Human Rights Bibliography

Recommended Reading

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Witness to War
Charlie Clements. 1985 Bantam Books.

Truth, Torture and the American Way
Jennifer K. Harbury. Introduction by Amy Goodman. 2005 Beacon Press.

Searching for Everardo: A Story of Love, War, and the CIA in Guatemala
Jennifer K. Harbury. 1997 Warner Books.

Bridge of Courage: Life Stories of the Guatemalan Companeros and Companeras
Jennifer Harbury. 1995 Common Courage Press.

Suffering in Silence: The Human Rights Nightmare of the Karen People of Burma
Kevin Heppner (Editor). Introduction by Claudio O. Delang, Karen Human Rights Group. 2001 Universal Publishers.

Recommended Viewing

Unconstitutional
This film by Robert Greenwald details the shocking way that the civil liberties of American citizens and immigrants alike have been infringed upon, curtailed and rolled back since 9/11 and the USA Patriot Act.

UnCovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
This film by Robert Greenwald reveals how the truth became the first American casualty in Iraq.

Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
This film by Robert Greenwald documents the riveting story about the battle for the Presidency in Florida and the undermining of democracy in America.

Witness to War
Witness to War is the Academy-Award-winning documentary based on the memoir of the same title by UUSC President & CEO Dr. Charlie Clements. As a pilot in Vietnam, Clements seemed headed for a distinguished Air Force career until he refused further combat missions. Stripped of his military identity, Clements dedicated his life to nonviolence and healing, ultimately to find himself tending the wounded behind rebel lines in El Salvador.

Discovering Dominga
At age nine, she became her family's sole survivor of a massacre of Mayan peasants. She was soon adopted by an American family and then raised to adulthood in Iowa. Discovering Dominga documents Denese Becker's journey home, to her native Guatemala -- a journey which is both a voyage of self-discovery that permanently alters her relationship to her American family and a political awakening that sheds light on an act of genocide against this hemisphere's largest Indian majority.