The Aegis Trust is an independent international organisation launched in 2000 and devoted to taking practical action to prevent genocide and mass atrocities worldwide. The site includes reports of historic atrocities and current crises.

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights was established by charter in 1986. This site contains details of the Commission’s history, members, mandate and Rules of Procedure. Documents available include the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child; the Protocol for the establishment of an African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights; the Protocol on the Rights of Women; the Convention on the Rights of Refugees; and other resolutions, declarations, reports and ratifications.

Amnesty International is a campaigning body for human rights worldwide. Its site includes reports on individual countries, searchable via an A-Z country index; campaign reports and thematic publications 1996 onwards; and annual reports 1998 onwards (with summaries for 1993-1997).

The Commissioner for Human Rights is an independent institution within the Council of Europe, responsible for promoting human rights within member states. The first Commissioner began work in 1999, and the site has all documentation to date (including opinions, recommendations, reports, seminar papers and speeches).

Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) is the abbreviated name of the Council of Europe committee established by Article 1 of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1987). The HUDOC CPT Database accessible here includes all CPT reports and public statements, and the “standards” from the CPT’s annual general reports.

The full text of the European Convention on Human Rights as amended by the Protocols, on the Council of Europe Treaty Office site. Other content includes Travaux Préparatoires to the convention and details of signatures, ratifications, reservations and declarations.

The Honour Crimes Project (2000-2005) was a project which aimed to co-ordinate an international approach to fighting ‘honour crimes’. It was jointly co-ordinated by CIMEL (Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) and INTERIGHTS (International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights). The site includes extensive external links to relevant international and national organisations. Documentation in the Materials and Resources section also includes materials relating to ‘crimes of honour’ that were not produced by the CIMEL/INTERIGHTS Project. Case summaries are available in the Bibliography section.

HUDOC is the official database of the case law of the European Convention on Human Rights. Content includes judgments, screening panel decisions and admissibility decisions of the European Court of Human Rights 1959 to date; public reports and admissibility decisions of the defunct European Commission on Human Rights complete from 1986 to 1999, with some earlier decisions; and resolutions of the Committee of Ministers 1959 to 2004. The HUDOC User Manual (downloadable via the Help tab) provides detailed information on database content and guidance on searching.

The full text of the UK’s Human Rights Act Act 1998 on the Legislation.gov.uk site. There is an option to view either the original version as enacted or an updated version.

Human Rights Education Associates is an international non-governmental organisation which supports human rights learning and training. The site contains a collection of subject-based study guides.

Human Rights First (formerly the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights) is an American advocacy organisation based in New York and Washington DC. The site includes details of their current work on asylum, refugees, and security detainees. Relevant US legislation is included along with press releases and details of current publications.

Human Rights Watch is an independent non-governmental organisation based in New York and concerned with defending human rights worldwide. The site contains news, commentaries and reports on human rights issues, arranged by topic and region. Also includes annual reports 1996 onwards, a news archive 1997 onwards and publications back to 1989 (arranged by relevant country or by date).

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights forms part of the human rights protection system of the Organization of American States. It was established in 1979 to enforce and interpret the provisions of the American Convention on Human Rights, which entered into force in 1978. The site includes rules of procedure, decisions and judgments back to 1987, advisory opinions back to 1982, press releases back to 1998 (some available only in Spanish), the Statute of the Court, and extensive links to international conventions on the subject of human rights.

This is a narrative research guide on the GlobaLex site, with many links to relevant organisations and documents, to the major international human rights systems which operate at both international and regional levels. This latest version dated November/December 2017 (earlier versions back to 2007 are still accessible) has been expanded and completely rewritten by James Hart, Senior Reference Librarian in the University of Cincinnati Law Library.

Justice is an all-party law reform and human rights organisation. It is the British section of the International Commission of Jurists. The site includes briefings on various subjects (asylum, criminal justice, human rights, privacy), press releases, consultations, reports and transcripts of lectures.

Subscription site, providing full text of reported and unreported human rights cases from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and domestic courts. (Some transcripts are only available through the Transcripts Express service at an additional cost.) Other content includes full text of selected treaties, including an analysis of the European Convention on Human Rights; the Human Rights Act 1998, both consolidated and original versions; key legislation and proposed legislation; comments on domestic and ECHR cases; and summaries of relevant articles. The Human Rights section of Lawtel is updated daily and can be found under the ‘Specialist Areas’ drop down menu.

Liberty, also known formally as the National Council for Civil Liberties, is an independent organisation seeking to protect civil liberties and promote human rights in England and Wales. Site content includes press releases, articles on different aspects of the Human Rights Act 1998, plus details of current and completed test cases, which Liberty has taken to higher English courts and the European Court of Human Rights.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is an ad hoc international organisation under the United Nations, with 57 participating states, concerned with conflict prevention and crisis management. Its Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is active in areas which include election observation, democratic development, human rights and the rule of law. ODIHR publishes and maintains the Legislationline database: a link to that and other specialised OSCE databases is provided in the Resources pages. Also in Resources there is a Documents Library containing decisions, recommendations, treaties, fact sheets, and other publications.

Project Diana is an online human rights archive at Yale Law School. Selected cases and documents are available on the web site.

Reprieve is a London-based human rights organisation founded by anti-capital punishment lawyer Clive Stafford Smith. Its activities focus particularly on the death penalty in the United States and elsewhere and on the use of torture around the world. The site includes extensive links, case histories, reports, articles and press releases.

UK Human Rights Blog is run by members of 1 Crown Office Row barristers’ chambers in the Temple with the aim of providing “a free, comprehensive and balanced legal update service”. It includes news, articles, case summaries and case comment, written by members of chambers and guest contributors. The archive extends back to 2009.

The full text English and French language versions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the site of the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Also available are translations into more than 500 languages and dialects.

The Universal Human Rights Index is designed to facilitate access to documents of the United Nations human rights treaty bodies and the Special Procedures and the Universal Periodic Review of the UN Humans Rights Council. It contains all concluding observations issued by the treaty bodies from the year 2000 onwards, as well as reports published by the Special Procedures since 2006. Documents can be accessed by country, rights or body.

Established in 1994 to promote human rights and international justice, this research and training centre is now part of Berkeley Law, the UC Berkeley School of Law. The Human Rights Center (HRC) has conducted human rights investigations in more than a dozen countries, including the United States, Iraq, Rwanda, Uganda, Burma and the former Yugoslavia. The site includes information on both current and completed projects. Also available are a range of publications, including HRC reports, articles and bibliographies.

This comprehensive research tool contains over 60,000 documents on human rights and related material, and links to over 4,000 other sites, arranged by topic, region and organisation.

The US Department of State’s web pages dedicated to human rights issues. The site includes country reports from around the world arranged by year, region and country. The archive goes back to 1999.