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OHCHR: List of
Treaties
Contains the text and status information for all UN human rights related
international instruments.
UN Treaty Series Collection
Electronic database for the official UN texts.
Treaty Bodies Database
Contains the texts of the treaties governing the treaty bodies plus
status information.
Bayefsky.com
Its aim is to enhance the implementation of the human rights legal
standards of the United Nations and to increase access to these
documents by making materials associated with the treaty system
available in electronic and user-friendly form.
International Law Commission
Established in 1948, the International Law Commission's mandate is the
progressive development and codification of international law, in
accordance with article 13(1)(a) of the Charter of the United Nations..
The site contains texts, instruments and reports, documentation such as
yearbooks, annual reports and summaries. The site also includes an
analytical guide to the work of
the Commission including the broad headings of: sources of international
law; subjects of international law; succession of states; state
jurisdiction/immunity from jurisdictions; law of international
organizations; position of the individual in international law;
international criminal law; law of international spaces; law of
international relations; and settlement of disputes.
Conventions
Council of Europe website containing the complete listing of Council of
Europe treaties, including the full text and explanatory reports.
European
Conventions and Agreements: European Treaty Series
Print collection located in The Library at J 273 on Floor 4.
Organisation
of American States: Treaties
Treaty page from the OAS, Dept. of Legal Affairs. The site contains the
text of the treaties and signatories & ratifications by year, subject and
alphabetically.
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Basic Texts
This site contains all the basic texts of treaties, declarations and
protocols pertaining to human rights in the Inter-American system, plus
signatures and ratification information.
University of
Minnesota: Human Rights Library: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Contains the text of the Charter of the Organization of American States;
the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man; and the
American Convention on Human Rights.
African Union: Official Site
Contains the text of all AU treaties plus status of ratification.
African
Commission on Human and Peoples Rights
Contains the text of the African [Banjul] Charter on Human and
Peoples' Rights, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of
the Child, the Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of
Refugee Problems in Africa, and the Protocol to the African
Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa,
plus the Constitutive Act of the African Union.
African Human
Rights Instruments
From the African Resource Centre, Human Rights Library, University of
Minnesota the site contains the text of treaties and status information.
Centre for Human
Rights, University of Pretoria: Treaties
Contains the text of AU treaties.
OHCHR: List of
Treaties
Includes a section on humanitarian law and the bottom of the page, site
includes the text of the treaties plus status.
International Committee of the Red Cross: Geneva Conventions
Site includes the text of the treaties plus commentary.
International Humanitarian Law database
Another site from ICRC containing about 100 IHL treaties, commentaries on
the four Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, an up-to-date
list of signatures and ratifications and full text of reservations.
National Implementation Database
Again a site from the ICRC providing documentation and commentaries
concerning the implementation of international humanitarian law at
national level. The number of States included will steadily increase over
time.
The Albert Sloman Library Human Rights
Guide - includes terminology and paper and online sources. See also
the sections on treaties,
UN treaties,
Council of Europe treaties,
Inter-American treaties and the
African Union.
Key Terms in the UN
Treaty Collection - definitions of terms used in relation to
treaties, provided as part of the UN Treaty Collection Database (see
above)
Glossary of
Terms relating to treaty actions - provided as part of the UN Treaty
Collection Database (see above).
ASIL Guide to Electronic
Sources for International Law: Treaties
Written by Jill McC. Watson and is
part of the American Society of International Law website.
À la Recherche des Travaux Préparatoires: An Approach to Researching the
Drafting History of International Agreements
Written by Jonathan Pratter this is an excellent research guide for
those interested in tracing Travaux Préparatoires.
Rights
International Research Guide for International Human Rights Lawyers:
Instruments
A guide for research on on international human rights instruments
including texts, travaux tréparatoires, ratifications & reservations,
general comments & case-law, and useful secondary materials.
International
Treaties and Agreements
Provided by the World Legal Information Institute, this is a directory
for international instruments which can be navigated by: country;
subject; international organisations & bodies; multi-national
collections; indexes, status lists; and research centres. The World
Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) is a free, independent and
non-profit global legal research facility developed collaboratively by
Legal Information Institutes and other organisations.
World War I Archive
This archive of primary documents from World War One has been assembled
by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L).
International in focus, the archive intends to present in one location
primary documents concerning the Great War. From pre-1914 to post-1918.
Multi-Laterals Project
The Multilaterals Project, begun in 1992, is an ongoing project at The
Fletcher School, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts to make
available the texts of international multilateral conventions and other
instruments. It includes treaties in the fields of the environment,
human rights, commerce and trade, laws of war and arms control, and
other areas. Most of the texts date from 1945 or later, but the
collection also includes historical texts, from the 1648 Treaty of
Westphalia to the Covenant of the League of Nations.
Avalon Project:
Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
From Yale Law School the site includes documents from 4000BCE to the
21st Century.
What convention.org
A trilingual legal search engine with access to public law, particularly
human rights and humanitarian law. Contains over 250 conventions
analysed article by article and includes status information (entry into
force, ratification, reservations).
Treaty Section (Foreign and Commonwealth Office - UK)
Maintain a database of UK treaties, which holds details of all the
treaties to which the UK is, or has been, a party. It should be noted
however that texts of treaties cannot generally be provided. |
