Biographies and Auto-Biographies

Books written by, or about, some of the individuals referred to in this site.

Human Rights: Canadian History

While there is an array of texts written from the point of view of legal scholars, historians have only begun to contribute to the study of human rights. The following list provides a sample of books and articles on the history of human rights in a Canadian context.

Human Rights: Theory

An introduction to the study of human rights in an international perspective. The list is not exhaustive.

Igor Gouzenko and the Espionage Commission

A list of sources dealing with Gouzenko and the espionage commission.

October Crisis of 1970

Most of the accounts of the October Crisis are in French (included in the list). The literature on the crisis is also dominated by first-person accounts or books written in the aftermath of the crisis.

Rights Associations

'Rights associations' are self-identified human rights and civil liberties organizations. They are not organized around a specific issue or constituency (such as, for instance, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women or Greenpeace). The following list deals only with rights associations in Canada.