Human Rights & Genocide: Home

International Law will guide you to various international agreements and legal databases related to human rights.

Colonial Genocides will lead you to general resources regarding imperial histories and atrocities committed under colonial policies.

Modern Genocides will cite general resources on its main page. Sub tabs organize various genocides and war crimes by geographical location (Africa, Americas, Asia and Europe). 

Slavery & Human Trafficking will guide you to resources on modern day and historic slavery.

Multimedia includes resources in video, audio and visual formats.

This guide is a starting point for research on human rights violations, especially genocides and human trafficking. The resources listed here are only a selection of what is available and a compilation of primarily digitized documents. Human rights violations and genocides have occurred throughout history, and the ones listed here are those with more aggregated data. For more information on modern day human rights issues, see Amnesty International. 

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Guide created by Tanvi Jadhav under the supervision of Prof. Lora Wildenthal.