Human Rights

For international human rights instruments, see:
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and select the International law tab

Websites

Amnesty International
An international non-governmental organisation concerned with promoting and defending human rights worldwide. The websites feature reports and news by country and region.

Children and the Law
A component of the Weblaw project this is a comprehensive website containing a diverse collection of annotated links to sites dealing with different aspects of children and the law  

Council of Europe
The Council of Europe is an intergovernmental organisation which aims, principally, to protect human rights, pluralist democracy and the rule of law. The European Court of Human Rights and the Commissioner for Human Rights come under the aegis of the Council of Europe.

European Court of Human Rights
Access to general information, pending cases, judgments and decisions, basic texts and press releases of the Court

humanrights.org Your Legal Resource (Marchex)

Human Rights
A component of the Weblaw project this page provides a comprehensive and diverse collection of materials on this subject

Human Rights Commission
Homepage of the Commission with links to disability Rights, Sex Discrimination, Human Rights, Complaints Information, Racial Discrimination, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice. An excellent starting point for any research in Human Rights.
See, for example:
The Social Justice Report 2008
The Native Title Report 2008


European Court of Human Rights Portal
Database of the case-law of the supervisory organs of the European Convention on Human Rights

Human Rights Explained
Maintained by the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission this is described as an information resource on human rights covering all the important issues concerning human rights in Australia and internationally. Contains some links to other human rights sites.

Human Rights(Monash Univesity)
Access to documents and materials on human rights. Link to Castan Centre for Human Rights Law

Human Rights Library (University of Minnesota)
This is a good resource for access to over 85,000 documents and materials on human rights.

Human Rights Watch
This website offers background information, resources and reports on thematic issues such as AIDS, Caste discrimination, Child soldiers, Children's rights, Free expression, the International Criminal Court, International justice, Women's rights, Racism and more.

Humanitarian Law Centre
The Humanitarian Law Centre is a regional NGO founded following the armed conflicts of the former Yugoslavia, for the documentation and research of human rights violations and war crimes. The website features, reports, press releases, articles and analysis of decisions from war crimes trials.

International Commission of Jurists
The ICJ is an international NGO concerned with the implementation of international law and principles that advance human rights. It is a good site to start your research on international human rights with links to other legal and human rights resources on the internet; full text documents on human rights trials, press releases, issues of terrorism, administration of justice, independence of judges and lawyers, gender issues, impunity, reparations, militray tribunals and torture.

Interights
This website contains databases on international human rights law and caselaw. There are also links to the websites of national courts and tribunals.

International Service for Human Rights
This Geneva based organisation's website contains comprehensive reports of all the human rights meetings of the United Nations system, calendar of events, and information on UN human rights mechanisms.

National Inquiry into Children and the Law
Details of an inquiry into children in immigration detention to be conducted by Human Rights Commissioner, Dr Sev Ozdowski.

Project DIANA : online human rights archive at Yale Law School
Cases and documents on human rights. The documents file is in 2 categories: United Nations documents; and the Laws of war, each listed alphabetically by title.

Refugee Caselaw Site
"The site currently collects, indexes, and publishes selected recent court decisions that interpret the legal definition of a "refugee." It presently contains cases from the highest national courts of Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States."

Treaties

International human rights instruments (OHCHR)

Journals

Indexes

Human Rights Bibliography REF 016.341215 H918
There are a number of special bibliographies on aspects of human rights law in the Reference section. Browse the Reference shelves at 016.341215 and thereabouts.

Human rights case digest (1999)+

Australian Journal of Human Rights 1994 - 
Columbia human rights law review
For the record
Harvard civil rights - civil liberties law review
Harvard human rights journal
Human rights
Human rights defender
Human rights quarterly
Israel yearbook on human rights
New York Law School journal of human rights
Review. International Commission of Jurists
South African journal on human rights
Wire (Amnesty International)
Yale Human Rights and Development Journal
Yearbook of the European Convention on human rights

Law Reports

Berger. Case law of the European Court of Human Rights
Digest of Strasbourg case-law relating to the European Convention on Human Rights
European Commission of Human Rights. Documents and reports v.1-33 (1975-1983)
European Commission of Human Rights. Report (1965-1990)
European Court of Human Rights. Decisions (1960)+
European Court of Human Rights. Series A : Judgments and decisions (1960-1996)
European Court of Human Rights. Series B: Pleadings, oral arguments and documents (1960-1995)
European Court of Human Rights. Reports of Judgments (1996)+
Interights International Human Rights Law (1981)+