SITES CONTAINING SOURCES OF HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES, DECLARATIONS, AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS

American University Washington College of Law WWW

http://sray.wcl.american.edu/htm/hmnrghts.htm

The Human Rights Page contains links to the Human Rights Brief as well as to other human rights sites. More information about international law, US documents, and more is available through the WCL Web Services (http://sray.wcl.american.edu:80/pub/wcl.htm). The electronic version of the Human Rights Brief can be reached directly through theCenter for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (http://sray.wcl.american.edu:80/pub/journals/hmnrghts.htm).

Amnesty International Information Base at Freeport

http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/freeport/social.services/amnesty/menu

This AI site contains many human rights instruments full-text.

Australian Human Rights Page

http://www.vicnet.net.au/~victorp/vphuman.htm

This page contains a number of papers and links relating to human rights. It provides the full-text of Australian laws related to human rights and also links to other human rights sites.

Bibiliography on Buddhism and Human Rights

http://www.cac.psu.edu/jbe/rightbib.html

Compiled by Damien Keown for the Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 15th March 1995. The latest version of this bibliography will always be available online from the Journal's Resources directory in the file Rightsbib.txt. This bibliography may be used freely for teaching and research purposes but please acknowledge the source.

Civil Rights and Civil Liberties via The House Internet Library

http://www.pls.com:8001/his/93.htm

This site contains many full-text human rights treaties, documents relating to civil rights and civil liberties, miscellanous foreign law documents (Chinese Declaration of Human Rights, French Declaration of Rights), and a great deal more. Also connects to many other related Interent sites.

Coalition for International Justice

http://www.igc.apc.org/cij/

The Coalition for International Justice is an international, non-profit organization working to support the Yugoslavia and Rwanda war crimes tribunals. This site provides access to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). This homepage contains relevant Security Cuncil resoultions, the ICTY Statute, the Rules of Procedure and Evidence, case files, and many other documents. Other pages on the CIJ site are concerned with the investigation and prosecution of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

Cornell Law School

http://www.law.cornell.edu

gopher://gopher.law.cornell.edu

Contains full-text treaties and conventions, foreign and international law documents, full-text US law documents, government information, and links to other law related sites on the Internet.

Decisions of the International Court of Justice

http://www.law.cornell.edu/icj/

Decisions of the International Court of Justice (World Court), the main judicial organ of the United Nations, are being made available via the web by the Cornell University Law School. At present, the full texts of four 1996 decisions are available. In addition to the decisions, the site contains information on the Court, a listing of judges, an ICJ resource guide, Statute of the ICJ and United Nations Charter, and annotated pointers to selected international law sites. In the near future, the site plans to make all ICJ decisions available.

DIANA (University of Cincinnati Law School)

http://www.law.uc.edu/Diana/

DIANA is an on-line resource inspired by the life and work of Professor Diana Vincent-Daviss, the late Deputy Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights and librarian of Yale Law School. Professor Vincent-Daviss was a comprehensive bibliographer of literature on human rights. This service is named DIANA in her honor. The aim of DIANA is to create an electronic library of human rights materials, from treaties, secondary sources, court decisions, legal briefs, and current information from international nongovernmental human rights organizations. There are primary documents from the United Nations and the Organization of American States. Human Rights Law: A Research Guide to the Literature by Diana Vincent-Daviss and Researching Indigenous Peoples Rights Under International Law by Steven C. Perkins are also included.

DIANA (Yale Law School)

http://elsinore.cis.yale.edu/dianaweb/diana.htm

European Court of Human Rights Decisions

http://www.edvz.sbg.ac.at/var/docs/egmr/echrhome.htm

Compiled for the Department of International Law, University of Salzburg by Christian Campbell, this site organised decisions by country, convention article and other procedural categories.

Global Democarcy Network

http://www.gdn.org:80

gopher://gopher.gdn.org:70/1

GDN is operated by the United States' Congressional Human Rights Foundation in order to provide the Internet community with information related to human rights and democracy. The Web site and the gopher site offer access to such things as Parliamentary Human Rights Foundation documents, the CSCE site, Covacs Bulletin, Human Rights Reports from HR Watch and AAAS, and many other documents and sites. This Web site links to the Parliaments of the World site (http://www.gdn.org/flags.html). Depending on the country, there is information on the government, the political parties, electronic information and more.

Human Rights and International Law Resources Collected by Saint Louis University

gopher://sluava.slu.edu:70/11gopher$root:[data21._library_ services._lawlib._intlaw]

Provides access to many other resources: bibliographies, gophers and WWW sites, and listserv archives. Also contains "Selected Human Rights Resources on the Internet" by James Milles, Saint Louis University Law Library, 26 January 1994.

