The "Comprehensive Antiterrorism Act of 1995" - must read!

• United Nations (UN Charter, Statute of the ICJ, resolutions, reports, and other key documents; the Dag Hammarskjöld Library (DHL); also link to the very current United Nations Treaty Collection On-Line (was the UN Treaty Data Base at http://www.un.org/Depts/Treaty/), which updates the annually-published treaty status & index set, Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General, weekly, and includes the full text of multilateral and bilateral treaties published in the U.N.T.S.)
• UN Organizational Chart (hypertext; see also ASCII gopher chart of the UN System)
• UNBISnet (UN library catalog page including index to Voting Records and Speeches)
• UN-I-QUE (United Nations Info Quest; "a database created by the Dag Hammarskjøld Library to provide quick access to document symbols/sales numbers for UN materials (1946 onwards); it does not give full bibliographic details nor does it replace existing bibliographic databases (UNBIS, UNBIS Plus on CD-ROM) produced by the Library; UN-I-QUE focuses upon documents and publications of a recurrent nature: annual/sessional reports of committees/commissions; monographic series; journals; annual publications; reports periodically/irregularly issued; reports of major conferences; statements in the General Debate; etc.")
• AccessUN (Readex United Nations Index - of UN documents and publications from 1966 to date; subscription service)
• UN Resolutions and Other Documents (full texts via the UN Documentation Centre)
• UN Security Council Resolutions (full text from 1946 to date)
• UN General Assembly Resolutions (full text from 1977 to date)
• UN Economic and Social Council Resolutions (full text from 1982 to date)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP Gopher provides full texts of General Assembly (GA) Resolutions from the 36th to 49th Sessions, Security Council (SC) Resolutions from 1974 to 1996, Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Resolutions from 1982 to 1994 under "United Nations Documents", and many other useful documents and information on the United Nations generally)
• United Nations Global Statistics
• Cour Internationale de Justice = International Court of Justice (ICJ official web site; includes Statute, judgments, advisory opinions, orders, press communiques/releases (on the "What's New" page))
• International Court of Justice 1946-1996 (50th Anniversary guide to the ICJ online - e-book)
• International Court of Justice (ICJ at Cornell University Law School; official U.S. mirror web site; includes Statute, judgments, advisory opinions, orders; see also the World Court Project and the NGO Committee on Disarmament's World Court Excerpts - "Verbatim Excerpts of Oral Statements to the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons" (1995))
• Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA official web site; includes documents related to the Eritrea-Yemen Arbitration)
• Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA at Cornell University Law School)
• International Criminal Court (UN's ICC web site; see also resource page with links to Internet resources and print publications on the ICC)
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR; war crimes; was at http://www.ictr.org/)
• International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY; war crimes)
• Final Report Commission Of Experts Established Pursuant To Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (the UN Commission of Experts on Former Yugoslavia's Final Report is appended to the "Letter dated 24 may 1994 from the Secretary-General to the President of the Security Council", S/1994/674)
• International Law Commission (ILC)
• United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network (UNCJIN; includes documents related to the UN Draft Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime)
• United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNCRI)
• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR)
• Treaty Bodies Database (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; includes General Comments, Reports, etc.; see also short URLs format)
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (includes links official documents of the UNHCR and national legal information via REFWORLD)
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC; includes database and CD-ROM with full texts of treaties, rules, commentaries on International Humanitarian Law (IHL); see also the People on War Project campaign page to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions and Humanitarian Web Sites)
• The War-Torn Societies Project (WSP; includes searchable bibliographic database of policy documents and evaluation reports as well as research reports and articles from various multilateral and bilateral agencies, research institutes and academics; "A specialized, annotated listing of literature from around the world", including materials on women's rights)
• Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict = Instituts für Friedenssicherungsrecht und Humanitäres Völkerrecht (IFHV, Ruhr-University Bochuml; includes European Master's Degree Programme in Human Rights and Democratization and list of the Bochumer Schriften zur Friedenssicherung und zum Humanitären Völkerrecht publication series)
• ReliefWeb (information service for the Humanitarian Relief Community; ReliefWeb is a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA))
• World Trade Organization (WTO; includes dispute settlement news and reports; see also the WTO and U.S. Official websites for the Third Ministerial Conference, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., 30 November-3 December 1999)
• World Trade Organization: Panel Decisions
• WorldTradeLaw.net ("The Online Source for World Trade Law"; enables full text search of GATT/WTO Panel and Appellate Body reports)
