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Outline Research Guides Treaties UN Materials and OHCHR International courts and tribunals Regional materials (including courts and
tribunals) Europe Africa The Americas
Country Reports Subject web sites
Research Guides ASIL
http://www.asil.org/resource/humrts1.htm
United Nations Documentation: Research Guide on Human Rights http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/spechr.ht
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United Nations: Useful URLs UN web site @ http://www.un.org/ Official Web Locator @ Index to web sites of UN
organisations - http://www.unsystem.org/ UN High Commissioner for Human Rights @
http://www.ohchr.org/ ASIL guide to UN research@
http://www.asil.org/resource/un1.htm UN Documentation: Research Guide @
http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/ UN Research Guide for Human Rights-
http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/spechr.htm
Finding UN Documents UN ODS - http://documents.un.org/ UNBisnet - http://unbisnet.un.org/ Treaty Bodies Database -
http://tb.ohchr.org/default.aspx
UN Human Rights Resources: Human Rights Bodies
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Charter Based bodies
Established by the UN charter Address broad human rights issues Unlimited audience Majority voting
Treaty Based bodies Established by a treaty Address issues covered by the treaty Audience is signatories of the treaty only Decisions based on consensus
Documents available on UN ODS, UnBisnet Documents produced by the Treaty Based bodies
are also available on the Treaty Bodies Database
UN Human Rights Bodies: Charter Based Bodies
Human Rights Council Special procedures (discuss and report on
human rights situations relating to particular countries or themes)
Commission on Human Rights No longer exists – predecessor of the Human
Rights Council Subcommission on the Promotion and
Protection of Human Rights Carries out studies on human rights issues and
make recommendations
Treaty Based Bodies Committee against Torture (CAT) Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights (CESCR) Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
against Women (CEDAW) Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination (CERD) Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW) Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) Human Rights Committee (CCPR) Documents produced by the Treaty Based Bodies
are available on the Treaty Bodies Database as well as UN ODS, Unbisnet
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
http://www.ohchr.org/ Countries – treaty status, special
procedures (country), reports by region Issues - Subject index to committees, special
Rapporteurs, treaties etc International Law – Treaties / instruments –
includes a subject index Human Rights Bodies – Detailed information
about / from the Charter and treaty bodies and access to the Treaty Bodies Database @ http://tb.ohchr.org/default.aspx
International Courts and Tribunals
Guides
Pict – Project on International Courts and Tribuals http://www.pict-pcti.org/ Explanation of the origins, history,
functions and procedures of the international and regional courts
International Courts and Tribunals online
Research Guide @ http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/specil.htm
Basic Court documents Courts website Sometimes Westlaw
Annual reports etc – Courts own Website Judgments, Decisions, Indictments
Courts own web site Westlaw Worldlii (usually Westlaw only)
ICJ: Research Guides and Reference Works
UN research guide includes a section on the ICJ http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/specil.htm#icj
International Court of Justice Yearbook Internat 725 c 858 j-k
Summaries of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders of the International Court of Justice Internat 121a
Bibliography of the International Court of Justice Internat 400 c858
ICJ: In print (Reports of) Judgments, Advisory Opinions and
Orders – Int 121 French and English Annual index
Pleadings, Oral Arguments, Documents – Int 122 Documentation relating to each case (e.g. application,
written and oral proceedings, documents submitted to the court, selected correspondence etc)
Published after the end of the case in the original language
OSCOLA - cite the print series in preference to other series and online versions. If print is not available cite online version from the ICJ web site.
