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INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS RESEARCH GUIDE

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FACULTY OF LAW LIBRARY

Compiled by John Bolan

Revised by Renu Mandhane

CONTENTS

1. HANDBOOKS AND GUIDES ............................................................................................................................. 2

2. DICTIONARIES........................................................................................................................................................ 2

3. ENCYCLOPEDIAS................................................................................................................................................... 2

4. DIRECTORIES .......................................................................................................................................................... 2

5. BOOKS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 3

8. HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNALS AND BODIES .......................................................................................... 7

9. CHARTER-BASED BODIES ............................................................................................................................... 7

10. TREATY-BASED BODIES ................................................................................................................................... 9

11. TRIBUNAL PRACTICE....................................................................................................................................... 11

12. FINDING HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS .......................................................................................... 11

13. PRINT SOURCES .................................................................................................................................................. 13

14. RATIFICATION INFORMATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS .............................. 13

15. HUMAN RIGHTS JURISPRUDENCE ........................................................................................................... 14

16. COUNTRY REPORTS .......................................................................................................................................... 20

17. WEBSITES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CURRENT EVENTS ................................................................... 20

18. GUIDES/RESEARCH AIDS .............................................................................................................................. 21

19. HOW TO FIND A UN DOCUMENT USING A UN DOCUMENT SYMBOL ................................. 22

20. NGOs ........................................................................................................................................................................... 23

21. HUMAN RIGHTS PROFESSIONAL TRAINING MANUALS ............................................................. 24

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Subject Headings

To find materials on international human rights law, consult the Library catalogue under

the following subject headings:

human rights

[group] human rights

human rights [country or region]

women's rights

children's rights

You can also search by subject for specific organizations or specific human rights

instruments, such as conventions or treaties.

1. HANDBOOKS AND GUIDES

Françoise Bouchet-Saulnier, Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law, 2d ed. (Lanham, Md. :

Rowman & Littlefield Pub., 2007).

KZ6471 .B6813 2007 Reference

Victor H. Condé, A Handbook of International Human Rights Terminology, 2d ed. (Lincoln:

University of Nebraska Press, 2004).

K3239.6 .C659 2004 Reference

Janusz Symonides & Vladimir Volodin, eds., A Guide to Human Rights: Institutions,

standards, procedures (France: UNESCO, 2001).

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001233/123368e.pdf

2. DICTIONARIES

David Robertson, A Dictionary of Human Right, 2d ed. (London : Europa, 2004).

K3239.3 .R67 2004 Reference

Connect via U of T Catalogue [electronic resource – 1997 edition]

3. ENCYCLOPEDIAS

David P Forsythe, ed., Encyclopedia of Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Connect via UofT catalog [electronic resource]

James R. Lewis & Carl Skutsch, eds., The Human Rights Encyclopaedia (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E.

Sharpe, 2001).

Connect via UofT catalogue [electronic resource]

4. DIRECTORIES

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Human Rights Organizations & Periodicals Directory (Berkeley, Calif., Meiklejohn Civil

Liberties Institute, 1973-)

KF4741 .H85 REF B

5. BOOKS

Numbers ending in STL are in the short term loan collection at the circulation desk.

5.1 Introductory

Thomas Buergenthal, Dinah Shelton & David P. Stewart, International Human Rights in a

Nutshell, 4th ed. (St. Paul, Minn.: West, 2009).

K 3240.4 .B82 2002 STL

Mark Freeman & Gibran Van Ert, International Human Rights Law (Toronto: Irwin Law,

2004).

K 3240 .F74 2004 STL

Connect via UofT Catalogue [electronic resource]

Sarah Joseph & Adam McBeth, eds., Research Handbook On International Human Rights Law

(Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2010).

Chapters in this work are written by different authors, each addresses a separate

topic. The intent of the work is to provide a grounding in major human rights topics.

K3240 .R474 2010 Stacks

David Weissbrodt & Connie de la Vega, International Human Rights Law : An Introduction,

(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).

K3240 .W45 Stacks

5.2 Casebooks & Textbooks

Dinah Shelton, Regional Protection Of Human Rights (New York: Oxford University Press,

2008).

Casebook devoted primarily to comparing the European, Inter-American and

African human rights systems, but does relate regional systems to both national law

and the global system for protection of human rights. Basic texts included in a

documentary supplement.

K3240 .S526 2008 Stacks

Rhona K.M Smith, Textbook on International Human Rights, 3d ed. (Oxford; New York:

Oxford University Press, 2007).

K3240 .S65 Stacks

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Henry J. Steiner, Philip Alston & Ryan Goodman, eds., International Human Rights in

Context: law, politics, morals; text and materials, 3d ed. (Oxford : Oxford University Press,

2008).

Casebook examines the evolution of international human rights through primary

and secondary sources.

K3240.6 .S84 2008 STL

James C. Hathaway., The Rights of Refugees Under International Law. Cambridge, UK ; New

York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

K3230 .R45 H382 2005

Available as e-book via Catalogue

5.3 International Criminal Law

Antonio Cassese, International Criminal Law, 2d ed., (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University

Press, 2008).

K5000 .C37 STL

Robert J. Currie, International & Transnational Criminal Law (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010). K5015.4 .C87 2010 STL

Anja Seibert-Fohr, Prosecuting Serious Human Rights Violations (Oxford, UK : Oxford

University Press, 2009).

K5301 .S45 2009 Stacks

Available through U of T catalogue [electronic resource]

William A. Schabas, The International Criminal Court : a commentary on the Rome Statute

(Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010).

KZ6310.S328 Stacks

6. TRAVAUX PRÉPARATOIRES

Travaux Préparatoires are the preparatory works from the drafting and negotiation of a

treaty, such as minutes, drafts and reports, and as such are often of interest to legal

researchers. They are also used as an interpretive aid in clarifying the intentions or

meanings of treaties. Most useful to researchers in this regard are guides to travaux

preparatoires. These resources usually track the agreement article by article with

references to the locations in the travaux preparatoires relating to the text being discussed.

In addition, there are also collections of travaux preparatoires – these are usually published

in chronological order, requiring the researcher to collate them to the text of the

agreement. As well, article by article commentaries and other expert analysis of treaties

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and conventions will often cite travaux preparatoires. Travaux preparatoires may also be

found on treaty-body websites, or published in print and online by the signatories.

6.1 Finding travaux preparatoires

Search the catalogue and periodical indexes by combining the phrase “travaux

preparatoires” with keywords identifying the instrument, e.g. “Covenant on Civil and

Political Rights”.

Search the website of any bodies established by the treaty, as well as related UN sites. Both

will often contain travaux preparatoires.

Search the catalogue and periodical indexes for commentaries or analysis on the

instrument, as these works will often cite travaux preparatoires as part of their analysis.

