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Research Guides Treaties UN Materials and OHCHR International courts and tribunals Regional materials
Europe The Americas Africa
Other useful resources URLs for collections of
Country Reports Subject materials
Research Guides
ASIL http://www.asil.org/resource/humrts1.htm
United Nations Documentation: Research Guide on Human Rights http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/spechr.htm
The George Washington Law School http://www.law.gwu.edu/NR/rdonlyres/D07D93
EB-A26A-4B40-A2E1-9DDEE95728AE/0/HumRights07.pdf
United Nations: Useful URLs
UN web site @ http://www.un.org/ Official Web Locator @ Index to web sites of UN
organisations - http://www.unsystem.org/ UN High Commissioner for Human Rights @
http://www.ohchr.org/ ASIL guide to UN research@
http://www.asil.org/resource/un1.htm UN Documentation: Research Guide @
http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/ UN Research Guide for Human Rights-
http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/spechr.htm
Finding UN Documents
UN ODS - http://documents.un.org/ UNBisnet - http://unbisnet.un.org/ Treaty Bodies Database - http://
tb.ohchr.org/default.aspx
UN Human Rights Bodies
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights @ http://www.ohchr.org/english/
Charter Based bodies Established by the UN charter Address broad human rights issues Unlimited audience Majority voting
Treaty Based bodies Established by a treaty Address issues covered by the treaty Audience is signatories of the treaty only Decisions based on consensus
Documents available on UN ODS, UnBisnet Documents produced by the Treaty Based bodies
are also available on the Treaty Bodies Database
UN Human Rights Bodies: Charter Based Bodies
Human Rights Council Special procedures (discuss and report on human rights
situations relating to particular countries or themes) Commission on Human Rights
No longer exists – predecessor of the Human Rights Council
Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights Carries out studies on human rights issues and make
recommendations
Treaty Based Bodies
Committee against Torture (CAT) Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights (CESCR) Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
against Women (CEDAW) Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination (CERD) Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW) Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) Human Rights Committee (CCPR)
Documents produced by the Treaty Based Bodies are available on the Treaty Bodies Database as well as UN ODS, Unbisnet
Treaty status, special procedures (country), reports by region
Subject index to committees, special Rapporteurs, treaties etc
Treaties / instruments – includes a subject index
Detailed information about / from the Charter and treaty bodies and access to the Treaty Bodies Database @ http://tb.ohchr.org/default.aspx
International Courts and Tribunals
Guides
Pict – Project on International Courts and Tribuals http://www.pict-pcti.org/ Explanation of the origins, history, functions
and procedures of the international and regional courts
International Courts and Tribunals online
Research Guide @ http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/specil.htm
Where to find… Basic Court documents
Court’s website Westlaw (for some courts)
Annual reports etc – Court’s Website Judgments, Decisions, Indictments, related docs
Court’s own web site Westlaw Worldlii (usually judgment only)
ICJ: Research Guides and Reference Works
UN research guide includes a section on the ICJ @ http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/specil.htm#icj
International Court of Justice Yearbook Internat 725 c 858 j-k
Summaries of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders of the International Court of Justice Internat 121a
Bibliography of the International Court of Justice Internat 400 c858
ICJ: Judgments in print
(Reports of) Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders – Internat 121 French and English Annual index
Pleadings, Oral Arguments, Documents – Internat 122 Documentation relating to each case (e.g.
application, written and oral proceedings, documents submitted to the court, selected correspondence etc)
Published after the end of the case in the original language
OSCOLA - cite the print series in preference to other series and online versions. If print is not available cite online version from the ICJ web site.
