The Documentation Center of Cambodia is a non-governmental institute conducting research into the Khmer Rouge regime, Pol Pot, war crimes and genocide in Cambodia. It has offices in Cambodia and the United States. Its website provides information about the work of the Center and contact details for ordering its publications
Labordoc is a searchable database which contains more than 360,000 records relating to the International Labour Organization (ILO) and other labour organisations, since 1919. Its coverage is very wide and includes materials relating to socio-economic development - especially work-related human rights issues. There is a strong focus on empirical literature, although some material on labour economics, gender economics and welfare economics is included. Much of the collection focuses on developing and transition countries. There are direct links to online texts from over 12,000 publications.
Electronic copy of the 1997 Constitution of Eritrea made freely available online by the Comparative Constitutions Project at the University of Texas at Austin. The document sets out the functions and powers of the main branches of government including the executive, the legislative and the judiciary. It also addresses the nature of the relationship between the citizen and the state and establishes the fundamental rights of citizens in the region.
This list is to encourage academic discourse on the impact of the International Declaration of Human Rights 50 years on. Open to researchers and students, this list seeks to explore current issues and questions of the future relevance of the declaration & to be a general information resource. The site contains an archive of all messages submitted to the list (they are retained for 2 years) which can be interrogated using the free text or keyword search facility.
An HTML rendering of the 1909 P.F. Collier & Son publication of John Stuart Mill's 1859 treatise on the limits of state influence of individuals
This site is maintained by the government of Botswana. It provides basic background information on the nature and organisation of government in the region and an index of all the key government ministries and departments. There is a full text copy of the Constitution and the Laws of Botswana. Also available are brief summaries of the key news stories, a few basic economic statistics and notes on the region for tourists.
This site contains the full text of the Angolan Constitution, as adopted by the People's Republic of Angola in August 1992. The document is provided by International Constitutional Law (ICL) at the University of Bern in Switzerland. The Constitution covers the nature of the executive and judiciary functions of government in Angola, the relationship between the individual and the state and the rights and duties of citizens.
This site is maintained by the European Commission Representation in the United Kingdom to provide facts about European Union legislation and directives and to undermine any false rumours perpetuated by the British press. It examines newspaper and magazine stories from 1992 onwards. Typical examples include: "the EU is trying to ban Prawn cocktail crisps" and "bagpipes told to pipe down". Each entry makes reference to the actual EU directive involved and provides the facts.
The United Nations Chronicle is a quarterly magazine published by the United Nations Department of Public Information to provide news to the public about current UN activities. It covers a wide range of topics covering all aspects of United Nations responsibility, including health, economic development, human rights, United Nations reform and peace-keeping operations. Each issue contains articles on current UN activities in the field, interviews with leading UN personnel and first person accounts of situations.
English translation of the 1976 Constitution of Algeria, as amended to 1996, provided by the International Constitutional Law (ICL) project at the University of Bern. The ICL site also provides a timeline of Algerian constitutional developments.