Search the UN Diplomatic Conferences site, which contains negotiation records for various

treaties and conferences in a searchable interface.

If you are unsuccessful in finding any travaux preparatoires using the name of the treaty,

try to find out if there was a conference for negotiation of the instrument, and search using

the conference name instead.

6.2 UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Marc J. Bossuyt, Guide to the “Travaux Préparatoires” of the International Covenant on Civil

and Political Rights (Dordrecht ; Boston : M. Nijhoff ; Hingham, MA : Distributors for the

United States and Canada: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1987).

K3238.31966 .B67

Manfred Nowak, U.N. Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: CCPR commentary 2d rev. ed.

(Kehl, Germany; Arlington, Va. : N.P. Engel, 2005).

Detailed analysis of the Covenant referencing case law, practice and academic

literature as well as comparative jurisprudence of the Euorpean and Inter-American

human rights systems.

K3238.31966 .A3 N68 2005 STL

6.4 UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women

(CEDAW)

Lars Adam Rehof, Guide to the Travaux Préparatories of the United Nations Convention on

the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Dordrecht; Boston: M.

Nijhoff Publishers; Norwell, MA, U.S.A.: Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by

Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993).

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K3243 .R44 1993 Stacks

6.5 Convention on the Status of Refugees 1951

Paul Weis, The Refugee Convention, 1951: the travaux préparatoires analysed, with a

commentary (Cambridge; New York: Grotius Publications, 1995).

K3230 .R45 A34 1995 Stacks

6.6 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Sharon Detrick, ed., The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: a guide to the

"Travaux préparatoires" (Dordrecht ; Boston : M. Nijhoff, 1992).

K639 .A41989 A38 1992 Stacks

7. INDEXES AND DATABASES

To locate periodical literature, start with periodical indexes.

7.1 Legal Indexes

For a list of legal indexes please see Bora Laskin library website’s ‘how to find journals’

page. Below is a list of interdisciplinary indexes useful for international human rights

research.

7.2 Full-text legal databases

LexisNexis Quicklaw’s Human Rights database: Source Directory > Area of law > Filter by

‘International’ > select ‘Human Rights & Civil Liberties’

Westlaw’s WORLD-JLR : search Westlaw’s WORLD-JLR database for efficient access to

Westlaw’s human rights periodical material.

7.3 Interdisciplinary Indexes and Databases

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)

Indexes papers from university research institutes, NGO's, foundation-funded

research projects and other materials.

Contemporary Women's Issues

Sources provide information dealing with women's issues in over 190 nations.

Google Scholar

Set “University of Toronto Libraries - Get it! U of Toronto” in the scholar preferences

configuration page and search results will display with UofT access links, allowing

direct access to material where available through UofT.

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PAIS

Covers international literature in public affairs, public and social policies, and

international relations including government documents and publications of

international agencies.

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library.

Full-text searchable index of human rights treaties and related documents. Features

an option to search multiple human rights web sites silmultaneiously. Treaties can

be sorted by subject matter and by ratification by country.

Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law

Contains articles with legal aspects that appear in non-law journals. Part of Hein

Online, available through the UofT catalogue.

U of T Libraries main page

Offers three more methods of searching for interdisciplinary journal articles

Search for Articles tab > Option 1 - Select your topic, or

Search for Articles tab > Option 2 (Scholars Portal), or

E-Journals tab. Use this to check if U of T has an electronic subscription to a specific

journal.

The Electronic Information System for International Law

Maintained by the American Society of International Law

ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law/Human Rights Maintained by the American Society of International Law

GlobaLex: International Human Rights Research Guide (NYU School of Law)

8. HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNALS AND BODIES

UN human rights bodies are categorized in two classes: charter-based bodies and treaty-

based bodies. The current Charter-based bodies are the Human Rights Council and its

subsidiaries. For information on the differences between Charter-based bodies and treaty-

based bodies see the United Nations Documentation: Research Guide on Human Rights

9. CHARTER-BASED BODIES

The best place to begin searching for documents of a UN body is always the website of the

body itself. In addition however, documents can be found in an array of locations. Below is

a table summarizing alternative locations for documentation issued by the bodies. Below

the table is a brief descripton of the resources found in the table.

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Body Online UN Resources for Body’s Documents

*The best place to begin searching for

documents of a UN body is always the

website of the body itself

Human Rights Council

Official Document System

UNBISnet

AccessUN

Universal Human Rights Index

UN-I-QUE

Periodic Review Working Group

Official Document System

UNBISnet

AccessUN

Universal Human Rights Index

UN-I-QUE

Human Rights Council Advisory

Committee

Official Document System

UNBISnet

AccessUN

Universal Human Rights Index

UN-I-QUE

special procedures

Official Document System

UNBISnet

AccessUN

Universal Human Rights Index

UN-I-QUE

Universal Human Rights Index

Aimed at enabling researchers to locate human rights documents issued by the UN human

rights treaty bodies and the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, it is a

searchable index of UN human rights information based on the observations and

recommendations of the seven Treaty Bodies monitoring the implementation of the core

international human rights treaties (since 2000) and the Special Procedures of the Human

Rights Council (since 2006). Browseable by country, by rights and by body.

Access UN (electronic resource available through the UofT library catalogue)

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Provides access to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications.

Articles appearing in UN periodicals are individually indexed. Indexing of the bilateral and

multilateral treaties in the UN Treaty Series. Documents from the six main bodies of the

United Nations - General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council,

Trusteeship Council, Secretariat and International Court of Justice - are indexed. Full-text

resolutions from the General Assembly, Security Council and the Economic and Social

Council are appended to their respective bibliographic citations.

ODS( Official Documents System of the United Nations)

Full-text access to official documents back to 1993 and resolutions back to 1946. Offers

‘simple’ , ‘advanced’ and ‘global’ search options. Best used when you have a U.N. document

number (e.g. CERD/C/225/Add.1) and want the full-text of the document.

UNBISNET (1979-)

Catalogue of UN publications and documentation indexed by the United Nations Dag

Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. Coverage is primarily

from 1979 forward, however, indexing for resolutions of the General Assembly, Economic

and Social Council, Security Council and Trusteeship Council are included back to 1946.

