New Rights - New Laws: Legal Information in a ChangingWorld Wide Web

by Lyonette Louis-JacquesInternational Association of Law Libraries

Cape Town, South AfricaSeptember 25, 2003

Constitutions & Bills of Rights

• Constitution Finder

• International Constitutional Law

• Constitutions of the Countries of the World Online

• Constitution-Making Web Links (USIP)

• Columbia’s Human & Constitutional Rights Web Page

• Center for Comparative Constitutionalism (Chicago, IL)

• Centre for Constitutional Studies (Edmonton, Alberta)

• Researching Constitutional Law

Constitutional Courts

• Constitutional Court (South Africa)• Venice Commission (Constitutional Courts,

CODICES, Bulletin on Constitutional Case-Law via the European Commission on Democracy Through Law)

• GlobalCourts (supreme courts worldwide)• East European Constitutional Review (EECR)• Constitutional Forum constitutionnel

Comparative Legislation

• Legislationline (OSCE/ODIHR)• WorldLII: Legislation• LexisNexis, WESTLAW, QuickLaw, etc.• Etudes de législation comparée (France)• Congressional Research Service (CRS)• Bulletin of Legal Developments (BIICL)• Newly-enacted laws, proposed legislation/ bills

Comparative Legislation (cont’d)

• Inter-Parliamentary Union (links)

• Web Sites of National Parliaments (IPU)

• Foreign Governments (Northwestern)

Law Reform

• South African Law Commission• Law Reform Database (British Columbia)• Law & Transformation Programme (CALS)• World Bank’s Legal and Judicial Reform • Law Reform Commissions Worldwide (University

of Toronto)• CEELI, Africa Law Initiative Council (American

Bar Association)

Law Reform (cont’d)

• Open Society Justice Initiative (“promoting rights-based law reform worldwide”; formerly the Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute (COLPI))

• Legal Co-Operation (Council of Europe)

• Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI)

Foreign & International Law

• Foreign Law (Reynolds & Flores)

• Guide to Foreign Legal Databases (NYU)

• Annotated Guide to Foreign and International Law (Harvard)

• Cornell Legal Information Institute (LII)

• ASIL’s ERG, EISIL

• LLRX.com (Comp/Foreign/Intl)

• WorldLII, BAILII, CanLII, AustLII, etc.

• LexisNexis, WESTLAW, QuickLaw, etc.

• International Law Digest (M-H)

Human Rights Websites

• Office of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCHR)

• African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR)

• African Human Rights Resource Center

• University of Minnesota Human Rights Library

• International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)

• Human Rights Network International (HRNI)

• United Nations Human Rights Treaties

Human Rights (cont’d)

• Interights (plus caselaw database, 1981-date)

• Derechos.org

• Human Rights Watch

• Amnesty International

• ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law (ERG)

• Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM)

• Africa Legal Aid (AFLA)

• Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL)

• Human Rights Internet (HRI)

Human Rights (cont’d)

• Biblioteca Virtual de Direitos Humanos (Brazil)

• The Commonwealth Secretariat (Human Rights, Gender, etc.)

• ReliefWeb

• Australian Human Rights Centre (AHRC)

• Human Rights Network (British Council)

South African Legal Human Rights Organizations

• South African Human Rights Commission

• Commission on Gender Equality (CGE)

• Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR)

• Centre for Human Rights (Pretoria)

• Community Law Centre (Western Cape)

• Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR)

• Legal Resources Centre

New Rights – New Laws: The Continuing Quest for Social Change

Further Web Resources

Special Topics

• Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

• Religion and Human Rights

• Health and Human Rights

• Rights of Minorities

• Gender and Human Rights

• Land Rights

• Privacy and Human Rights

Economic, Social, & Cultural Rights

• Economic and Social Rights Reports (SAHRC)• ESR Review: Economic and Social Rights in Sout

h Africa (SAHRC)

• UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ESCR)

• International Network on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net)

• Center for Economic and Social Rights

Religion and Human Rights

• The Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief (Norway)

• International Coalition for Religious Freedom• Center for Religious Freedom• Human Rights Without Frontiers • International Christian Concern (ICC)• Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW)• World Council of Churches (WCC)• Researching Religious Freedom Issues (Marci Hoffman,

August 2003)

Health and Human Rights

• AIDS Law Project (CALS)• International Digest of Health Legislation (WHO)• HIV/AIDS, Human Rights & Law (UNAIDS)• National Instruments on HIV/AIDS and Work• François-Xavier Bagnoud

Center for Health and Human Rights (Harvard)

Rights of Minorities

• Human Rights Issues: Minorities (UNHCHR)

• Minority Rights Group International

• European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI)

• Minority Rights Information System (MIRIS)

Gender and Human Rights

• Women’s Human Rights Resources (Toronto)

• “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights” (UNHCHR)

• Gender and HIV/AIDS (UNIFEM)

• Women and International Law

Land Rights

• Land Claims Court of South Africa

• National Land Committee (NLC)

• Land Rights Research Programme (CALS)

• Land Rights in Africa

• Land Tenure Resources on the Internet

• Land Laws (FAOLEX)

Privacy and Human Rights

• Privacy International (includes Privacy and Human Rights survey)

• Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC)

• Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)