Outline  Research Guides  Treaties  UN Materials and OHCHR  International courts and tribunals  Regional materials  Europe  The Americas  Africa  Other useful resources  URLs for collections of  Country Reports  Subject materials

Research Guides  ASIL   United Nations Documentation: Research Guide on Human Rights   The George Washington Law School  3EB-A26A-4B40-A2E1- 9DDEE95728AE/0/HumRights07.pdf 3EB-A26A-4B40-A2E1- 9DDEE95728AE/0/HumRights07.pdf

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 Bodies  UN High Commissioner for Human  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  Sub commission 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

A-Z of issues with links to relevant bodies / rapporteurs  Country information for each member including treaty ratification/reservation information, rapporteurships and special procedures relating to the country, news, events, links  “Ratifications and reservations” – treaties with signatories, reservations etc  Country mandates – countries subject to HRC special procedures  Links to the charter and treaty based organisations (introductory general information, publications, rules and procedures, events, relevant rapporteurships, relevant treaties and ratification information, links) plus links to Treaty bodies database Publications including fact sheets/special issues on various topics

International Courts and Tribunals

Guides  Pict – Project on International Courts and Tribunals   Explanation of the origins, history, functions and procedures of the international and regional courts  UN Research ecil.htm ecil.htm

International Courts and Tribunals online Where to find…  Basic Court documents  Court’s website  Westlaw (for some courts)  Annual reports etc – Court’s Website  Judgments, Decisions, Indictments, related docs  Court’s own web site  Westlaw / Lexis  Worldlii (usually judgment only)

ICJ: Research Guides and Reference Works  UN research guide includes a section on the 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: Judgments in print  (Reports of) Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders – Internat 121  French and English  Annual index  Pleadings, Oral Arguments, Documents – Internat 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.

ICJ online : The ICJ web site  Basic Documents  Cases  Full text of judgments (contentious cases) /advisory opinions (advisory proceedings)  Related documents (e.g. application, preliminary objections, provisional measures, merits oral and written proceedings, orders, summaries, press releases)  No search facility

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

ICJ Online: Westlaw and Worldlii  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  How up to date?  Worldlii –  “ International Decisions ” > 26 international courts including ICJ  Full text judgments (from ICJ website) and some related documents  Search engine allows subject searching

For materials from beyond the UK/EU choose Westlaw International

Full list of results Result 1 Commentary relating to result 1

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

Worldlii “International Decisions” database includes 27 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

Results options – relevance, date, title

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  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 tm#icc tm#icc   Special Court for Sierra  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 convention, 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

Council of Europe -  Council of Europe Treaties  Directorate General of Human documents and news organised by subject  Commissioner for Human  European Court of Human Rights  Judgments and decisions on Westlaw, Justis, HUDOC, Worldlii

Directorate General of Human rights – information for different themes/conventions (e.g. torture, women's rights, national minorities etc) including introductory information, publications/documents, country reports, news, events etc Text of the convention, signatories, ratifications, reservations etc Reports and other documents from the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights Legal affairs includes link to the Treaties Office – COE treaties, ratification information, subject index etc

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)

Choose “Advanced Search” for more options

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

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 Analytical information including dates, party names, who the case was referred by, Strasbourg case law cited, keywords, durable URL Keywords in context – finds your keywords and displays sorrounding text Links to related information

Inter American Human Rights system: Key web sites & documents  OAS -  Charter of the   American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of ec.htm ec.htm  American Convention on Human on.htm on.htm

Inter American Human Rights system: The Commission  Inter American Commission on Human  Reports adopted by the gest/ index.html gest/ index.html  Finding cases before the Commission  Cases section of the Commission web site  University of Minnesota index to Commission ssn.htm ssn.htm

Inter American Human Rights system: The Court  University of Minnesota - Basic Documents /  Reports  Series A – Judgments and opinions (Advisory cases)  Series B – Pleadings, Oral Arguments and Documents (relating to series A)  Series C – Decisions and judgments (Contentious cases)  Series D - Pleadings, Oral Arguments and Documents (relating to series C)  Series E - Provisional measures  Finding Cases online  Court web site (as above) – Spanish versions appear first  University of Minnesota (as above) - Judgments, opinions and decisions plus related documents  Worldlii (most recent judgment available 2006)

Introductory information, publications, country reports

Country reports, resolutions, special reports Treaties, ratifications, reservations/d eclarations Cases Background information including relationship of Commission and Court Reports from special rapporteurs, country reports, cases, work with the court Special / Country reports Documents re: Migrant workers Freedom of expression Women

Statute of the court, rules of procedure, composition, history etc Browse judgments chronologically or by country Decisions and judgments =series c (contentious) Advisory = series A Text in word / pdf Annual reports – includes cases Search for judgment by keywords or by country/date range

Africa: some key web sites  African Union   African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights   African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights   Africa Human Rights Resource Centre (University of Minnesota Human Rights Library) – is this still

Treaties and ratification details, speeches etc Includes link to AU information on Darfur/Sudan and Rights of the Child

Most recent country reports, and activities reports Treaties Activity reports including reports from Special Rapporteurs (note full reports appended as annexes) list of state reports but no full text Special Rapporteurs/ Subjects

Treaties, conventions etc A-Z of Human Rights links (NGOs, governments, charities etc) Constitutive Act of the AU + documents / information re OAU/AU African summit 2002 Country reports and decisions from the UN Human Rights Committee. Possibly out of date? Compilations of treaties, books and articles on human rights in Africa. Nothing later than Report on NGOs in Africa published Journal article by J. Oloka-Onyango (1995)

Other useful web sites   Charity that promotes human rights through the law  2,000 summaries of significant human rights decisions from the Commonwealth and beyond   Treaties, conventions etc with related web sites and research guides  University of Minnesota Human Rights

Case law database Summaries of some HR issues, bibliographies etc

Country Reports  Collection of links to Country Reports in the ASIL research  Amnesty   Reports organised by country, region, theme  Human Rights Watch   Reports organised by country and subject  International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights  Europe (esp E Europe)  For Reports follow the link to “Documents and publications”   US Dept of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices  Choose Country Reports from the navigation bar  Annual reports submitted to US congress 

Subject Approach  Amnesty  Human Rights Watch  University of Minnesota Topics Guide ides.html ides.html  Introduction to main issues  Links to relevant web resources  University of Minnesota Human Rights Library  Links to document repositories, organisations, country and subjects

Subject Approach  Derechos  Particularly good for Latin America  Human Rights Internet  Hurisearch -  search engine searching multiple human rights web sites  Worldlii Human Rights Catalog  Links to document repositories, organisations, country and subjects

Journals  Use usual journals indexes  Westlaw  Index to Legal Periodicals  Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals  Social Science Citation Index  Cambridge Scientific Abstracts : Social Sciences  PAIS – Public Affairs Information Institute  Links to free journals with Human Rights focus 