Introduction -- Human rights: a definition -- Development of international human rights -- International law and human rights -- Current human rights issues -- Chronology -- Biographical sketches -- Selected human rights documents -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights -- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty -- Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women -- International Convention on the elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination -- Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners -- Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention -- Declaration of the Rights of the Child -- Convention on the Rights of the child -- Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons -- Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons -- Declaration on the Right to Development -- Directory of organizations -- Selected nonprint resources.