Outline  Research Guides  Treaties  UN Materials and OHCHR  International courts and tribunals  Regional materials (including courts and tribunals)  Europe  Africa  The Americas  Country Reports  Subject web sites

Research Guides  ASIL   United Nations Documentation: Research Guide on Human Rights  htm htm

United Nations: Useful URLs  UN web  Official Web Index to web sites of UN organisations -  UN High Commissioner for Human  ASIL guide to UN  UN Documentation: Research  UN Research Guide for Human Rights- m m

Finding UN Documents  UN ODS -  UNBisnet -  Treaty Bodies Database -

UN Human Rights Resources: Human Rights Bodies  UN High Commissioner for Human Rights  Charter Based bodies  Established by the UN charter  Address broad human rights issues  Unlimited audience  Majority voting  Treaty Based bodies  Established by a treaty  Address issues covered by the treaty  Audience is signatories of the treaty only  Decisions based on consensus  Documents available on UN ODS, UnBisnet  Documents produced by the Treaty Based bodies are also available on the Treaty Bodies Database

UN Human Rights Bodies: Charter Based Bodies  Human Rights Council  Special procedures (discuss and report on human rights situations relating to particular countries or themes)  Commission on Human Rights  No longer exists – predecessor of the Human Rights Council  Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights  Carries out studies on human rights issues and make recommendations

Treaty Based Bodies  Committee against Torture (CAT)  Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)  Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)  Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)  Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW)  Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)  Human Rights Committee (CCPR)  Documents produced by the Treaty Based Bodies are available on the Treaty Bodies Database as well as UN ODS, Unbisnet

Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights   Countries – treaty status, special procedures (country), reports by region  Issues - Subject index to committees, special Rapporteurs, treaties etc  International Law – Treaties / instruments – includes a subject index  Human Rights Bodies – Detailed information about / from the Charter and treaty bodies and access to the Treaty Bodies

International Courts and Tribunals

Guides  Pict – Project on International Courts and Tribuals   Explanation of the origins, history, functions and procedures of the international and regional courts

International Courts and Tribunals online  Research ecil.htm  Basic Court documents  Courts website  Sometimes Westlaw  Annual reports etc – Courts own Website  Judgments, Decisions, Indictments  Courts own web site  Westlaw  Worldlii (usually Westlaw only)

ICJ: Research Guides and Reference Works  UN research guide includes a section on the ICJ ecil.htm#icj ecil.htm#icj  International Court of Justice Yearbook Internat 725 c 858 j-k  Summaries of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders of the International Court of Justice Internat 121a  Bibliography of the International Court of Justice Internat 400 c858

ICJ: In print  (Reports of) Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders – Int 121  French and English  Annual index  Pleadings, Oral Arguments, Documents – Int 122  Documentation relating to each case (e.g. application, written and oral proceedings, documents submitted to the court, selected correspondence etc)  Published after the end of the case in the original language  OSCOLA - cite the print series in preference to other series and online versions. If print is not available cite online version from the ICJ web site.

International Court of Justice online -  Basic Documents  Cases  full text of judgments (contentious cases) /advisory opinions (advisory proceedings)  related documents (e.g. application, oral and written proceedings, orders, summaries, press releases)  Search engine is poor – not very good for subject searching

Background information – history, how the court works, judges etc Text of judgments and advisory opinions and related documents Statute of the Court, rules of procedure etc Information about the courts jurisdiction

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Choose Judgments etc as appropriate

ICJ Online  Westlaw  International (Directory)| All Westlaw Database | International/Worldwide | Multinational | Court and Tribunal Cases  Full text judgments and orders but NOT all related documents  Search engine allows subject searching  Worldlii –  “ International Decisions ” > 26 international courts including ICJ  Full text judgments (from ICJ website) but NOT related documents  Search engine allows subject searching

For materials from beyond the UK/EU choose Westlaw International

International Courts and Tribunals ICJ and other international courts and tribunals on Worldlii

Worldlii “International Decisions” database includes 26 international courts including: ICJ European Court of Human Rights Inter-American Court of Human Rights Decisions (Selected) Interights Commonwealth Human Rights Law Interights International Human Rights Law International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Decisions International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia Decisions United Nations Committee against Torture Decisions United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Decisions United Nations Human Rights Committee Decisions (WorldLII)

Combine terms using: AND, OR, NOT NEAR – within 50 words w/n –term 1 within n terms of term 2 Pre/n –term 1 must precede term 2 by n terms *truncation symbol Search across groups of courts. “All Human Rights Courts & Tribunals” is useful To find out when judgments were added to Worldlii for each court To browse a court click on the link, to search a court tick the check box

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia  UN research  Basic documents, annual Judgments in print (indictments, decisions, judgments)  The Judicial Reports/ Recueils judiciaires Internat 580 I63c Judgments online (indictments, decisions, judgments)  ITY web  Westlaw  Worldlii (judgment only – not entirely up to date) Oscola citation  Case name (Decision type) ICTY-year#-case# (date).  Alternatively cite International Legal Materials or International Human Rights Reports.

