Human rights resolutions portal
Human rights resolutions portal Created by the Universal Rights Group. The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system. This database has the full text of every resolution, decision and presidential statement adopted by the Council since 2006. Another good resource for human rights is hurisearch which cross searches over 5,000 specialist […]
Leicester Hate Crimes Project
Leicester Hate Crimes Project The broad aims of the Leicester Hate Crime Project were to examine people’s experiences of hate, prejudice and targeted hostility understand the physical and emotional harms suffered by individuals and their families identify ways of improving the quality of support available to victims Five strands of victim identity (race, religion, disability, […]
Criminal Laws on Homosexuality in African Nations
Criminal Laws on Homosexuality in African Nations Useful chart produced in February 2014 by the Law Library of the Library of Congress which summarizes the treatment of homosexuality in the criminal laws of forty-nine African nations. For further research on this topic try: ILGA The website of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and […]
UN Women constitutional database launched
http://constitutions.unwomen.org/ Use this great new resource to find out provisions relating to gender in constitutions worldwide. You can download the whole database or search by regions or types of provision.
Human Rights
20 years OHCHR (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights) A new official website to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this major UN agency . It includes news and links to key achievements. A timeline highlights some of the key events in the human rights field in the past 20 years, from the Vienna Declaration and […]
Human Rights reports
Amnesty international global annual report on human rights released. Read the whole report or look at reports for individual nations. Also on the theme of rights recently published is the annual US Department of State International Religious Freedom Report for 2012 This also has country reports and a global overview with regard to abuses and […]
Sources of data on human rights in the Middle East/ Arab world
Arab Barometer – Established in 2005 by scholars in the Arab world and the United States. Data on political attitudes of Arab citizens. Arab Democracy Index -A project of the Arab Reform Initiative (a consortium of fifteen key policy research centers from the Arab world with partners from Europe and the United States) Biennial reports […]
Human Rights Web Archive
http://hrwa.cul.columbia.edu/ Launched by Columbia University, the archive is a searchable and browsable collection of over 500 websites created by non-governmental organizations, national human rights institutions, tribunals and individuals from countries throughout the world. The archive includes websites harvested from 2008 to the present, with new sites added regularly. Useful supplement to HURIDOCS http://www.huridocs.org/ a global […]
Arab human rights and democracy: useful resources
The Arab Human Development reports http://www.arab-hdr.org/ a project of the UNDP, are conducted every few years and seek to engage Arab nations in analysis and discussion of human development issues and future policy needs. Reports and papers from 2002 onwards. Topics covered include human security, knowledge, gender, opportunities. Human Rights Index for the Arab Countries […]
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