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Constitutions & Bills of Rights
Constitution Finder
International Constitutional Law
Constitutions of the Countries of the World Online
Constitution-Making Web Links (USIP)
Columbia’s Human & Constitutional Rights Web Page
Center for Comparative Constitutionalism (Chicago, IL)
Centre for Constitutional Studies (Edmonton, Alberta)
Researching Constitutional Law
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Constitutional Courts
Constitutional Court (South Africa)
Venice Commission (Constitutional Courts, CODICES, Bulletin on Constitutional Case-Law via the European Commission on Democracy Through Law)
GlobalCourts (supreme courts worldwide)
East European Constitutional Review (EECR)
Constitutional Forum constitutionnel
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Comparative Legislation
Legislationline (OSCE/ODIHR)
WorldLII:  Legislation
LexisNexis, WESTLAW, QuickLaw, etc.
Etudes de législation comparée (France)
Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Bulletin of Legal Developments (BIICL)
Newly-enacted laws, proposed legislation/ bills
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Comparative Legislation (cont’d)
Inter-Parliamentary Union  (links)
Web Sites of National Parliaments (IPU)
Foreign Governments (Northwestern)
Law Reform
South African Law Commission
Law Reform Database (British Columbia)
Law & Transformation Programme (CALS)
World Bank’s Legal and Judicial Reform
Law Reform Commissions Worldwide (University of Toronto)
CEELI, Africa Law Initiative Council (American Bar Association)
Law Reform (cont’d)
Open Society Justice Initiative (“promoting rights-based law reform worldwide”; formerly the Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute (COLPI))
Legal Co-Operation (Council of Europe)
Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI)
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Foreign & International Law
Foreign Law (Reynolds & Flores)
Guide to Foreign Legal Databases (NYU)
Annotated Guide to Foreign and International Law (Harvard)
Cornell Legal Information Institute (LII)
ASIL’s ERG, EISIL
LLRX.com (Comp/Foreign/Intl)
WorldLII, BAILII, CanLII, AustLII, etc.
LexisNexis, WESTLAW, QuickLaw, etc.
International Law Digest (M-H)
Human Rights Websites
Office of the United  Nations High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCHR)
African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR)
African Human Rights Resource Center
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
Human Rights Network International (HRNI)
United Nations Human Rights Treaties
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Human Rights (cont’d)
Interights (plus caselaw database, 1981-date)
Derechos.org
Human Rights Watch
Amnesty International
ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law (ERG)
Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM)
Africa Legal Aid (AFLA)
Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL)
Human Rights Internet (HRI)
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Human Rights (cont’d)
Biblioteca Virtual de Direitos Humanos (Brazil)
The Commonwealth Secretariat (Human Rights, Gender, etc.)
ReliefWeb
Australian Human Rights Centre (AHRC)
Human Rights Network (British Council)
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South African Legal Human Rights Organizations
South African Human Rights Commission
Commission on Gender Equality (CGE)
Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR)
Centre for Human Rights (Pretoria)
Community Law Centre (Western Cape)
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR)
Legal Resources Centre
New Rights – New Laws:  The Continuing Quest for Social Change
Further Web Resources
Special Topics
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Religion and Human Rights
Health and Human Rights
Rights of Minorities
Gender and Human Rights
Land Rights
Privacy and Human Rights
Economic, Social, & Cultural Rights
Economic and Social Rights Reports (SAHRC)
ESR Review:  Economic and Social Rights in South Africa (SAHRC)
UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ESCR)
International Network on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net)
Center for Economic and Social Rights
Religion and Human Rights
The Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief (Norway)
International Coalition for Religious Freedom
Center for Religious Freedom
Human Rights Without Frontiers
International Christian Concern (ICC)
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW)
World Council of Churches (WCC)
Researching Religious Freedom Issues (Marci Hoffman, August 2003)
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Health and Human Rights
AIDS Law Project (CALS)
International Digest of Health Legislation (WHO)
HIV/AIDS, Human Rights & Law (UNAIDS)
National Instruments on HIV/AIDS and Work
François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (Harvard)
Rights of Minorities
Human Rights Issues:  Minorities (UNHCHR)
Minority Rights Group International
European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI)
Minority Rights Information System (MIRIS)
Gender and Human Rights
Women’s Human Rights Resources (Toronto)
“Women’s Rights Are Human Rights” (UNHCHR)
Gender and HIV/AIDS (UNIFEM)
Women and International Law
Land Rights
Land Claims Court of South Africa
National Land Committee (NLC)
Land Rights Research Programme (CALS)
Land Rights in Africa
Land Tenure Resources on the Internet
Land Laws (FAOLEX)
Privacy and Human Rights
Privacy International (includes Privacy and Human Rights survey)
Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC)
Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)