UNBISNET also includes an index to speeches (from the mid 1980s on) and voting

information (from the beginning for the Security Council and from the mid 1980s for the

General Assembly, ECOSOC and the Trusteeship Council)

UN-I-QUE (UN Info Quest)

A ready-reference file created by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library to respond to frequently

asked questions, is designed to provide quick access to document symbols/sales numbers

for UN materials (1946 onwards).focuses upon documents and publications of a recurrent

nature: annual/sessional reports

10. TREATY-BASED BODIES

Body Treaty or UN Charter Alternative Online UN

Resources for Body’s

Documents

*The best place to

begin searching for

documents of a UN

body is always the

website of the body

itself

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Committee against

Torture

Convention against Torture and

Other Cruel, Inhuman or

Degrading Treatment or

Punishment

Official Document System

UNBISnet

AccessUN

Universal Human Rights Index

UN-I-QUE

Committee on the

Elimination of

Discrimination against

Women

Convention on the Elimination of

All Forms of Discrimination

against Women

Official Document System

UNBISnet

AccessUN

Universal Human Rights Index

UN-I-QUE

Committee on the

Rights of Persons with

Disabilities

Convention on the Rights of

Persons with Disabilities

Official Document System

UNBISnet

AccessUN

Universal Human Rights Index

UN-I-QUE Committee on

Economic, Social and

Cultural Rights

International Covenant on

Economic, Social and Cultural

Rights

Official Document System

UNBISnet

AccessUN

Universal Human Rights Index

UN-I-QUE

Committee on the

Rights of the Child

Convention on the Rights of the

Child

Official Document System

UNBISnet

AccessUN

Universal Human Rights Index

UN-I-QUE

Human Rights

Committee

International Covenant on Civil

and Political Rights

Official Document System

UNBISnet

AccessUN

Universal Human Rights Index

UN-I-QUE

Committee on the

Elimination of Racial

Discrimination

International Convention on the

Elimination of All Forms of Racial

Discrimination

Official Document System

UNBISnet

AccessUN

Universal Human Rights Index

UN-I-QUE

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Committee on Migrant

Workers

International Convention on the

Protection of the Rights of All

Migrant Workers and Members of

Their Families

Official Document System

UNBISnet

AccessUN

Universal Human Rights Index

UN-I-QUE

11. TRIBUNAL PRACTICE

Manual on international courts and tribunals. Mackenzie, Ruth, Romano,Cesare P. R.,

Shany, Yuval, and Sands, Philippe. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. 2nd

ed.

Aims to provide the basic information required by a potential complainant to most

of the principal global and regional international courts and tribunals, including

information on complaint procedure, rules of procedure, likely cost of proceedings,

powers of decision, power to issue interim orders, jurisdiction, location and contact

information, presentation of pleadings.

KZ6250.M36 Reference B

12. FINDING HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS

The web sites of the human rights bodies are the best sources for finding treaties and other

instruments. Other sources are listed below.

Online sources

UN Treaty Collection

Provides access to the full text of treaties contained in the United Nations Treaty

Series (UNTS) as well as The Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the

Secretary-General and Recently Deposited Multilateral Treaties.

OHCHR treaty-body

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library

Provides full-text search capabilities for human rights related treaties and related

documents. (choose the “search these documents by KEY WORD” link) Offers

simultaneous searching across multiple human rights web sites, including the

United Nations, European Court of Human Rights, Amnesty International. Also lists

treaties by subject matter and according to ratification by country.

Flare Index to Treaties

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Searchable database with information on over 1,500 significant multilateral (three

or more parties) treaties from 1856 to the present, with details of where the full text

of each treaty may be obtained in paper and, if available, electronic form on the

Internet. Treaties included in FLARE have been selected for their significance.

International Legal Materials

Bi-monthly publication of American Society of International Law that includes the

full text of selected new, treaties in addition to other important legal materials,

including selected international case law. Available through UofT catalogue via Hein

Online. Also available through LexisNexis Quicklaw and Westlaw Canada (database:

ILM).

Access UN

Official Documents System of the United Nations

UNBISNET

League of Nations Treaty Series

Information about the 205 volumes of the League of Nations Treaty Series (LoNTS)

has been made available in the United Nations Treaty Collection website. During

migration of the database, the full text of the League of Nations material was lost.

Efforts are underway to recover this data. Basic information about the treaties is

available.

The United Nations Human Rights Treaties

This site provides access to documents and information from the UN human rights

treaty system. Materials include the text of treaties, documents from the UN treaty

bodies, information on reform of the system, and other information. Documents

issued by the treaty bodies are arranged by state, by category, and by theme or

subject matter. This last category (by theme or subject) is something not available

on other web sites.

Human Rights Treaties

Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), Colllection of primary treaties and

instruments from several human rights systems, including the UN.

Inter-American Commission of Women

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Website contains, among other items, the principal Inter-American conventions

relating to women.

United Nations Humanitarian Treaties International Humanitarian Law: Treaties & Documents - International Red Cross

13. PRINT SOURCES

Brownlie, Ian & Goodwin-Gill, Guy S. eds., Basic Documents on Human Rights, 5th ed.

(Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006)

A collection of key documents covering all elements of the subject, with commentary

and bibliographic annotation.

K3238 .A1 B76 STL

Global human rights law collection (Nijmegen, The Netherlands: Global Law Association,

1999- )

In addition to the text of the instruments this work contains brief summaries of

international and regional human rights instruments including historical

development and key concepts.

K3238 .G54 Stacks

14. RATIFICATION INFORMATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS

14.1 UN Instruments

The page for each treaty-based UN Human Rights Body usually contains a link to

ratification information. Below are some other resources for ratification status.

Treaty Body Document Search

This database was established to monitor the implementation of the principal UN

human rights treaties. The database provides information on submission of reports

by States, documents issued by the treaty bodies and reporting and ratification

information. The documents are available as well as status and submission

information. Documents can be accessed in a variety of ways (by treaty, country,

symbol, etc.).

The United Nations Human Rights Treaties

Provides ratification information by treaty and by state. The information includes

the following: Limited to the UN human rights treaty system.

Human Rights Instruments

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Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM)

Provides information on signatures and ratification information for many treaties

and instruments from various human rights systems. Access to the information is by

treaty or country. Reservations and objections are searchable.

14.2 Inter-American Instruments

Basic Documents Pertaining to Human Rights in the Inter-American System

Signature and ratification information for many Inter-American human rights

treaties.

Treaties and Agreements

section of this OAS site

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Basic human rights documents and ratification status information.

Law Update

page of the Inter-American Commission of Women

Contains status and ratification information for the Inter-American Convention the

on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence Against Women.

14.3 ILO Instruments

Ratifications of the ILO Fundamental Conventions

14.4 European Instruments

Council of Europe Treaties Page

Includes signature and ratification information on the same page as the text of the

treaty

14.5 African Instruments

African (Banjul) Charter on Human and People's Rights

15. HUMAN RIGHTS JURISPRUDENCE

Finding human rights cases can be a difficult task; not all cases are reported, and case

reporters in this area are often published irregularly.

15.1 Online Resources for Human Rights Jurisprudence

In general, text of recent cases are well documented on the various court and committee

websites, however often not in a searchable interface. For the body websites, see above or

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google the name of the body. Listed below are searchable databases of international

human rights decisions.

15.2 Multi-jurisdictional Online Resources for Jurisprudence

The resources below cover more than one court or tribunal.

