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Human Rights

 

December 10, 2006 is Human Rights Day. The R.C.C. Library celebrates human rights in December with:


Display from the Armenian Library and Museum of America


Library Book Display

Library Booklist

Links to Human Rights Sources

R.C.C. Human Rights Week

"Wherever we lift one soul from a life of poverty, we are defending human rights. And whenever we fail in this mission, we are failing human rights."

Kofi Annan
United Nations Secretary-General


 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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December 10, 2006 is Human Rights Day established by the United Nations. This year's theme is Human Rights and Poverty. Human Rights Day marks the day of the Assembly's adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.


Display from the Armenian Library and Museum of America

This display chronicles the plight of Armenians during World War I. An estimated 1,500,000 deaths occurred between 1915-1918. The display contains facts and photographs of the genocide.

To learn more, click on these websites:

Armenian Genocide: Links
Armenian Genocide Institute-Museum
Armenian Library and Museum of America
Armenian National Institute
The Forgotten
United Human Rights Council
Zoryan Institute


R.C.C Library Book Display on Human Rights

The Library has displayed books pertaining to Human Rights in the display shelf, located in front of the main entrance. Please feel free to browse or check out these books.

Display Book List

If you want to find out more information, search our catalog for books and our databases for articles.

Online Catalog: Books
Databases: Articles


Links to Human Rights Sources

There are many good Human Rights websites on the internet. To find out more about Human Rights, click on the selected website links.

General:

Amnesty International
Human Rights Documentation Center
Human Rights First
Human Rights Watch
United Nations Human Rights
U.S. Department of State- Human Rights

Darfur:

Darfur: a genocide we can stop
Darfur Consortium
Darfur Information Center
H.I.C.
Save Darfur

Holocaust:

Holocaust: crimes, heroes and villains
Remember.org
Simon Wiesenthal Center
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Poverty:

Global Issues- Causes of Poverty
Hunger Facts: International
PovertyNet (World Bank)

Rwanda:

Amnesty International- Rwanda
Frontline: triumph of evil
Human Rights Watch- Rwanda
Never Again

R.C.C Human Rights Week:

Date Event Faculty
12/04 @ 11:30- Library Guided tour of Armenian Genocide Display McCormack
12/05 @ 11:30- Rm 103 Memories of Morash: the legacy of a lost Armenian community(video) Teel
12/06 @ 11:30- Rm103 Dialog on unavailable water supplies in Third World Countries Seyon/Entemann
12/07 @ 11:30- Rm103 The Holocaust(video) Kahalas
12/08 @ 11:30- Rm 103 Hotel Rwanda(video) Onuoha