The Albert Sloman Library

International Human Rights Case-Law

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International Court of Justice

International Court of Justice is the main judicial body of the United Nations. The main publication for ICJ case law is called:

Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions, and Orders KZ 210 .I6 or Online journal
The print version is the authorised version but it is a number of years in arrears due to the lengthy publishing process. Electronic versions of recent judgements are 'uncorrected' (electronic versions of older judgements will vary between being an electronic copy of the print 'authorised' text and the 'uncorrected' version).

Other Sources:

ICJ Website
Case-law is available from 1947 to present on this free, open access website.

Westlaw & Lexis Library
Case-law is available on both these subscription online services from 1947 to present. Direct links to these e-versions are available from the library catalogue. Click on the link above, and then click 'view the full text on Westlaw' or 'view the full text on Lexis Library'.

International Law Reports KZ 199 .I6
ILR is a print publication which reproduces international case-law from a number of international courts and some selected important foreign domestic case-law.

Human Rights Committee

Treaty Bodies Database
Part of the OHCHR website, this is a searchable database containing documents from all the treaty bodies. To find case-law (or restrict your search to case-law only) choose 'Jurisprudence' in the 'Type' field.

UN Optical Disk System (ODS)
A searchable database of UN documents. To search case-law for a particular treaty body enter the committee abbreviation in the Document Symbol field e.g. CCPR, CAT, CRC, C.12 (CESCR), CERD, CMW, CEDAW, CRPD.

Selected decisions of the Human Rights Committee under the Optional Protocol JC 571.U6 and Online journal

Report of the Human Rights Committee JC 571.U651
The individual communications are contained in Vol. II. Also available online from 1994 (49th Session) on the OHCHR website

International Human Rights Reports JC 571.I6

International Law Reports KZ 199 .I6
ILR is a print publication which reproduces international case-law from a number of international courts and some selected important foreign domestic case-law.

Case Summaries

SIM (Netherlands Institute of Human Rights)
The case-law overview page contains case-law from the treaty bodies, ECHR (summaries), ICTR, UNCOM (concluding comments of the Treaty based bodies), General comments of the treaty bodies and a thesaurus: Human Rights Terminology in International Law: a Thesaurus. 
Interrights
A searchable directory of summaries of international case-law from
the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Bosnian Human Rights Chamber, ECHR, IACtHR, UN Treaty Bodies.

Other Treaty Bodies

Treaty Bodies Database
Part of the OHCHR website, this is a searchable database containing documents from all the treaty bodies. To find case-law (or restrict your search to case-law only) choose 'Jurisprudence' in the 'Type' field.

UN Optical Disk System (ODS)
A searchable database of UN documents. To search for case-law for a particular treaty body enter the committee abbreviation in the Document Symbol field e.g. CCPR, CAT, CRC, C.12 (CESCR), CERD, CMW, CEDAW, CRPD.

Annual Reports of the Treaty Bodies:

CERD JC 571.U653
CESCR JC 571.U654
CRC JC 571.U655
CAT JC 571.U656
CEDAW JC 571.U658

Also all available online on the Treaty Bodies Database and UN ODS above.

International Human Rights Reports JC 571.I6

Case Summaries

SIM (Netherlands Institute of Human Rights) 
The case-law overview page contains case-law from the treaty bodies, ECHR (summaries), ICTR, UNCOM (concluding comments of the Treaty based bodies), General comments of the treaty bodies and a thesaurus: Human Rights Terminology in International Law: a Thesaurus.

Interrights
A searchable directory of summaries of international case-law from the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Bosnian Human Rights Chamber, ECHR, IACtHR, UN Treaty Bodies.

International Criminal Court

In July 1998 in Rome, Member States of the United Nations adopted a treaty to establish a permanent international criminal court. The Court has a mandate to try individuals and to hold them accountable for crimes of concern to the international community i.e. genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, and, eventually, the crime of aggression. The Court only has jurisdiction over crimes committed after 1 July 2002, when the Statute entered into force.

ICC Website http://www.icc-cpi.int/

Chamber Decisions http://www.icc-cpi.int/organs/chambers/chambers_decisions.html

International Criminal Tribunals

Annotated leading cases of international criminal tribunals / André Klip and Göran Sluiter (eds.) KZ 6310.A6

International Law Reports KZ 199 .I6
ILR is a print publication which reproduces international case-law from a number of international courts and some important selected foreign domestic case-law.

International Human Rights Reports JC 571.I6

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

The ICTY is a body of the United Nations (UN) established to prosecute serious crimes committed during the wars in the former Yugoslavia.

