Background and General Sources

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Bair, The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its (first) Optional Protocol: A Short Commentary based on Views, General Comments, and Concluding Observations by the Human Rights Committee (Frankfurt am Main; New York: P. Lang, 2005).

Buergenthal, International Human Rights in a Nutshell (3d ed., St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 2002).

The Charter of the United Nations: A Commentary (Bruno Simma ed., 2nd ed., Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).

Conde, A Handbook of International Human Rights Terminology (2nd ed., Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004).

Encyclopedia of Human Rights (2nd. ed., Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis, 1996).

For the Record: The United Nations Human Rights System (Human Rights Internet). Other information from HRI is available on their web site.

Henkin, Human Rights (New York, N.Y.: Foundation Press, 1999).

Human Rights in International Law: Basic Texts (2nd ed., Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, 2000).

The Human Rights of Women: International Instruments and African Experiences (London; New York: Zed Books; Austria, 2002).

International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals: Text and Materials (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Newman and Weissbrodt, International Human Rights: Law, Policy, and Process (3rd ed., Cincinnati, Ohio: Anderson Pub., 2001).

Nowak, U.N. Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: CCPR Commentary (2nd. rev. ed., Kehl [Germany]; Arlington, Va., U.S.A.: N.P. Engel, 2005).

Osmanczyk, The Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements (3rd ed., NY: Taylor & Francis, 2003).

Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (2nd ed., New York: Oceana, 2004).

Rights of Women: A Guide to the Important United Nations Treaties on Women's Human Rights (2nd. ed., International Women's Tribune Centre, 1998).

Women and International Human Rights Law (Askin and Koenig eds., Ardsley, NY: Transnational, 1999-).

This guide was prepared by Marci Hoffman, International and Foreign Law Librarian, UC Berkeley Law Library, revised January 2008.