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International Human Rights Agencies

• African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
• UN Commission on the Status of Women
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) works for children worldwide
• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• United Nations Human Rights links to a wide range of UN bodies dealing with Human Rights
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
• World Food Programme (WFP)

International Human Rights Treaties & Declarations

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 1948
• International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights - 1966
• status of ratifications
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 1966
• status of ratifications
• Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 1966
• status of ratifications
• Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty - 1989
• status of ratifications
• Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples - 1960
• United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 1963
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 1965
• International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 1973
• Convention against Discrimination in Education - 1960
• Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief - 1981
• Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief - 1992
• Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War - 1949
• Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War - 1949
• Convention (No. 169) concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries - 1989
• UN Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - 1993

European Union

• European Convention on Human Rights - 1950 (Council of Europe)
• European Social Charter - Council of Europe - 1961
• Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers - 1989

Organization of American States

• American Convention on Human Rights
• Signatures and Current Status of Ratifications
• Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic Social and Cultural Rights Protocol of San Salvador
• Signatures and Current Status of Ratifications
• Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty
• Signatures and Current Status of Ratifications
• Proposed American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 
• American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man
• Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture
• Signatures and Current Status of Ratifications

Organization of African Unity

• African [Banjul] Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights - 1981
• ratification information
• African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child - 1990
• Addis Ababa Document on Refugees and Forced Population Displacements in Africa - 1994
• Kampala Declaration on Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibility - 1990

International Judicial Bodies

• Court of Justice of the European Union
• European Court of Human Rights - Council of Europe
• Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• International Court of Justice
• International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)

Other Human Rights Resource Sites

• Diana - International Human Rights Database
• Human Rights Watch
• Human Rights Web
• University of Minnesota Human Rights Library 
• Yahoo! Full News Coverage on Human Rights
• Yahoo! Human Rights Links
• Yahoo! Issues and Causes

• The Caste System in Hinduism
• Caste system in modern India
• Center for World Indigenous Studies Home Page
• Child rights- UNICEF
• Human Rights Center Bibliographies on Human Rights
• ReliefWeb Homepage - UN Humanitarian Aid site
• UN Site on Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• US Bureau of Justice Statistics on Capital Punishment  - 1998
• WomenWatch
• Yahoo! Environment and Nature Ethics

The ITP Nelson PoliSci.Nelson.Com Political Science resource site has the following pages dedicated to material related to the course work in this class:

Aboriginal Issues

Canadian Constitution

Canadian Courts & Legal Institutions

Canadian Rights Issues

Gender, Sexuality & Politics

International Politics

Judicial Systems

Nations, States, & Nationalism

Political Philosophy & Ideologies

Quebec & National Unity

Violence and Political Change

Connect to the Internet Search Site for easy links to a variety of sites for searching the Internet.
 
 
 

Yahoo! is the most popular search engine, and provides an enormous index to browse for sites as well. 

Ask Jeeves - is the most innovative search site, where you can search by asking plain language questions. 

Go Network Express - excellent free software you install on your computer to conduct Internet search through multiple search engines at the same time. 

FedWorld Information Network - Search for US Government web sites 

 Government of Canada Sites  - Search for Canadian Government documents 

MetaCrawler - allows you to search through several search engines at the same time 

United Nations Documentation Research Guide

United Nations Web Search - for finding material on the UN Internet sites 
 
 

Select Databases Available through the SFU Library (Full list):

Academic Search FullText Elite

CBCA: Canadian Business & Current Affairs

CPI.Q Canadian periodicals  including the Globe & Mail

Ingenta

International Political Science Abstracts

PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service - index of international academic periodicals on business and the social sciences with emphasis on contemporary social, economic, and political issues and the making and evaluating of public policy. 

LEXIS-NEXIS - full-text database of judicial decisions from Canadian, Commonwealth and American courts. 

MICROLOG Index of federal & provincial government documents available on microfiche in the SFU Library. 

Johns Hopkins University Project Muse Journals; click here for list of publications 

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