ICJ online : The ICJ web site
@ http://www.icj-cij.org Basic Documents Cases
Full text of judgments (contentious cases) /advisory opinions (advisory proceedings)
Related documents (e.g. application, oral and written proceedings, orders, summaries, press releases)
Search engine is poor – not very good for subject searching
Background information – history, how the court works, judges etc
Text of judgments and advisory opinions and related documents
Statute of the Court, rules of procedure etc
Information about the courts jurisdiction
ICJ Online: Westlaw and Worldlii
Westlaw International (Directory)| All Westlaw Database
| International/Worldwide | Multinational | Court and Tribunal Cases
Full text judgments and orders but NOT all related documents
Search engine allows subject searching Worldlii – http://www.worldlii.org
“International Decisions” > 26 international courts including ICJ
Full text judgments (from ICJ website) but NOT related documents
Search engine allows subject searching
For materials from beyond the UK/EU choose Westlaw International
International Courts and Tribunals
ICJ and other international courts and tribunals on Worldlii
Worldlii “International Decisions” database includes 26 international courts including:•ICJ•European Court of Human Rights•Inter-American Court of Human Rights Decisions 1981- (Selected) •Interights Commonwealth Human Rights Law 1992-2002 •Interights International Human Rights Law 1981-2001 •International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Decisions 2004- •International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia Decisions 1996- •United Nations Committee against Torture Decisions 1993-•United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Decisions 1988- •United Nations Human Rights Committee Decisions 1977- (WorldLII)
Combine terms using:AND, OR, NOTNEAR – within 50 wordsw/n –term 1 within n terms of term 2Pre/n –term 1 must precede term 2 by n terms *truncation symbol
Search across groups of courts. “All Human Rights Courts & Tribunals” is useful
To find out when judgments were added to Worldlii for each court
To browse a court click on the link, to search a court tick the check box
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
UN research guide @ http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/specil.htm#ity
Basic documents, annual reports @http://www.un.org/icty/ Judgments in print (indictments, decisions, judgments) The Judicial Reports/ Recueils judiciaires Internat 580 I63cJudgments online (indictments, decisions, judgments) ITY web site @ http://www.un.org/icty/ Westlaw Worldlii (judgment only – not entirely up to date)Oscola citation Case name (Decision type) ICTY-year#-case# (date). Alternatively cite International Legal Materials or
International Human Rights Reports.
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
UN Research Guide @ http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/specil.htm#itr
ICTR website Basic documents Indictments, decisions, judgments Status of pending cases Annual reports etc
Westlaw (indictments, decisions, judgments)
Worldlii Oscola citation – same as ICTY
Other international courts…
International Criminal Court UN research guides @ http://
www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/specil.htm#icc http://www.icc-cpi.int/
Special Court for Sierra Leone @ http://www.sc-sl.org/
Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor @ http://www.cavr-timorleste.org/
Cases before UN Treaty Committees
Worldlii Cases before Human Rights Committee,
Committee against Torture, Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination,
Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (http://www.law.uu.nl/english/sim/) Databases > Case Law Cases before Human Rights Committee,
Committee against Torture, Committees on…Elimination of Racial Discrimination, …Discrimination against women.
Indexed by subject, keyword, state, name etc
Cases before UN committees
Cases before ECHR
Cases before tribunals for Yugoslavia / Rwanda
Comments by treaty bodies in response to country reports
Browse by treaty article, subject, keyword, country etc
Regional: Europe
Council of Europe - http://www.coe.int
Council of Europe Treaties http://conventions.coe.int
Directorate General of Human Rights @ http://www.coe.int/T/E/Human_rights/ documents and news organised by subject
Commissioner for Human Rights @ http://www.coe.int/t/commissioner/
European Court of Human Rights - http://www.echr.coe.int/echr Judgments and decisions on Westlaw, Justis, HUDOC,
Worldlii
Directorate General of Human rights – documents, news, information organised by subject
Text of the convention, signatories, ratifications, reservations etc
Reports and other documents from the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights: Judgments
Official Reports Before 1 Nov 1998 known as Series A and numbered
consecutively e.g. Plattform ‘Ärtze für das Leben’ v Austria (App no 10126/82) (1988) Series A no 139
After 1 Nov 1998 - Renamed Reports of Judgments and Decisions (cited ECHR)e.g. Osman v UK (App no 23452/94) ECHR 1998-VIII 3124
Available in print at Internat 121 and online on Justis European Human Rights Reports (EHRR)
e.g. Young, James and Webster v UK (App no 7601/76) (1982) 4 EHRR 38
Available in print at Internat 150 E60 on Westlaw OSCOLA – Cite Official Reports or EHRR
ECHR: Transcripts
Court Transcripts Court web site – HUDOC - http://
www.echr.coe.int/echr Worldlii Netherlands Institute
•Full text searching use the following connectors: AND•OR •NOT•WITHIN N OF *TRUNCATION•? SINGLE CHARACTER
Reports of Judgments and Decisions (ECHR) on Justis
Transcript
Official reports – old style series A
Official reports – new style
EHRR on Westlaw
UK section of Westlaw includes ECHR judgments
European Court of Human Rights Reports (includes all court judgments and selected commission decisions)
Choose “Advanced Search” for more options
Searches full text of all judgments
Searches party names
Searches for cases by legislation considered.
Searches for cases which have considered an earlier case
Full text of the case
Related information including:•List of reports of the case•Summary of the issues•Legislation considered in the judgment•Earlier cases considered in the judgment•Later cases which have considered this judgment•Commentary on the judgment
ECHR web site
http://www.echr.coe.int/ Basic Documents and texts of the court Database of transcripts of judgments and
commission decisions To go direct to the transcripts database
http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/
Transcripts database
European Convention on Human Rights and additional protocols
History, organization, composition, procedures etc
To search decisions of the European Commission (ceased 1999) open up decisions box. Note not all commission decisions are available.
