Human Rights: Documents & Reports

This database includes publications from over 40,000 publications from almost 500 international human rights organizations, beginning in 1980 up to 2007.

Full-text versions of Human Rights Watch reports, organized by topic and country.

Amnesty International also produces hundreds of reports, press releases, appeals for action and newsletters each year, all available online.

A review of the status of human rights in 90 countries and territories worldwide.

Documents on the status of human rights in more than 150 countries.

Submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress, these reports cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Located at The George Washington University, the National Security Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, many of them available from their website.

A wealth of information from the United Nations and its various human rights bodies. Provides links to various human rights councils and commissions.

Provides documents and texts from the first permanent, treaty based, international criminal court established to help end impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community.