Oxford Reports of International Human Rights Law

Via the UofT catalogue, provides case law from the African Commission, the

European court of Human Rights, the UN Committee against Torture, the UN

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the UN

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and the UN Human Rights

Committee. There is also a module for international criminal law.

Bayefsky.com: CCPR Jurisprudence

choose search then ‘jurisprudence’

Commonwealth and International Human Rights Case Law Databases (Interights)

Summaries of significant human rights decisions, from both domestic courts and

international tribunals..

Case Law Database

Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM)

This web site provides access to databases containing summaries of the case law

of the Human Rights Committee, the Committee Against Torture, and the

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. There is also a database

containing information on judgments of the European Court of Human Rights and

the concluding comments of the United Nations treaty bodies have been made

accessible. Coverage varies. Users must register to use the databases, but there is

no charge for access.

International Courts & Tribunals Library at WorldLII

A searchable collection of international courts and tribunals, including those that

focus on human rights. Coverage for each court and tribunal varies.

The Project on International Courts and Tribunals

Provides the full-text of selected cases and decisions from various international

courts and tribunals, including the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-

American Court of Human Rights, and the International Criminal Tribunals for

Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Note: This site does not seem to have been

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updated since 2008!

Refworld (UNHCR)

Search for case law from various human rights courts and dispute settlement

bodies. Although concerned mainly with refugee/asylum seeking case law it allows

some flexibility when searching for human rights cases, including UN Treaty body

jurisprudence.

Lexis Human Rights Cases Database

Includes Butterworths Human Rights Cases, International Journal of Refugee Law

and the Northwestern University Journal of International Human Rights.

To access it > ‘Source directory’ > by area of law > International > Human rights and

Civil liberties

Universal Human Rights Index

Contains the observations and recommendations of the seven UN human rights

treaty bodies, the comments by governments on the concluding observations issued

by the treaty bodies from the year 2000 on, as well as all reports published by the

Special Procedures since 2006. Searchable by keyword, right, country and body.

International Court of Justice

World Court Digest Max Planck Institute ICJ cases

15.3 Online Resources for Jurisprudence from specific Regions or Tribunals

15.3.1 Africa

Constitutional Library (Jutastat)

Contains, among other things, the South African Journal on Human Rights, covering

articles on constitutional matters, comments on cases, book reviews and general

articles on human rights issues. Password available via e.legal.

African Human Rights Law Reports

Selected national decisions and decisions from the African Commission on Human

and Peoples' Rights, as well as decisions of United Nations treaty bodies that deal

with African countries.

Decisions of the African Commission (University of Minnesota Human Rights Library)

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Official Documents section of the African Union website contains human rights decisions.

African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights

15.3.2 Inter-American

Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Jurisprudence of the court, including advisory opinions, and material dealing with

provisional measures and supervision of compliance.

Case law of the Inter-American Court on Human Rights (University of Minnesota)

University of Minnesota’s Human Rights site maintains a mirror site to the Inter-

American Court of Human Rights website.

Westlaw Inter-American Commission on Human Rights - Organization of American States –

database identifier: IACHR-OAS

Case reports appearing in the Annual Report of the Inter-American Commission on

Human Rights and Basic Documents Pertaining to Human Rights in the Inter-

American System from the Organization of American States (OAS). Coverage begins

with 1994.

15.3.3 International Labour Organization (ILO)

Triblex

case law database of the ILO Administrative Tribunal (link to database on left side

of page)

Digest of Decisions of the Freedom of Association Committee

Ilolex searchable database of decisions

Ilolex on CD-ROM

Computerized version of the International Labour Code, in full text and in three

languages (English, French and Spanish), concerning human rights, employment

policy, working conditions, industrial relations, occupational safety and health, and

social security. A manual is also available.

HD 7801 .I56 Disc and Manual Stand-alone CD-Rom. Please ask at circulation desk

15.3.4 The European Court of Human Rights

HUDOC

Jurisprudence and publications of the European Court of Human Rights, the

European Commission of Human Rights and the Committee of Ministers.

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WESTLAW : Human rights law reports - database identifier: HRL-RPTS

Decisions from E.U. (and former European Economic Community) courts and

domestic courts in the United Kingdom and other E.U. member states that pertain to

human rights. Coverage begins with March 1999.

WESTLAW : Human rights law reports all - database identifier: HR-RPTS-ALL

Decisions from European Union (and former European Economic Community)

courts and domestic courts in the United Kingdom and other E.U. member states

that pertain to human rights published in Human Rights Law Reports, plus decisions

from the European Court of Human Rights and selected reports and decisions from

the European Commission of Human Rights, as well as settlements and resolutions

of the Committee of Ministers, published in European Human Rights Reports.

Coverage begins with 1960 for European Human Rights Reports and March 1999 for

Human Rights Law Reports.

15.4 Print Resources

Aside from the fact that older jurisprudence may only be available in print, print resources

can be very useful to the human rights researcher. Typically compiled by experts in the

field, their organization, detailed indexes and tables of contents make them useful

resources for tasks such as locating leading jurisprudence, or finding decisions by treaty

provision, country, right or complainant.

15.4.1 UN and Commonwealth

Leading Cases of the Human Rights Committee. Hanski, Raija & Scheinin, Martin, eds.

(Turku/Åbo: Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University, 2003.)

K3239.53 .L43 1 copy STL, 1 copy Stacks

Selected Decisions Under The Optional Protocol: second to sixteenth sessions. (Human Rights

Committee. New York : United Nations, 1985)

K3239.23 .U54

Commonwealth Human Rights Law Digest (London: Interights, 1996- ).

Case law from international human rights bodies and Commonwealth country

courts.

K3239.23 .C66

15.4.2 Europe

Human Rights Case Digest, (London : British Institute of Human Rights, 1990- ).

K3239.2 .H85

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Collection of Decisions - European Commission of Human Rights. (European Commission of

Human Rights. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, [1959-1974]).

This series indexes the summaries of the Decisions and Reports of the European

Commission of Human Rights., providing researchers with access by article,

paragraph and subparagraph of the Convention, by name of applicant or respondent

state and by subject matter

K3240.3 .E84

European Human Rights Reports, (London: European Law Centre Ltd., c1979-current).

K3240.3 .E87

Decisions and Reports - Council of Europe [and] European Commission for Human Rights.

(European Commission of Human Rights. Strasbourg: The Commission, 1975-1999).

K3240.3 .E84 no. 1-94

Donna Gomien, Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights: reference chart..

(Strasbourg : Council of Europe Press, 1995).

Useful for quickly finding information European Court of Human Rights cases.

Entries cross-reference comments to similar cases; and a separate set of charts lists

all cases by Convention articles addressed.

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Peter Kempees, ed., A Systematic Guide to the Case-Law of the European Court of Human

Rights, (The Hague ; Boston : Kluwer Law International, 1996).