International Court of Justice online - http://www.icj-cij.org
Basic Documents Cases
full text of judgments (contentious cases) /advisory opinions (advisory proceedings)
related documents (e.g. application, oral and written proceedings, orders, summaries, press releases)
Search engine is poor – not very good for subject searching
Background information – history, how the court works, judges etc
Text of judgments and advisory opinions and related documents
Statute of the Court, rules of procedure etc
Information about the courts jurisdiction
Choose appropriate option
Choose Judgments etc as appropriate
ICJ Online Westlaw
International (Directory)| All Westlaw Database | International/Worldwide | Multinational | Court and Tribunal Cases
Full text judgments and orders but NOT all related documents
Search engine allows subject searching Worldlii – http://www.worldlii.org
“International Decisions” > 26 international courts including ICJ
Full text judgments (from ICJ website) but NOT related documents
Search engine allows subject searching
For materials from beyond the UK/EU choose Westlaw International
International Courts and Tribunals
ICJ and other international courts and tribunals on Worldlii
Worldlii “International Decisions” database includes 26 international courts including:•ICJ•European Court of Human Rights•Inter-American Court of Human Rights Decisions 1981- (Selected) •Interights Commonwealth Human Rights Law 1992-2002 •Interights International Human Rights Law 1981-2001 •International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Decisions 2004- •International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia Decisions 1996- •United Nations Committee against Torture Decisions 1993-•United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Decisions 1988- •United Nations Human Rights Committee Decisions 1977- (WorldLII)
Combine terms using:AND, OR, NOTNEAR – within 50 wordsw/n –term 1 within n terms of term 2Pre/n –term 1 must precede term 2 by n terms *truncation symbol
Search across groups of courts. “All Human Rights Courts & Tribunals” is useful
To find out when judgments were added to Worldlii for each court
To browse a court click on the link, to search a court tick the check box
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
UN research guide @ http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/specil.htm#ity
Basic documents, annual reports @http://www.un.org/icty/ Judgments in print (indictments, decisions, judgments) The Judicial Reports/ Recueils judiciaires Internat 580 I63cJudgments online (indictments, decisions, judgments) ITY web site @ http://www.un.org/icty/ Westlaw Worldlii (judgment only – not entirely up to date)Oscola citation Case name (Decision type) ICTY-year#-case# (date). Alternatively cite International Legal Materials or
International Human Rights Reports.
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) UN Research Guide @
http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/specil.htm#itr
ICTR website Basic documents Indictments, decisions, judgments Status of pending cases Annual reports etc
Westlaw (indictments, decisions, judgments)
Worldlii Oscola citation – same as ICTY
Other international courts… International Criminal Court
UN research guides @ http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/specil.htm#icc
http://www.icc-cpi.int/ Special Court for Sierra Leone
http://www.sc-sl.org/ Commission for Reception, Truth and
Reconciliation in East Timor @ http://www.cavr-timorleste.org/
Cases before UN Treaty Committees
Worldlii Cases before Human Rights Committee,
Committee against Torture, Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination,
Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (http://www.law.uu.nl/english/sim/) Databases > Case Law Cases before Human Rights Committee,
Committee against Torture, Committees on…Elimination of Racial Discrimination, …Discrimination against women.
Indexed by subject, keyword, state, name etc
Cases before UN committees
Cases before ECHR
Cases before tribunals for Yugoslavia / Rwanda
Comments by treaty bodies in response to country reports
Browse by treaty article, subject, keyword, country etc
Regional: Europe
Europe Council of Europe –
http://www.coe.int European Convention on Human
Rights - http://conventions.coe.int European Court of Human Rights -
http://www.echr.coe.int/echr Judgments and decisions on Westlaw,
Justis, HUDOC, Worldlii
Directorate General of Human rights – publications, sub committees, news and current activities
Text of the convention, signatories, ratifications, reservations etc
Reports and other documents from the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights: Judgments
Official Reports Before 1 Nov 1998 known as Series A and numbered
consecutively e.g. Plattform ‘Ärtze für das Leben’ v Austria (App no 10126/82) (1988) Series A no 139
After 1 Nov 1998 - Renamed Reports of Judgments and Decisions (cited ECHR)e.g. Osman v UK (App no 23452/94) ECHR 1998-VIII 3124
Available in print at Internat 121 and online on Justis European Human Rights Reports (EHRR)
e.g. Young, James and Webster v UK (App no 7601/76) (1982) 4 EHRR 38
Available in print at Internat 150 E60 on Westlaw OSCOLA – Cite Official Reports or EHRR
ECHR: Transcripts Court Transcripts
Court web site – HUDOC - http://www.echr.coe.int/echr
Worldlii Netherlands Institute
•Full text searching use the following connectors: AND•OR •NOT•WITHIN N OF *TRUNCATION•? SINGLE CHARACTER
Reports of Judgments and Decisions (ECHR) on Justis
Transcript
Official reports – old style series A
Official reports – new style
EHRR on Westlaw UK section of Westlaw includes ECHR
judgments European Court of Human Rights
Reports (includes all court judgments and selected commission decisions)
Case Analysis information including summary, legislation considered, judicial history, commentary
Choose “Advanced Search” for more options
Searches full text of all judgments
Searches party names
Searches for cases by legislation considered.
