Human rights activists and lawyers rely on reports produced by international organizations for asylum and other proceedings before various treaty bodies and tribunals.
Amnesty International
- Countries: Research, reports, and news by country and region.
Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board
Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (UC Law SF, formerly UC Hastings)
- Links to legal documentation and country condition information.
Fahamu Refugee Programme
Fahamu Refugee Programme (FRP)
Fahamu Refugee Programme (FRP)
Freedom in the World (annual, New York: Freedom House, 1978-).
- Annual comparative assessment of the state of political rights and civil liberties (including use of the internet) in 192 countries and 14 related and disputed territories.
- Online: most recent edition
Human Rights in Development Yearbook (annual, Oslo: Norwegian University Press, 1998-)
- Continues Human Rights in Developing Countries series
Human Rights Internet.
- Canadian human rights information resource.
Human Rights First
- Formerly Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
- LawCat: Lawyers Critique: Review of the Department of State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for... (annual, New York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights & Human Rights Watch, 1983-1996).
Human Rights Watch
- LawCat: World Report (annual, New York: Human Rights Watch, 1990-).
- Online: current report and much more information by topic or country
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Reports
- Annual Reports, Country Reports, and other publications. Many of these are available in print.
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
- See IDPs Worldwide section for the IDMC's yearly report on global trends and developments relating to internal displacement. See also the publications section.
International Crisis Group.
- Materials on preventing and resolving conflicts
IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks)
- News and analysis about sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia
Reporters without Borders
- Annual Report covers the state of press freedom worldwide, including access to the Internet
ReliefWeb
- Documents and reports on humanitarian relief and operations. Good source of news.
UNHCR
- Refworld, contains country reports, national legislation and case law, and all public domain UNHCR protection policies and guidelines
- Research and Evaluations includes global reports, news issues in refugee research, legal publications, and more
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- LawCat: Human Development Report [year] (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990-).
- Online: most recent edition
UNICEF
- LawCat: The State of the World's Children (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980-).
- Database of publications, reports, policy, and research.
U.S. Committee for Refugees
- Search for refugee conditions by country or by issue.
U.S. State Department