Excerpts from decisions arranged by Article of the European Convention on human

rights and its Protocols, intended to provide an overview of the court’s rulings

under each article.

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International human rights reports.

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15.4.3 Africa

African human rights law reports.

Rpts. Afr. D22 A47

15.4.4 Inter-American Court of Human Rights

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Organization of American States, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Series C--Decisions

and Judgments, (San José, Costa Rica : Secretaría de la Corte, 1987- )

KDZ574 .A52 I584 no.42 Stacks

KDZ574 .A52 I584 no.63 Stacks

16. COUNTRY REPORTS

Amnesty International Country Reports

Asylumlaw.org

Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board’s National Documentation Packages

Global IDP Project

Human Rights Watch World Reports

ICRC Country Reports

Country Reports (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights)

Refworld

SuperSearch - search 19 human rights databases at once

UNICEF state of the World’s Children

U.S. Dept. of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

U.S. Dept.. of State, Annual Report on International Religious Freedom

U.S. Dept. of State Country Reports on Trafficking in Persons

Country reports table at the University of Minnesota’s human rights library

Universal Periodic Review country reviews of of the UN Human Rights Council

17. WEBSITES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CURRENT EVENTS

United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Amnesty International Online

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This is the official Internet site for AI. It contains the most up-to-date information --

new document summaries, publications from AI (including the annual country

reports), and links to other sites.

Human rights Centre

At UC Berkley. Searchable via a google custom search

Forced Migration Online

From the Ground

Pools RSS-feeds from major field-based NGOs into a single feed, with option to view

separate feeds for individual regions, has a search interface as well.

Hurisearch

Indexes over 5000 human rights websites, very good tool for searching for human

rights news on the web.

Human Rights Watch

Derechos Human Rights.

Links to key human rights resources, divided into categories such as “Reports and

News”.

OneWorld.net

Aggregates news and views from over 1600 human rights and anit-poverty sites.

http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/Diana/

From the University of Toronto’s Bora Laskin Law Library, intended to collect,

organize and disseminate information on women's human rights law. Includes a

Womens Human’s Rights Resources database.

Human Rights Organizations Database

According to the website it contains information on 11474 organizations involved in

human rights.

18. GUIDES/RESEARCH AIDS

18.1 UN Research Guides

United Nations Documentation: Research Guide on Human Rights

Authored by the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library

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ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law: United Nations

Research Guide: the United Nations

Columbia University

18.2 League of Nations

Research Guide to League of Nations Documents andPublications

Northwestern University

18.3 European Court of Human Rights Research Guides

Peter Kempees, ed., A Systematic Guide to the Case-Law of the European Court of Human

Rights, (The Hague; Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1996).

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18.4 General Research Guides

David Weissbrodt, et al., Selected International Human Rights Instruments and Bibliography

For Research on International Human Rights Law, 3rd ed., (Cincinnati, OH : Anderson

Publishing Co. 2001.)

As well as the text of major human rights instruments this work contains extensive

listing of sources for international human rights law research broken down by topic.

Includes sections with sources for status of Human rights instruments, legislative

history of human rights instruments, human rights case law and rules of procedure,

international criminal tribunals, practice guides and country situations.

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Electronic Research Guide: Human Rights American Society of International Law

ESIL – Electronic Information System for International Law: International Human Rights

Provides annotated links to primary materials, web sites and research guides.

Includes citations, entry into force and signature dates and amendments.

Human Rights Law Research Guide

Georgetown University Law Centre Law Library

Highlights and annotates the top resources for international law

19. HOW TO FIND A UN DOCUMENT USING A UN DOCUMENT SYMBOL

A UN document symbol is a unique identifier for a United Nations document that is usually

located in the upper right-hand corner of a document e.g. S/2009/391

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You can often locate the corresponding document using the Official Document System of

the United Nations (ODS), which contains the almost all documents issued since 1993 and

select documents from earlier years.

For older documents try UNBISnet, which provides bibliographic records for documents

from roughly 1980 onwards. Select keyword Search and choose “UN Doc. Symbol / Sales

Nos. “ from the drop down menu and input the UN document symbol without punctuation

i.e. for E/CONF.85/L.33 you would input ECONF85L33 as the search term. UNBISnet will

provide a link to the full-text where available.

Guide to United Nations Document Series Symbols

20. NGOs

Below is an extremely small list of some major human rights NGOs. For a more

comprehensive list see Other NGOs at the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library

website and Other NGOs at the Human Rights First website.

From the Grounds

A searchable database of various NGO reports

Amnesty International

Includes annual reports and country reports as well as general information about

the organization.

Human Rights Watch

Includes news and full-text of their recent World Reports and country reports. For

information on a country, click on 'Recent Publications' and then the country to get

to a list of links to both World Report sections on that country and other reports.

Human Rights First

Includes news and lawyer network

International Committee of the Red Cross

Includes many reports by country and issue. Full-text of the International Review of

the Red Cross since 1995.

Centre for Law and Democracy

An international human rights organisation based in Halifax, Canada. Website contains,

among other things, a section with papers/publications/reports (e.g. “Hate Speech Rules

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Under International Law, February 2010“), various analyses of draft laws from different

jurisdictions and a few examples of laws the CLD was asked to help draft.

21. HUMAN RIGHTS PROFESSIONALS TRAINING MATERIALS

21.1 General Human Rights Law OHCHR/UN Staff College Project, Human Rights: A Basic Handbook for UN Staff OHCHR/ILO, Pocket Guide on Basic Human Rights Instruments, 1998 OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 2: The International Bill of Human Rights OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 7: Complaint Procedures OHCHR/UN Staff College Project, Manual on Human Rights Reporting, 1997 OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 27: Seventeen Frequently Asked Questions about United Nations Special Rapporteurs OHCHR, Handbook on National Human Rights Plans of Action, 2002 OSCE, Individual Human Rights Complaints: A Handbook for OSCE Field Personnel, 2003 Global Rights, Using the Inter-American System for Human Rights, 2004 W. O’Neill, A Humanitarian Practitioner’s Guide to International Human Rights Law, 1999 International Council on Human Rights Policy, Performance & Legitimacy: National Human Rights Institutions, 2000 http://www.ichrp.org/ Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission/British Irish Rights Watch, Human Wrongs, Human Rights: A Guide to the Human Rights Machinery of the United Nations, 2001 21.2 Human Rights Monitoring and Documentation, General OHCHR, Training Manual on Human Rights Monitoring, 2001 Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Human Rights Monitoring, 2001 Norwegian Institute of Human Rights, Manual on Human Rights Monitoring: An Introduction for Human Rights Field Officers, 2002 Asian Human Rights Commission, Human Rights Monitoring and Fact-Finding, 2000 Amnesty International/Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Monitoring and Investigating Human Rights Abuses in Armed Conflict, 2001

