1. 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

2. Research Guides  ASIL  http://www.asil.org/resource/humrts1.htm http://www.asil.org/resource/humrts1.htm  United Nations Documentation: Research Guide on Human Rights  http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/spechr. htm http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/spechr. htm

3. United Nations: Useful URLs  UN web site @ http://www.un.org/http://www.un.org/  Official Web Locator @ Index to web sites of UN organisations - http://www.unsystem.org/http://www.unsystem.org/  UN High Commissioner for Human Rights @ http://www.ohchr.org/ http://www.ohchr.org/  ASIL guide to UN research@ http://www.asil.org/resource/un1.htm http://www.asil.org/resource/un1.htm  UN Documentation: Research Guide @ http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/ http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/  UN Research Guide for Human Rights- http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/spechr.ht m http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/spechr.ht m

4. Finding UN Documents  UN ODS - http://documents.un.org/http://documents.un.org/  UNBisnet - http://unbisnet.un.org/http://unbisnet.un.org/  Treaty Bodies Database - http://tb.ohchr.org/default.aspx http://tb.ohchr.org/default.aspx

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights  http://www.ohchr.org/ http://www.ohchr.org/  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 Database @ http://tb.ohchr.org/default.aspx http://tb.ohchr.org/default.aspx

9. International Courts and Tribunals

10. Guides  Pict – Project on International Courts and Tribuals  http://www.pict-pcti.org/  Explanation of the origins, history, functions and procedures of the international and regional courts

11. International Courts and Tribunals online  Research Guide @ http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/sp 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)

12. ICJ: Research Guides and Reference Works  UN research guide includes a section on the ICJ http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/sp ecil.htm#icj http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/sp 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

13. 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.

14. International Court of Justice online - http://www.icj-cij.orghttp://www.icj-cij.org  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

15. 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

16. Choose appropriate option

17. Choose Judgments etc as appropriate

18. 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 – http://www.worldlii.orghttp://www.worldlii.org  “ International Decisions ” > 26 international courts including ICJ  Full text judgments (from ICJ website) but NOT related documents  Search engine allows subject searching

19. For materials from beyond the UK/EU choose Westlaw International

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

27. Worldlii “International Decisions” database includes 26 international courts including: ICJ European Court of Human Rights Inter-American Court of Human Rights Decisions 1981- (Selected) Interights Commonwealth Human Rights Law 1992-2002 Interights International Human Rights Law 1981-2001 International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Decisions 2004- International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia Decisions 1996- United Nations Committee against Torture Decisions 1993- United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Decisions 1988- United Nations Human Rights Committee Decisions 1977- (WorldLII)

28. 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

29. International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia  UN research guide @ http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/specil.htm#ity http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/specil.htm#ity  Basic documents, annual reports @http://www.un.org/icty/ Judgments in print (indictments, decisions, judgments)  The Judicial Reports/ Recueils judiciaires Internat 580 I63c Judgments online (indictments, decisions, judgments)  ITY web site @ http://www.un.org/icty/http://www.un.org/icty/  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.

30. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)  UN Research Guide @ http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/sp ecil.htm#itr http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/sp 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

31. Other international courts…  International Criminal Court  UN research guides @ http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/ specil.htm#icc http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/ specil.htm#icc  http://www.icc-cpi.int/ http://www.icc-cpi.int/  Special Court for Sierra Leone  http://www.sc-sl.org/ http://www.sc-sl.org/  Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor @ http://www.cavr-timorleste.org/ http://www.cavr-timorleste.org/

32. 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 (http://www.law.uu.nl/english/sim/)http://www.law.uu.nl/english/sim/  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

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

35. Browse by treaty article, subject, keyword, country etc

36. Regional: Europe

37. Europe  Council of Europe – http://www.coe.int http://www.coe.int  European Convention on Human Rights - http://conventions.coe.inthttp://conventions.coe.int  European Court of Human Rights - http://www.echr.coe.int/echr http://www.echr.coe.int/echr  Judgments and decisions on Westlaw, Justis, HUDOC, Worldlii

38. 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

39. 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 1998 - 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

40. ECHR: Transcripts  Court Transcripts  Court web site – HUDOC - http://www.echr.coe.int/echr http://www.echr.coe.int/echr  Worldlii  Netherlands Institute

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

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

43. 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

44. Choose “Advanced Search” for more options

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

46. 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

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

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

49. 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

50. ECHR web site  http://www.echr.coe.int/ http://www.echr.coe.int/  Basic Documents and texts of the court  Database of transcripts of judgments and commission decisions  To go direct to the transcripts database http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/

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

52. 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

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

54. Inter American Court of Human Rights  Court Web site - http://www.corteidh.or.crhttp://www.corteidh.or.cr  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  http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/iachr/iachr.html http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/iachr/iachr.html  Court procedures and rules  Judgments, opinions and decisions plus related documents  Judgment are also available on Worldlii

55. 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

57. 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

58. Database coverage of International and Regional Courts & Tribunals Worldlii – 26 international courts and tribunals including:  Interights International Human Rights Law 1981-2001  International Court of Justice  International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Decisions 2004-  International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia Decisions 1996-  UN Committee against Torture Decisions 1993-  UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Decisions 1988-  UN Human Rights Committee Decisions 1977-  European Court of Human Rights  Inter-American Court of Human Rights Decisions 1981  Interights Commonwealth Human Rights Law 1992-2002

59. Database coverage of International Courts & Tribunals Interights  Charity that promotes human rights through the law  http://www.interights.org/ http://www.interights.org/  2,000 summaries of significant human rights decisions from the Commonwealth and beyond

60. Case law database Summaries of some HR issues, bibliographies etc

61. Europe  Council of Europe – http://www.coe.int http://www.coe.int  European Convention on Human Rights - http://conventions.coe.inthttp://conventions.coe.int  European Court of Human Rights - http://www.echr.coe.int/echr http://www.echr.coe.int/echr  Judgments and decisions on Westlaw, Justis, HUDOC, Worldlii

62. 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