Human Rights @ Webster University Libraries

Human Rights Documents from the UN

• United Nations Documents

  Effective 1 January 2005, all the United Nations documents are available online free of charge in six official languages via the Official Document System of the United Nations. 
• How to cite UN documents

  Here is an online guide to citing UN documents from Readex. This is only a guide; the final format depends on what style guide you are using.

United Nations & Agencies

• United Nations
• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre

Human Rights Documents

• United Nations Documents 

  Effective 1 January 2005, all the United Nations documents are available online free of charge in six official languages via the Official Document System of the United Nations. 
• How to cite UN documents 

  Here is an online guide to citing UN documents from Readex. This is only a guide; the final format depends on what style guide you are using.

Comprehensive Sites

• Human Rights Internet

  The HRI organization site offers access to new documents & publications, news and updates on upcoming international human rights events and issues, and an internet directory of human rights websites.
• Speak Truth to Power

  This gateway site to information on human rights issues is provided by the non-profit organization to promote human rights awareness. Part of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights
• University of Minnesota Human Rights Library

  This outstanding site organizes access to a wide range of human rights information. Categories include treaties and other international instruments, U.N documents, U.S. human rights documents, asylum and refugee materials, regional materials, human rights education, bibliographies, research guides and links to other sites.

NGO's and Documents

• HURIDOCS

  HURIDOCS (Human Rights Information and Documentation System, International) is an international NGO helping human rights organizations use information technologies and documentation methods to maximize the impact of their advocacy work.
• International Humanitarian Law

  Offers information on international humanitarian law provided by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Provides a searchable database of presently 91 treaties and texts, commentaries on the four Geneva Conventions and protocols, signature lists and ratifications.
• Project Diana: Online Human Rights Archive

  This joint project of several law schools provides links to an international archive of human rights documents focusing on law and litigation. 
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  This site contains the most comprehensive collection of translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948. Over 250 different language versions are available in HTML, PDF and graphical formats.

Governmental Sites

• African Union
• Council of Europe
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

  Annual reports provided by the U. S. State Department.
• Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights & Labor

  Links to current statements and remarks by U.S. government officials concerning human rights and to other policy documents of the U.S. Dept. of State that are related to human rights

Non-Governmental Organizations

• American Civil Liberties Union
• American Friends Service Committee
• Amnesty International
• Anti-Defamation League
• Arab Organization for Human Rights
• Human Rights First

  (formerly Lawyers Committee for Human Rights)
• Human Rights Watch
• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
• United States Committee for Refugees & Immigrants

Foreign Language Human Rights News