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International Human Rights: Reports

Country Reports

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