ICTY Website: http://www.icty.org/
ICTY cases and judgements: http://www.icty.org/action/cases/4 

Westlaw
Westlaw International > International/Worldwide Materials > Multi-National Materials > Court & Tribunal Cases > International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. All documents from 1995 to the present.

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

Created in 1994 by United Nations Security Council for the prosecution of offenses committed in Rwanda.

ICTR Website http://69.94.11.53/default.htm
ICTR Cases http://69.94.11.53/ENGLISH/cases/index.htm

Westlaw
Westlaw International > International/Worldwide Materials > Multi-National Materials > Court & Tribunal Cases > International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. All documents from 1995 to the present.

Special Court for Sierra Leone website

International Military Tribunal for Germany
Part of the Avalon Project: Documents in Law, Diplomacy and History based at Yale Law School.

Case Summaries

SIM (Netherlands Institute of Human Rights)
The case-law overview page contains case-law from the treaty bodies, ECHR (summaries), ICTR, UNCOM (concluding comments of the Treaty based bodies), General comments of the treaty bodies and a thesaurus: Human Rights Terminology in International Law: a Thesaurus.

Interrights
A searchable directory of summaries of international case-law from the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Bosnian Human Rights Chamber, ECHR, IACtHR, UN Treaty Bodies.

European Court of Human Rights

The European Court of Human Rights is the judicial institution that supports the European Convention on Human Rights and is part of the Council of Europe.

The official printed version of reports:

Publications of the European Court of Human Rights Series A, Judgments and Decisions (ECHR A) JC 599.E7

Publications of the European Court of Human Rights Series B, Pleadings, Oral Arguments, and Documents (ECHR B) JC 599.E7

Decisions and Reports of the European Committee on Human Rights (D & R) JC 599.E7

Have merged to form:

Reports of judgments and decisions (Report)/ European Court of Human Rights JC 599.E7

HUDOC http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/search.asp?skin=hudoc-en

Is the official database for The European Court of Human Rights documentation and it holds:
Decisions, Judgments and Advisory Opinions of the Court; Reports of the European Commission of Human Rights (up to 31st October 1999); and Resolutions of the Committee of Ministers.

European Human Rights Reports (EHRR) JC 599.E7 and Online journal

The European Human Rights Reports are a commercial version of reports of the European Court of Human Rights and are published by Sweet & Maxwell. The reports are available in The Library in print or electronic format (see links above). The electronic version is available on the database Westlaw, for a direct link to the EHRR file on Westlaw, click the 'Online journal' link above, and then click 'view the full text on ...'.

ECHR cases are also available in:

International Law Reports KZ 199 .I6

Case Summaries

SIM (Netherlands Institute of Human Rights)
The case-law overview page contains case-law from the treaty bodies, ECHR (summaries), ICTR, UNCOM (concluding comments of the Treaty based bodies), General comments of the treaty bodies and a thesaurus: Human Rights Terminology in International Law: a Thesaurus.

Interrights
A searchable directory of summaries of international case-law from
the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Bosnian Human Rights Chamber, ECHR, IACtHR, UN Treaty Bodies. 

European Committee of Social Rights

The mission of the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) is to judge that States party are in conformity in law and in practice with the provisions of the European Social Charter.

Collective complaints 

International Human Rights Reports JC 571.I6

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Communications (or cases) from the Inter-American Commission are reported in the annual report. The annual report can be found at the following sites:

Annual Report of the Inter-American Commission
Part of the official site of the Commission, this site contains the annual reports from 1971 onwards (1971-1990 in ish only)

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Contains the Commission's Annual Reports from 1991 onwards.

Inter-American Human Rights Database
Contains the Annual Reports from 1971 onwards.

Other sources:

Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights JC 599.A5
An annual publication which contains publications and reports from the Inter-American system. Vol.1 covers the Commission and Vol.2 covers the Court.

International Law Reports KZ 199 .I6
ILR is a print publication which reproduces international case-law from a number of international courts and some selected important foreign domestic case-law.

Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Inter-American Court of Human Rights Website
Contains: Decisions and Judgements; Advisory Opinions; Provisional Measures; Compliance with Judgments; and can be browsed by country.

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library: Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights JC 599.A5
An annual publication which contains publications and reports from the Inter-American system. Vol.1 covers the Commission and Vol.2 covers the Court.

International Law Reports KZ 199 .I6
ILR is a print publication which reproduces international case-law from a number of international courts and some selected important foreign domestic case-law.

Case Summaries

Interrights

African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights

Decisions and Views of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
Provided by the University of Minnesota: Human Rights Library.

Compendium of key human rights documents of the African Union / editors, Christof Heyns and Magnus Killander JC 599.A4A5 + Online book

Documents of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights / edited by Rachel Murray and Malcolm Evans JC 599.A4 + Online book

Case Summaries:

Interrights