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO treaties are at http://www.wipo.org/eng/iplex/index.htm; includes link to CLEA database (Collection of Laws for Electronic Access)
• International Labor Organization (ILO; see also official U.S. mirror web site at Cornell; includes links to ILO's NATLEX database of national labor legislation abstracts and bibliographies (also at http://natlex.ilo.org/), Legislative Information (monthly bulletin summarizing labor and employment laws worldwide), ILOLEX (database of international labor standards, conventions, etc.), and other labor databases; see also Washington Branch Office and ILO Watch)
• FAO Legal Office (Food and Agriculture Organization; includes links to legal texts, FAO Legal Papers Online, legislative studies publications, and FAOLEX (database indexing worldwide legislation on food, agriculture, land tenure, etc.), and FISHLEX (database of coastal requirements for foreign fishing or national fisheries law)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP; see also the IUCN-World Conservation Union Environmental Law Programme joint project, the ECOLEX database of national environmental legislation)
• European Patent Office (EPO)
• European Union (EU EUROPA page including full texts of EU Treaties, Green Papers and links to bilateral and multilateral trade agreements, policy instruments, and other documents)
• Task Force for Accession Negotiations (European Commission)
• Justice and Home Affairs (includes Cooperation in electronic commerce, asylum, organized crime, policing, preventing in trafficking in drugs, human beings, etc.)
• European Parliament Home Page
• Research Newsletter (DG4 papers; European Parliament)
• Legislative Observatory (OEIL, European Parliament)
• European Union Law Page (EUR-Lex; EU treaties, legislation, ECJ case-law)
• Court of Justice of the European Communities (ECJ cases in EU all languages; formerly at http://europa.eu.int/cj/index.htm)
• Library, Research, and Documentation (Court of Justice of the European Communities (ECJ) page with full text of the Brussels Convention and the Lugano Convention and related case-law, Digest of Community Case-Law, Index A-Z (numerical and alphabetical index of cases before the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance since 1953), alphabetical index of subject matter of legal issues, ECJ case annotations)
• CELEX (EU treaties, legislation (regulations, directives, decisions), preparatory acts, COM documents, parliamentary questions, case-law, etc. database; need password to access)
• Official Journal of the European Communities (OJ Legislation (L) and Information and Notices (C) series)
• Bulletin of the European Union (Bull EC; European Commission)
• Directory of Community Preparatory Acts (analytical index, but includes some full texts of COM Documents, e.g., Commision Proposal - COM(97)0093 final)
• COM Documents (list and full text from the OJ C Series)
• Official Documents, Reports (full texts of annual reports such as Better Law-Making, Report on Competition Policy, Report on Monitoring the Application of Community Law, General Report on the Activities of the European Union, Fight Against Fraud, etc.)
• EUR-OP (Office for Official Publications; includes EUR-OP News)
• European Union Policies (citations to national implementing measures - via SCAD Plus)
• Fundamental Rights (Council of the European Union)
• Directorates-General (DGsEuropean Union)
• Treaty of Nice (UK Command Paper containing the Treaty of Nice; PDF file)
• Treaty of Amsterdam (done at Amsterdam on 16-17 June 1997, signed on 2 October 1997, European Commission Doc. CONF/4001/97, O.J. Eur. Comm. C 340/1 (1997), 37 I.L.M. 56 (1998)(International Legal Materials), 1997 BDIEL AD LEXIS 15 (Basic Documents of International Economic Law), pending ratification by all EU member states, not yet in force as of 13 May 1998)
• Amsterdam Treaty `98 (Irish Government, Referendum Commission)
• Irish Presidency's Draft Treaty Document (The European Union Today and Tomorrow)
• Schengen Agreement (unofficial English text)(related pages at http://www.adminet.com/jo/schengen.html and http://europa.eu.int/en/agenda/schengen.html; see also Resolution on the functioning and future of Schengen, OJ C 115/30 (April 14, 1997); also available in Italian; see also The Netherlands and the Schengen Agreement (July 1998) and Claus Thiery, The Schengen Agreements)

• U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC; including full text of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States)
• Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR)
• U.S. Department of Commerce
• U.S. International Trade Administration (ITA, U.S. Department of Commerce)
• Office of Textiles and Apparel (U.S. Department of Commerce)
• U.S. Customs Service (Department of the Treasury)
• Private International Law Data Base (PILDB, U.S. Department of State; Hague Conventions, UNCITRAL, UNIDROIT, OAS, etc.; was at http://www.his.com/~pildb/)
• U.S. Department of State (includes Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2000, Treaties in Force (TIF: list of treaties and other international agreements of the United States in force on January 1, 2000 in PDF format), Current Treaty Actions, the full text of Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) volumes for 1945-1950, 1958-1968 (alternate URL is are http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frus.html; see also the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC)'s FRUS Digital Project at the University of Wisconsin - v.1 (1861) and FRUS 1900-1918), and U.S. foreign policy documents) (see, for instance, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) "Electronic Reading Room" Special Interest Collections such as the Chile Declassification Project and documents on Guatemalan human rights and Raoul Wallenberg)
• The National Security Archive (includes full texts of declassified documents via Electronic Briefing Books on Chile, China, Guatemala, Cuba, Japan, NATO, India, etc.)
