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Outline. Research Guides Treaties UN Materials and OHCHR International courts and tribunals Regional materials Europe The Americas Africa Other useful resources URLs for collections of Country Reports Subject materials. Research Guides. ASIL

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  1. Outline • Research Guides • Treaties • UN Materials and OHCHR • International courts and tribunals • Regional materials • Europe • The Americas • Africa • Other useful resources • URLs for collections of • Country Reports • Subject materials

  2. Research Guides • ASIL • http://www.asil.org/resource/humrts1.htm • United Nations Documentation: Research Guide on Human Rights • http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/spechr.htm • The George Washington Law School • http://www.law.gwu.edu/NR/rdonlyres/D07D93EB-A26A-4B40-A2E1-9DDEE95728AE/0/HumRights07.pdf

  3. United Nations: Useful URLs • UN web site @ http://www.un.org/ • Official Web Locator @ Index to web sites of UN organisations - http://www.unsystem.org/ • UN High Commissioner for Human Rights @ http://www.ohchr.org/ • ASIL guide to UN research@ http://www.asil.org/resource/un1.htm • UN Documentation: Research Guide @ http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/ • UN Research Guide for Human Rights- http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/spechr.htm

  4. Finding UN Documents • UN ODS - http://documents.un.org/ • UNBisnet - http://unbisnet.un.org/ • Treaty Bodies Database - http://tb.ohchr.org/default.aspx

  5. UN Human Rights Bodies • UN High Commissioner for Human Rights @ http://www.ohchr.org/english/ • Charter Based bodies • Established by the UN charter • Address broad human rights issues • Unlimited audience • Majority voting • Treaty Based bodies • Established by a treaty • Address issues covered by the treaty • Audience is signatories of the treaty only • Decisions based on consensus • Documents available on UN ODS, UnBisnet • Documents produced by the Treaty Based bodies are also available on the Treaty Bodies Database

  6. UN Human Rights Bodies: Charter Based Bodies • Human Rights Council • Special procedures (discuss and report on human rights situations relating to particular countries or themes) • Commission on Human Rights • No longer exists – predecessor of the Human Rights Council • Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights • Carries out studies on human rights issues and make recommendations

  7. Treaty Based Bodies • Committee against Torture (CAT) • Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) • Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) • Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) • Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW) • Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) • Human Rights Committee (CCPR) • Documents produced by the Treaty Based Bodies are available on the Treaty Bodies Database as well as UN ODS, Unbisnet

  8. Detailed information about / from the Charter and treaty bodies and access to the Treaty Bodies Database @ http://tb.ohchr.org/default.aspx Treaty status, special procedures (country), reports by region Subject index to committees, special Rapporteurs, treaties etc Treaties / instruments – includes a subject index

  9. International Courts and Tribunals

  10. Guides • Pict – Project on International Courts and Tribuals • http://www.pict-pcti.org/ • Explanation of the origins, history, functions and procedures of the international and regional courts

  11. International Courts and Tribunals online • Research Guide @ http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/specil.htm Where to find… • Basic Court documents • Court’s website • Westlaw (for some courts) • Annual reports etc – Court’s Website • Judgments, Decisions, Indictments, related docs • Court’s own web site • Westlaw • Worldlii (usually judgment only)

  12. ICJ: Research Guides and Reference Works • UN research guide includes a section on the ICJ @ http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/specil.htm#icj • International Court of Justice Yearbook Internat 725 c 858 j-k • Summaries of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders of the International Court of Justice Internat 121a • Bibliography of the International Court of Justice Internat 400 c858

  13. ICJ: Judgments in print • (Reports of) Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders – Internat 121 • French and English • Annual index • Pleadings, Oral Arguments, Documents – Internat 122 • Documentation relating to each case (e.g. application, written and oral proceedings, documents submitted to the court, selected correspondence etc) • Published after the end of the case in the original language • OSCOLA - cite the print series in preference to other series and online versions. If print is not available cite online version from the ICJ web site.

  14. ICJ online : The ICJ web site • @ http://www.icj-cij.org • Basic Documents • Cases • Full text of judgments (contentious cases) /advisory opinions (advisory proceedings) • Related documents (e.g. application, oral and written proceedings, orders, summaries, press releases) • Search engine is poor – not very good for subject searching

  15. Background information – history, how the court works, judges etc Text of judgments and advisory opinions and related documents Statute of the Court, rules of procedure etc Information about the courts jurisdiction

  16. ICJ Online: Westlaw and Worldlii • Westlaw • International (Directory)| All Westlaw Database | International/Worldwide | Multinational | Court and Tribunal Cases • Full text judgments and orders but NOT all related documents • Search engine allows subject searching • Worldlii –http://www.worldlii.org • “International Decisions” > 26 international courts including ICJ • Full text judgments (from ICJ website) but NOT related documents • Search engine allows subject searching

  17. For materials from beyond the UK/EU choose Westlaw International

  18. ICJ and other international courts and tribunals on Worldlii International Courts and Tribunals

  19. Worldlii “International Decisions” database includes 26 international courts including: • ICJ • European Court of Human Rights • Inter-American Court of Human Rights Decisions 1981- (Selected) • Interights Commonwealth Human Rights Law 1992-2002 • Interights International Human Rights Law 1981-2001 • International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Decisions 2004- • International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia Decisions 1996- • United Nations Committee against Torture Decisions 1993- • United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Decisions 1988- • United Nations Human Rights Committee Decisions 1977- (WorldLII)

