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Human Rights Reports
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Amnesty International: The State of the World’s Human Rights: April 2025Formerly called the Amnesty International Report, this annual report documents human rights concerns during 2024 in 150 countries, connecting global and regional issues and looking to the future. Earlier reports are available online. You can also browse Amnesty International's latest research or publications by country.
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Human Rights Watch World Report 2025These annual reports summarize human rights conditions in dozens of countries and territories worldwide. Annual reports for 1989-2024 are available online. See also other HRW occasional publications.
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U.S. State Department Human Rights ReportsThe annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – the Human Rights Reports – cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agreements. 2016-2023 reports are available on the updated site. To see archived reports from 1999-2015, click here.
UN Human Rights Documents
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United Nations Digital LibraryThe database that allows you to search through UN documents, publications, maps, voting data, speeches, and in the different UN Bodies.
Human Rights Reference Works
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Encyclopedia of Human Rights
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David P. Forsythe (editor)
Oxford University Press, 2009
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Handbook of Human Rights by Thomas Cushman (editor)
Routledge International Handbooks, 2012
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The SAGE Handbook of Human Rights by Anja Mihr and Mark Gibney (editors)
SAGE, 2014
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Texts and Materials on International Human Rights, 3rd ed.
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Rhona K. M. Smith
Routledge, 2013
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Handbook of Indigenous Peoples' Rights by Damien Short and Corinne Lennox (editors)
Routledge International Handbooks, 2016
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Historical Dictionary of Human Rights by Jacques Fomerand
Rowman & Littlefield, 2014
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The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Gil Loescher, Katy Long, and Nando Sigona (editors)
Oxford University Press, 2014
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Routledge Handbook on Human Rights and the Middle East and North Africa by Anthony Chase (editor)
Routledge International Handbooks, 2016
Physical Copy
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