Research Tools

Research Guides

Two excellent Internet sources to begin research on an International Law topic are the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Guide to Electronic Resources and the Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL). The ASIL guide is online at www.asil.org/resource/home.htm. The EISIL database is online at www.eisil.org. Below are links to research guides focused on Human Rights.

American Society of International Law, Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law: Human Rights, by Marci Hoffman. http://www.asil.org/resource/humrts1.htm

Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto, International Women’s Rights and Humanitarian Law. http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/Resguide/women2.htm.

GlobaLex, International Human Rights Research Guide, by Grace Mills.
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/human_rights.htm.

Major Internet Sites

The following Internet sites have collected, documents, links, and in some cases databases related to Human Rights. 

• Bayefsky.com
  www.bayefsky.com.
  
• Human Rights Internet
  www.hri.ca.
  
• Human Rights Network International
  http://www.hrni.org/EN/default.html
  
• Netherlands Institute of Human Rights Library
  http://sim.law.uu.nl/sim/Dochome.nsf.
  
• Online Human Rights Archive at Yale Law School
  www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diana.
  
• University of Minnesota, Human Rights Library
  http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/.
  
• Women’s Human Rights Resources Programme
  www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana.

International Institutions and Human Rights

The links below provide access to judicial bodies, non-governmental organizations, and United Nations agencies that are involved in human rights issues.

Courts and Tribunals:

• European Court of Human Rights
  http://www.echr.coe.int/echr/.
  
• Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
  http://www.eccc.gov.kh/english/.
  
• Inter-American Court of Human rights
  http://www.corteidh.or.cr/index.cfm
  
• International Criminal Court
  http://www.icc-cpi.int/home.html&l=en.
  
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
  http://69.94.11.53/default.htm.
  
• International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
  http://www.un.org/icty/.
  
• Special Court for Sierra Leone
  http://www.sc-sl.org/about.html.

Non-Governmental Organizations:

• Amnesty International
  www.amnesty.org.
  
• Federation Internationale des ligues des Droit de l’Homme
  www.fidh.org.
  
• Human Rights First
  www.humanrightsfirst.com.
  
• Human Rights Watch
  www.hrw.org.
  
• International Commission of Jurists
  www.icj.org.
  
• International Committee of the Red Cross
  www.icrc.org.
  
• United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs: NGO Database
  http://www.un.org/esa/coordination/ngo/.
  
• University of Minnesota, Human Rights Library: NGO Links
  http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/links/ngolinks.html

United Nations Agencies:

• International Labor Organization
  www.ilo.org.
  
• United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
  www.unicef.org.
  
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
  http://www.unhcr.org/home.html.
  
• United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
  http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Pages/WelcomePage.aspx.
  
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
  www.unodc.org.