• United States Information Agency (includes USIA Washington File containing key documents and international news; defunct as of 1 October 1999)
• Committee on Foreign Relations (United States Senate)
• Committee on International Relations (United States House)
• Congressional Human Rights Caucus
• United States Statutes At Large (full text of first volumes via the Law Library of Congress' American Memory Project page, "A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates: 1774-1873"; prior to 1948 all treaties and international agreements approved by the Senate were also published in the Statutes at Large set)
• Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE, also know as the Helsinki Commission, "is an independent U.S. Government agency created in 1976 to monitor and encourage compliance with the Helsinki Final Act and other OSCE commitments; includes the full text of their CSCE Digest, a newsletter including reports on human rights in European countries; was at http://www.house.gov/csce/ until January 2001)
• STAT-USA (U.S. Department of Commerce databases - includes the National Trade Data Bank and the Economic Bulletin Board)
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
• The Bureau of Export Administration (U.S. Department of Commerce)
• Export-Import Bank of the United States
• Bureau of Census (international trade statistics)

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• Background Sources on Human Rights (including Bibliographies)
• Human Rights Quarterly (full text articles beginning with v.17 (1995), keyword searchable via Project MUSE)
• Model Questionnaire for Communications/Complaints (includes information on human rights complaint procedures/mandates, examining body or experts, and contact addresses for the various UN human rights bodies)
• Human Rights Syllabi for High Education (Rita Maran, for the AIUSA Human Rights Educators Network; posted by the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley)
• Project DIANA (major human rights web site including full texts of human rights case briefs, legal memoranda, complaints, orders and decisions, etc. on a variety of subjects, and especially on Haitian refugees)
• Derechos = Human Rights (organization with resources in Spanish and English; hosts human rights mailing lists and links to full texts of "Human Rights Law and Documents" and a Directory of Human Rights Links)
• International Law and Human Rights (Chris Ingelse, University of Maastricht; includes European Court of Human Rights)
• Human Rights on the Internet: Sites That Encourage Activism (Elisa Mason for the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), September 1999)
• University of Minnesota Human Rights Web (including war crimes tribunals links, bibliographies, etc.; has Meta Search Engine for Searching Multiple Human Rights Sites - can search all 23 sites at once)
• Decisions and Views (United Nations Human Rights Committee/CCPR; Communications)
• UN Human Rights Committee Decisions (via the Australian Human Rights Information Centre (AHRIC) beginning with Session 43 (1991))
• Biblioteca Virtual de Direitos Humanos (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil; human rights documents in Portuguese)
• Texts by Treaty Bodies and International Organizations (Japanese Federation of Bar Association (JFBA) Library, International Human Rights; includes General Comments and summaries of Views to international Communications of the UN Human Rights Committee; see also the main page on Japan and Human Rights at http://www.nichibenren.or.jp/hrsympo/ehrindex.htm)
• INTERIGHTS (International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights; includes searchable International Law Reports and Commonwealth Human Rights Case Law databases)
• Globalization and Human Rights (PBS television special focusing on the ongoing debate over whether or not human rights concerns should be linked to economic policies; includes links to transcript, interviews, and resources)
• Health and Human Rights (Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health)
• Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Washington College of Law, American University; includes full texts and digests of Inter-American Commission on Human Rights documents, case law, and reports from 1960 to date in the Inter-American Human Rights Database; see Repertorio de Jurisprudencia del Sistema InterAmericano de Derechos Humanos - to be published in English in Spring 2000 under the title Inter-American Human Rights Digest; see also Human Rights Brief, a newsletter with a bi-weekly related e-mail list/announcements listserv)
