Human Rights Law - International and Regional - Human Rights Law

Human Rights Law - International resources

United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
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.
Core International Human Rights Instruments and Monitoring Bodies
From the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
OHCHR databases
Links to a variety of useful human rights based databases offered by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Human Rights Treaty Based Bodies Database
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.
Human Rights Charter Based Bodies Database
Human Rights Documents
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.
International Norms and Standards Relating to Disability - The International Human Rights System
From the United Nations Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

International Human Rights Law - Research Guides

United Nations Documentation Research Guide - Human Rights
Provided by the United Nations Dag Hammarskjold Library.
A Brief Guide to Finding UN Human Rights Documents
A research guide from the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights.
Globalex International Human Rights Law Guide
From New York University Law School. Last updated in October 2014.

Human Rights Law - Regional resources

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

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African Court on Human and People's Rights
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.
African Human Rights Law Reports 2000 - 2011
In full text. From the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. Or access from PULP: https://www.pulp.up.ac.za/catalogue/african-human-rights-law-reports
Asian Human Rights Commission
African Human Rights Case Law Analyser
A significant collection of the human rights decisions of African supra-national human rights mechanisms in English, French and Portuguese.
Council of Europe - Human Rights and Legal Affairs
European Commission - Justice and Fundamental Rights
European Court of Human Rights
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.
European Union - Summaries of Human Rights Legislation
From Europa, the official website of the European Union.
Human Rights Regional Conventions
From the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library.
Summaries of European Legislation
From Europa, the official website of the European Union.
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs: Disability
Features links to relevant conventions, protocols, commissions, conferences, reports and other resources.

Human Rights Law: Human Rights Law - International and Regional

Human Rights Law - International resources

International Human Rights Law - Research Guides

Human Rights Law - Regional resources