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Books

• Drinan Robert F, The Mobilization of Shame, A World View of Human Rights, Yale University Press, 2001.
• Defending the Earth: Abuses of Human Rights and the Environment, a Report by Human Rights Watch and the Natural Resources Defense Council, 1992.
• Kerns, Thomas A, Environmentally Induced Illnesses: Ethics, Risk Assessment and Human Rights, McFarland & Company, 2001.
• Mann, Jonathan, Gruskin, Sofia, et al, Health and Human Rights: A Reader, Routledge, 1999.
• Passas, Nikos and Goodwin, Neva R. (eds), It's Legal but It Ain't Right: Harmful Social Consequences of Legal Industries, University of Michigan Press, 2005.
• Picolotti, Romina and Jorge Daniel Taillant, Linking Human Rights and the Environment, University of Arizona Press, 2003.

Articles

• Watterson, Andrew, "Lay, Community and Worker ‘Epidemiology’ – An Integrating Strand in Participatory Research"
  

Reports

• Public Opinion Research on Human Rights in the US, Executive Summary, Belden Russonello & Stewart

  "The 2007 national survey on human rights finds the American public accepts a human rights framework for social justice issues in the U.S. and the survey provides guidance on the communications and education that will make the most difference as advocates engage the public." (from the executive summary)
  

Websites

• Center for Human Rights and the Environment (CEDHA)
  Headquarters in Còrdoba, Argentina
  
  
• The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library is an online searchable collection of Human Rights documents, treaties, bibliographies and other educational materials
  
  
• Information about the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Inter-American Court on Human Rights (seated in San José, Costa Rica) and human rights instruments pertinent to American states can be found here
  
  
• Information about the 2006 People's Inquiry into the impacts and effects of aerial spraying pesticide over urban areas of Auckland can be found here.
  • The Commissioners' Final Report, based on community testimony at the Inquiry, was issued in November 2007 and can be downloaded here. Part 3 of that report is an analysis of the ethics and human rights dimensions of that 2.5 year aerial spray program.
  • Written testimony about adverse health impacts suffered by West Aucklanders as a result of exposure to Foray 48B is available here.
  • The undisclosed ("inert") ingredients of the pesticide product sprayed over Auckland are listed in the report, and the Freedom of Information document that disclosed those ingredients can be seen here.