Human dignity can be protected and a healthy community can be achieved only if human rights are protected and responsibilities are met. Every person has a fundamental right to life and a right to those things required for human decency – starting with food, shelter and clothing, employment, health care, and education. Corresponding to these rights are duties and responsibilities -- to one another, to our families, and to the larger society.
An Introducation to Rights by 
Civil Religion, Human Rights and International Relations: Connecting People Across Cultures and Traditions by 
Vulnerable and Marginalised Groups and Human Rights by 
The Fundamentals of International Human Rights Treaty Law by 
Rights in Context: Law and Justice in Late Modern Society by 
Human Rights Transformed: Positive Rights and Positive Duties by 
The Law of Human Rights by Human Rights
Political Ethics
John A. Coleman, Justice, Peace and Human Rights: American Catholic Social Ethics in a Pluralistic World, 32 Journal of Church & State 152 (1990).
Terry Coonan, There Are No Strangers Among Us: Catholic Social Teachings and U.S. Immigration Law, 40 Catholic Lawyer 105 (2000).
Vincent D. Rougeau, Catholic Social Teaching and Global Migration: Ridging the Paradox of Universal Human Rights and Territorial Self-Determination, 32 Seattle University Law Review 343 (2009).
Martin Shupack, The Churches and Human Rights: Catholic and Protestant Human Rights Views as Reflected in Church Statements, 6 Harvard Human Rights Journal 127 (1993).