The Global Database on the Guiding Principles provides instant access to official documents about the rights of the internally displaced and the application of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.

Commissions, history, objectives and specific activities. Treaty texts. Commission's reports and information on past and present sessions.

Information about Commission (members, States Parties, finances, activities, legal bases). Commission reports. Links. Bibliography.

The aim of this site is to promote understanding of international humanitarian law in the belief that a wider knowledge of the legal framework governing armed conflict will lead to greater pressure to prevent breaches of the law, and to punish those who commit them.

Major resource for international humanitarian law itself. News, resolutions and a selection of reports on, and analyses of, IHL. Information classed according to type (news, judicial decisions, international legal instruments, etc.), subject (conduct of hostilities, appropriateness of the law in force, its implementation and development, etc.). Calendar of conferences and other events.

On-line catalogue of books, periodicals, indexed articles, videos and CD-ROMs acquired since 1986 (official UN documents not part of this catalogue). Links to other on-line catalogues around the world.

On-line catalogue (international treaties, numerous UN documents on human rights, bibliography). List of web links.

A search can be made by subject (constitutional law, criminal law, labour law, etc.) and by source (governments, organizations, periodicals, etc.). Links to other search engines for legal documents

Library of Cornell law school with on-line access to its catalogue. Library newsletter. Databases from the International Labour Organization, International Court of Justice, etc.

The Library's catalogue can be consulted on-line. List of coming events. Link to "Thomas Legislative Information

Khmer Rouge Genocide Tribunal

The Special Court for Sierra Leone was set up jointly by the Government of Sierra Leone and the United Nations. It is mandated to try those who bear the greatest responsibility for serious violations of international humanitarian law and Sierra Leonean law committed in the territory of Sierra Leone since 30 November 1996.

Book published online on the Human Rights Watch website. Topical Digests of the Case Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia .

TRIAL WATCH (Track Impunity Always - a Swiss anti-impunity organization) offers a wide audience easy access to current and past legal proceedings for international crimes (mainly war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, torture and aggression) in both national and international courts.

Basic documents (Rome Statute, elements of crime, official documents from the Assembly of States Parties, and rules of procedure and evidence). Explanation of the Court structure. List of States Parties with, for each, its situation regarding implementation.

Status of acceptance of the Rome Statue country by country, with state of implementation for each country. Status of acceptance indicated on a world map. Declarations. News from NGOs, the UN and governments on current affairs concerning the Court.

Role of ICJ. List of the cases brought forward. Basic documents (Court Statutes, UN Charter, etc.). Publications (Court judgments, pleadings and oral arguments, bibliographies, etc.). Press releases.

News. Information on Tribunal (annual reports to General Assembly, bulletins, map of Rwanda). Basic texts. Library (list of publications, resources, etc.) Access to database containing the Court proceedings

Tribunal structure and composition. Indictments and proceedings. Judgments. Tribunal publications (summaries of jurisprudence and annual reports). Access to reference documents (Tribunal Statutes, rules of procedure and evidence, etc.). Information on the trial of Slobodan Milosevic.

Documentation on human rights. Search mode for judgments and decisions. Basic texts. List of cases pending before a Grand Chamber. Press releases. Court composition. Information on jurisprudence

Court composition. Press releases. Court jurisprudence. Annual report. List of publications. Links to other courts and international organizations.

Very large number of documents available on-line concerning the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal (presentation of cases, testimony of witnesses, key documents related to the proceedings, etc.). List of other web resources on the Holocaust and the Nuremberg Tribunal.

French-language IHL glossary containing abbreviations and acronyms. Definitions of terms in alphabetical order. Bibliography by subject.

Global Rights is a human rights advocacy group that partners with local activists to challenge injustice and amplify new voices within the global discourse. With offices in countries around the world, we help local activists create just societies through proven strategies for effecting change.

Human Rights First protects people at risk: refugees who flee persecution, victims of crimes against humanity or other mass human rights violations, victims of discrimination, those whose rights are eroded in the name of national security, and human rights advocates who are targeted for defending the rights of others.

Redress is a human rights organisation that helps torture survivors obtain justice and reparation. Redress works with survivors to help restore their dignity and to make torturers accountable. We seek a variety of remedies, including restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction and guarantees of non-repetition. Redress' national and international programmes are aimed at ensuring that the rights of torture survivors, whoever they are, and wherever they are located, are realised in practice.

The Armed Groups Project is an international research network that brings together scholars, policy makers, and humanitarian actors to discuss policy-relevant research about the instruments available to the international community to curb human rights and humanitarian violations committed by armed groups.

Database on human rights in the Commonwealth and throughout the world. List of publications (periodicals, articles). News. Annual report

Press releases. Reports to UN bodies. Publications. List of appeals. Details about programmes by issue (police and human rights, aid to victims of torture, women's rights, children's programme, racism).

