American Sociological Association
www.asanet.org/cs/root/leftnav/governance/issue_statements/statement_on_human_rights
Provides evidence of the discipline of sociology’s significant reorientation towards human rights.  The American Sociological Association (ASA) took the celebration of its centenary (1905-2005) as an opportunity to reiterate its strongest support for the basic civil and political freedoms of peoples of all nations as articulated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

American Anthropological Association: Declaration on Anthropology and Human Rights
www.aaanet.org/stmts/humanrts.htm
The Declaration on Anthropology and Human Rights defines the basis for the involvement of the American Anthropological Association, and, more generally, of the profession of Anthropology in human rights.

Sociologist without borders
www.sociologistswithoutborders.com/
http://ssfinternacional.blogspot.com/2008/02/sociology-and-human-rights.html
An initiative that began in Madrid in 2001, Sociologists without Borders/Sociólogos Sin Fronteras (SSF) is a non-governmental organization that advances a cosmopolitan sociology with a specific commitment to human rights.  The group advances human rights by working with, and in, communities, societies, workplaces, and other social institutions.  The second link explains their specific human rights approach.

Sociology meets human rights
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/08/13/EDGFT87CT01.DTL
Mary Robinson's important address on sociology and human rights at 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association

MIT Anthropology
http://web.mit.edu/anthropology/
The Department of Anthropology at MIT. The section on publications has a wide selection of sources for research in the field, with links to external sources.