This section of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) website provides access to legal materials and background documents about international space law. These include treaties (bilateral and multilateral); General Assembly resolutions; a database of national laws and official documents relating to outer space (including a directory of space law courses, 'Educational opportunities in space law'); and studies by UNOOSA.
This webpage, provided by the Canadian Department of Finance, lists recent changes to treaties and provides a collection of tax treaties in force, arranged by country. Information is also given about treaties that are not yet in force and treaties that are under negotiation.
Website of the Minority Rights Information System (MIRIS), hosted by the European Academy of Bolzano (EURAC), a research institute established in Italy in 1992. The database provides information on the implementation of minority rights in the member states of the Council of Europe and includes national legislation and case-law, international treaties and agreements of the UN, Council of Europe and the OSCE, case studies and specific documents on minority groups. Texts are made available in English and the official language of the state concerned.
Professor A.F. Bayefsky of York University, Toronto, and a team of researchers have produced this site. Its aim is to enhance the implementation of the human rights legal standards of the United Nations and to increase access to these documents by making materials associated with the treaty system available in electronic and user-friendly form.
The Religlaw website is maintained by the Brigham Young University International Center for Law and Religion Studies in Utah. There are links to religion and law news stories, guides to religious freedom and frameworks for law and religion in different jurisdictions.
Website of the Albanian Legal Information Initiative, which is based in the Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology. The initiative is part of the 'Rule of Law Through Technology' project, which seeks to increase access to legal information in Albania. The site describes the project and provides a selection of Albanian legal resources, including various treaties and statutes (in French and Turkish), the Albanian Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedural Code (both in English). Parts of the site are password-protected.
Section of the International Committee of the Red Cross website devoted to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their protocols. The four Conventions are: Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field; Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea; Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War; and Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.
Text of an agreement signed between the Holy See and the State of Israel, resulting from the work of the Bilateral Permanent Working Commission set up in July, 1992. The aim of the agreement is to provide basis for relations between the two states. The web page is hosted by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and can be viewed in English and Spanish.
Collection of freely accessible Finnish law databases produced under the auspices of the Finnish Ministry of Justice (Oikeusministeri¸). Finlex has an English language interface outlining the nature of the legislative materials included, however the majority of texts are only available in Finnish, Swedish or Sami. It encompasses all laws and decrees published in the Finnish Statute Series since 1987 and compilations of laws and statutes published before 1987. Texts of legislation published after 1995 are available to download in PDF format.
This site provides access to a collection of historical documents relating to bilateral relations between Chile and USA which have been archived by Project Avalon at Yale University. They include the 1832 Treaty of Peace, Amity, Commerce and Navigation and the 1900 Extradition Convention. The site may be searched by subject keyword or browsed.