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Amnesty International, Monitoring and Reporting Human Rights Violations in Africa: AHandbook for Community Activists, 2002 21.3 Human Rights Education/Training, General OHCHR, Human Rights Training: A Manual on Human Rights Training Methodology OHCHR, ABC – Teaching Human Rights: Practical Activities for Primary and Secondary Schools Columbia University Human Rights Center (P. Martin), Self-Help Human Rights Education Handbook, 1996 Council of Europe, Teaching Guide to the European Convention on Human Rights, 1997 Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights Poland, How to Protect Human Rights - The United Nations’ System of Human Rights Protection: Educational packet, 1997 Human Rights Resource Center (University of Minnesota), The Human Rights Education Series Amnesty International, International Human Rights Standards and Education, 1998 Amnesty International, A 12-Point Guide for Good Practice in the Training and Education for Human Rights of Government Officials, 1998 Action Aid, Learning About Rights, December 2001 Asian Regional Resource Center for Human Rights Education, Human Rights Education Pack, 1995 International Human Rights Network, Learning – To Integrate Human Rights, 1999 International Human Rights Network, Towards Effective Training for Field Human Rights Tasks, 1996 Open Society Institute (F. Tibbitts), An Annotated Primer for Selecting Democratic and Human Rights Education Teaching Materials, 1997 21.4 Human Rights Advocacy CARE, Advocacy Tools and Guidelines: Promoting Policy Change, 2001 21.5 Civil and Political Rights, General OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 15: Civil and Political Rights: The Human Rights Committee Front Line, Civil and Political Rights Manual: Using International Human Rights

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Mechanisms and Procedures: An Online Manual for Human Rights Defenders, Council of Europe, Handbook No. 1: The right to respect for private and family life. A guide to the implementation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, 2001 Council of Europe, Handbook No. 2: Freedom of expression. A guide to the implementation of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, 2001 Article 19, Freedom of Expression Manual, 1993 Article 19, The Virtual Freedom of Expression Handbook 21.6 Administration of Justice OHCHR/IBA, Human Rights in the Administration of Justice: A Manual on Human Rights for Judges, Prosecutors and Lawyers, 2003 OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 26: The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Council of Europe, Handbook No. 3: The right to a fair trial. A guide to the implementation of Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, 2001 Council of Europe, Handbook No. 5: The right to liberty and security of the person. A guide to the implementation of Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights, 2002 Amnesty International, Amnesty International Fair Trials Manual, 1998 Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, What is a Fair Trial? A Basic Guide to Legal Standards and Practice, 2000 International Commission of Jurists, Trial Observation Manual, 2002 UNICEF, Innocenti Digest No. 3: Juvenile Justice, 1998 21.7 Law Enforcement OHCHR, Human Rights and Law Enforcement: A Manual on Human Rights Training for the Police

Pocket Book Trainer’s Guide Expanded Pocket Book

Council of Europe, Human Rights and the Police: A Workbook for Practice-Oriented Teaching, 1998 Council of Europe, Discussion Tools: A Police and Human Rights Trainer’s Manual Council of Europe, Human Rights and their Protection under International Law: A Pamphlet

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for Police, 2000 Council of Europe, The Human Rights Challenge in Police Practice: A Reference Brochure Council of Europe, VIP Guide: Vision, Innovation and Professionalism in Policing Violence against Women and Children ICRC (C. de Rover), To Serve and to Protect: Human Rights and Humanitarian Law for Police and Security Forces, 1998 Amnesty International/Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa,Monitoring and Investigating Excessive Use of Force, 2000 Amnesty International, 10 Basic Human Rights Standards for Law Enforcement Officials, 1998 Danish Centre for Human Rights, Human Rights and the Police: A Training Manual, 1999 21.8 Prisons ICRC, Deprived of Freedom, 2002 Amnesty International/Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa,Monitoring and Investigating Death in Custody, 2000 Penal Reform International, Making Standards Work: An International Handbook on Good Prison Practice, 2001 King’s College London: International Centre for Prison Studies (A. Cole), A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management: Handbook for Prison Staff, 2002 Association for the Prevention of Torture/ODIHR (A. Corbaz), Monitoring Places of Detention: A Practical Guide for NGOs, 2002 21.9 Torture OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 4: Combating Torture OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 17: The Committee against Torture OHCHR, The Istanbul Protocol: Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment Punishment, 2001 Council of Europe, Handbook No. 6: The prohibition of torture. A guide to the implementation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, 2003 Amnesty International/Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa,Monitoring and Investigating Torture, Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment and

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Prison Conditions, 2000 Amnesty International, Combating Torture: A Manual for Action, 2002 University of Essex (C. Giffard), The Torture Reporting Handbook, 2000 University of Essex Human Rights Centre (C. Foley), Combating Torture: A Manual for Judges and Prosecutors, 2003 21.10 Disappearances OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 6: Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances ICRC, The Missing – Brochure, 2003 21.11 Killings OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 11: Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions University of Essex Human Rights Centre (K. Thompson and C. Giffard), Reporting Killings as Human Rights Violations Handbook, 2002 Amnesty International/Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa,Monitoring and Investigating Political Killings, 2000 21.12 Human Rights Defenders OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 29: Human Rights Defenders: Protecting the Right to Defend Human Rights Diplomacy Training Program, Human Rights Defender Manual, 2001 21.13 Elections UN Centre for Human Rights, Human Rights and Elections: A Handbook on the Legal, Technical and Human Rights Aspects of Elections, 1994

OSCE, Handbook for Domestic Election Observers, 2003

OSCE, The ODIHR Election Observation Handbook, 1999

Norwegian Helsinki Committee, Election Observation Manual 1/2000, 2000 21.14 Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 16: The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

HURIDOCS, Promoting and Defending Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Handbook

Council of Europe, Handbook No. 4: The right to property. A guide to the implementation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the European Convention on Human Rights, 2001

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International Human Rights Internship Program/Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, Circle of Rights: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Activism: A Training Resource, 2000

International Human Rights Internship Program/M. Biokno, A Rights-Based Approach Towards Budget Analysis, 1999

Front Line, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Online Manual 21.15 Housing OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 21: The Human Right to Adequate Housing

OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 25: Forced Evictions and Human Rights

T. Barrameda/L. Espallardo, Learning, Reflecting and Acting for a Human Rights Future: A Training Manual for the Education of the Human Right to Housing in Urban Communities, 1996 21.16 Water Pacific Institute (P. Gleick), The Human Right to Water, 1999 21.17 Health OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 23: Harmful Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children

OHCHR, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights: International Guidelines: Access to Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support – Revised Guideline 6, 2002

WHO, 25 Questions & Answers on Health & Human Rights, 2002

UNESCO/UNAIDS, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights: A Kit of Ideas for Youth Organisations