• Human Rights Brief ("A Legal Resource for the International Human Rights Community"; full text of this newsletter available online beginning with v.1, #1, Spring 1994)
• International Human Rights Law Institute (DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, Illinois)
• Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Washington College of Law, American University)
• Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM; Studie- en Informatiecentrum Mensenrechten, Utrecht University; page was at http://www.rgl.ruu.nl/english/sim/index.asp; includes links to the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, SIM Specials, and the Yearbook Human Rights in Developing Countries)
• School of Human Rights Research ("an inter-university alliance, a joint effort of the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Humanities of Utrecht University, and the Faculties of Law of Maastricht University, Erasmus University of Rotterdam and Tilburg University"; pageincludes links to their Newsletter and information about their publication series)
• MenschenRechtsZentrum der Universitat Potsdam (Human Rights Centre of the University of Potsdam, Germany)
• Centre for Human Rights Law (Faculty of Law, University of Nottingham; see also newsletter and human rights links)
• Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Lund University, Sweden)
• Human Rights Research and Education Centre (University of Ottawa, Canada)
• Inter-American Center for Human Rights (IACHR)
• Minerva Center for Human Rights (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (IIDH))
• Human Rights Program (The University of Chicago, Center for International Studies)
• Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR, Brookly, New York)
• Center for the Study of Human Rights (CSHR; Columbia University; see also their Law School's Human Rights Institute)
• Human Rights Centers (links to web pages for Harvard, Columbia, Emory, Notre Dame, Yale, Cincinnati, Witwatersrand, Oxford, New South Wales, Nottingham, Abo Akademi, etc.; was at http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/links/hrcent.html)
• Human Rights Library (University of Minnesota)
• AAAS Directory of Human Rights Resources on the Internet (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
• Human & Constitutional Rights Resource Page (Human Rights Institute, Columbia University Law School; includes link to Bill of Rights: Comparative Law Materials)
• Updated Links (page updating the publication, International Human Rights Norms in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (Nijhoff, 1996))
• Human Rights Links (Derechos Human Rights (organization); includes Directory of Human Rights Links)
• Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
• B'Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Terrorities
• Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG: State of Human Rights in Palestine)
• International Human Rights Law Group (IHRLG; includes link to "Initiative on US Racism)
• HumanRightsNOW.org (web page of Michael Ratner, International Human Rights Lawyer, with the Center for Constitutional Rights; also Skelly Wright Fellow, Yale Law School)
• Rule of Law Initiative (United States Institute for Peace (USIP), Special Report on Rwanda: Accountability for War Crimes and Genocide (1995), Special Initiative on Religion, Ethics and Human Rights (REHR) and issues of the PeaceWatch newsletter)
• Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (LCHR)
• Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights (MAHR)
• Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights (Chicago-based; includes link to Mexico-U.S. Advocates Network)
• Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute (center for human rights and peace law; MCLI works closely with the Center for the Covenant at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and with the India Centre for Human Rights and the Law in Bombay, India)
• Annual Report on Human Rights (joint publication of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department for International Development; "Human Rights in Foreign Policy" (HRPF) page of the FCO's Human Rights Policy Department (HRPD))
• ACLU International Civil Liberties Report (American Civil Liberties Union summaries of international human rights cases and other developments; May 1998 and May 1999 reports available in full text as WordPerfect documents)
• U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (humanrights-usa.net; see also U.S. Mission to the United Nations (USUN))
• Congressional Human Rights Caucus (U.S.)