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)  UN Research ecil.htm#itr ecil.htm#itr  ICTR website  Basic documents  Indictments, decisions, judgments  Status of pending cases  Annual reports etc  Westlaw (indictments, decisions, judgments)  Worldlii  Oscola citation – same as ICTY

Other international courts…  International Criminal Court  UN research specil.htm#icc specil.htm#icc   Special Court for Sierra Leone   Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East

Cases before UN Treaty Committees  Worldlii  Cases before Human Rights Committee, Committee against Torture, Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination,  Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (  Databases > Case Law  Cases before Human Rights Committee, Committee against Torture, Committees on…Elimination of Racial Discrimination, …Discrimination against women.  Indexed by subject, keyword, state, name etc

Cases before UN committees Cases before ECHR Cases before tribunals for Yugoslavia / Rwanda Comments by treaty bodies in response to country reports

Browse by treaty article, subject, keyword, country etc

Regional: Europe

Europe  Council of Europe –  European Convention on Human Rights -  European Court of Human Rights  Judgments and decisions on Westlaw, Justis, HUDOC, Worldlii

Directorate General of Human rights – publications, sub committees, news and current activities Text of the convention, signatories, ratifications, reservations etc Reports and other documents from the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights

European Court of Human Rights: Judgments  Official Reports  Before 1 Nov 1998 known as Series A and numbered consecutively e.g. Plattform ‘Ärtze für das Leben’ v Austria (App no 10126/82) (1988) Series A no 139  After 1 Nov Renamed Reports of Judgments and Decisions (cited ECHR) e.g. Osman v UK (App no 23452/94) ECHR 1998-VIII 3124  Available in print at Internat 121 and online on Justis  European Human Rights Reports (EHRR)  e.g. Young, James and Webster v UK (App no 7601/76) (1982) 4 EHRR 38  Available in print at Internat 150 E60 on Westlaw  OSCOLA – Cite Official Reports or EHRR

ECHR: Transcripts  Court Transcripts  Court web site – HUDOC  Worldlii  Netherlands Institute

Full text searching use the following connectors: AND OR NOT WITHIN N OF *TRUNCATION ? SINGLE CHARACTER Reports of Judgments and Decisions (ECHR) on Justis

Transcript Official reports – old style series A Official reports – new style

EHRR on Westlaw  UK section of Westlaw includes ECHR judgments  European Court of Human Rights Reports (includes all court judgments and selected commission decisions)  Case Analysis information including summary, legislation considered, judicial history, commentary

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Searches full text of all judgments Searches party names Searches for cases by legislation considered. Searches for cases which have considered an earlier case

Full text of the case Related information including: List of reports of the case Summary of the issues Legislation considered in the judgment Earlier cases considered in the judgment Later cases which have considered this judgment Commentary on the judgment

Summary and abstract Lists of reports of the judgment The Westlaw cases analysis document includes related information

Later cases which have cited this case Legislation considered during the case

To search for cases citing a particular article of the European Convention. Note this will return cases before the ECHR and the UK domestic courts

ECHR web site   Basic Documents and texts of the court  Database of transcripts of judgments and commission decisions  To go direct to the transcripts database

Transcripts database European Convention on Human Rights and additional protocols History, organization, composition, procedures etc

To search decisions of the European Commission (ceased 1999) open up decisions box. Note not all commission decisions are available. Use … to browse a thesaurus of terms Make sure the “from” field is not filled in when you open up the database HUDOC - Transcripts Some judgments are only available on one language

Full text Incomplete Information about the case including articles cited, related cases, key dates, conclusion Summary Links to related cases and press release (incomplete)

Inter American Court of Human Rights  Court Web site -  Background information  Judgments (normally appear on Spanish language version first)  Does not include related documents  University of Minnesota Human Rights Library - Basic Document relating to the Inter American Court of Human Rights   Court procedures and rules  Judgments, opinions and decisions plus related documents  Judgment are also available on Worldlii

Statute of the court, rules of procedure, composition, history etc Browse judgments chronologically or by country Text in word / pdf Annual reports – includes cases Search for judgment by keywords or by country/date range

Database coverage of International and Regional Courts & Tribunals  Westlaw and Lexis  International Court of Justice  European Court of Human Rights  International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda  International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia  European Court of Human Rights

Database coverage of International and Regional Courts & Tribunals Worldlii – 26 international courts and tribunals including:  Interights International Human Rights Law  International Court of Justice  International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Decisions  International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia Decisions  UN Committee against Torture Decisions  UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Decisions  UN Human Rights Committee Decisions  European Court of Human Rights  Inter-American Court of Human Rights Decisions 1981  Interights Commonwealth Human Rights Law

Database coverage of International Courts & Tribunals Interights  Charity that promotes human rights through the law   2,000 summaries of significant human rights decisions from the Commonwealth and beyond

Case law database Summaries of some HR issues, bibliographies etc

Europe  Council of Europe –  European Convention on Human Rights -  European Court of Human Rights  Judgments and decisions on Westlaw, Justis, HUDOC, Worldlii

Directorate General of Human rights – publications, sub committees, news and current activities Text of the convention, signatories, ratifications, reservations etc Reports and other documents from the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights