Human Rights Law: Human Rights Law - International and Regional

Website of a key component of the United Nations approach to understanding, development and enforcement of human rights law. Contains links to issues by country, key instruments and regulatory bodies, and other useful information.

Links to an extensive range of international human rights regulatory instruments. From the Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights.

From the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

An inter-governmental body within the UN system made up of 47 States responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe.

From the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Links to a variety of useful human rights based databases offered by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

From the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights. Contains information regarding treaty monitoring bodies established by the Human Rights Committee and other similar UN committees.

A database from Brill publishers containing over 400,000 documents going back to 1980 from 483 non-government human rights organisations from around the world. NOTE - These documents relate to many aspects of human rights - the collection is not law specific.

From the United Nations Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Provided by the United Nations Dag Hammarskjold Library.

A research guide from the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights.

Part of the Electronic Information System for International Law, published by the American Society of International Law.

From New York University Law School. Last updated in October 2014.

A digest of summaries of cases from the European Court of Human Rights. Available on several publishing platforms via Library Search.

The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights complements the protective mandate of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. The Court has the competence to take final and binding decisions on human rights violations. Currently 25 African States have acknowledged the Court's jurisdiction.

In full text. From the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria.

A significant collection of the human rights decisions of African supra-national human rights mechanisms in English, French and Portuguese.

An international court set up in 1959 which rules on
individual or State applications alleging violations of
the civil and political rights set out in the European
Convention on Human Rights.

From Europa, the official website of the European Union.

From the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library.

A body of the Organisation of American States.

From Europa, the official website of the European Union.

Features links to relevant conventions, protocols, commissions, conferences, reports and other resources.