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (U.S. Department of State 2000 report; see also 1999 report)
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1998 (U.S. Department of State; full texts of the country reports from 1993-date also available)
• Congressional Human Rights Caucus
• European Union Annual Report on Human Rights 2000 (second annual report; see also 1999 annual report)
• Human Rights Watch World Report (annual country reports)
• Amnesty International (AI International Secretariat)
• Amnesty International USA (AIUSA)
• Amnesty International UK (AIUK)
• Amnesty International Report (annual report on worldwide human rights violations)
• Freedom in the World: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties (Freedom House annual survey covering 191 countries and 59 related territories; published by Transaction Publishers)
• Annual Survey of Trade Union Rights (ICFTU; see also International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF))
• For the Record 1999: The UN Human Rights System (6-volume publication due out in print and CD-ROM format some time between February and April 2000; also available in French as Le système des droits humains à l'ONU : Bilan)
• For the Record 1998: The UN Human Rights System (6-volume publication; "country-by-country summary of the work of UN human rights mechanisms during 1998; the report covers the work of the Commission on Human Rights, the treaty-monitoring bodies, the Subcommission, ECOSOC, the General Assembly and the Security Council; each summary is hyperlinked to the relevant UN documentation"; also available in French as Le système des droits humains à l'ONU : Bilan))
• For the Record 1997: The UN Human Rights System (country reports published by Human Rights Internet (HRI, Canada) with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT); 6 volumes with links to UN documents; also available in French as Le système des droits humains à l'ONU : Bilan))
• A Human Rights Message (Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1998; book published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
• International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
• International Commission of Jurists (ICJ - Western Australia Branch)
• Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH; International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (IFHRL); includes full texts of Mission Reports/Rapports (mostly in French) and The Letter or La Lettre)
• International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF; human rights in Europe; includes links to the full texts of the Report on Religious Discrimination and Related Violations, 1999, the Helsinki Monitor: Quarterly on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Hate Speech in the Balkans, etc.)
• Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Warsaw, Poland)
• EchrNet: The Human Rights Directory (European Convention on Human Rights and UK lawyers)
• Human Rights Without Frontiers (""Droits de l'Homme sans Frontiè"; HRWF; includes links to resources and documents on Freedom of Conscience and Religion Around the World, consciencious objection, minorities in Europe, etc.)
• Freedom House (publishers of Religious Freedom in the World: A Global Report on Freedom and Persecution (2000))
• Religious Liberty: The Legal Framework in Selected OSCE Countries (PDF file; see also Appendices; May 2000 report of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) or Helsinki Commission; covers Austria, France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Turkey, the Ukraine, the UK, U.S., and Uzbekistan)
• Annual Report on International Religious Freedom (1998 to date; U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor)
• Religious Freedom World Report (International Coalition for Religious Freedom)
• Human Rights Education Associates (HREA)
• Human Rights U.S.A.
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948-1998 (UDHR50; National Coordinating Committee for the 50th Anniversary of the UDHR; Human Rights Office, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute)
• UDHR (in over 250 languages; from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR))
• Hans-Joachim Heintze, Getting Human Rights Enforced!: Calls to Action on the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights = Menschenrechte durchsetzen!: Forderungen zum 50. Jahrestag der UN-Menschenrechtserklärung (Bonn: Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden, 1998)(Policy Paper; No. 10). 11p.
• Innovation and Inspiration: Fifty Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (School of Human Rights Research, the Netherlands; includes link to conference programme and report)
• La mission interministérielle pour la célébration du 50ème anniversaire de la déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme (France, interministerial mission to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR))
• Cinquantenaire de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme (Centre Régional de Documentation Pédagogique de Bourgogne)
• Regards sur les droits de l'homme / droits de l'enfant (Genève: capitale mondiale des droits de l'homme; includes links on the 50th anniversary of the UDHR)
• Rights International
• Minority Rights (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) page, include links to the documents of the Working Group on Minorities)
• Minority Issues (Council of Europe, Directorate General of Human Rights, Secretariat of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and of the DH-MIN)
• Minority Rights Group International (MRG)
• European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI; links to minority human rights information, groups, and publications, and the MINELRES-L (Minority Electronic Resources) discussion group's Directory of Resources on Minority Human Rights and Related Problems of the Transition Period in Eastern and Central Europe)
• International Movement against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR)
• International Human Rights Association of American Minorities (IHRAAM)
• Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD; United Nations body)
• World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance (United Nations conference to occur in South Africa 2001; site includes links to documents, background papers of working groups (WGs), press releases, etc.; see related International Human Rights Law Group (IHRLG) and Racism pages)
• Racism and Racial Discrimination (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR))
• European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI; was at http://www.ecri.coe.fr/)
• Legal Measures to Combat Racism and Intolerance in the Member States of the Council of Europe (3d ed., European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), Council of Europe; report prepared by the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, 14 December 1998). CRI (98) 80. 587p.
• Fundamental Rights (Council of the European Union)
• Truth Commissions (United States Institute of Peace Library)
• HURIDOCS (Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems International)
• Article 19 (http://www.gn.apc.org/article19/a19.html or http://www.article19.org/)
• StateWatch (or http://www.statewatch.org/; database of information on "the state and civil liberties in the European Union"- includes materials on the Schengen Agreement, immigration and asylum, prisons, policing and Europol, the European courts, etc.)
• Clearing House on Linguistic Rights (UNESCO MOST Programme; also Religious Rights)
• The Avalon Project (Yale Law School)(includes historic documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government, such as Nuremberg War Crimes Trials documents; see also University of Michigan's Historic Documents page)
• A Look Back At Nuremberg (Court TV Casefiles; includes background information abut the major participants at the trial, the law behind the creation of the tribunal, transcripts, interviews, Chief U.S. Prosecutor Robert Jackson's opening and closing speeches, etc.)
• War Crimes Resources on the Internet (New England School of Law Library links to resources on trials of war criminals in support of NESL War Crimes Project; includes links to Nuremberg documents)
• The War Crimes Trials at Nuremberg: A Digital Collection Pilot Project: The Medical Case (Harvard Law School Library project in progress)
• The Nuremberg Code (The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in commemoration of The Doctors Trial (includes other documents from the "Medical Case"), from Trials of War Criminals)
• Nürnberger Kriegsverbrecherprozesse 1945 (Übersicht) (articles and other documents on the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials via the Oberlandesgericht Nürnberg - Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte; in German and English; includes links to related web sites and literature on the topic)
• Justiz und NS-Verbrechen: Die deutschen Strafurteile wegen nationalsozialistischer Tötungsverbrechen 1945 - 1999: Eine Verfahrensübersicht (Hergestellt im Institut für Strafrecht der Universität von Amsterdam von Prof. Dr. C.F. Rüter und Dr. D.W. de Mildt; Nazi Crimes on Trial: German Trial Judgments concerning Nazi Capital Crimes 1945 - 1999: An Overview - compiled at the Institute of Criminal Law of the University of Amsterdam; published in 1999 by the Stiftung zur wissenschaftlichen Erforschung nationalsozialistischer Verbrechen/ Foundation for Scientific Research of National-Socialist Crimes, Amsterdam; in German:
  

       This website presents a systematic survey (in German) of
       1) the more than 900 Nazi trial cases conducted in West Germany since
       1945 (see: Ubersicht der westdeutschen Verfahren), as well as of
       2) the 97 Nazi trial cases conducted in East Germany during the years
       1956 - 1990, including the so-called Rehabilitation trials
       (see: Ubersicht der ostdeutschen Verfahren). A survey of the remaining
       East German trial cases (i.e. those from the period 1945
       - 1956) will be added to this site later this year.
  
       The site contains a brief description of the subject matter of each of
       these trial cases by way of several searchable categories.
  
       The index you find here is based on the collection of postwar trial
       judgments, which are (being) published in two separate
       multi-volume documentation series entitled 'Justiz und NS-Verbrechen'
       (the West German judgments) and 'DDR-Justiz und
       NS-Verbrechen' (the East German judgments).

• Jeffrey D. Bass, "Thomas J. Dodd Papers Guide: Series VII, Nuremberg Trial" (Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University Libraries, University of Connecticut, December 1996)
• Nürnberger Menschenrechtszentrum (human rights links)
• Nazi Gold Holocaust Assets on the Internet (Lyonette Louis-Jacques)
• Genocide Convention at Fifty: Web Links (United States Institute of Peace)
• Web Genocide Documentation Center (Internet Resources on Genocide and Mass Killings compiled by Dr. S. D. Stein, Faculty of Economics & Social Science, University of the West of England; includes full texts of documents from the United Nations War Crimes Commission's Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals, Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, etc.; includes pages on Nuremberg, Crimes, Trials, and Laws, Documents Relating to the Holocaust, War Crimes, and Genocide, War Crimes and Criminals, and World War II Resources)
• Torture Reporting Handbook (March 2000, Camille Giffard, University of Essex Human Rights Centre; commissioned by the Human Rights Policy Department (HRPD) of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO))
• Organisation Mondiale Contre la Torture (OMCT = World Organisation Against Torture = Organización Mundial Contra la Tortura; Geneva, Switzerland)
• European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and nhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT; Council of Europe)
• Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT, Geneva, Switzerland)
• Redress: Seeking Reparation for Torture Survivors
• International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT)
• International Institute of Humanitarian Law (IIHL)
• Humanitarian Law Center (armed conflicts in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina; Kosovo)
• Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER's WWW Virtual Library)
• Multilateral Treaties (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy)
• Treaties Library (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), from the AustLII (Australasian Legal Information Institute) web site; includes bilateral and multilateral treaties from the Australian Treaty Series (ATS); also includes League of Nations treaties:
  

  "The texts of treaties printed in the Australian Treaty Series from
  1948 to 1998 are available on the Internet. Additional treaties,
  never printed in the series, are now available on the Internet, having
  been allocated numbers in the series from the years in which they
  entered into force for Australia, and designated "electronic". The series
  has also been extended, in electronic form only, back to 1927, with
  earlier years in preparation. Treaties printed in the Select Documents
  series from 1966 to 1997 are also available on the Internet."

