Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic
This research guide was created specifically to assist our students in the Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic.
ASIL's Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law
Includes guides for Human Rights, International Commercial Arbitration, International Criminal Law, International Economic Law, International Environmental Law, International Intellectual Property Law, International Organizations, Private International Law, Treaties, and United Nations.
Country-by-Country Guide to Foreign Law Research
Portal to research guides and major databases for every country; these research guides vary from explanatory legal system guides to lists of legal resource links; includes links to the Foreign Law Guide, the World Legal Information Institute, and other portals and foreign legal research guides.
Guide to Foreign and Comparative Law Research at Yale
This document outlines the best approach to starting your foreign law research at Yale; it provides links to the most commonly used and best resources available, many of which are listed elsewhere on this web page.
International and Foreign Law Research Guides (GlobaLex)
Research guides on a variety of countries and international topics.
International and Foreign Law Research Guides (LLRX)
Research guides on a variety of countries and international topics.
PAIL Guide to Procedural International Law
The online research guide links to online resources and websites on many topics of international law such as international law sources, dispute resolution, state responsibility, and human rights
Universal Voices Online Human Rights Internet Guide
World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII)
WorldLII links you to legal information and websites all over the world; organized by country
Yale's Foreign and International Law Resources
This is more of a portal than a research guide;you can find all of our foreign and international databases on this page, subscription and open-access, including tax websites and a country-by-country guide to finding the laws, cases, and scholarship of countries other than the U.S.
American Society of International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Issues
ASIL's Human Rights & Humanitarian Law issues area encompasses recent developments in the field of human rights, including contemporary issues related to gender equality, minority rights, trade and human rights, and the domestic incorporation and enforcement of international norms; developments concerning the status and application of the laws of war and the Geneva Conventions generally as well as in the context of combating terrorism will also be addressed
Amnesty International
Search the Human Rights Reports by country and Library archives for most reports, news releases and urgent actions published from 1996 to date
Derechos Human Rights
Working for the respect and promotion of human rights all over the world, with special projects in Latin America
Human Rights First
Find reports on human rights, refugees, law and security, discrimination, crimes against humanity, and more.
Human Rights Watch
NGO - Publications include an annual world report and other reports by theme and region; reports on country conditions; most available on line as well
Institute for Human Rights & Development in Africa
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Cases and reports of the Commission, headquartered in Washington DC, created in 1959 as an autonomous body of the OAS that provides recourse to individuals who have suffered human rights violations - English, Spanish, French and Portuguese
International Affairs Resources
Elizabethtown - Internet directory of international affairs, relations, studies, news, etc.
U.S. State Department Reports
1993-1999 and 1999-current; Trafficking in Persons Reports; Religious Freedom Reports
Universal Voices Online Human Rights Internet Guide
Yale's Foreign and International Law Resources
This is more of a portal than a research guide;you can find all of our foreign and international databases on this page, subscription and open-access, including tax websites and a country-by-country guide to finding the laws, cases, and scholarship of countries other than the U.S.
Human Rights Library
Minnesota's premier and comprehensive searchable collection of human rights documents and information, including treaties and links to organizations
Multilaterals Project at The Fletcher School
An ongoing project at The Fletcher School, Tufts University, to make available the texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments
UNHCHR Document Search
Searches the official United Nations treaty body documents as provided by the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights
UNHCHR Treaty Body Database
Search for documents published by the treaty-based committees.
United Nations Human Rights Treaties
Access to human rights documents and parties to treaties; search by state, category, or theme/subject matter
WorldLII -- International Law Library
Search the International Treaties Collection and the International Courts and Tribunals Collection.
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Amnesty International
Search the Human Rights Reports by country and Library archives for most reports, news releases and urgent actions published from 1996 to date
Representing Children Worldwide (RCW)
Created by the Yale RCW clinic - contains child protective and custody law for every U.S. state and every country as of 2005.
International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC)
Includes 2,500 organizations around the world working in partnership to strengthen international cooperation with the ICC; ensure that the Court is fair, effective and independent; make justice both visible and universal; and advance stronger national laws that deliver justice to victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide
International Criminal Court (ICC)
Established by Treaty (Rome Statute), official database with information on current cases and proceedings - English and French; also find Legal Tools, an extraordinary electronic library/database on international criminal law and justice comprising over 40,000 documents, together with four legal research and reference tools developed by lawyers with expertise in international criminal law and justice*
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
Find cases, transcripts, minutes, news, reports, basic documents related to the ICTR - English, French, Rwandan
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Find ICTY cases and judgments, reports, and basic documents - English, French, Macedonian, Albanian
Special Court for Sierra Leone (SC-SL)
Created jointly by Sierra Leone government and UN - Find extensive documents including indictments, transcripts, judgments, daily journals, audio and video of the trials, and more
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Find labor conventions, recommendations and standards, including ILOLOEX (searchable database on labor standards) and NATLEX (searchable database of national labor, social security and related human rights legislation)
EQUAL-JUS Database
The EQUAL-JUS database, part of the EQUAL-JUS project (the European network for the support of LGBT rights), contains legal documents and references related to sexual orientation and gender identity.
Human Rights First
Find reports on human rights, refugees, law and security, discrimination, crimes against humanity, and more.
Human Rights Watch
NGO - Publications include an annual world report and other reports by theme and region; reports on country conditions; most available on line as well
Refugees International
Refugees International advocates for lifesaving assistance and protection for displaced people and promotes solutions to displacement crises.
