LibGuides: Human Rights: Historical and Primary Sources

Historical and Primary Sources

Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI)
Site features include an annotated list of all the human rights related archival collections held at University of Texas at Austin (browseable by region, subject, language, or repository), archived human rights websites (keyword searchable and browseable by language or subject), and links to the HRDI’s online audiovisual collections.
Torture Archive
Updated regularly. Collects and indexes primary documents on United States government policy toward rendition, detainees, interrogation, and torture.
CREST
CREST is the name of the CIA database of declassified intelligence documents.
Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa
Struggles for Freedom - Southern Africa focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Updated monthly. Provides full-text coverage of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America (some international coverage).
Latin American Newspapers
Provides more than 35 fully searchable newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and elsewhere. Covers the people, issues and events that shaped this vital region.
U.S. Declassified Documents Online
A full-text collection of declassified U. S. government documents. Includes correspondence and memoranda, minutes of cabinet meetings, technical studies, national security policy statements and intelligence reports.
Empire Online
Provides full text access to primary source documents from the British Empire (the Empire encompassed Africa, the Americas, Australia, Oceania, and South Asia).
The material is divided into 5 sections
1. Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969
2. Empire Writing and Literature of Empire
3. The Visible Empire
4. Religion and Empire
5. Race, Class, Imperialism and Colonialism c1607-2007
ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
ICPSR is the world's largest archive of computer readable social science data, containing more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences.
In order to download datasets and documentation, UT users must create an account and login using their @utexas.edu or @austin.utexas.edu email account, in order to be recognized as being affiliated with a member institution.