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Additional Resources
International
Starting Points: Terminology and Concepts
Websites
Human Rights
Encyclopedia of Human Rights by This major five-volume encyclopedia offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history. The set will provide situation profiles and full coverage of the development of the movement, historical cases of abuse, the key figures, major organizations, and a range of other issues in economics, government, religion, and journalism that touch on human rights theory and practice.
- Human Rights Documents"Grey literature" documents on International human rights issues, collected by the Human Rights Internet (HRI) in Ottawa since 1980.
- African Human Rights Case Law AnalyserMultilingual, open access collection of the human rights decisions of African supra-national mechanisms.
- Universal Human Rights IndexCountry-specific human rights information emanating from International human rights mechanisms within the United Nations system.
- Human Rights Web ArchiveArchived copies of human rights websites created by non-governmental organizations, national human rights institutions, tribunals and individuals (2008-).
Treaties
- Canada Treaty InformationThe Treaty Section maintains records of all pertinent information relating to the status of treaties affecting Canada, as well as links to important International treaties and organizations.
- European Commission: Treaty Office DatabaseTreaties Office Database of the European External Action Service.
- United States State Department: Treaties in ForcePublished annually by the U.S. Department of State to provide information on treaties and other International agreements involving the U.S.
- WorldLII - Treaties and International Agreements OnlineA component of the WorldLII legal information database with text, and links to guides on doing treaty research.