to Sudan
Page 6 of 6 Now What Do You Think?
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Page 6 of 6 Unit References
Berger, Jean-Francois 2006. "Darfur adrift-no end in sight." Red Cross Red Crescent, vol. 3.
Franco, Fablen, 2007. Darfur: chronicle of a death foretold. International Committee of the Red Cross Press Article, June 12.
International Committee of the Red Cross: Discover The ICRC. September 2005, Geneva Switzerland.
International Criminal Court Fact Sheet: The Situation in Darfur, the Sudan. February 5, 2007.
International Criminal Court Press Release: ICC Prosecutor Presents Evidence on Darfur Crimes. February 27, 2007.
Powell, Colin L., Testimony before Senate Foreign Relations Committee. September 9, 2004.
State Department: Background Note: Sudan. March 2007. Ibid.
White House Press Release: Fact Sheet: Stop the Genocide in Darfur. April 18, 2007.
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