Resources - Virtual Libraries
For an excellent overview of human rights law and resources online, see Georgetown Law Library's comprehensive human rights law guide here. See also:
- Africa Human Rights on the Internet: organizations, documentation, and other information on human rights in Africa, collected by Stanford University
- Amnesty International Annual Reports: reports on human rights situations worldwide, searchable by country (other AI reports are available here)
- ASIL Guide to Electronic Sources of International Law: international law resources, collected by the American Society of International Law
- AsylumLaw: information for use in asylum cases
- Bayefsky: information about and texts of UN human rights treaties, searchable by state, subject matter, and other categories
- Forced Migration Online: information on human displacement, including case studies
- Global Database: Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: provides access to official documents about the rights of the internally displaced and the application of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
- Human and Constitutional Rights: information and documentation by country, region, or theme, collected by the Arthur W. Diamond Law Library at Columbia Law School
- Human Rights Guide: human rights treaties, county reports, foreign law resources, and information on women's rights, collected by the Georgetown University Law Center library
- Human Rights Tools: links to tools and resources on human rights advocacy
- Human Rights Watch Publications: reports on human rights situations worldwide
- Human Rights Web: links to UN, regional, and non-governmental human rights organizations, and other resources
- Hurisearch: human rights search engine coordinated by Huridocs
- I Have a Right To: case studies of human rights issues, guide to the major human rights treaties, and more, published by the BBC
- International Human Rights Instruments: treaties, declarations, and other documents, collected by the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Project on International Courts and Tribunals: information and analysis on regional and international courts worldwide
- University of Minnesota Human Rights Library: UN documents, treaties and other human rights resources (click here for links to thousands of human rights organizations)
- U.S. State Department Country Reports: annual reports on human rights in countries worldwide
- Women's Human Rights Resources Program: resources on women's human rights, collected by the University of Toronto's Bora Laskin Law Library