• Diplomacy and International Affairs Hypertext Information System (Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies, Malta)(includes texts of treaties)
• KONTERM (international law-state practice: treaties, diplomacy, state immunity; University of Viena - Institute of International Law and International Relations)
• Swiss Diplomatic Documents (Swiss Federal Archives database of documents on Swiss foreign policy and international relations; the DoDiS database (Diplomatische Dokumente der Schweiz/Documents Diplomatiques Suisses) includes entries on foreign policy documents, persons, organizations, geographical terms, international agreements, federal laws, and decisions of the Federal Council and of the Federal Assembly; and a comprehensive bibliography covering resources from 1945 to present)
• Historic Documents (University of Michigan's page linking to diplomatic documents and other historic legal and political documents for the U.S., Western Europe, and the Middle East; links to the Avalon Project at Yale, Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, treaties, World War II documents, U.S. National Security materials related to Afghanistan, the Berlin Crisis, the Cuban Missile Crisis, El Salvador, Intelligence, the Iran-Contra Affair, the Iranian Revolution, Military Uses of Space, Nicaragua, Nuclear Nonproliferation, the Philippines, and South Africa, and other Declassified Documents)
• Institute of Air and Space Law (McGill University)
• Antarctic Law
• ENTRI (environmental treaties database provided by CIESIN)
• Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
• Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD)
• European Environmental Law Home Page (EEL; European Union environmental treaties and national legislation)
• U.S. Foreign and Defense Policy/Immigration (Congressional Research Service (CRS); brief reports in full text ASCII and PDF formats; see also Congressional Research Services WWW Accessible Reports)
• International Relations and Security Network (ISN; Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research, Zürich, Switzerland; includes international law links via the WWW Virtual Library: International Security and LASE (Limited Area Search Engine), a full-text search service on the Internet which is specialized in international relations and security policy - it enables one to search and directly retrieve documents from currently more than 200 relevant sites from a single user interface)
• International Organizations Resources on the Internet
• InternationalAffairs.com (via Oxford Analytica)
• World Wide Web Virtual Library for International Affairs
• The International Affairs Network (IAN World Wide Web Virtual Library)
• The Stanley Foundation (global governance, global education, and U.S. foreign policy; includes full texts of their conference reports)
• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• Centennial of the First International Peace Conference (UN Conference; expert meetings to be held at The Hague 18 to 19 May 1999 and at St. Petersburg 23 to 25 June 1999; includes links to reports and other relevant documents)
• Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS)
• International Studies Association (ISA)
• Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO; subscription database, 1991-date; CIAO is a database of scholarly resources for international relations and international law; it indexes and has full texts of working papers, policy briefs, conference papers/proceedings, journals, books, and links to related resources; there is a related, free e-mail list for distribution of notices re CIAO - it is designed to keep CIAO subscribers, contributors/content providers, and anyone else who's interested with monthly updates on what's happening on CIAO, with information on new content, new browsing features, CIAO events, and more)
• U.S. Foreign and Defense Policy/Immigration (Congressional Research Service; brief reports in full text ASCII and PDF formats)
• Global Policy Forum (monitor global policy making at the United Nations: UN financial crisis, reform, Security Council, NGOs, nations & states, social/economic policy ; New York-based)
• CRS Reports (Congressional Research Services reports via the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Press Center)
• CRS Reports on Military and National Securty (via the Federation of American Scientists (FAS))
• Foreign Policy In Focus (full text of briefs/papers published by the Interhemispheric Resource Center and the Institute for Policy Studies on current U.S. foreign policy related to trade, the military, drug control, labor, human rights, global governance, the environment, financial flows, etc.; also at http://fpif.org/)
