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13 March 2013
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International
United Nations
- United Nations
- UN daily news
- UN High Commission for Refugees
- Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- United Nations Human Rights Committee (the treaty body responsible for monitoring the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights)
- United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women
- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Note that many of the UN web-based resources can be difficult to locate or use. A more user friendly site, which includes many UN documents, may be found at the University of Minnesotta Human Rights Library
Other inter-governmental human rights entities/tribunals/courts
- African Commission on Human and People's Rights
- European Court of Human Rights
- International Labour Organisation
- Inter-American Commission of Human Rights
- Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- Institutions of the Inter-American Human Rights System
Government human rights and anti-discrimination institutions
- Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions
- Asian Human Rights Commission
- Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights
- National Human Rights Commission of India
- New Zealand Human Rights Commission
- Northern Ireland Equality Commission
- Ontario Human Rights Commission
- Quebec Human Rights Tribunal
- South African Human Rights Commission
- South African Commission on Gender Equality
- United Kingdom Equality and Human Rights Commission
Legal research
On-line tools useful for human rights/discrimination law issues
- ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law
- Albert Sloman Library - UK Human Rights guide
- Australian Human Rights Commission Decisions on AUSTLII
- British and Irish Legal Information Institute
- Canadian Legal Information Institute
- American Society of International Law - Legal News and Commentary
- Human Rights Documentation Centre
- Lexum (Law Resources of Canada and Quebec)
- Supreme Court of Canada Judgements
- Supreme Court of the United States
- University of Minnesotta Human Rights Library
Journals relevant to human rights/discrimination law
- African Human Rights Law Journal - University of Pretoria
- South African Journal on Human Rights
- Australian Journal of Human Rights
- Canadian Human Rights Reporter
- Emory International Law Review
- European Journal of International Law
- Forced Migration Review
- Harvard Human Rights Journal
- Human Rights Defender
- Human Rights Quarterly - Project Muse
- Human Rights Law Review - Oxford Journals
- Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
- Intersentia - Human Rights Publications
- Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights
- Melbourne Journal of International Law
- University of Denver, Human Rights Working Papers
- University of Ottawa, Human Rights Research and Education Bulletin
- Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal
General
- Africa Human Rights on the internet
- Aboriginal Law and Legislation
- Amnesty International
- Directory of Human Rights Resources on the Internet
- Foolkit - a lawyer's toolkit
- CALS Asylum Case Research Guide
- Human Rights and Human Welfare
- Human Rights Watch
- HG.org world wide legal directory - Human Rights
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
- International Human Rights Law Group
- Human Rights First
- Liberty Victoria
- Monash University Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
- Northwestern University School of Law, Centre for International Human Rights
- The Human Rights Council of Australia
- The Refugee Council of Australia
- Department of Constitutional Affairs - UK Human Rights Unit
Links to Federal Legislation
- Age Discrimination Act 2004
- Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986
- Disability Discrimination Act 1992
- Native Title Act 1993
- Racial Discrimination Act 1975
- Sex Discrimination Act 1984
State and Territory Anti-discrimination and Equal Opportunity Agencies
- ACT Human Rights Commission
- Anti-Discrimination Board of New South Wales
- Anti-Discrimination Commission of Queensland
- Equal Opportunity Commission Western Australia
- Northern Territory Anti-Discrimination Commission
- Office of the Anti-Discrimination Commission (Tasmania)
- South Australia Equal Opportunity Commission
- Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission
