Directory of Official Texts Resources

This category is for sites on laws, treaties and official declarations and pronouncements on the subject of human rights and civil liberties.

Resources in This Category

2003 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/
Summaries on human rights practices in European, African, and Eurasian nations by the U.S. Department of State.
MagnaCartaPlus

http://www.magnacartaplus.org/abstracts/index.htm
Abstracts, articles on Parliamentary Acts of the United Kingdom, the 1689 Bill of Rights, and a summary of United Nations Agreements on Human Rights.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/SearchByLang.aspx
Adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948, available in hundreds of languages.
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library

http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/
Includes a large collection of international human rights treaties, instruments, general comments, recommendations, decisions, and views of treaty bodies.

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