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Human Rights Reports
- Amnesty International World Report 2022/2023The Amnesty International Report 2022/23 documents the state of human rights in 149 countries and territories in 2023. Earlier reports are available online and in the library. You can also browse Amnesty International's latest research or publications by country.
- Human Rights Watch World Report 2024These annual reports summarize human rights conditions in dozens of countries and territories worldwide. Annual reports for 1989-2023 are available online. See also other HRW occasional publications.
- 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. 2016-2022 reports are available on the updated site. To see archived reports from 1999-2015, click here.
- Amnesty International: The State of the World’s Human Rights: April 2024The State of the World’s Human Rights: April 2024 documents human rights concerns during 2023 in 155 countries and territories. Earlier reports are available online and in the library. You can also browse Amnesty International's latest research or publications by country.
UN Human Rights Documents
- 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
Encyclopedia of Human Rights by David P. Forsythe (editor)
Oxford University Press, 2009
Online Access & Physical CopyHandbook of Human Rights by Thomas Cushman (editor)
Routledge International Handbooks, 2012
Online AccessThe SAGE Handbook of Human Rights by Anja Mihr and Mark Gibney (editors)
SAGE, 2014
Online AccessTexts and Materials on International Human Rights, 3rd ed. by Rhona K. M. Smith
Routledge, 2013
Online AccessHandbook of Indigenous Peoples' Rights by Damien Short and Corinne Lennox (editors)
Routledge International Handbooks, 2016
Physical CopyHistorical Dictionary of Human Rights by Jacques Fomerand
Rowman & Littlefield, 2014
Physical CopyThe Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Gil Loescher, Katy Long, and Nando Sigona (editors)
Oxford University Press, 2014
Physical CopyRoutledge Handbook on Human Rights and the Middle East and North Africa by Anthony Chase (editor)
Routledge International Handbooks, 2016
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