📚 Human Rights

Rights said to belong to everyone: their philosophical roots, the legal instruments, and the gap between declaring them and enforcing them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject human rights in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Code civil	France	1802	65
	Long Walk to Freedom	Nelson Mandela	1994	62
	Constituição (1976)	Portugal.	1976	56
	John Brown	W. E. B. Du Bois	1909	32
	We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families	Philip Gourevitch	1998	29
	King Leopold's ghost	Adam Hochschild	1998	23
	Anarchy, State, and Utopia	Robert Nozick	1974	19
	Texts & materials on international human rights	Rhona K. M. Smith	2009	17
	A theory of justice	John Rawls	1971	16
	Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú	Rigoberta Menchú	1983	16
	International human rights	Jack Donnelly	2006	15
	Crimes against humanity	Geoffrey Robertson	1999	14
	The practice and procedure of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	Jo M. Pasqualucci	2003	12
	Pursuing justice	Ralph A. Weisheit	2003	11
	Power of the Powerless	Václav Havel	2009	11
	Salvador	Joan Didion	1982	10
	The bill of rights	Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.	2000	10
	Beyond Chutzpah	Norman G. Finkelstein	2005	10
	International human rights law	Olivier De Schutter	2010	10
	Unlocking Human Rights	Peter Halstead	2013	10
	Human rights	Peter Halstead	2005	9
	Global Governance, Human Rights and International Law	Errol P. Mendes	2014	9
	European human rights law	Mark W. Janis	1990	8
	On toleration	Michael Walzer	1997	8
	38 Londres Street	Philippe Sands	2025	8
	Human rights international instruments	United Nations.	1978	7
	Working With Conflict	Simon Fisher	2000	7
	Human rights	Robert McCorquodale	2002	7
	The riddle of human rights	Gary Teeple	2004	7
	Rights	Tom Campbell	2011	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 07 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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