Human Rights Websites

Recommended Human Rights Research Websites

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

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

Digital Collections on the Scholarly Web

International Criminal Tribunals and Truth Commissions

Human Rights Non-Governmental Organizations

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

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