• The Stanley Foundation (global governance, global education, and U.S. foreign policy; includes full texts of their conference reports)
• Chicago Council on Foreign Relations (CCFR; includes full text of their triennial publication, American Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy)
• Foreign Policy Association (FPA; publishers of Great Decisions, the "annual nonpartisan briefing book on eight critical U.S. foreign policy issues")
• Council on Foreign Relations (CFR; also at http://www.cfr.org/)
• Foreign Affairs Envoy (includes tables of contents of journals such as International Security, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs (includes searchable archives from 1995 to the present) and International Organization
• Foreign Affairs (on WESTLAW as FORGNAFF (full text beginning with January 1994; on LEXIS in the BUSFIN library, ABI file (abstracts or selected full text), BANKNG library, FORAFR file (from 1981 to date), and the NEWS library, ASAPII file (selected full text beginning in 1993); full text online in Chadwyck-Healy's (Periodical Contents Index) PCI Full Text from v.1 (1922/23) to v.69 (1990/91))
• Foreign Policy (on WESTLAW as FORGNPLY (full text beginning with March 1994) and on LEXIS in the NEWS library, ASAPII file (selected full text beginning in 1993))
• International Organization (on WESTLAW as INOG, full text beginning with January 1995 (provided by Dow Jones) and on LEXIS in the BUSFIN library, ABI file (abstracts or selected full text); available in full text via JSTOR (1947-1995), CatchWord (beginning in 1997), ProQuest Direct (beginning Autumn 1993 (but only fax of full text available?), with abstracts from 1989 to 1992), and Dow Jones Interactive (beginning in 1995 - PDF files); Dow Jones and WESTLAW do not seem to be as current as CatchWord/Swetsnet Navigator and ProQuest; also via Swetsnet Navigator (full text from v.52, 1998 to date; table of contents only from v.51, 1997))
• International Security (on WESTLAW as INSC (full text beginning with March 1995); not on LEXIS)
• Journal of International Affairs (full text on Chadwyck-Healy's Periodical Contents Index's PCI Full Text database from v.1, no.1 (1947) through v.44, no.2 (Winter 1991); also called the Columbia Journal of International Affairs)
• PS: Political Science and Politics (American Political Science Association journal; includes articles on international relations and international law; online in full text beginning in 1995 via Dow Jones Interactive)
• International Law (University of Mannheim Library, Germany; includes extensive links to resources worldwide; page in German)

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• Upcoming Conferences (via Foreign Affairs Envoy)
• World Wide European Integration Events Calendar (workshops, conferences, summer schools; list available as part of the Academy of European Law online)
• News & Information (links on conferences, courses, and other events via International Law Update)

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   Contents and abstracts of the leading journals, including current and
   past issues of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, International
   Organization, International Security, The National Interest, World
   Policy Journal and World Politics; lists of new and recent books on
   International Affairs; search of the leading journals by subject;
   link to reference documents as compiled in the Foreign Policy
   Bulletin; special research guides/"folders" on the Economic Crisis
   in Asia, NATO Enlargement, Landmine Ban, and Hong Kong 1997; links
   to upcoming conferences related to International Affairs.

• United Nations System of Organizations
• Directory of International Organizations (Union of International Associations' links to over 5,000 web sites of IGOs and NGOs)
• International Governmental Organizations (IGOs; links page of the American Library Association's Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) at Northwestern University)
• Martindale-Hubbell International Law Directory
• West's Legal Directory
• Kime's International Law Directory
• The Diplomatic List (U.S. Department of State publication includes Foreign Embassies (websites and e-mail addresses); see also the Embassy Web with alternate URLs at http://www.embassyweb.com/ and http://www.embassies.com/, Foreign Embassies (University of Michigan Library), and Embassy World)
• CIA World Factbook (Central Intelligence Agency)
• Chicago Consular Corps (page provided by the Library of International Relations, Information Center, Chicago-Kent College of Law Library; includes links to World Factbook information, embassies, and permanent missions to the UN)

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Selected Major Web Sites