International Human Rights Law is a module of the online service, Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL), produced by Oxford University Press. It contains decisions from regional and global bodies, including UN committees.
Access
international Human Rights (IHRL) is available onsite and offsite to all academic members of IALS Library.
After opening IHRL, click on ‘Browse all content in IHRL’. Alternatively, select ‘Browse All’ at the top, then choose IHRL from module menu on the left.
Content
International Human Rights Law includes a large selection of cases on the European Convention on Human Rights; almost all final decisions of the UN human rights committees (the Committee Against Torture, the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Human Rights Committee, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on Enforced Disappearances ); all decisions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; selected decisions of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights; and all cases under the African Charter on Human and People's Rights, as well as selected admissibility decisions.
A concise analysis is provided for each case in this module, as well as a report of the decision.
Searching and browsing
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Reading and downloading
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