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Human Rights Law

Monitoring compliance with international human rights obligations - UN, government and civil society country reports

UN's OHCHR Country Reports - Latest Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and the status of the country in relation to UN Charter-based bodies and Treaty bodies.

OHCHR Documents site -  documents on which UPRs are based.

UN Universal Human Rights Index Database-  provides access to country and region-specific human rights information emanating from international human rights mechanisms in the United Nations system: the Treaty Bodies, the Special Procedures and the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The Index allows users to access and search Treaty Body, Special Procedure and UPR recommendations through several categories: State, right, body, affected person and, for the UPR, the State that made the recommendation, the position of the State under Review, and the session. Several countries can be searched together for comparative purposes.

UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) - a review of the human rights records of all UN Member States. Individual Member Country Reports can be viewed on the Documents database.

  • More information on the Universal Periodic Review process from the US Department of State.

Civil society reports on global human rights

Amnesty International Annual Country Reports - coverage includes over 160 countries and territories

Human Rights Watch Annual World Reports - 1990 to current. Coverage includes over 90 countries and territories.

Freedom House's Freedom in the World - an annual study of political rights and civil liberties - 1972 to current. Coverage includes over 195 countries and 15 related and disputed territories

US Department of State Human Rights Reports -  see reports by region, country and human rights topic.  The Department of State submits reports on all countries receiving assistance and all United Nations member states.

European Union - EU Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World - 2009 to current.  Provides an overview of the EU’s policies and actions in the field of human rights vis-à-vis third countries, in multilateral bodies, and on certain specific thematic issues.

UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office -  Annual Reports on Human Rights - online to current. Coverage includes 32 countries with the most-serious, wide-ranging human rights concerns.

Human rights rankings in the rule of law index

Blawgsearch

Justia's Blawgsearch indexes law blogs and lists the most popular. You can search for law blogs that mention your keywords. You can also browse the most popular blogs by subject:

Once you have selected a subject category from the list you can subscribe to all of the blogs by clicking on the RSS icon underneath the title of the subject, or you can subscribe to an individual blog by clicking on the RSS icon underneath that particular blog:

Feedspot

Feedspot brings user's RSS feeds and favourite websites into one place. Within Feedspot users can search for sites on specific subjects, eg Australia Law Blogs. Visit for a list of blogs that focus on different areas of law, eg. Competition law.

Opinions on High - Links

The Links page of the Opinions on high blog lists  blogs published by courts, universities, media and organisations that focus on law.


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