Human Rights Decisions (Chicago-Kent)

http://www.kentlaw.edu

gopher://gopher.kentlaw.edu

Provides access to Illinois Human Rights Commission Decisions, Cook County Commission on Human Rights, and Rulings of the Chicago Commission on Human Relations. This site provides links and resource outlines to many law related sites: Legal Resources by Subject (http://www.kentlaw.edu/lawnet/lawlinks.subject.html); Human Rights (http://www.kentlaw.edu/lawlinks/human_rghts.html); Foreign Law ("http://www.kentlaw.edu/lawlinks/foreign.html); International Law ("http://www.kentlaw.edu/lawlinks/international.html); and United Nations (http://www.kentlaw.edu/lawlinks/un.html.

Human Rights Gopher

gopher://gopher.humanrights.org:5000/1

Contains information from various human rights organizations (AAAS, AI, HRW, PEN, etc.) and items such as action alerts, letters, executive summaries, newsletters, and press releases.

Human Rights Internet

http://www.hri.ca/

Human Rights Internet is an international network of human rights organizations, documentation centre, and publishing house. This cite contains a lot of everything including U.N. documents, education materials, resource guides and site checked list of links.

Human Rights Watch

http://www.traveller.com/~hrweb/hrw/hrw.html

Information about Human Rights Watch and how to join.

Human Rights Web

http://www.traveller.com/~hrweb/hrweb.html

Catherine Hampton has organized a variety of information on human rights. There is information on human rights emergencies, resources for activists, Human Rights Web Newswire, information about events, meetings and conferences. This page also contains information about and links to many organizations or resources of interest to human rights activists and researchers. Included are home pages of human rights organizations, human rights pages by other organizations involved in human rights work, internet-based databases and libraries on human rights issues,and assorted other information. Also contains Compendium of Human Rights Resources (http://www.traveller.com/~hrweb/resources.html). This page contains names of human rights organizations, other organizations doing substantial amounts of human rights work, and resources (such as libraries and Internet-based information).

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

http://www.cij.org/tribunal/

See the above entry under Coalition for International Justice.

Multilaterals Project (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy)

http://www.tufts.edu/fletcher/multilaterals.html

The Multilaterals Project, begun in 1992, is an ongoing project at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts to make available the texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments. The collection includes treaties on the environment, human rights, commerce and trade, laws of war and arms control, and other areas. If you wish to access only the human rights treaties, see Human Rights Documents at Fletcher.

Organization of American States

http://www.oas.org

This official site contains information about the OAS, the weekly activities, the 1995 General Assembly information, meeting and program information, documents (including resolutions, treaties, and conventions), and links to other gopher and Web sites of the Americas. Human Rights section (http://www.oas.org/EN/PROG/hrights.htm).

Peacenet's Human Rights Gopher

gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org/11/peace/hr

This gopher contains information about the Human Rights program of PeaceNet and the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), the international partnership that PeaceNet is a part of. This gopher includes a sample of the documents and information available at no extra charge to the users of PeaceNet. For more information about joining PeaceNet, e-mail to peacenet-info@igc.apc.org. The subscription membership provides access to the more in-depth databases available through the Internet. These databases include daily information and documents from the United Nations, information and documents on human rights activities from around the world.

Private International Law Database (PILDB)

http://www.his.com/~pildb/

This site is maintained by the U.S. Department of State. It contains documents from the U.N. Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the Hague Conference on Private International Law (Hague Conference), the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) and the Organization of American States (OAS) in connection with the Inter-American Specialized Conferences on Private International Law (CIDIP).

REFWORLD (UNHCR)

http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/refworld.htm

gopher://unicc.org:70/11/unhcrcdr The databases of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees offer rapid access to reliable information in the public domain. The documents offer a full range of law, country information, analysis and comment on refugees and displacement. New sources of information as well as reports are added daily. This site contains speeches of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; UNHCR information; country information; legal information; and bibliographic information.

United Nations Commission on Human Rights Reports

gopher://gopher.undp.org:70/11/undocs/eed/E/CN.4/1995

This gopher site contains the full text of some of the main thematic reports of the 1995 Commission (U.N. Document no. E/CN.4).

University of East London Legal Resources

http://www.uel.ac.uk:80/faculties/socsci/law/reo.html

The University of East London's legal resources section contains an excellent minority rights database with documents, links and a reading list.

U.S. State Dept. of State Foreign Affairs Network

http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/dosfan.html

gopher://dosfan.lib.uic.edu

The U.S. Dept. of State Foreign Affairs Network contains a great deal of current information issued by the Dept. of State. The documents include: Climate Action Report; Country Reports on Economic Policy & Trade Practices; Defense Trade News; Dispatch; International Narcotics Control Strategy Report; Patterns of Global Terrorism; Report to Congress on Proposed Refugee Admissions; and more. This site also contains Country Reports on Human Rights Practices:
1995 Human Rights Report
1994 Human Rights Report
1993 Human Rights Report

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