Series III: Research Files, 1958-2004, inclusive; 1990-2004, bulk

This series contains materials Ruth Wilson collected while researching specific countries including Chile and Puerto Rico, as well as the types of human rights violations occurring in those locations. It also contains topics files and research materials related to Ruth Wilson's other areas of interest such as women's rights, homelessness in the United States, American politics, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (a subset of the Communist Party USA), the American healthcare system, domestic violence, Marxism, unions, the LGBTQIA community, racism, Native American rights, and discrimination. Subject files on individuals including Bertha Capen Reynolds, Karen Silkwood, Langston Hughes, Martin Luther King Jr., Madeleine Albright, and Rosa Parks can also be found within this series.

Materials consist mainly of newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, journal articles, brochures, flyers, conference materials, posters, photographs, booklets, essays, and correspondence. It is possible that research materials in this series were used by CIHRI, however, there were no clear indications of this link within the individual research folders.