U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
Their World Refugee Survey has country reports (latest available is for 2008)
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, established by UN General Assembly, is mandated to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide; hosts the powerful RefWorld database, a collection of reports relating to situations in countries of origin, policy documents and positions, and documents relating to international and national legal frameworks; take note of the publication entitled "State of the World's Refugees"
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Cases and reports of the Commission, headquartered in Washington DC, created in 1959 as an autonomous body of the OAS that provides recourse to individuals who have suffered human rights violations - English, Spanish, French and Portuguese
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Decisions, provisional measures, compliance reports, and advisory opinions of the Court, the autonomous judicial body of the OAS, established in 1979 and headquartered in San José, Costa Rica; great collection of human rights instruments- English and Spanish
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Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School Legal Resources
This Legal Resources section provides access to treaties and other international and regional documents, statutes and case law from around the world relating to gender-based violence. By making these resources available, our goal is to promote the use of laws and rules aimed at providing access to justice to survivors of gender-based violence
International Women's Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
International Women's Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the University of Toronto Bora Laskin law library
Human Rights Library
Minnesota's premier and comprehensive searchable collection of human rights documents and information, including treaties and links to organizations
Institute for Human Rights & Development in Africa
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Cases and reports of the Commission, headquartered in Washington DC, created in 1959 as an autonomous body of the OAS that provides recourse to individuals who have suffered human rights violations - English, Spanish, French and Portuguese
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Decisions, provisional measures, compliance reports, and advisory opinions of the Court, the autonomous judicial body of the OAS, established in 1979 and headquartered in San José, Costa Rica; great collection of human rights instruments- English and Spanish
International Criminal Court (ICC) -- Legal Tools Database
The Legal Tools Project aspires to equip users with the legal information, digests and software required to work effectively with international criminal law. It seeks to serve as a complete virtual library on international criminal law and justice. The Tools comprise at present over 44,000 documents and legal digests.
International Human Rights Law
Search for decisions on human rights from a variety of global and regional courts including: the European Commission of Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) from 1961; decisions from the four UN Committees (Committee Against Torture, Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and Human Rights Committee, which monitors the Convention for Civil and Political Rights) which are able to deliver views in individual cases; comprehensive decisions from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I/A Court H.R.) and selected decisions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR); cases decided under the African Charter on Human and People's Rights, in both the Court and the Commission (Yale access only).
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Find labor conventions, recommendations and standards, including ILOLOEX (searchable database on labor standards) and NATLEX (searchable database of national labor, social security and related human rights legislation)
Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) Documentation Site
The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) has several databases in which its collection of documentation is made accessible. Through this site, databases are made available to the public.
UNHCHR Document Search
Searches the official United Nations treaty body documents as provided by the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights
UNHCR Refworld
Refworld is the leading source of information necessary for taking quality decisions on refugee status. Refworld contains a vast collection of reports relating to situations in countries of origin, policy documents and positions, and documents relating to international and national legal frameworks. The information has been carefully selected and compiled from UNHCR's global network of field offices, Governments, international, regional and non-governmental organizations, academic institutions and judicial bodies.
United Nations Official Documents
The most comprehensive collection of official UN documents from 1993. Older UN documents added daily. Resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946*
Universal Human Rights Index
The Universal Human Rights Index provides instant access for all countries to human rights information from the United Nations system. You can access the information by country, by rights and by body.
WorldLII -- International Law Library
Search the International Treaties Collection and the International Courts and Tribunals Collection.
EQUAL-JUS Database
The EQUAL-JUS database, part of the EQUAL-JUS project (the European network for the support of LGBT rights), contains legal documents and references related to sexual orientation and gender identity.
Human Rights Documentation Center
A portal for finding human rights documents, reports, and news on the web
Human Rights Internet
Portal to search for human rights organizations, documents, and other information available online
Australasian Legal Information Institute - AustLII
Australian and New Zealand legal database.
Constitutions of the Countries of the World, Constitutions of Dependencies and Territories, Constitutions of the U.S.: National and State
Current and selected historical Constitutions via Oceana - Click on "Connect via IP Access" and select the desired database.
Country-by-Country Guide to Foreign Law Research
Portal to research guides and major databases for every country; these research guides vary from explanatory legal system guides to lists of legal resource links; includes links to the Foreign Law Guide, the World Legal Information Institute, and other portals and foreign legal research guides.
Guide to Foreign and Comparative Law Research at Yale
This document outlines the best approach to starting your foreign law research at Yale; it provides links to the most commonly used and best resources available, many of which are listed elsewhere on this web page.
Hieros Gamos
A comprehensive list of law firms in the PRC searchable by city and area of specialty.
Southern African Legal Information Institute - SAFLII
SAFLII collects and publishes legal materials from Southern and Eastern Africa including superior court judgments from Botswana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, and a consolidated collection of Uganda legislation and Lesotho case law.
World Constitutions Illustrated
HeinOnline's database contains the current constitution for every country in the world in the original language and English translations where available; also find more than 800 classic books on constitutions, constitutional history and jurisprudence, and political and economic history (Yale access only)
Yale's Foreign and International Law Resources
This is more of a portal than a research guide;you can find all of our foreign and international databases on this page, subscription and open-access, including tax websites and a country-by-country guide to finding the laws, cases, and scholarship of countries other than the U.S.