UN Development Fund for Women, Gender, HIV and Human Rights: A Training Manual, 2000

International Programme on Reproductive and Sexual Health Law of the Faculty of Law/University of Toronto, A Handbook for advocacy in the African Human Rights System: Advancing Reproductive and Sexual Health, 2002 21.18 Rights-Based Approach to Development OHCHR, Draft Guidelines: A Human Rights Approach to Poverty Reduction Strategies, 2002

OHCHR, Resource Database on Rights-Based Approaches to Development for Practitioners in Asia-Pacific

UNDP, Poverty Reduction and Human Rights: A Practice Note, 2003

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UNDP, Human Rights Based Approach Check List for Programme Staff, 2003

UNDP, UNDP and Human Rights: Questions and Answers

CARE, Basic Introduction to Human Rights and Rights-Based Programming: Facilitator’s Guidebook and Workbook

CARE (P. O’Brien), Benefits-Harm Handbook and Facilitation Manual, 2001

Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, Handbook in Human Rights Assessment: State Obligations, Awareness and Empowerment, 2001

Overseas Development Institute, What Can We Do With a Rights-Based Approach to Development?, 1999

Human Rights Internet, An Introduction to Human Rights and Development, 2003

Institute of Development Studies, IDS Policy Briefing No. 17: The Rise of Rights: Rights-based Approaches to International Development, 2003 21.19 Racial Discrimination OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 12: The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Amnesty International, Using the International Human Rights System to Combat Racial Discrimination: A Handbook, 2001 21.20 Indigenous Peoples, Minorities OHCHR, UN Guide for Indigenous Peoples, 2001 OHCHR, UN Guide for Minorities OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 9: The Rights of Indigenous Peoples OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 18: Minority Rights Forest Peoples Programme (F. MacKay), A Guide to Indigenous Peoples Rights in the Inter-American Human Rights System, 2001 Minority Rights Group International/Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Minority Rights: A Guide to UN Procedures and Institutions, 1998 21.21 Women’s Rights OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 22: Discrimination Against Women: The Convention and the Committee

UNICEF, Training of Trainers: Gender-Based Violence Focusing on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

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American Bar Association, The CEDAW Assessment Tool, 2002 Rights & Democracy, A Methodology for Gender-Sensitive Research Rights & Democracy, Investigating Women's Rights Violations in Armed Conflicts Rights & Democracy, Documenting Human Rights Violations by State Agents 21.22 Children’s Rights OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 10: The Rights of the Child UNICEF, Standard Generic Training Module (SGTM) 6D: Child Protection UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Ensuring the Rights of Indigenous Children, 2004 Save the Children, Child Rights Programming - How to Apply Rights Approaches in Programming, 2002 Save the Children/UNHCR, Action for the Rights of Children: A Rights-Based Training and Capacity Building Initiative Defence for Children International, International Standards Concerning the Rights of the Child No Peace Without Justice/UNICEF, International Criminal Justice and Children, 2002 International Bureau for Children’s Rights, The Rights of Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime, 2002 21.23 Refugees OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 20: Human Rights and Refugees UNHCR, An introduction to the international protection of refugees (RLD 1), 1992 UNHCR, Refugee Children: Guidelines on Protection and Care, 1994 UNHCR, Guidelines on the Protection of Refugee Women, 1991 UNHCR, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Guidelines for Prevention and Response, 2003 UNHCR, Sexual Violence Against Refugees: Guidelines on Prevention and Response, 1995 UNHCR, Human Rights and Refugee Protection Training Module, 1995 UNHCR, A UNHCR Handbook for the Military on Humanitarian Operations, 1995

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UNHCR, Handbook for Emergencies, 2001 UNHCR, Partnership: Operations Management Handbook for UNHCR’s Partners, 2003 IPU/UNHCR, Handbook for Parliamentarians: Refugee Protection: A Guide to International Refugee Law, 2001 Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium, Raising Awareness for Reproductive Health in Complex Emergencies, 2002 Amnesty International, The UN and refugees’ human rights: a manual on how UN human rights mechanism can protect the rights of refugees, 1997 University of Oxford Refugee Studies Centre, The Refugee Experience: Psychosocial Training Module 21.24 Internally Displaced Persons OCHA, Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement W. Kälin, Annotations on Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, 2000 OCHA/Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Manual on Field Practice in Internal Displacement: Examples from UN Agencies and Partner Organisations of Field-Based Initiatives Supporting Internally Displaced Persons, 1999

Inter-Agency Standing Committee Working Group, Training Modules on Internal Displacement,Training Modules on Internal Displacement

Norwegian Refugee Council, NRC Training Modules on the UN Guiding Principles on IDPs

Global IDP Project, International human rights and humanitarian law merged into one operational instrument: the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, 2002

Norwegian Refugee Council/Global IDP Project, Rights Have No Borders: Internal Displacement Worldwide, 1998

Brookings Institution/John Hopkins SAIS Project on Internal Displacement (W. O’Neill), A New Challenge for Peacekeepers: The Internally Displaced, 2004 21.25 Trafficking OHCHR, Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking, 2002 Brussels Declaration on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, 2002

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OSCE, National Referral Mechanisms: Joining Efforts to Protect the Rights of Trafficked Persons: A Practical Handbook, 2004 UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Trafficking in Human Beings, Especially Women and Children, in Africa, 2004 International Human Rights Law Group (A. Jordan), The Annotated Guide to the Complete UN Trafficking Protocol, 2002 Terre des Hommes Nepal, Childtrafficking.com: Digital Library 21.26 Migrant Workers OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 24: The Rights of Migrant Workers 21.27 Conflict International Humanitarian Law and Humanitarian Action OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 13: International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

OHCHR, Fact Sheet No. 28: The Impact of Mercenary Activities on the Right of Peoples to Self-Determination

ICRC, International Humanitarian Law: Answers to Your Questions, 2002 ICRC, Fact Sheet: What Is International Humanitarian Law?, 2004

ICRC, Fact Sheet: International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law: Similarities and Differences, 2003

ICRC, Occupation and International Humanitarian Law: Questions and Answers, 2004

ICRC, Information Kit: National Enforcement of International Humanitarian Law, 2003

ICRC, Fact Sheet: Implementing International Humanitarian Law: From Law to Action, 2002

ICRC, Fact Sheet: Penal Repression: Punishing War Crimes, 2003 International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Code of Conduct for The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief, 1994 OCHA, An Easy Reference to International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law, 1999

OCHA, Aide Mémoire for the Consideration of Issues Pertaining to the Protection of Civilians, 2004

Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Frequently Asked Questions on International Humanitarian, Human Rights and Refugee Law in the Context of Armed Conflict, 2002

Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Growing the Sheltering Tree: Protecting Rights Through Humanitarian Action, 2002

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The Sphere Project, Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response, 2001

UN Disaster Management Training Programme, International Law of Disasters and Armed Conflict

