International Relations

Gateways | International Law and Treaties | Human Rights

Gateways

International Affairs Resources
WWW Virtual Library site with annotated links to wide range of international affairs, international studies, and international relations topics. Great starting point for international affairs and comparative politics.

Foreign Countries and International Organizations
Collection of sites gathered by the Libraries' Governement Documents Librarian.

International Crisis Group
Contains regular analystical reports and briefing papers on international relations and comparative politics. The Research Resources and Links points to organizations, think tanks, NGO, and government sites covering topics related to international conflict.

International Relations
Richard Kimber's mega gateway collection of sites.

International Relations and Security Netowrk (ISN) - Center for Security Studies, Switzerland
omprehensive collection of resources related to international relations, peace and conflict studies, security, defense, human rights, etc. Can search by region and topic. .

PRAXIS: Resources for Social and Economic Development - University of Pennsylvania
Contains links to current and archival resources on international and comparative social development.

United States Institute of Peace
Created by Congress in 1984 to promote the prevention, management, and resolution of international conflicts. Contains a library of research reports, peace agreements, news and media alerts, webcasts, listservs, and teaching materials

International Laws and Treaties

Documents - PolitInfo
Contains international treaties, conventions, constitutions, documents from international organizations, statistics and data archives, and biographical information on heads of state worldwide.

Multilateral Project - Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy - Tufts University
Ongoing project to make available the texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments. Includes treaties in the fields of environmental issues, human rights, commerce and trade, laws of war and arms control, and other areas

United States Information Agency: Daily Washington File
Provides United States Government official texts, policy statements and interpretive material, features, and byline articles prepared daily

Human Rights

Amnesty International Reports
Main Ref JC571 .A46
Documents human rights situations in 155 countries with regional summaries. Bartle Library has annual reports from 1977 to present; web site has reports from 1993 to present. Can search the web site by human rights themes.

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - U. S. State Department
Main Ref JC571 .C68
U. S. State Department reports submitted to Congress annually that summarize the individual, civil, political, female, and worker rights in all countries of the world.

For the Record: The United Nations Human Rights System
Summaries of human rights information for countries compiled by the United Nations. Can search by country or by human rights themes: contemporary forms of slavery, HIV/AIDS, torture.

Human Rights Library - University of Minnesota
Gateway to primary source documents, treaties, human rights search engines, NGOs, etc.

Human Rights Watch Reports
The definitive non-governmental organization devoted to tracking human rights conditions worldwide. Web site contains annual reports from 1996 to the present (2005), thematic reports, and current news releases, updated daily.

HURISEARCH
Human rights search engine maintained by HURIDOCS (Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems, International), a global network of human rights organizations concerned with human rights information.