International Law Research Guide: Human Rights

Annual reports on various countries; Links to related sites.

Site contains both international instruments and domestic legislation of many countries against genocide.

Network of human rights organizations including documents and guides.

From the University of Minnesota. Comprehensive site includes Decisions and Reports of U.N. Human Rights Committee and of other U.N. Human Rights bodies, Treaties, Inter-American Human Rights System.

Coverage of breaking news, World Report and Country Reports (under Publications).

Texts and commentaries on the four Geneva Conventions; Many other treaties; Basic rules of humanitarian law in armed conflict.

The Library section provides texts of some human rights instruments and information regarding their ratification; the Case Law section gives cases from international criminal tribunals and decisions from UN human rights treaty bodies, from the Utrecht School of Law.

Annual reports on human rights in many countries.

Good explanation of functions of various U.N. human rights bodies and links to them.