UN Disaster Management Training Programme, Humanitarian Principles and Operational Dilemmas in War Zones

UN Disaster Management Training Programme, An Overview of Disaster Management, 1992 UN Disaster Management Training Programme, Disaster Assessment, 1994

UN Disaster Management Training Programme, Disaster Economics, 1994

UN Disaster Management Training Programme, Disaster Management Ethics, 1997 UN Development Group, Practical Guide to Multilateral Needs Assessments in Post-Conflict Situations, 2004

International Alert, Conflict sensitive approaches to development, humanitarian assistance and peace building: Tools for peace and conflict impact assessment

International Alert, Conflict, Humanitarian Assistance and Peacebuilding: Meeting the Challenges, 2003

International Council on Human Rights Policy, Ends and Means: Human Rights Approaches to Armed Groups, 2000

US Institute of Peace, Training for Peace and Humanitarian Relief Operations: Advancing Best Practices, 2002

D. Paul, Protection in Practice: Field-Level Strategies for Protecting Civilians from Deliberate Harm, 1999

Peacekeeping UN DPKO, A Peacekeeping Training Manual UN DPKO, Handbook on UN Multidimensional Peacekeeping Operations, 2003 UN DPKO, Ten Rules: Code of Personal Conduct for Blue Helmets UN DPKO, United Nations Military Symbols Handbook, 2000

Conflict Transformation/Reconciliation Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Guidelines for Field Staff for Promoting Reintegration in Transition Situations, 2000

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International Alert, Code of Conduct for Conflict Transformation Work, 1998

International Alert, Resource Pack for Conflict Transformation, 1996

International Peace Research Association/UNESCO, Handbook Resource and Teaching Material in Conflict Resolution, Education for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, 1994

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, Reconciliation after Violent Conflict: A Handbook, 2003

Conflict Resolution Network, Conflict Resolution Trainers Manual: 12 Skills

Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation

Alliance for Rights and Tolerance (Pristina), Good Practices Training Manual, 2002

L. Lutz/E. Babbitt/H. Hannum, Human Rights and Conflict Resolution from the Practitioners’ Perspective, Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, 2003

Public International Law & Policy Group, The Drafter’s Handbook, 2004 21.28 Conflict Prevention UN Interdepartmental Framework for Coordination Team, Applying Preventive Measures: A Manual for UN Practitioners In Situations of Potential Conflict, October 2002 21.29 Women and Armed Conflict ICRC, Women and War Fact Sheets, 2001 Rights & Democracy, Investigating Women's Rights Violations in Armed Conflicts Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Gender & Humanitarian Assistance Resource Kit ICRC (F. Krill), The Protection of Women in International Humanitarian Law, 1985 BRIDGE (Development-Gender), Gender and Armed Conflict: Overview Report, 2003 Gender Mainstreaming in Humanitarian Assistance Windhoek Declaration: The Namibia Plan of Action On ‘Mainstreaming a Gender Perspective In Multidimensional Peace Support Operations’, 31 May 2000 Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Background paper: Mainstreaming gender in the humanitarian response to emergencies Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Policy Statement for the integration of a gender perspective in humanitarian assistance, 1999

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UN DPKO, Gender Resource Package for Peacekeeping Operations, 2004 UN DPKO, Lessons Learned Unit, Mainstreaming a Gender Perspective in Multidimensional Peace Operations, 2000 UN DPKO, Gender and Peacekeeping Operations In-Mission Training, 2001 UNDP, Gender Mainstreaming Learning Manual & Information Pack UNICEF, Mainstreaming Gender in Unstable Environment FAO/WFP, Socio-Economic and Gender Analysis in Emergency Operations: Summary, 2000 UN Development Fund for Women, Women at the Peace Table: Making a Difference, 2001 International Alert, Gender Mainstreaming in Peace Support Operations: Moving Beyond Rhetoric To Practice, 2002 International Alert, Gender Justice and Accountability in Peace Support Operations, 2004 International Alert, Gender and Conflict Early Warning: A Framework for Action, 2002 InterAction and Commission for the Advancement of Women, Weaving Gender in Disaster and Refugee Assistance: Field Checklists, 1998 Seminar and workshop Papers A. Söderberg Jacobson, Rethink! A Handbook for Sustainable Peace, 2004 21.30 Children and Conflict UNICEF, Adolescent Programming in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations, 2004 UNICEF, Core Commitments for Children in Emergencies, 2004 UNICEF, Humanitarian Principles Training: A Child Rights Protection Approach to Complex Emergencies, 1999 ICRC, Children in War Information Kit, 2003 ICRC, Summary Table of IHL Provisions Specifically Applicable to Children, 2003 ICRC, Fact Sheet: Legal Protection of Children in Armed Conflict, 2003 ICRC, Inter-agency Guiding Principles on Unaccompanied and Separated Children, 2004

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Save the Children, Education: Care & Protection of Children in Emergencies: A Field Guide, 2001 Norwegian Refugee Council, Protection of Children and Adolescents in Complex Emergencies, 1999 International Bureau for Children’s Rights (R. Harvey), Children and Armed Conflict: A guide to international humanitarian and human rights law, 2003 USAID, Helping Children Outgrow War, 2002 21.31 Child Soldiers UNICEF/Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, Guide to the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 2003 ICRC, Child Soldiers, 2003 Save the Children Fund, Children Not Soldiers: Guidelines for Working with Child Soldiers and Children Associated with Fighting Forces, 2001 Asian Human Rights Commission/Human Rights Correspondence School, Child Soldiers, 2000

21.32 Older People and Conflict UNHCR/Help Age International, Older People in Disasters and Humanitarian Crises: Guidelines for Best Practice, 2000 21.33 Dealing with the Media, Information Management UN Disaster Management Training Programme, Emergency Information Management and Telecommunications, 1997 Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society, The Power of the Media: Handbook for Peacebuilders, 2003

21.34 Working with the Military ICRC, The ICRC and Civil-Military Relations in Armed Conflict, 2001 IASC, Civil-Military Relationship in Complex Emergencies: An IASC Reference Paper, 2004 International Alert, The Peacebuilding Dimension of Civil-Military Relations in Complex Emergencies, 2002 21.35 Cultural Diversity Emergency Management Australia, Guidelines for emergency managers working with culturally and linguistically diverse communities

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21.36. Personal Security DPKO, Hostage Incident Card RedR, Training Modules for Trainers on NGO Security Management http://www.redr.org/training/trainers_resources.htm 21.37 Medical Support UN DPKO, Medical Support Manual for United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, 1999 21.38 Stress Management UN DPKO, United Nations Stress Management Booklet, 1995 UNHCR, Managing the Stress of Humanitarian Emergencies, 2001 Pan American Health Organization (C. Bryce), Stress Management in Disasters, 2001

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