Books
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United Nations University Lecture Series (Online Free)
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Other United Nations University Press Publications (Online Free)
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List of Human Rights Books Considered for the APSA—Human Rights Section Best Book Award Committee (2010) Read more
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List of Human Rights Books’ Considered for the APSA—Human Rights Section Best Book Award Committee (2009) Read more
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Journals
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Human Rights Dialogue (Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs)
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Documents and Reports
UN & NGO Reports
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Report of the Secretary-General on United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, 1995-2004, and public information activities in the field of human rights
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Human Rights Documentation for the GA 58 (3rd Committee)
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Treaty Body Database, Documents by Treaty
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Human Rights and Disability
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Democracy and Human Rights (UNHCHR)
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Documents on Human Rights in Development
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Report of the High Commissioner of Human Rights on economic, social and cultural rights: Human Rights, Trade and Investment (ECOSOC, 2 July 2003)
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Global report on human rights in 2006
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Weighing the Evidence Lessons from the Slobodan Milosevic Trial
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Judge, Jury, and Executioner Torture and Extrajudicial Killings by Bangladesh’s Elite Security Force
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“A Great Danger for Lawyers” New Regulatory Curbs on Lawyers Representing Protesters
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“The Silent Treatment” Fleeing Iraq, Surviving in Jordan
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The First Trial before the Iraqi High Tribunal
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Rights to Freedom of Expression and Information under Angola’s New Press Law
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Abuse of Hanoi Street Children in Detention
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Human Rights Watch Brief for the 37th Session UN Committee against Torture
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Exploitation of Migrant Construction Workers in the United Arab Emirates
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Summary
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Violence against Palestinian Women and Girls
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UK Policy on Torture since 9/11
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The Brutal Suppression of Dissent in Zimbabwe
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Ongoing Impunity for Police Beatings, Rape, and Torture in Papua New Guinea
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Abuses with Impunity at the National Intelligence Service in Burundi
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A Human Rights Watch Policy Paper
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Global report on human rights in 2005
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Guantanamo: Detainee Accounts (October 2004)
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Chile: Undue Process (October 2004)
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Iraq: State of Evidence (November 2004)
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(November 2004)
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Selected Reports from Amnesty International (not live)
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Clouds of Injustice: Bhopal 20 years on (November 2004)
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Mexico: Indigenous women and military injustice (November 2004)
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(October 2004)
(February 19, 2004)
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Human Rights Links
United Nations and other Intergovernmental Bodies Links
This section has links to websites related to the United Nations and other intergovernmental bodies and their work in the human rights field:
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Charter of the United Nations
- United Nations’ Section on Human Rights
- United Nations’ Section on Humanitarian Affairs
- Commission on the Status of Women
- United Nations Development Fund for Women
- WomenWatch
- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
- European Court and Commission of Human Rights
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
- International Organization for Migration
- United Nations Children’s Fund
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- United Nations World Food Programme
- United Nations Peace and Security
- United Nations and Decolonization
- United Nations Mine Action Services
- United Nations Peace Keeping
- United Nations Security Council Information
- United Nations Website on the Situation in Iraq
- Permanent Forum on Indigenous People
- United Nations website on the Question of Palestine
- United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine
- United Nations Mission to Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL)
- United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE)
- United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo
NGOs
This section has links to NGO websites that you may find useful in learning about or conducting research on human rights issues:
- Civil Society Support Initiatives for OHCHR
- WomenWatch
- Human Rights Watch (NGO)
- Amnesty International (NGO)
- Derechos Human Rights Network (NGO)
- Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
- International Service for Human Rights
- Human Rights Links Section at the Univsersity of Ottawa
- Education and Human Rights Links
- Human Rights Internet
- Institute for Human Rights – Abo Akademi
- PeaceNet
- Institute on Race and Poverty
- Anti-Racism Net
- International Human Rights Law Group