Human Rights Education Resources

US Government Resources

Country Studies

United Nations Document Sources

Digital Collections

International Criminal Tribunals and Truth Commissions

Human Rights Organizations

Research Centers and Data Sources

Human Rights Academic Programs and Higher Education Resources

Human Rights Education Resources

• Minnesota Human Rights Library "trains and assists the work of human rights professionals and volunteers through applied human rights research and educational tools."

• HuriSearch "a search engine that searches over 4,000 human rights websites," specially designed for educators, activists, and students of human rights.

• Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) "... an international non-governmental organisation that supports human rights learning; the training of activists and professionals; the development of educational materials and programming; and community-building through on-line technologies."

• Human Rights and Human Welfare - "... an international review of books and other publications which publishes thematic review essays, book notes, topical research digests, a monthly roundtable forum, and hosts a working papers website."

• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: "a department of the United Nations Secretariat, is mandated to promote and protect the enjoyment and full realization, by all people, of all rights established in the Charter of the United Nations and in International Human Rights Laws and Treaties."

US Government Resources

• Open CRS (Congressional Research Service Reports)
• GPO Access (Government Printing Office)
  • Congressional Hearings
  • House and Senate Reports
  • House and Senate Documents
• THOMAS: Library of Congress Legislative Information
• US Department of State
  • Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
  • Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

Country Studies

• U.S. Department of State Background Notes
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, U.S. Dept. of State
• CIA World Factbook
• CEDAW Country Reports
• Library of Congress Country Studies
• NationMaster: Countries: Combines authoritative data from many online sources including the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD, and allows for statistical comparisons and downloads.
• World Health Organization (WHO) Countries

United Nations Document Sources

• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
• UNBISnet
• Document Guides for UN Human Rights Committees
• Human Development Reports, United Nations Development Programme
• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, International Law
• United Nations: Human Rights Documentation Research Guide
• UN System Pathfinder: Human Rights
• Refugees Magazine
• For the Record: the UN Human Rights System A country-by-country overview of human rights issues with links to relevant UN documents, from HRI, Human Rights Internet.
• Yale University's Internet Access to UN Information
• CEDAW Country Reports
• UNICEF

Digital Collections on the Scholarly Web

• Digitized Primary Sources in Human Rights

International Criminal Tribunals and Truth Commissions

• International Center for Transitional Justice
• International Court of Justice
• International Criminal Court
• International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
• Truth Commissions Digital Library, US Institute of Peace
• South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission
• Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Greensboro, North Carolina)
• Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor
• Truth and Reconciliation for Sierra Leone
• Las Comisiones de la Verdad en América Latina (en Español)
• Commission on the Truth for El Salvador
• Nuremberg Trials Project Digital Library (Harvard Law School)

Human Rights Non-Governmental Organizations

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• Amnesty International
• Committee on Conscience, National Holocaust Memorial Museum
• A Concise Guide to Human Rights on the Internet
• Derechos Human Rights
• European Court of Human Rights
• Facing History and Ourselves
• Human Rights Education Association
• Human Rights First/Human Rights Defenders
• Human Rights Internet
• Human Rights Resource Center
• Human Rights Watch
• HURIDOCS Search Engine
• International Organization for Migration
• International Women's Human Rights
• Open Society Institute
• Oxfam International
• The People's Movement for Human Rights Education
• Reference Guide to the Geneva Conventions
• Social Watch
• The World Bank Group

Research Centers and Data Sources

• CIRI Human Rights Data
• GRI, Global Reporting Initiative Reports Database: United Nations Environment Programme
• GRI, Social Performance Indicators
• The Danish Human Rights Institute: Human Rights Indicators, Country and Regional Data Base
• The World Bank Group: Data & Statistics
• Guttmacher Institute: "The Guttmacher Institute is a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education."
• Institute for Women's Policy Research: "...dedicated to informing and stimulating the debate on public policy issues of critical importance to women and their families ... focuses on issues of poverty and welfare, employment and earnings, work and family issues, health and safety, and women's civic and political participation."
• Kaiser Family Foundation: "... a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S., with a growing role in global health. ... a non-partisan source of facts, information, and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the public. ... always provided free of charge – from the most sophisticated policy research, to basic facts and numbers..."
• Population Reference Bureau: "The Population Reference Bureau provides timely and objective information on U.S. and international population trends and their implications."

Human Rights Academic Programs and Higher Education Resources

UConn Resources

• Human Rights Institute
• Journal of Human Rights
• Human Rights Film Collection
• Human Rights Collections, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center (Archives and Special Collections)
• Human Rights Research Blog Highlights new additions to UConn's human rights collections and provides helpful tips for research.
• UNESCO Chair and Institute of Comparative Human Rights
• Human Rights Minor
• Human Rights Graduate Certificate

Other Colleges and Universities

• Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley
• Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University
• Human and Constitutional Rights, Columbia University
• International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul University
• Human Rights Initiative, Duke University
• Human Rights Center, University of Minnesota
• Human Rights Treaties, University of Minnesota
• Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa
• International Human Rights Program, University of Toronto
• International Human Rights Program, Trinity College
• Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, Tufts University
• Hot Docs: New and Noteworthy Government Documents, University of Washington
• Human Rights Film Directory, University of Washington
• Project Diana: An Online Human Rights Archive, Yale University
• Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy, Yale University Law School
• Genocide and Human Rights University Program, Zoryan Institute (University of Toronto and University of Minnesota)