Human Rights
HuriSearch
Human Rights search engine searching across web sites and incorporating a management tool for NGOs and clinics in the area of human rights.
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (1999-)
The reports are from the Department of State.
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
Established by the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights which came into force on 21 October 1986 after its adoption in Nairobi (Kenya) in 1981 by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity (OAU).
African Human Rights Instruments
At the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library. African Human Rights Resource Center;
Views on African cases.
AAAS Directory of Human Rights Resources
Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions
Includes publications, articles, occasional papers and documents on Housing Rights, Forced Evictions and Women's Housing Rights. Also includes country and fact-finding mission reports, conference papers and speeches.
Council of Europe Human Rights Web Site
This database is maintained by the Directorate of Human Rights of the Council of Europe to facilitate public access to information about the Human Rights Activities of the Council of Europe.
Data Inspection Board
Housed in Sweden, the site is a public authority protecting the individual's privacy in the information society without unnecessarily preventing or complicating the use of new technology. The full-text of legislation is in English.
Derechos
Works with human rights organizations in Latin America to bring accurate and timely information on the human rights situation in these countries.
European Court of Human Rights
This official site, which opened on May 1997, contains pending cases, judgments, and basic texts. The site contains a complete Index to all ECHR judgments. For a full text of cases, search HUDOC database.
International Freedom of Information Resources
LEGE nr. 544 , 12 octombrie 2001 (*actualizata* Romania, Romanian); [DOC] FREEDOM OF INFORMATION IN ROMANIA; Romania: Access to Information (eng) search for this document in the Open society - Justice Initiative database. Council of Europe FOI (draft) Legislation online Access to Information and Data Protection. Council of Europe Recommendation (2002) on Access to Official Documents.
Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity:
Topical Digests of the Case Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. PDF.
Human & Constitutional Rights at Columbia University
The information resources are divided into six sections: Country Reports, International Links, Regional Links, National Links, Documents, and Other Web Resources. The "Bills of Rights Comparative Law Materials" is a database for human rights cases. New cases are added daily.
HURIDOCS Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems
The site was initiated in 1979 and formally established in 1982 as a global network of human rights organizations. The aim of HURIDOCS is to improve access to and the dissemination of public information on human rights through more effective, appropriate and compatible methods of information handling.
Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University
Housed in Finland and founded in 1985. The Institute is an integrated unit of Åbo Akademi University, the Swedish-language University of Finland, and its Department of Law. Focusing on research in the field of the international protection of human rights, the Institute also offers lectures, courses and seminars, and organizes international meetings and symposia. FINDOC and DOMBASE databases. The Institute has a close cooperation with the human rights institutes in the other Nordic countries.
Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Official site) and at the University of Minnesota: Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights --Organization of American States
An official database. Contains basic documents on Human Rights, annual reports in full text (1970-), cases. Treaties can be accessed through the Organization of American States.
INTERIGHTS- the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights
The International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights, is an international human rights law centre established in 1982 to support and promote the development of legal protection for human rights and freedoms worldwide through the effective use of international and comparative human rights law.
Minnesota Human Rights Library
A full text database in 5 languages. It contains a collection of the most important international human rights treaties and other instruments. These documents can be accessed by subject matter (http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/ainstls2.htm), instrument list (http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/ainstls1.htm), or by using one of the search mechanisms available at this site (http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/searchdevices.htm). A meta search engine allows users to search for documents on multiple human rights web sites from a single form (http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/lawform.html) and a local search device allows more efficient searching of the documents in the Library (http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/localsearch.html).
Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM)
Provides access to the databases containing the case law of international supervisory organs. These contain jurisprudence of the Human Rights Committee (CCPR), the Committee Against Torture (CAT), the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Furthermore, there is a database containing information on judgements of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The concluding observations of the United Nations treaty bodies in the context of the country reports have been made accessible (UNCOM). Finally the general comments and general recommendations of the UN treaty bodies are available (General Comments). The case law of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda was recently included (ICTR).
Project DIANA
At the Bora Laskin Law Library University of Toronto. The purpose of the Women's Human Rights Resources Web Site is to provide reliable and diverse information on international women's human rights via the Internet.
