| Amnesty International |
| Provides full text reports and other research on human rights around the world. Reports can be browsed by country or topic. |
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| ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law |
| Under the aegis of the American Society of International Law and updated every 6 months, the guide sets out basic strategies to find international legal materials and examines what resources are available on international environmental, economic and criminal law, private international law, human rights, intellectual property law, treaties, international organizations, international commercial arbitration, and the United Nations. |
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| Crimes of War Project |
| A "collaboration of journalists, lawyers, and scholars that seeks to raise awareness of the laws of war," maintains this website of essays, photos, and links to related resources. The current issue of the the project's magazine is on Chechnya. |
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| European Court of Human Rights |
| General information about the Court, case law, and the text of the Convention for the the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms are available from this site. |
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| Hatred in the Hallways |
| Hatred in the Hallways: Violence and Discrimination against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Students in U.S. Schools is a May 2001 report from Human Rights Watch. |
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| Human Rights Watch |
| Contains late-breaking reports on human rights abuses throughout the world, as well as in-depth reports on human rights in different countries. Has a special section on the crisis in Iraq. |
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| Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) |
| LANIC is the web site for the University of Texas's Institute for Latin American Studies. Click on "Government" for topics such as Human Rights, Law and Justice, and Corruption. |
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| Organization of American States |
| The web site of the Organization of American States includes documents concerning human rights, fighting drug abuse, corruption, etc. |
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| Police Brutality and Excessive Force in the New York City Police Department |
| Full text of Amnesty International's 1996 report. |
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| Project Diana: An Online Human Rights Archive |
| Includes cases, documents and full text of Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal. From Yale Law School. |
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| Rights for All |
| Information on Amnesty International's campaign on the United States.
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| Trade and Environment Database (TED) |
| TED is a collection of over 700 case studies on international matters concerning trade: September 1992 to May 2007. The cases originally focused on environmental issues; but newer categories include economic consequences of social policy choices, such as culture, human rights, or other issues. This is a project at American University. |
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| U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness |
| Ill-Equipped: U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness is a report from Human Rights Watch on the underfunding and undertreatment of mental illness in prisons in the United States. |
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| United Nations Documentation: Research Guide: Human Rights |
| Contains annotated links to UN resources from two charter-based bodies and six treaty-based bodies. Included are links to the bodies themselves, and to bibliographic information and selected full texts of the reports of those bodies. In addition, there is bibliographic information on relevant conference proceedings and declarations, as well as a bibliography of general UN human rights literature.
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| University of Minnesota's Human Rights Library |
| Access to over 14,000 human rights documents. Includes a meta search engine for searching multiple human rights sites. Included among the 18 searchable sites are a number of UN sites, other official governmental or intergovernmental sites, and those of private organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
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| Web Geoncide Documentation Centre |
| An extensive compilation of primary materials and annotated links related to "twentieth-century genocidal and mass man-made killing occurrences." The site is maintained by Dr. S. D. Stein, a Senior Lecturer at the University of West England.
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| World Health Organization |
| Fact sheets and statistics with an international perspective on diseases and other health related issues. The page on women's health includes a fact sheet on female genital mutilation. |
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