Subject: Human rights / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="2000">2000</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="2026">2026</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 0.01 linear ft. (1 folder)
Abstract:: The collection contains email printouts with information about the club's activities.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 196 boxes, 1 folder, and 6 items
Abstract:: The Freedom House Records document the organization's activities in advocating freedom and democracy throughout the world. The records provide an invaluable insight into an organization that evolved from an answer to Hitler's Braunhaus to a diligent monitor of freedom worldwide.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Public Policy Papers [Contact Us]

Extent:: 72 boxes and 3575 digital files
Abstract:: Juan Gelman (1930-2014) was an Argentine poet, translator, journalist, and human rights activist. His papers contain handwritten, typewritten, and printouts of his writings, correspondence, notes, research files, awards and certificates, and personal photographs. A significant portion of the papers feature analog and born-digital investigative files relating to human rights investigations and campaigns Gelman conducted with his spouse, Mara La Madrid, on the forced kidnapping and death of his son and pregnant daughter-in-law, Marcelo Gelman and María Claudia García Irureta Goyena. Also included are files on his search to find his missing granddaughter, Macarena Gelman. Additional materials consist of original drafts and documents related to Juan Gelman's writing; letters; publishing contracts; documents about Juan Gelman's work as a translator; materials related to the campaign to lift the ban on Juan Gelman's entry into Argentina and his return to Buenos Aires; newspaper and...(see more)

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Extent:: 327 boxes, 1 folder, and 6 items
Abstract:: Consists of the personal library of French philosopher Jacques Derrida and members of his household.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Rare Book Collection [Contact Us]

Extent:: 675 boxes and 16 items
Abstract:: Consists of the personal library of French philosopher Jacques Derrida and members of his household.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Rare Book Collection [Contact Us]

Extent:: 4.5 linear feet
Abstract:: In the midst of World War II, the American Law Institute convened a committee in 1941 to study the international community's position regarding human rights law. The committee's charge was to develop a Statement of Essential Human Rights. William Draper Lewis, then Director of the American Law Institute, was chair of the committee and the project's most outspoken advocate, touring the world to deliver speeches on the importance of a code of basic human rights. International in scope and in participation, the committee included representatives from Britain, Canada, China, France, pre-Nazi Germany, Italy, India, Latin America, Poland, Soviet Russia, Spain, and Syria. A version of the Statement of Essential Human Rights was finalized in 1945. The collection, 1929-1987 and undated, includes research material, constitutions, letters, conference and meeting material, drafts, publications, the writings of William Draper Lewis, and other records related to the drafting of the Statement of...(see more)

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library [Contact Us]

Search