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Understanding Children's Work

This site brings together research conducted by the International Labour Organisation, Unicef and the World Bank. Its objectives are "to improve child labour research, data collection and data analysis; to enhance local and national capacity for child labour data collection and research; and to improve the assessment of existing interventions in this field." The project encourages interaction between researchers, but also disseminates information to the wider public. There are several databases posted on the site, for example Child Labour Data Sets and Country Statistics.

Netherlands Helsinki Committee

Website of the Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC), a non-governmental organisation promoting human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe and in Central Asian countries that are members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The NHC supports the work of international and national governmental and non-governmental organisations including the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. Its activities include fact-finding missions, lobbying and various projects.

LawMoose

LawMoose is a free online resource guide provided by Pritchard Law Webs, a commercial company providing legal firms with web services. The site has sections focusing on legal information for Minnesota, Wisconsin and a World Legal Resource Center. The Minnesota and Wisconsin sections include links to state law, courts, government sites, forms, lawyers and to general legal reference resources. The World Legal Resource Center can be browsed by country or searched by keyword and provides links to other resource guides.

Canada Watch : practical and authoritative analysis of key national and international issues

Canada Watch is serial produced by the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies and the Osgoode Hall Centre for Public Law and Public Policy. Designed for both academic and non-academic audiences, it covers Canadian studies, public law and public policy issues and some international matters. It is available online from 1999 (vol. 7, issue 3) onwards.

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Decisions (Australia)

A free database containing full-text decisions of Australia's Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission from 1985 to 1999 when the Commission closed. The texts are selected and provided by the Commission and made available in HTML format. Decisions can be searched or browsed by case name or date. The database forms part of AustlII (the Australasian Legal Information Institute) service developed by the University of Technology in Sydney to provide public access to primary legal materials.

Immigration Review Tribunal Decisions (Australia)

An AustLII website carrying full-text decisions in HTML format of the Immigration Review Tribunal of Australia from 1990 to 1999. Browsing is available by year or alphabetical listing. There is a link to the AustLII database for the Migration Review Tribunal which superceded the Immigration Review Tribunal in 1999. AustLII, the Australasian Legal Information Institute has been developed by the University of Technology in Sydney to provide public access to primary legal materials.

Ontario Human Rights Commission

Official site of the Ontario Human Rights Commission which was established in 1961 to administer Ontario's Human Rights Code. The agency is accountable to the Legislature through the Minister of Citizenship. The site provides general information about the Commission and about the various rights Ontarians are entitled to. It also contains the full-text of the Human Rights Code, annual reports of the Commission, consultation and discussion documents, policies, plain language publications and guides.

Center for the Study of Democracy

The Center for the Study of Democracy is an independent, interdisciplinary institute which aims to foster democracy and reform in Bulgaria. Its website includes links to current projects, publications, and papers (some in Bulgarian, some in English), covering Law, Europe, Economy, Judicial Reform, Corporate Governance, and Book Donation. There is a section about Vitosha Research, which covers the market, social, political, advertising and media issues. There is also a 'News and Events' section, covering current activities of the centre, and a section profiling centre staff.

Employment Insurance Jurisprudence Library

A searchable database of Canadian insurance jurisprudence including Canadian Umpire Benefits decisions, Federal Court decisions and Supreme Court decisions along with a number of related Provincial Court and Human Rights Tribunal decisions. A collection of the most important decisions can be searched separately. Materials are carried in full-text and presented in HTML format. Help notes on searching the database are provided. The service is made freely available online by the Minister of Public Works and Government Services in Ottawa, Ontario.

Dalhousie Health Justice Institute

Internet site providing general information on the aims and work of the Dalhousie Health Justice Institute at Dalhousie University - an interdisciplinary Institute of the Faculties of Law, Medicine, Health Professions, and Dentistry with a focus on health law and policy. The site also provides descriptions of health law and policy programmes and courses provided in Dalhousie University, details of the Institute's projects and links to related websites. Full text annual reports from 1996-7 onwards can be downloaded from the site.

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