University of Kent

Human Rights

Research guides

• EISIL - Electronic Information System for International Law. Section on human rights.
• Human Rights - ASIL Guide to electronic resources for international law.  Marci Hoffman's guide for the American Society of International Law
• International Human Rights Research Guide - from Globalex by Grace Mills
• Researching Forced Migration - Guide to reference and information sources by Elisa Mason supported by Carnegie-Whitney grant from the American Library Association (new resources added regularly).

Resources

• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
• European Convention on Human Rights - plus protocols, ratifications and practice directions
• Forced Migration Online - website hosted by the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford.
• Gendercide Watch - information on gender-selective mass killings throughout the world, with case studies
• Human Rights in Ireland - group academic blog with focus on human rights
• Human Rights Library - University of Minnesota. - includes human rights documents and links
• Human Rights Update - reports and updates from barristers chambers, One Crown Office Row
• Human Rights Watch - campaigns, news, issues, commentary and publications
• Hurisearch - search engine for accessing human rights information, documentation and legislation published on the internet
• INCADAT - International Child Abduction Database. Hague Conference site.
• International Humanitarian Law Research Initiative - based at Harvard School of Public Health to provide a forum for discussion of issues of human security and the protection of civilians in conflict situations
• Interights - International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights, based in London.
• Justice Students Human Rights Network
• Legislationonline - produced by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), a part of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), to assist member states in drafting legislation that complies with international human rights standards
• Ministry of Justice - Human Rights
• Netherlands Institute of Human Rights
• Project Diana - online human rights archive at Yale Law School
• Refugee Caselaw Site - University of Michigan Law School hosts this site to promote exchange of information on refugee law
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights - historical record of the drafting process
• Women's Human Rights Resources - Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto

Human rights organisations

• Amnesty International
• Association for Women's Rights in Development - information and analysis on women's human rights
• Child Rights Information Network - global network that disseminates information about the Convention on the Rights of the Child and child rights amongst non-governmental organisations, United Nations agencies, intergovernmental organisations, educational institutions and other child rights experts. The co-ordinating unit is based in the UK
• Coalition Against Trafficking in Women - NGO devoted to combating sexual exploitation in all its forms.
• Council of Europe  - Includes the text of the European Convention on Human Rights and links to the European Court of Human Rights.
• CPT - European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, includes a database of its reports 
• European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance
• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
• International Committee of the Red Cross
• Liberty - UK human rights and civil liberties organisation
• Privacy International - UK-based site concentrating on privacy issues worldwide./li>
• Refugee Studies Centre - Oxford University research centre.
• Statewatch - monitors the state and civil liberties in the European Union and includes a news bulletin and a database of its work and publications since 1991
• UN High Commission for Human Rights
• UN High Commission for Refugees

Minorities

• Aboriginal Justice Strategy - From the Canadian Department of Justice. Includes access to resources on Aboriginal community justice.
• European Centre for Minority Issues - includes working papers and a full text journal
• European Roma Rights Center - monitors human rights of Roma and provides legal defence
• Minorities Electronic Resources - directory of resources on minority human rights and related problems of the transition period in Eastern and Central Europe
• Minority Rights Group International - UK based NGO promoting the rights of ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities
• MIRIS - Minority Rights Information System from the European Academy of Bolzano (Bozen). A database of information on the legal rights of minorities in the member states of the Council of Europe
• National Indian Law Library (NILL) - a database of federal Indian and tribal law, serving public and the Native American Rights Fund.
• Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization - international organization for indigenous peoples and minorities

Human rights courts

• European Court of Human Rights
• Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Online journals

• Human Rights Brief 
• Law, Social Justice and Global Development

International criminal law & war crimes

Research guides

• EISIL - International Criminal Law
• International Criminal Courts for the Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone: a guide to online and print resources - by Amy Burchfield for GlobaLex
• International Criminal Law - ASIL Guide to electronic resources for international law.  Gail Partin'ss guide for the American Society of International Law
• Research guide to cases and materials on terrorism - compiled by Andrew Grossman for GlobaLex

Resources

• Center on Law and Security - based at New York University School of Law
• Coalition for the International Criminal Court - for information about the development of the International Criminal Court
• Crimes of War - collaboration of journalists, lawyers and scholars dedicated to raising public awareness of the laws of war and their application to situations of conflict
• International Criminal Court
• International Criminal Justice Unit - at Nottingham University's Human Rights Law Centre.
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
• International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
• Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals - Selected and prepared by the United nations War Crimes Commission, 1947-1949
• Nuremberg Trials - the Avalon Project at Yale Law School
• Nuremberg Trials Project - digital documentation collection from Harvard Law School library
• Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence - Jacques Semelin's database of massacres and genocides of the 20th century
• Rule of Law in Armed Conflicts Project - database of documents and reports from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
• UNICRI - United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Institute 
• War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity - University of Minnesota Human Rights Library