This year’s Human Rights Day theme relates to the COVID-19 pandemic and focuses on the need to build back better by ensuring Human Rights are central to recovery efforts. We will reach our common global goals only if we are able to create equal opportunities for all, address the failures exposed and exploited by COVID-19, and apply human rights standards to tackle entrenched, systematic, and intergenerational inequalities, exclusion and discrimination.
10 December is an opportunity to reaffirm the importance of human rights in re-building the world we want, the need for global solidarity as well as our interconnectedness and shared humanity.
Under UN Human Rights’ generic call to action “Stand Up for Human rights”, we aim to engage the general public, our partners and the UN family to bolster transformative action and showcase practical and inspirational examples that can contribute to recovering better and fostering more resilient and just societies.
The courage of strangers: coming of age with the human rights movement by 
A long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier by 
Torture : does it make us safer? is it ever OK? : a human rights perspective by 
King Leopold's ghost : a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa by 
Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement by 
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy by 
War crimes : brutality, genocide, terror, and the struggle for justice by 
A problem from hell: America and the age of genocide by 
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by 
Half the sky : turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide by 
Campaigning for justice : human rights advocacy in practice by 
Until we are free: my fight for human rights in Iran by 
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Books recommendations from https://www.hrw.org/recommended-reading.
