NU Law Library: Foreign and International Law: Human Rights

FOREIGN AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCES

Research Guides and Collections of Links

Human Rights Law - E.B. Williams Library, Georgetown University
Human and Constitutional Rights Resource Page - Arthur W. Diamond Law Library at Columbia Law School
HuriSearch - a search engine that accesses the contents of over 3000 human rights web pages includes great indexing of results and advanced searching functions.
World LII - World Legal Information Institute
Human Rights Library - University of Minnesota Human Rights Center
Katrina in Human Rights Perspective - Prof. Hope Lewis
Women's Human Rights Resources - Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto

Treaties and Related Documents

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR)
UNHCHR - International Human Rights Instruments - includes full text of International Human Rights treaties, status of ratifications, reservations and declarations.
UNHCHR - United Nations Human Rights Documents - includes documents issued by the six committees established to monitor the implementation of the principal international human rights treaties, and documents issued by the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights, and the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights.
Reference Guide to the Geneva Conventions - Society of Professional Journalists, also includes links to other treaties and information on the laws of war.

Courts and Tribunals

African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
European Commissioner for Human Rights
European Communities' Court of Justice and Court of First Instance
European Court of Human Rights
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
International Court of Justice (ICJ) - principal judicial organ of the United Nations.
Project on International Courts and Tribunal - research on and links to all existing international courts and tribunals.

Organizations

Amnesty International - working to protect human rights worldwide.
Human Rights Watch - dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world.
INTERIGHTS, the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights - established to provide leadership in the development of legal protection for human rights and freedoms through the effective use of international and comparative human rights law.
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission - the mission of the IGLHRC is to secure the full enjoyment of the human rights of all people and communities subject to discrimination or abuse on the basis of sexual orientation or expression, gender identity or expression, and/or HIV status.
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights - works in the U.S. and abroad to create a secure and humane world by advancing justice, human dignity and respect for the rule of law.
Resource Center of the Americas - devoted to the notion that every person in this world is entitled to the same fundamental human rights.
World Organization Against Torture USA - a non-profit human rights monitoring, reporting and advocacy group.

Last Updated: April 4, 2008
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