Searches for cases which have considered an earlier case
Full text of the case
Related information including:•List of reports of the case•Summary of the issues•Legislation considered in the judgment•Earlier cases considered in the judgment•Later cases which have considered this judgment•Commentary on the judgment
Summary and abstract
Lists of reports of the judgment
The Westlaw cases analysis document includes related information
Later cases which have cited this case
Legislation considered during the case
To search for cases citing a particular article of the European Convention. Note this will return cases before the ECHR and the UK domestic courts
ECHR web site http://www.echr.coe.int/ Basic Documents and texts of the
court Database of transcripts of judgments
and commission decisions To go direct to the transcripts
database http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/
Transcripts database
European Convention on Human Rights and additional protocols
History, organization, composition, procedures etc
To search decisions of the European Commission (ceased 1999) open up decisions box. Note not all commission decisions are available.
Use … to browse a thesaurus of terms
Make sure the “from” field is not filled in when you open up the database
HUDOC - Transcripts
Some judgments are only available on one language
Full text
Incomplete Information about the case including articles cited, related cases, key dates, conclusion
Summary Links to related cases and press release (incomplete)
Inter American Court of Human Rights
Court Web site - http://www.corteidh.or.cr Background information Judgments (normally appear on Spanish language
version first) Does not include related documents
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library - Basic Document relating to the Inter American Court of Human Rights http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/iachr/iachr.html Court procedures and rules Judgments, opinions and decisions plus related
documents Judgment are also available on Worldlii
Statute of the court, rules of procedure, composition, history etc
•Browse judgments chronologically or by country•Text in word / pdf
Annual reports – includes cases
Search for judgment by keywords or by country/date range
Database coverage of International and Regional Courts
& Tribunals Westlaw and Lexis
International Court of Justice European Court of Human Rights International Criminal Tribunal for
Rwanda International Criminal Tribunal for the
Former Yugoslavia European Court of Human Rights
Database coverage of International and Regional Courts
& TribunalsWorldlii – 26 international courts and tribunals including:
Interights International Human Rights Law 1981-2001 International Court of Justice International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Decisions 2004- International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia
Decisions 1996- UN Committee against Torture Decisions 1993- UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Decisions 1988- UN Human Rights Committee Decisions 1977-
European Court of Human Rights Inter-American Court of Human Rights Decisions 1981 Interights Commonwealth Human Rights Law 1992-2002
Database coverage of International Courts & Tribunals
Interights Charity that promotes human
rights through the law http://www.interights.org/ 2,000 summaries of significant
human rights decisions from the Commonwealth and beyond
Case law database
Summaries of some HR issues, bibliographies etc
Europe Council of Europe – http://
www.coe.int European Convention on Human
Rights - http://conventions.coe.int European Court of Human Rights -
http://www.echr.coe.int/echr Judgments and decisions on Westlaw,
Justis, HUDOC, Worldlii
Directorate General of Human rights – publications, sub committees, news and current activities
Text of the convention, signatories, ratifications, reservations etc
Reports and other documents from the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights