Human Rights

• Asylum Resources
  This page from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has links to profiles, perspectives, and country information on Africa, Americas, Asia, and Europe.
• U.S. State Department:
• Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor information from the Bush administration.
• Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor archive of information from the Clinton administration.
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 1993 to 1999.
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 1999 to present.

• Amnesty International
• Council of Europe Human Rights Web
  Provides case law from the European Court of Human Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights, The European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, and the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and other information.
• Europe of Cultural Cooperation
  Site of the European Cultural Convention signed in Paris on 19 December 1954 by 14 States. "Now there are 47 co-operating on a truly continental scale. It is the framework for the Council of Europe's activities in education, culture, cultural heritage, higher education, research, sport and youth.
• European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
  Provides reference documents, annual reports, and reports by country (Reports to Governments, Government Responses, Public statements)
• European Court of Human Rights
  Provides general information about the composition and workings of the court, lists of pending cases, basic texts, press releases, effects of decisions, and other information.
• For the Record
  The UN Human Rights Report includes a country-by-country overview of human rights issues with links to relevant UN documents. Publication produced by Human Rights Internet (HRI) in partnership with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). Also available is the European Human Rights System which is produced in collaboration with the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) and reviews the major human rights developments within the Council of Europe.
• International Committee of the Red Cross includes information about relief operations around the world and information about Humanitarian Law, including:
• International Humanitarian Law Database contains "91 treaties and texts, commentaries on the four Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, an up-to-date list of signatures, ratifications relating to IHL treaties and full text of reservations. "
• UNICEF
  Provides Progress of Nations, a look at Health, Nutrition, Education, Family planning, Child rights, Progress for women, Aid, National performance gaps & statistical profiles on an international level. State of the World's Children focuses on issues relating to women and children. Both are available from the publications menu.
• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights provides access to full text treaties on human rights and various official documents, statements, and press releases on human rights issues.
• OFCHR Country Pages
• Research Guide: Special Topics: Human Rights from United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Human Rights section of the United Nations web site.
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights provides translations of the declaration in over 300 languages.
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
  Provides statistics and publications on refugees and information, including country reports and reports on special topics such as children, statelessness, repatriation and other topics. Access from the Research and Evaluation menu.

• Center for World Indigenous Studies
  N now provides access to materials from the Fourth World Documentation Project, a collection of full-text materials.
• Death Penalty Information Center
  Includes full text publications about the death penalty, press releases, and statistics about the imposition of the death penalty. This site focuses on the United States.
• Human Rights Watch includes news and full text publications.
• Interights
  Provides a database with recent decisions which apply international human rights laws.
• Protection Project
  Gathers "information regarding the national and international legislation protecting women and children from commercial sexual exploitation." The site features demographic data and maps, summaries of national statutes, texts of relevant international conventions, survivors' stories, video clips, human rights reports, and other relevant information. Although free, the site requires one-time registration for use.
• University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
  An extensive collection of treaties by topic and other materials.

• The Library Catalog, Chinook
  There are numerous secondary, federal, and international sources of information on affirmative action available in the collection.
  
  Try these searches to see some of the resources in Chinook , the library catalog:

  Electronic Resources	Print and Electronic Resources
  human rights	human rights
  human rights and histor*	human rights and histor*
  human rights and politic*	human rights and politic*
  human rights (government publications only)	human rights (government publications only)

  
  The * replaces up to five characters in a word.

• Affirmative Action and Civil Rights
• Black History
• Equality Subject Guides