Online version of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989, on the website of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). This web page also contains links to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and information on the status of ratifications, declarations and reservations. The Convention can be viewed in English, French, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
Website of the Human Rights Commission in New Zealand, offering background information on the function, personnel and organisation of the Commission with notes on the complaints process. The site offers opinions and decisions on complaints, texts of research papers, reports and submissions from the HRC and electronic versions of press releases, publications, and recent human rights speeches and addresses. Information is also provided on the international human rights movement with links to other human rights sites. Interfaces for a range of languages are provided.
Webpages of the Council of Europe's Directorate of Human Rights and the Rule of Law. The site highlights matters of topical concern and presents a menu of general human rights information. Activities can be viewed country by country. The latest publications are highlighted.
Web pages of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which has been in existence since 1959 and which was set up under the European Convention on Human Rights. The website includes the HUDOC database of ECtHR cases, European Commission of Human Rights decisions and reports and resolutions of the Committee of Ministers. The site also provides details of pending cases; the text of the European Convention on Human Rights and its protocols; and the rules of the Court together with information about its composition, organisation and historical background.
HUDOC is a free database of European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) cases, decisions and reports of the European Commission of Human Rights, and resolutions of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. It is part of the ECHR web portal. Users may search by case name, respondent, application number, Convention article, keyword, conclusion, date range and other criteria. Documents are HTML, PDF or Word format. The interface is available in English, French, Russian, Spanish or Turkish; the documents are mostly in English and/or French.
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights seeks to promote universal enjoyment of all human rights by responding to violations and promoting the implementation of international instruments. Its website provides the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in over 300 different languages, together with human rights treaties, fact sheets, decisions and working documents of the various UN human rights bodies (such as the Committee Against Torture and the Council on Human Rights). Printed and multi-media materials relating to the Universal Declaration are also available.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights forms part of the Inter-American system of human rights, within the Organization of American States. Its website has Spanish or English versions, but most of the content is in Spanish. It offers judgments and decisions in Spanish; the Court's Statute and rules in Spanish, English and other languages; press releases in Spanish; and information about the work of the Court in Spanish and English (etc.).
Website of the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library, developed by the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center in the USA. The site offers the full-text of a comprehensive collection of documents on the protection and promotion of human rights from sources around the world. In addition, there are links to over 4000 other human rights sites around the world.
Collection of the UK's recent reports to the United Nations on human rights matters, together with responses to UN communications and related policy papers and updates. The material is on the UK government website.
New Zealand Refugee Law (RefNZ) provides a searchable database of all the decisions of New Zealand's Refugee Status Appeals Authority (RSAA), the full text of leading decisions, and Practice Notes of the RSAA. New Zealand High Court and Court of Appeal cases dealing with refugee issues are also provided, together with headnotes and a contents index. RefNZ additionally includes papers analysing on New Zealand refugee cases and a forum for comment on current refugee issues. Further sections of the site offer news, comments and statistics.