Use … to browse a thesaurus of terms
Make sure the “from” field is not filled in when you open up the database
HUDOC - Transcripts
Some judgments are only available on one language
Full text
Analytical information including dates, party names, who the case was referred by, Strasbourg case law cited, keywords, durable URL
Keywords in context – finds your keywords and displays
sorrounding text
Links to related information
Inter American Human Rights system: Key web sites
OAS - http://www.oas.org/ Charter of the OAS @ http://
www.oas.org/juridico/english/charter.html
Treaties @ http://www.oas.org/DIL/treaties.htm
American Convention on Human Rights @ http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/oasinstr/zoas3con.htm
Inter American Human Rights system: The Commission
Inter American Commission on Human Rights @ http://www.cidh.org/DefaultE.htm Reports adopted by the Commission @
http://www.wcl.american.edu/pub/humright/digest/index.html
Finding cases before the Commission Cases section of the Commission web site University of Minnesota index to Commission
cases @ http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/cases/commissn.htm
Inter American Human Rights system: The Court
@ http://www.corteidh.or.cr/ University of Minnesota - Basic Documents / jurisprudence
@ http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/iachr/iachr.html Reports
Series A – Judgments and opinions (Advisory?) Series B – Pleadings, Oral Arguments and Documents (relating
to series A) Series C – Decisions and judgments Series D - Pleadings, Oral Arguments and Documents (relating
to series A) Finding Cases online
Court web site (as above) – Spanish versions appear first University of Minnesota (as above) - Judgments, opinions and
decisions plus related documents Worldlii
Introductory information, publications, country reports
Country reports, resolutions, special reports
Treaties, ratifications, reservations/declarations
Cases
Background information including relationship of Commission and Court
Reports from special rapporteurs, country reports, cases, work with the court
Special / Country reports
Documents re:•Migrant workers•Freedom of expression•Women
Statute of the court, rules of procedure, composition, history etc
•Browse judgments chronologically or by country•Text in word / pdf
Annual reports – includes cases
Search for judgment by keywords or by country/date range
Africa: some key web sites
African Union http://www.africa-union.org/
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights http://www.achpr.org/english/_info/charter_en.html
African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights http://www.achpr.org/
Africa Human Rights Resource Centre (University of Minnesota Human Rights Library) – is this still current? @ http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/africa/index.html
Treaties and ratification details, speeches etc
Includes link to AU information on Darfur/Sudan and Rights of the Chils
Most recent country reports, and activities reports
Treatieslist of state reports but no full text
Subjects
Treaties, conventions etc
A-Z of Human Rights links (NGOs, governments, charities etc) Constitutive Act of the
AU + documents / information re OAU/AU African summit 2002
Country reports and decisions from the UN Human Rights Committee
Compilations of treaties, books and articles on human rights in Africa. Nothing later than 1994.
Report on NGOs in Africa published 1994.
Journal article by J. Oloka-Onyango (1995)
Other useful web sites
Interights @ http://www.interights.org/ Charity that promotes human rights through
the law 2,000 summaries of significant human rights
decisions from the Commonwealth and beyond Eisil @ www.eisil.org
Treaties, conventions etc with related web sites and research guides
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library @ http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/
Case law database
Summaries of some HR issues, bibliographies etc
Country Reports Collection of links to Country Reports in the ASIL research
guide @ http://www.asil.org/resource/humrts1.htm Amnesty
http://web.amnesty.org/library/engindex Reports organised by country, region, theme
Human Rights Watch http://hrw.org/ Reports organised by country and subject
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights Europe (esp E Europe) For Reports follow the link to “Documents and
publications” http://www.ihf-hr.org/welcome.php
US Dept of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices Choose Country Reports from the navigation bar Annual reports submitted to US congress http://www.state.gov/g/drl/hr/
Subject Approach
Amnesty http://web.amnesty.org/library/engindex Human Rights Watch http://hrw.org/ University of Minnesota Topics Guide
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/edumat/topicguides.html Introduction to main issues Links to relevant web resources
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/links/links.htm Links to document repositories, organisations, country
and subjects
Subject Approach
Derechos http://www.derechos.org/ Particularly good for Latin America
Human Rights Internet http://www.hri.ca/ Hurisearch - http://www.hurisearch.org/
search engine searching multiple human rights web sites
Worldlii Human Rights Catalog http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/303.html Links to document repositories, organisations,
country and subjects
Journals
Use usual journals indexes Westlaw Index to Legal Periodicals Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Social Science Citation Index Cambridge Scientific Abstracts : Social
Sciences PAIS – Public Affairs Information Institute
Links to free journals with Human Rights focus http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/links/
journals.html