Protection Project
The site is dedicated to the trafficking of women and children. It contains foreign national laws addressing commercial sexual exploitation, international conventions, survivor stories, country-by-country reports on trafficking and NGO monitoring.
Privacy and Human Rights
An International Survey of Privacy Laws and Practice. It was compiled by The Global Internet Liberty Campaign after reviewing the laws and practices of 50 countries. See also the http://www.privacyinternational.org/ database for latest legal documents on this mater.
The Rule of Law in Armed Conflicts Project
The Rule of Law in Armed Conflicts Project - RULAC - is an initiative of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights to support the application and implementation of international law in armed conflict. Through its global database and analysis, the Project aims ultimately to report on every concerned State and disputed territory in the world, considering both the legal norms that apply as well as the extent to which they are respected by the relevant actors.
Teaching Human Rights Online
At the Urban Morgan Institute for Human rights and the Political Science Department of the University of Cincinnati. Provides free online exercises and interactive study guides for use as course modules in many areas of law. It is designed to enhance critical thinking skills. The Case Library provides abstracts of six currently available cases which span from Bosnia and Rwanda to Burma and India.
Truth Commissions
Housed at the United States Institute of Peace Library and at Derechos Human Rights.
UN Human Rights Council
On 18 June 2007, one year after its first meeting, and in compliance with General Assembly resolution 60/251, the Human Rights Council agreed on a package of elements that established the procedures, mechanisms and structures that will form the basis for its future work. The Council will meet as a quasi-standing body. Its agenda and program of work provides the opportunity to discuss all thematic human rights issues and situations that require the Council’s attention throughout the year. Its rules of procedure and methods of work shall ensure transparency, predictability, impartiality and will enable genuine dialogue and be results-oriented.
United Nations Human Rights and UN Commission on Human Rights
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights, composed of 53 States, meets each year in regular session in March/April for six weeks in Geneva. It is assisted in this work by the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, a number of working groups and a network of individual experts, representatives and rapporteurs mandated to report to it on specific issues. Human Rights Committee--The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its first Optional Protocol allowing individuals to submit complaints to the Human Rights Committee were adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 1966 and entered into force on 23 March 1976. The Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, was adopted on 15 December 1989 and entered into force on 11 July 1991. The Human Rights Committee was established to monitor the implementation of the Covenant and the Protocols to the Covenant in the territory of States parties
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Commission on Human Rights. Contains information, full-text documents, treaty database. Documents from recent sessions are available on the UN website. Go to Documentation and Maps> Economic and Social Council Resolutions 1982-, Decisions 1995-
REFWORLD and the UNHCR Refugee Agency
The site contains a collection of full-text databases representing the most comprehensive and reliable refugee information resources available. See Treaty Bodies Database. Look also for For the Record: The UN Human Rights System an electronic newsletter produced by Human Rights Internet (HRI) in partnership with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). It provides a country overview of human rights issues with links to relevant UN documents.
The UN Human Rights Treaties
It provides access to documents and information from the UN human rights treaty system. Materials includes the text of treaties, documents from the UN treaty bodies, information on reform of the system, and other materials.
Guides:
American Society of International Law Guide on Human Rights
By Marci Hoffman
The Rights International Research Guide
The site is for International Human Rights Lawyers. It was compiled by Stephen J. Schnably of The Center for International Human Rights Law.
Online Journals and Publications:
Amnesty Journal (UK magazine)
Annual Review of Population Law
This database contains summaries and excerpts of legislation, constitutions, court decisions, and other official government documents from every country in the world relating to population policies, reproductive health, women's rights, and related topics. It is produced jointly by Harvard Law School and the United Nations Population Fund.
Judicial Supplement
Summaries and analysis of significant orders, decisions, and judgments of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
Human Rights Brief
Case summaries by the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington College of Law, and American University.
Human Rights Magazine (American Bar Association)
Human Rights Quarterly
A fee based site.
International Journal of Refugee Law -Online Services
Housed at Oxford University Press Journals.
The International Criminal Court Monitor
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