• Constitution Finder: This site provides access to constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents from around the world.
  
  
• Constitutions and Constitutional Studies: From Georgetown University’s ‘Political Database of the America's, this site provides constitutions of all OAS members and Cuba, in the original language.
  
  
  
• International Constitutional Law: Web site of  the Berne University. Provides texts of many constitutions from around the world, links to texts of others and useful analysis.
  
  

LEGAL RESOURCES

• Anti-Corruption Gateway: Includes anti-corruption materials for Europe and Eurasia including legal texts.
  
  
• Australasian Legal Information Institute (Austlii): Provides cases and legislation from Australia and New Zealand. Includes excellent web links for legal resources for all countries. Their human rights page is particularly useful for finding human rights information.
  
  
• Avalon Project: From Yale Law School, this site provides access to documents of law, history and diplomacy.
  
  
• The Electronic Information System for International Law : This database created by the American Society of International Law links to primary documents, research guides and other web sites. It includes sections on international law in the areas of crime, the economy, the environment and human rights.
  
  
• Foreign and International Law: From Washburn University School of Law Library, this site provides links to foreign and international legal resources on the web.
  
  
• Foreign and International Law Resources: An Annotated Guide to Web Sites Around the World: Harvard Law School Library’s site provides links to foreign and international legal resources with helpful annotations.
  
  
• Global Legal Information Network (GLIN): This site from the Library of Congress is a database of laws, regulations, and other legal sources from around the world. Only contributors have access to full-text laws, but non-members can sign in as guests and access the useful law summaries.
  
  
• Government Gazettes Online: The University of Michigan School of Information makes federal government gazettes from around the world available on one site, with annotations describing the contents of each. Many gazettes include national laws, policies and judicial decisions.
  
  
• Guide to Law Online: This website from the Law Library of Congress is an excellent, annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online.
  
  
• ILOLEX: The International Labour Organization's database of international labour standards. Also, NATLEX provides access to national labour laws. See also Labordoc: The ILO Library's main database and key access point to literature. Includes access to many full-text, online resources and information about many other ILO publications.
  
  
• International Rule of Law Directory: A searchable database of worldwide organizations providing legal human rights assistance, created by the International Bar Association.
  
  
• Interpol: The international police organization’s web site includes information on current criminal investigations, and links to the international treaties and domestic laws that cover certain crimes.
  
  
• Internet Censorship: Law and Policy Around the World (from Electronic Frontiers Australia)
  
  
• LawMoose World Legal Resource Center: Specialty legal search engine collection consisting solely of high quality legal research "starting point" sites, with special emphasis on foreign and global legal resources.
  
  
• Legal Information Institute: Database from Cornell University, LII provides links to laws from around the world.
  
  
• Penal Law: A Web: Click on 'Introduction and User's Guide' to get to links to foreign penal codes.
  
  
• Political Database of the Americas: From Georgetown University, this site provides reference materials, primary documents, comparative studies and statistical data for countries in the Western Hemisphere. Includes access to constitutions, electoral laws, and government information.
  
  
• Prevent Genocide International: Includes the texts of international and domestic laws against genocide
  
  
• Project Diana, Online Human Rights Archive: From Yale Law School, this database provides access to documents from the United Nations and regarding the laws of war. Also includes cases.
  
  
• The Hague Legal Capital: This site is a portal to the numerous international law entities that are based in the Hague. It includes links to universities, diplomatic missions, libraries and non-governmental organizations.
  
  
• University of Minnesota’s Human Rights Library: Provides texts of international human rights documents, including a large collection of international human rights treaties. Also includes a Meta Search Engine for searching multiple human rights sites
  
  
• The Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief: Includes a country by country analysis.
  
  
• World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) Free, independent and non-profit global legal research facility. Covers most countries. Includes a helpful human rights subject page. Website of information regarding international courts. Many pages are under construction.
  
  

HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCES

• Amnesty International: Information on human rights around the world. Go to the library to search their human rights articles and documents by country, region or theme.
  
