International Legal Instruments — Sources

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Council of Europe, European Convention on Human Rights: Collected Texts (Strasbourg: Council of Europe Press, 1999).

Human Rights Law in Africa (2 vols., Leiden; Boston, [Mass.]: Martinus Nijhoff, 2004).

The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe: Basic Documents, 1993-1995 (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1997).

Human Rights: A Compilation of international Instruments (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, New York: United Nations, 2002-).

Other collections of basic documents on international law, such as International Law & World Order: Basic Documents (Weston ed., Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Transnational Publishers, 1994-).

There are several sites on the Web for the full-text of human rights instruments.

• African Human Rights Documents
• Council of Europe Treaties
• Database on the United Nations Human Rights Treaty System
• EISIL (Electronic Information System for International Law)
• Human Rights--Multilaterals Project
• ILOLEX (labor conventions)
• International Humanitarian Law (ICRC)
• Legislationline (OSCE)
• Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), Instruments (by treaty or organization)
• Treaties and Agreements (OAS)
  • Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Basic Documents)
• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR)
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
  • Refworld (see Legal Information)
• United Nations Treaty Collection (UCB only)
• University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
• Women's Human Rights Resources

This guide was prepared by Marci Hoffman, International and Foreign Law Librarian, UC Berkeley Law Library, revised January 2008.