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Documents and publications

Arthur W. Diamond Law Library at Columbia Law School
Key Human and Constitutional rights documents and very useful links to online content.
Updated 15-Sep-03 http://www.hrcr.org/

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress. The reports cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Updated 15-Sep-03 http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/

Gulag [in Russian ]
Online version of the Gulag study published in Moscow, 1998
Updated 25-Sep-03 http://www.memo.ru/history/NKVD/GULAG/

Human Rights Internet
Check 'For the Record', The United Nations Human Rights System, a study by country and region.
Updated 15-Sep-03 http://www.hri.ca/

International humanitarian law
Database with keyword and country searches in treaties, documents, national laws, commentaries, and reports.
Updated 15-Sep-03 http://www.icrc.org/eng/ihl

Project Diana: An Online Human Rights Archive
The Yale Law School's segment of the International Human Rights Database project called DIANA, with many documents and links, but at several locations.
Updated 15-Sep-03 http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diana/

Revelations from the Russian Archives
Consists of two parts: Internal Workings of the Soviet System (from Repression and Terror: Stalin in Control through Chernoblyl and Perestroika) and The Soviet Union and the United States (from Early Cooperation through Cuban Missile Crisis)
Updated 25-Sep-03 http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/intro.html

UN Human Rights Treaties
Texts and analytical source on UN human rights treaties, accessible by state, theme, or subject matter, from Professor A.F. Bayefsky, York University, Canada, with "a range of data concerning the application of the UN human rights treaty system by its monitoring treaty bodies since their inauguration in the 1970's." Contains section on "How to Complain About Human Rights Treaty Violations."
Updated 15-Sep-03 http://www.bayefsky.com/

United Nations Documentation: Research Guide
Human Rights Topics, extensive bibliography and links to U.N. documents.
Updated 15-Sep-03 http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/spechr.htm

Web Genocide Documentation Center
Searchable database of materials and annotated links on genocidal and mass man-made killing occurrences.
Updated 15-Sep-03 http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide.htm

Former Yugoslavia

Human Rights Archives on the Genocide in Bosnia (and attempted genocide in Kosovo)
By Michael A. Sells of Haverford College, Haverford, PA USA.
Updated 10-Sep-03 http://www.haverford.edu/relg/sells/reports.html

International organizations

International Crisis Group
The International Crisis Group (ICG) is an independent, non-profit, multinational organisation, with 90 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict.
Updated 15-Sep-03 http://www.intl-crisis-group.org/

International Committee of the Red Cross
Updated 15-Sep-03 http://www.icrc.org/

International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
News, analysis and reports on the human rights situations in areas under the Helsinki Final Act and its Follow-up Documents.
Updated 15-Sep-03 http://www.ihf-hr.org/

United Nations
Updated 15-Sep-03 http://www.un.org

Links to multiple resources

Arthur W. Diamond Law Library at Columbia Law School
Key Human and Constitutional rights documents and very useful links to online content.
Updated 15-Sep-03 http://www.hrcr.org/

Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at WWW Virtual Library
Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
Updated 15-Sep-03 http://www.etown.edu/vl/humrts.html

Human Rights Library
Meta Search Engine for Searching Multiple Human Rights Sites
Updated 15-Sep-03 http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/lawform.html

United Nations Human Rights Page
Master page for all United Nations sites on human rights, with full documentation and activities.
Updated 15-Sep-03 http://www.un.org/rights/

Web Genocide Documentation Center
Searchable database of materials and annotated links on genocidal and mass man-made killing occurrences.
Updated 15-Sep-03 http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide.htm

World Audit
Compiled information from and links to key online sources on democracy, human rights, press freedom, economic freedom, corruption, the rule of law, etc., from Human Rights Watch, the United Nations, Freedom House, Transparency International, Amnesty International, and so forth. Accessible by topic or country profiles, for comparisons and contrasts.
Updated 15-Sep-03 http://www.worldaudit.org/

National organizations

Memorial
Historical, Educational and Charitable Society
Updated 25-Sep-03 http://www.memo.ru

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