  
• AsylumLaw.org: Immigration information designed to help lawyers worldwide prepare asylum cases. Includes links to legal tools and country specific case support pages.
  
  
• Bayefsky: Designed to enhance implementation of the United Nations’ human rights legal standards, this site includes the full text of UN human rights treaties, and information on how to complain about a treaty violation.
  
  
• Business and Human Rights: A Resource Website: Links to business and human rights web resources by country, region, sector and more.
  
  
• Derechos: Regional and Country pages provide access to human rights information from around the world.
  
  
• Human Rights Info: A portal with links to United Nations treaty information, academic research tools, and non-profit organizations.  
  
  
• Human Rights Internet: Based in Ottawa, HRI provides human rights information, including access to their publications: The Human Rights Tribune and For the Record. Includes database of human rights websites and information about human rights jobs and internships. Some of their databases are fee-based.
  
  
• Human-Rights.net A project of the Human Rights Education Associates (HREA), this site lists links to other human rights organizations and networks.
  
  
• Human Rights Tools Human rights resources aimed at human rights activists.
  
  
• IGC Internet: Provides access to human rights information focusing on PeaceNet WomensNet, EconNet and AntiRacismNet.
  
  
• INCORE: Dedicated to the management and resolution of conflict. Includes useful Internet Country Guides and Internet Guides by Theme
  
  
• International Women's Rights Action Watch: Organized in 1985 at the World Conference on Women in Nairobi, Kenya to monitor implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
  
  
• Queer.Theory.com: Onlines resources in gay culture. Law resources are available in the ‘Politics’ page. Country links are provided in the ‘Places’ page.
  
  
• ReliefWeb: A project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), this site provides humanitarian relief information. Information available by country.
  
  
• Freedom House, Dedicated to promoting free institutions worldwide. Publishes surveys detailing state of civil liberties, political rights, & economic.
  
  
• Women’s Human Rights Resources: From the University of Toronto’s Bora Laskin Law Library, this site provides information on international women's human rights. Includes the excellent Women's Human Rights Resources Database, which provides access to documents and links by subject. Includes information on books, articles, documents and web sites.
  
  

HUMAN RIGHTS RESEARCH GUIDES

• ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law: Human Rights: Written by Marci Hoffman for the American Society of International Law, this guide is an excellent starting point for human rights research.
  
  
• Concise Guide to Human Rights on the Internet: Online guide from Derechos.
  
  
• Getting Started in Human Rights Research: On-line and Off-line Resources: From the Harvard Human Rights Program.
  
  
• Guide to Human Rights Research: Useful guide from the Harvard Human Rights Program. Written by Jack Tobin and Jennifer Green in 1994.
  
  
• Human Rights Research-Get Started Online: From the Harvard Law School Library.
  
  
• International Protection of Human Rights-Outline of the Process and Major Documents and a Brief Research Guide: From the University of Toronto Bora Laskin Law Library.
  
  
• The Rights International Research Guide for International Human Rights Lawyers: From the Center for International Human Rights Law.
  
  
• United Nations Documentation: Research Guide-Special Topic Human Rights: Excellent guide to UN human rights research.
  
  

COUNTRY INFORMATION

• CIA World Factbook: Provides country information, including government, geography and background information.
  
  
• CountryReports.org: Country information from around the world.
  
  
• Intermational Monetary Fund: Includes information by country.
  
  
• Political Resources on the Net: Political country information from around the world.
  
  
• United States Agency for International Development: From the regional pages, click on Country Profiles for useful country links.
  
  
• Worldwide Governments on the WWW: Links to government information around the world.
  
  

UNIVERSITY HUMAN RIGHTS CENTERS

• American University, Washington College of Law’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
  
  
• Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute
  
  
• Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Human Rights
  
  
• Harvard Human Rights Program
  
  
• International Human Rights Exchange
  
  
• International Law Video Library (from Queen's University of Belfast)
  
  
• University of Nottingham’s Human Rights Law Center