Country Specific Human Rights Reports
Immigration boards, human rights activists, and lawyers rely on country reports for asylum proceedings in addition to appearences before various treaty bodies and tribunals.
- Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board: National Documentation PackagesGathers all of the reports from Amnesty International, UN OHCHR reviews, US State Dept. reports, and others, by country.
- U.S. State Department: Human Rights ReportsAnnual reports by the State Department on the human rights situation in every country, including separate reports on trafficking and religious freedom.
- Amnesty International: Country ReportsAlso produces Topical Reports.
- Human Rights WatchReports on a wide range of issues searchable by country and topic.
- Freedom House: Country ReportsFocuses on civil and political rights. Developing coverage of internet freedoms.
United Nations Country Reports
- OHCHR: Country ReportsUN human rights system documents, including Concluding Observations from the treaty-monitoring bodies. Click on the tab: Human Rights by Country.
- OHCHR: Universal Human Rights IndexOverviews of recommendations by the three major monitoring human rights protection organizations within the UN: Treaty Bodies, Special Procedure Reports and the Universal Periodic Review.
Humanitarian and Refugee Databases and Websites
- UHCR: RefWorld• Database managed by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Database containing a vast repository of documents (both UN and other sources) related to human rights in all countries
- Relief WebReliefWeb contains a collection of maps indexed by country and the type of disaster or emergency. Also a good source of news.
- International Organization for MigrationCountry reports, global data on human trafficking and Migration Data Portal.
- International Committee of the Red CrossSearch under War & Law, Countries, and within the Resource Centre.
- U.S. Department of Justice Country Conditions ResearchCompilation of publicly available documents that report on aspects of country conditions that have relevance in removal hearings before U.S. Immigration Judges and the U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals.
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