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HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS & RESOURCES
- Africa Action
Find a variety of documents and positions papers from the oldest organization in the U.S. working on African affairs whose mission is to change U.S.-Africa relations to promote political, economic and social justice in Africa
- African Human Rights Resource Center
Find African human rights instruments and related documents from the UMinn Human Rights library
- Atrocities & Genocides
Yale 2006 conference presentation of internet resources on genocide research in ten countries
- ASIL's EISIL database - Human Rights section
Great for finding primary documents, web sites, and reserach guides on a variety of topics in International law, including Human Rights issues
- Council of Europe
COE has a human rights page with links to many COE divisions, including the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, the Commission against Racism and Intolerance, and the ECHR (where you can search for cases and European human rights treaties)
- Center for Gender & Refugee Studies
From UC Hastings
- DIANA
Yale - find full-text of core human rights decisions and documents
- Eyes on Darfur
Amnesty International leverages the power of high-resolution satellite imagery to provide evidence of the atrocities being committed in Darfur
- For the Record
Search for UN human rights documents by year (1997-2003) and by country
- Human Rights First
- Human Rights Internet
Portal to search for human rights organizations, documents, and other information available online
- Human Rights Library
Minnesota's premier and comprehensive searchable collection of human rights documents and information, including treaties and links to organizations
- Human Rights Treaties
Chronological list of human rights treaties from The Fletcher School at Tufts University
- Human Rights websites
Yale - includes a list of links to human rights organizations
- HuriSearch
Searches human rights websites
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Cases and reports of the Commission, headquartered in Washington DC, created in 1959 as an autonomous body of the OAS that provides recourse to individuals who have suffered human rights violations - English, Spanish, French and Portugese
- Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Searchable library catalogue and articles database; full-text Yearbook of United Nations Law (Vol.1 1997-current); many full-text articles in the Electronic Journals Library
- National Immigration Forum
- UNHCR
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, established by UN General Assembly, is mandated to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide; hosts the powerful RefWorld database, a collection of reports relating to situations in countries of origin, policy documents and positions, and documents relating to international and national legal frameworks
- OHCHR
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; searchable database for human rights documents of Charter or treaty-based bodies
- ReliefWeb
Serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief community
- South African Truth & Reconciliation Commission, Videotape Collection
Yale Artemis Project - watch streaming video of news broadcasts assembled by journalist Max Du Preez, covering the history and activities of the Commission
- United Nations Human Rights Treaties
Access to human rights documents and parties to treaties; search by state, category, or theme/subject matter
- United Nations Documents Centre*
- United States Institute of Peace
An independent, nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by Congress whose goals are to help prevent and resolve violent international conflicts, promote post-conflict stability and development, and increase conflict management capacity, tools, and intellectual capital worldwide; includes a library with digital collections including peace agreements, terrorism/counter-terrorism resources, and afghan oral histories, as well as library catalog with full-text USIP Special Reports and Peaceworks
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