  20. Combine terms using: AND, OR, NOT NEAR – within 50 words w/n –term 1 within n terms of term 2 Pre/n –term 1 must precede term 2 by n terms *truncation symbol Search across groups of courts. “All Human Rights Courts & Tribunals” is useful To find out when judgments were added to Worldlii for each court To browse a court click on the link, to search a court tick the check box

  21. International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia • UN research guide @ http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/specil.htm#ity • Basic documents, annual reports @http://www.un.org/icty/ Judgments in print (indictments, decisions, judgments) • The Judicial Reports/ Recueils judiciaires Internat 580 I63c Judgments online (indictments, decisions, judgments) • ITY web site @ http://www.un.org/icty/ • Westlaw • Worldlii (judgment only – not entirely up to date) Oscola citation • Case name (Decision type) ICTY-year#-case# (date). • Alternatively cite International Legal Materials or International Human Rights Reports.

  22. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda • UN Research Guide @ http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/specil.htm#itr • ICTR website • Basic documents • Indictments, decisions, judgments • Status of pending cases • Annual reports etc • Westlaw (indictments, decisions, judgments) • Worldlii • Oscola citation – same as ICTY

  23. Other international courts… • International Criminal Court • UN research guides @ http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/specil.htm#icc • http://www.icc-cpi.int/ • Special Court for Sierra Leone @ http://www.sc-sl.org/ • Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor @ http://www.cavr-timorleste.org/

  24. Cases before UN Treaty Committees • Worldlii • Cases before Human Rights Committee, Committee against Torture, Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination, • Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (http://www.law.uu.nl/english/sim/) • Databases > Case Law • Cases before Human Rights Committee, Committee against Torture, Committees on…Elimination of Racial Discrimination, …Discrimination against women. • Indexed by subject, keyword, state, name etc

  25. Cases before UN committees Cases before ECHR Cases before tribunals for Yugoslavia / Rwanda Comments by treaty bodies in response to country reports

  26. Browse by treaty article, subject, keyword, country etc

  27. Regional: Europe

  28. Council of Europe - http://www.coe.int • Council of Europe Treaties http://conventions.coe.int • Directorate General of Human Rights @ http://www.coe.int/T/E/Human_rights/ documents and news organised by subject • Commissioner for Human Rights @ http://www.coe.int/t/commissioner/ • European Court of Human Rights - http://www.echr.coe.int/echr • Judgments and decisions on Westlaw, Justis, HUDOC, Worldlii

  29. Directorate General of Human rights – documents, news, information organised by subject Text of the convention, signatories, ratifications, reservations etc Reports and other documents from the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights

  30. European Court of Human Rights: Judgments • Official Reports • Before 1 Nov 1998 known as Series A and numbered consecutively e.g. Plattform ‘Ärtze für das Leben’ v Austria (App no 10126/82) (1988) Series A no 139 • After 1 Nov 1998 - Renamed Reports of Judgments and Decisions (cited ECHR)e.g. Osman v UK (App no 23452/94) ECHR 1998-VIII 3124 • Available in print at Internat 121 and online on Justis • European Human Rights Reports (EHRR) • e.g. Young, James and Webster v UK (App no 7601/76) (1982) 4 EHRR 38 • Available in print at Internat 150 E60 on Westlaw • OSCOLA – Cite Official Reports or EHRR

  31. ECHR: Transcripts • Court Transcripts • Court web site – HUDOC - http://www.echr.coe.int/echr • Worldlii • Netherlands Institute

  32. Full text searching use the following connectors: AND • OR • NOT • WITHIN N OF *TRUNCATION • ? SINGLE CHARACTER Reports of Judgments and Decisions (ECHR) on Justis

  33. Official reports – old style series A Transcript Official reports – new style

  34. EHRR on Westlaw • UK section of Westlaw includes ECHR judgments • European Court of Human Rights Reports (includes all court judgments and selected commission decisions)

  35. Choose “Advanced Search” for more options

  36. Searches full text of all judgments Searches party names Searches for cases by legislation considered. Searches for cases which have considered an earlier case

  37. Related information including: • List of reports of the case • Summary of the issues • Legislation considered in the judgment • Earlier cases considered in the judgment • Later cases which have considered this judgment • Commentary on the judgment Full text of the case

  38. ECHR web site • http://www.echr.coe.int/ • Basic Documents and texts of the court • Database of transcripts of judgments and commission decisions • To go direct to the transcripts database http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/

  39. History, organization, composition, procedures etc European Convention on Human Rights and additional protocols Transcripts database

  40. To search decisions of the European Commission (ceased 1999) open up decisions box. Note not all commission decisions are available. Some judgments are only available on one language Use … to browse a thesaurus of terms HUDOC - Transcripts Make sure the “from” field is not filled in when you open up the database

  41. Keywords in context – finds your keywords and displays sorrounding text Links to related information Full text Analytical information including dates, party names, who the case was referred by, Strasbourg case law cited, keywords, durable URL

  42. Inter American Human Rights system: Key web sites • OAS - http://www.oas.org/ • Charter of the OAS @ http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/charter.html • Treaties @ http://www.oas.org/DIL/treaties.htm • American Convention on Human Rights @ http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/oasinstr/zoas3con.htm

  43. Inter American Human Rights system: The Commission • Inter American Commission on Human Rights@ http://www.cidh.org/DefaultE.htm • Reports adopted by the Commission @ http://www.wcl.american.edu/pub/humright/digest/index.html • Finding cases before the Commission • Cases section of the Commission web site • University of Minnesota index to Commission cases @ http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/cases/commissn.htm

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