Organization's dispatches and reports by country and subject. On-line catalogue and sales of its publications. Information on international problems (AIDS, refugees, women's and children's rights, etc.). Photos.

The section International Human Rights of EISIL highlights important instruments and web resources for researching various topics within human rights as well as the different regional systems.

Universal and regional declarations and treaties. Information on the law of armed conflict. Investigative commission. Reports on violations.

Information about organization. On-line database of organizations active in defending human rights. Bibliographies. Summaries. Publications.

Federation programmes. Publications since 1994 (on-line ordering). Member committees.

Country reports. Annual report. Valuable links. Awareness-raising campaign. Appeals for donations. News by country and by subject. AI reports by subject, country and date. On-line sale of publications.

Press releases. Various issues (torture, chemical weapons, anti-personnel mines, prisons, war crimes, women, etc.). Publications. Links.

A wealth of information on the Council (structure, members, financing, etc.). List of projects (e.g. armed groups, media and human rights, universal jurisdiction, human rights implications of 11 September, etc.). List of publications. Links. Opportunity to subscribe to newsletter.

Press releases. Information by country and major subject (women's rights, globalization and human rights, international justice, etc.). Editorial written in French.

A collection of the most important international documents on human rights

Catalogue of Council documentation centre. List of publications (books, annual report, videos and the "Torture Journal"). Links. Programme of conferences and seminars. Press releases. News items.

Information on Commission (history, structure and financing). Database of Commission publications. Press releases. Legal documents. Links.

Organization's work by issue (death penalty, vulnerable prisoners, penal reform in developing countries, etc.). Description of the international training programme for penal reform and improvement of conditions of detention. List of PRI newsletters. List of publications (reports, books and manuals – some available on-line). Photos. Links.

Commission structure. Annual reports. Documents (declarations, protocols and human rights treaties). Press releases. Links. Speeches.

A wealth of information on the organization's structure, mission and work. Large number of links. Information on death penalty, International Criminal Court and war in Iraq. Analytical articles on human rights and related subjects.

Presentation of organization. Annual report. News. Urgent actions. Programmes. Publications.

Treaties and other international instruments, bibliographies and research guides, documents from the US on human rights (legislation, reports, etc.), numerous links, search engine on site, and catalogue.

Law-related links to governments and other sites from around the world. UN and other international organizations. List of legal reviews. Dictionaries. News.

Access to various sites specializing in international law: index on international peace and security listing 750 sites, the Societé française pour le droit international, the Centre de recherche et d'étude sur les droits de l'Homme et le droit humanitaire, and the Centre de Droit International de l'Université de Paris.

The Journal is an analytical review of national and international court decisions. Site contains summary reviews.

Review published by the ICRC. Articles in full on-line (all articles since 1994 and a selection since 1978). Search for articles by date.

French-language site. Legal analyses of international affairs, with news, articles, chronicles and links.

All issues of the "Judicial Supplement" (dating from 1999). Annual reports since 1994. Publications (compilation of major texts, yearbooks, etc. – no on-line ordering).

HSP seeks to instil the traditions, practice and benefits of scholarship into the formation of public policy on issues involving biological and chemical weapons. University-based research and publication, other forms of international communication, constructive association with people in policy-shaping and policy-making circles, and training of young people are the means HSP uses.

The BioWeapons Prevention Project (BWPP) is a new global civil society activity that aims to strengthen the norm against using disease as a weapon. It was initiated by a group of non-governmental organizations concerned at the failure of governments to act.

The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons entered into force on 29 April 1997. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was created under the Convention to ensure the implementation of its provisions and to provide a forum for consultation and co-operation.

Texts and commentaries on 1949 Conventions and 1977 Protocols. Text of other major IHL treaties. Status of international acceptance. Reservations made. Search mode by key word, etc.

Multilateral treaties for which ratification is deposited with the Secretary-General. Compilation of UN treaties. Treaty handbook. State party to UN treaties.

Texts and commentaries on government measures to implement IHL. Search mode by country and key word.

Site created by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Compilation of texts (protocols, conventions, declarations, resolutions) intended to improve respect for human rights. For certain texts, links providing status of acceptance.

Texts of UN treaties on human rights. Amendments to those treaties. Access to documents by country and category (ratifications, reservations, background, jurisprudence, etc.)

The Transnational and Non-State Armed Groups Project is an international and interdisciplinary initiative driven jointly by the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard University and the Graduate Institute on International Studies in Geneva. The project aims to examine analytically the place of non-state armed groups within the context of armed conflict, and to identify strategic options as to the legal and policy implications of the contemporary role of these actors.

Newsletter. List of Institute publications. Activities. Information on the Military Department (spreading knowledge of IHL among military personnel). Related sites.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights in over 300 languages. Other human rights treaties. Links to specialized UN agencies concerned with human rights. Specific issues (indigenous peoples, HIV, women's rights, human rights and biotechnology, children's rights).