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HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNET RESOURCES The following are Web sites that provide information about human rights, including reports, documents, judicial decisions, and links to related Web sites. Table of Contents
NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (NGO'S)
This site is maintained by Human Rights Watch, a coalition of independent human rights groups. The site includes reports on campaigns to remedy human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch publications, its World Report, country reports and links to other human rights organizations.
This site has ICRC reports and articles as well as links to primary source documents on international humanitarian law and human rights.
This advocacy group includes health professionals and scientists working to investigate and prevent human rights violations. This site provides access to publications and reports on specific projects, educational/training materials and a bibliography of human rights resources.
"The Human Rights Center (HRC) protects and promotes human rights worldwide by investigating and documenting human rights abuses and training the next generation of human rights researchers, policymakers, and advocates."
This group works "for the respect and promotion of human rights throughout the world."
"HRI is dedicated to the empowerment of human rights activists and organizations, and to the education of governmental and intergovernmental agencies and officials and other actors in the public and private sphere, on human rights issues and the role of civil society."
The mission of the UNHCFR is to protect refugees and resolve problems of refugees. The site provides news and timely information about refugee situations throughout the world, country specific reports, official UN documents, documentaries, and full-text of The State of the World's Refugees: A Humanitarian Agenda.
INTERNATIONAL COURTS AND TRIBUNALS The following sites provide general information about the court/tribunal, pending cases, judgments and other court documents, rules of procedure and press releases:
This site includes Breaking News, an Activist Center and reports on Slavery Today.
This site includes full-text databases with current and comprehensive information about refugees throughout the world, with links to U.N. official documents, country reports, international instruments and refugee case law.
This site includes documents related to the reproductive and sexual rights of women, annotated links to research material, governmental and non-governmental documents, and a bibliography of women's international human rights sources.
This is an international archive of human rights documents at Yale Law School. The archive includes online litigation documents which may be downloaded. Another DIANA site is located at the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library at http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts.
This site offers a broad range of human rights material, including a searchable database of human rights documents, treaties and other instruments, U.N. documents, U.S. human rights documents, bibliographies and links to regional materials.
This site provides a link to Country Reports on Human Rights Practices released by the U.S. Department of State from 1993 to the present.
A project of the Fletcher School at Tufts University, this site provides links to the full text of multilateral treaties relating to human rights.
This site is most helpful for its links to hundreds of primary source documents (mainly treaties) related to human rights.
This comprehensive guide offers information about research methodology, primary and secondary sources.
A guide to finding United Nations documents (e.g., summary records of meetings, sessional reports, and working documents) related to human rights.
This guide includes bibliographies, directories, research guides, human rights instruments, as well as sources of case law, country reports, and online resources.
This guide includes information on resources for war crimes and human rights research.
The official Web site of the International Criminal Court.
This Web site has primary source material about the ICC and also helpful guides and factsheets, like its Rome Statute Simplified.
This guide to information on the International Criminal Court was compiled by the University of Chicago Law School Library.
This guide is compiled and maintained by the American Society of International Law.
The portal has links to sites related to human rights law, "research memoranda" on issues before international courts and tribunals, a research guide, and "instant analysis" articles "on the hottest topics in international criminal law."
The Web site of the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development.
"This site is intended both as a journal that reports on developments related to the laws of war, and as a resource for those seeking further information on the subject."
The IHL Research Initiative acts as a clearinghouse for materials on international humanitarian law, including news, analysis, and judicial decisions. Registration is required (and free).
This site has numerous links arranged by topic (e.g., child soldiers, forensic science and atrocity crimes, and native peoples) and by nation, region, or case.
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please email: Ellen Delaney, Reference Librarian. Last modified: November 7, 2007 by Rick Buckingham, Reference Librarian. |
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