• Starting Points:
  • University of Minnesota Human Rights Library - This site includes all human rights treaties, which are arranged by subject matter and are searchable. It also includes other United Nations materials on human rights, U.S. human rights documents, refugee and asylum materials, several bibliographies, and thematically organized links to over 2500 other human rights websites, including several sites on specialized human rights topics, such as bioethics, children, and Pinochet. This site, which is part of the Diana consortium, is a good starting point for both official documents and links to the materials of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

  • Human Rights Internet (HRI) - Offering thematically organized resource guides (e.g., women's rights, children's rights, UN processes), publications (many related to UN processes), information on NGOs, and searchable databases, HRI is perhaps the premier source for links to NGOs around the world. Most materials are freely accessible; for databases that require an account, consult HRI directly (special arrangements are possible).

  • International Labor Organization

  • International Labor Law Links-- Georgetown University

• International Tribunals
  • Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights

  • European Court of Human Rights

  • International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

• American Society of International Law - Includes international law links, searchable database of ASIL publications, brief essays on current topics, articles of recent interest.

• Chicago-Kent's IC3 Online Document Collection provides full-text access to documents of both U.S. and foreign governments and international organizations. Arranged by subject.

• Foreign and International Law - University of Chicago

• Foreign and International Law Web - Washburn University. Links are arranged alphabetically as well as by subject, author, country, and title. The site is also searchable.

• Guide to Online Law - U.S. Law Library of Congress. This site has a link to GLIN (Global Legal Information Network) which contains indices and abstracts of national legislation, particularly of Spanish-speaking countries.

• Hieros Gamos - HG II contains over 70 primary practice areas which are further broken out into 130 additional areas. Researchers can search by topic. Each topic is divided into supranational organizations (e.g., the United Nations) and national organizations (e.g., China).

• Internet Law Library - Includes international law materials, treaties, and laws of foreign countries. This location is searchable; scroll to end of page for search engine.
  Alternative site for the Internet Law Library:
  • Chicago-Kent

• Legal Research on International Law Issues Using the Internet - This page has a massive list of links to many Internet sites on international law, organized in broad categories.

• United Nations International Law - Includes law of the sea, international trade law, international law commission, International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
  • International Court of Justice - By Cornell Law Library
    
  • United Nations Documents:Research Guide - A guide to the various types of U.N. documents and how to use them. It contains links to those documents that are available on the Internet.

Regional Organizations

• Council of Europe

• European Union
  
  • Charter (Draft Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, CHARTE 4422/00 (July 28, 2000))

• Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

Treaties

• Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators

• Human Rights Treaties at the University of Minnesota's Human Rights Library

• Multilaterals Project of Tufts University - This site contains texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments. The collection includes treaties in the fields of human rights, commerce and trade, laws of war and arms control, the environment, and other areas. Although the majority of texts date from the second half of this century, the collection also includes some historical texts.

• Oceana Publications, Inc. - Contains the Quick US Treaties Index, which indexes over 10,000 U.S. treaties. The index can be searched by name, county, year and subject. You must register in order to use the index, but it's free.