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UN Treaty Bodies Complaints Procedures
 
Overview of procedure for the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/8/over.htm

Overview of Procedure of Convention against Torture complaints
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/8/overcat.htm

 

Regional Human Rights Instruments and Bodies

African System: The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
http://www.achpr.org/english/_info/news_en.html

European Convention on Human Rights and Additional Protocols
http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/EN/Header/Basic+Texts/Basic+Texts/
The+European+Convention+on+Human+Rights+and+its+Protocols/

Instruments of the Inter-American System
http://www.corteidh.or.cr/sistemas.cfm?id=2

Arab System: League of Arab States
http://www.arableagueonline.org/las/index.jsp

NGO Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism
http://www.aseanhrmech.org/

 

International and Regional Courts and Jurisprudence

African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
http://www.achpr.org/

European Court of Human Rights
http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/EN/Header/Case-Law/HUDOC/HUDOC+database/

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
http://www.cidh.org/DefaultE.htm

Inter-American Court of Human Rights Home Page
http://www.corteidh.or.cr/

International Criminal Court
http://www.un.org/law/icc and http://www.icc-cpi.int/home.html&l=en

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
http://www.ictr.org

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
http://www.un.org/icty/

United Nations Treaty Body Database: Jurisprudence of the Treaty Monitoring Bodies (with links to Human Rights Committee, Committee against Torture, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination)
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/8/jurispr.htm

Bayefsky: Jurisprudence of the UN Human Rights Treaties
http://www.bayefsky.com/docs.php/area/jurisprudence

INTERIGHTS Human Rights Case Law Database
http://www.interights.org/search/index.htm

Worldlii
http://www.worldlii.org

 

Human Rights Online Resources and Selected Websites

Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/

Centre for Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)
http://www.cohre.org/

ESCR-Net’s Optional Protocol to the ICESCR Resource Page
http://www.escr-net.org/resources/resources_show.htm?doc_id=431553

EISIL: Electronic Information System for International Law
http://www.eisil.org

FIAN: FoodFirst Information and Action Network
http://www.fian.org/

Human Rights for Human Dignity: A primer on economic, social and cultural rights by Amnesty International
http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engpol340092005
 
Human Rights Impact Resource Centre
http://www.humanrightsimpact.org/

Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org

Human Rights Network International
http://www.hrni.org

HURISEARCH
http://www.hurisearch.org

Human Rights Internet
http://www.hri.ca/

International Legal Search Engine: Human Rights & Humanitarian Law http://www.whatconvention.org/index.php?page=rechercher

International Service for Human Rights’ Simple Guide to Treaty Bodies
http://www.ishr.ch/content/view/108/419/

Mandat International: International human rights and humanitarian law search engine
http://www.whatconvention.org/index.php?langue=Eng

NATLEX: database of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/natlex_browse.home?p_lang=en

Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): Treaty Body Database
http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf

People’s Decade for Human Rights Education
http://www.pdhre.org

The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/