Human Rights Studies: United Nations - IGOs - NGO Sources
Research guide for Human Rights Studies MA
United Nations
Consult these research guides for help with navigating UN and other IGO online documents.
- United Nations Documentation: Research Guide Human Rights (UN)
- UN Documentation Overview (UN)
- A Brief Guide to finding UN Human Rights Documents (UN)
- Ask DAG FAQ - Find answers to many common UN research questions.
- Guide to the United Nations (Columbia Law Library)
Sources of UN Documents and information
- UN Resources & Documents - List of key databases and sources for searching for documents and UN records
- United Nations Digital Library - Search for documents, votes, speeches, public domain documents and more. Can limit your search to the Human Rights Bodies. Consult their User Guide for more help.
- UN Member States | On the Record
- Readex/AccessUN Database (restricted to CU affiliates) - search for a variety of UN documents. Good for historical documents.
UN information on Human Rights
- Human Rights by Country - country-specific information via the UNHCHR
- UNHCHR Databases
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Historical Record of Drafting Process (UN)
- Universal Human Rights Index - country-specific human rights information; conclusions and recommendations addressed by UN independent experts
- United Nations Human Rights Website and Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- ReliefWeb (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)
- Refworld (Portal for information hosted by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees)
- Human Rights Library, IGO page (University of Minnesota) and Metasearch
Video and Media
- Human rights studies online. This link opens in a new windowSearchable database of a variety of sources includes film and video.
NGO Resources
Document archives and collections
Human Rights Web Archive: Archived collection of 800+ human rights related websites, collected from 2008-the present. HRWA is a collecting intiative of the Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research and Columbia University Libraries. Currently available via the Internet Archive's Archive-It service.
- Amnesty International Online Library
- Human Rights Watch Publications
- Project Diana, Human Rights Cases (Yale University)
- TANDIS Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Information System
- African Human Rights Caselaw Analyser (Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa.)
- Sexual and Gender-based Violence database (IHRDA)
- Human rights documents online This link opens in a new windowFull text searchable collection of published and unpublished documents produced by over 600 non-governmental organizations, between 1980-2004. The organizations represented in HRDO cover a broad spectrum of human rights issues and world regions.
Directories and Listings of NGOs
- NGO Guide and NGO Database (Duke University Library)
- Human Rights Library-- NGO links (University of Minnesota)
- UN List and Database of NGOs with Consultative status
- WANGO - World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations
- Associations unlimited . This link opens in a new window
- Yearbook of international organizations online . This link opens in a new window
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