Human Rights Research: Getting Started

IJRC provides an online resource hub, training workshops, and litigation and advocacy to individuals and groups around the world, for effective use of international human rights protections.
The Online Resource Hub gives an overview of their extensive resources. The links below are especially helpful.

An extensive list of human rights links

Provides analysis and external links for human rights instruments, jurisprudence databases, books and articles, human rights conditions, civil society actors, and thematic research guides

Searchable database of judgments, decisions, interim measures, advisory opinions, and
other orders from most regional human rights bodies (except the European), some UN treaty
bodies, many international criminal tribunals, and some sub-regional courts.

Good but brief outline of the major human rights organizations with many links to the major subgroups.

Current and extensive. Also includes secondary sources and a focus on women's rights.

Current links to regional organizations, NGOs and news and blogs.

Links to 10 human rights research guides and over 15 databases.

A CSE (custom search engine) designed by a librarian group, GODORT: http://www.ala.org/rt/godort/taskforces/internationaldocuments/idtf/igo-search

A CSE (custom search engine) designed by a librarian group, GODORT: http://www.ala.org/rt/godort/taskforces/internationaldocuments/idtf/igo-search

Over 2000 short articles on every aspect of public international law with links to primary sources of law and selected secondary sources

Search within the selective collection to identify the most recently published articles and books in the area of human rights, then access them by searching in Boley's Primo catalog.

Search for articles within 48 law titles in the Oxford Handbooks collection.