Useful Research Links

 

United Nations Resources

United Nations Homepage

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

• Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
• Human Rights Council
• Human Rights Committee
• Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• Committee on the Rights of the Child
• Committee Against Torture
• Commission on Human Rights
• Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
• Commission on the Status of Women
• International Labour Organization
  • ILOLEX
• World Health Organization
• Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
• All International Human Rights Instruments and Monitoring Bodies (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights)
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  • Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  • Optional Protocol of the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• Universal Declaration on Human Rights
• Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Convention Against Torture
• Ratification Status of International Human Rights Treaties

United Nations' Division for the Advancement of Women

• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

United Nations Official Document System

 

Other Inter-Governmental Organizations

The African Union

• African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Banjul Charter)
• Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
• African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
• Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights

Europa - The European Union Online

Council of Europe

• European Convention on Human Rights

Organization of American States

• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

 

Comprehensive Databases

Bayefsky.com (The United Nations Human Rights Treaties)

University of Minnesota's Human Rights Library

• Human Rights Treaties and Other Instruments
• Regional Materials

World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII)

 

Non-Governmental Organizations

Amnesty International - Women's Human Rights

Center for Reproductive Rights

Human Rights First

Human Rights Watch - Women's Human Rights

GlobalRights.org

Global Justice Center

Association for Women Rights in Development (AWID) (formerly Women's Human Rights Net)

Women for Women's Human Rights (WWHR) - New Ways