Sourcebook for International Human Rights Law

Last month we posted about how to discover over fifty international human rights issues that you can mine for seminar paper and note topics. If you decide to research an international human rights issue further, you may want to check out the International Human Rights Law Sourcebook [Find it] as a handy resource for key documents. According to the editors:

“This collection is meant to provide an overview of the international rules established by treaties and customs, on the basis of which individuals and groups can make claims upon governments. Many nontreaty-based principles also belong to the body of international human rights standards.”

The Sourcebook includes major human rights instruments and foundational documents, organizational documents, and additional regional documents.