Laurie S. Wiseberg and Harry Scoble Human Rights Internet Collection
Scope and Content Note
The majority of the materials in the HRI consist of newsletters, non-professional reports and studies, and other independent material collected from non-governmental organizations. The remaining collection is comprised of books, journals, magazines and newspapers, mostly acquired from prominant human rights groups, such as Human Rights Watch, the International Council on Human Rights Policy, Amnesty International, and Anti-Slavery International.
HRI is dedicated to the empowerment of human rights activists and organizations, and to the education of governmental and intergovernmental agencies and officials and other actors in the public and private sphere, on human rights issues and the role of civil society.
Dates
- 1949-2010
Access
The collection is open and available for research.
Biography/History
Laurie S. Wiseberg received her Ph.D in Political Science from UCLA in 1973. Harry Scoble received his Ph.D in Political Science from Yale University in 1957.
Extent
343.5 Linear Feet (The Human Rights Internet Collection includes materials relating to human rights organizations (including reports, correspondence, notes to subscribers, news and press releases), to conferences and colloquia relating to human rights (including conference materials, contact lists, bibliographies, schedules, and timelines), and ephemeral materials relating to human rights abuses (including photographs, microfilm, leaflets, drawings, handwritten notes and accounts, profiles of political prisoners, lists of political prisoners, torture and prison abuse records, and public statements), among other materials.)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection includes thousands of human rights publications from around the world collected from 1977 to the present by Human Rights Internet, a non-governmental organization based out of Ottawa, Canada, founded by Laurie S. Wiseberg and Harry Scoble. The collection includes materials not found in any other libraries in North America, and includes publications in a variety of languages including English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Swedish, Chinese and Japanese (among many others).
Provenance and Acquisition
This collection was acquired from Laurie S. Wiseberg at the University of Ottawa in 2004.
- Africa (continent) Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Child labor Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Children Subject Source: Fast
- Civil rights Subject Source: Fast
- Economic assistance Subject Source: Fast
- Equality, security, community Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Europe (continent) Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Genocide Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Human Rights -- Africa Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Human Rights -- Europe Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Human Rights -- North America Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Human Rights -- South America Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Human rights Subject Source: Fast
- Human rights -- Asia Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Indigenous people Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- International organization Subject Source: Fast
- International relations Subject Source: Fast
- Migrant workers Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Non-governmental organizations Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Political activists Subject Source: Fast
- Political crimes and offenses Subject Source: Fast
- Political prisoners Subject Source: Fast
- Prisons Subject Source: Fast
- Racism Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Right to life Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Slavery Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Stateless persons Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Torture Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- United Nations Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- United States (nation) Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- War Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- War crimes Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Women's rights Subject Source: Fast
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc. Subject Source: Fast
- human rights violations Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Source
- Wiseberg, Laurie S., Dr. (Collector, Person)
- Title
- Laurie S. Wiseberg and Harry Scoble Human Rights Internet Collection
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Archives & Special Collections staff
- Date
- 2015 June
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Archives and Special Collections, University of Connecticut Library Repository
University of Connecticut Library
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Storrs Connecticut 06269-1205 USA US
860-486-2524
archives@uconn.edu