Call Number: XXKZ1234.H644 2008, D'Angelo Law Reserve Room
Publication Date: 2008-04-30
This Nutshell provides a basic introduction to international legal research for the non-specialist. It offers guidance through the unfamiliar pathways of research using international legal materials and demystifies the world of treaties. Since it's aimed at the non-specialist, it provides straight-forward background information on the United Nations and the European Union and includes guidance using the documents and legal materials of these institutions. There are extensive links to the rich world of Web resources, but it also describes paper research tools that remain important in this field. Finally, it sets out a road map for approaching an international legal research problem.
A guide to electronic resources for researching international law from the American Society of International Law. Covers a variety of topics, including international human rights.
Full-text online resource for working papers, policy briefs, interviews, journal articles, and e-books in the field of international relations.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
Find a citation or legal abbreviation that you don't understand? Use this database to search for the meaning of abbreviations for foreign and international legal publications.
United States treaties and other international agreements as published in U.S.T., T.I.A.S., Bevans, I.L.M., and related commentary and other secondary resources.
The electronic repository for official documents published by the United Nations. The full text of documents is accessible in PDF format in all official languages of the United Nations--Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
A body of 10 independent experts that monitors implementation of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment by its State parties
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) produces an extensive range of publications on a variety of topics related to human rights, which provides information of interest to Governments, national institutions, civil society, the general public and the media. The goal of OHCHR's publications programme is to increase knowledge and raise awareness about human rights and fundamental freedoms and to publicize ways of promoting and protecting them worldwide. OHCHR publications also aim to encourage debate on human rights issues under discussion at the United Nations.
The Special Rapporteur investigates the exploitation of children around the world and submits reports to the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights, making recommendations for the protection of the rights of the children concerned
The Special Rapporteur submits annual reports to the Commission on Human Rights, with recommendations to prevent and or combat trafficking and protect the human rights of its victims.
Special Rapporteur appointed to examine questions relevant to torture, which includes undertaking fact-finding country visits, and submitting annual reports to the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly.
The Commission directs American Bar Association efforts to ensure fair and unbiased treatment, and full due process rights, for immigrants and refugees within the United States.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
The National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children coordinates pro bono legal services for unaccompanied children released from detention in the United States.
The National Immigrant Justice Center, a program of Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights, provides direct legal services to and advocates for low-income and impoverished immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers. The Center's Children's Project employs a Managing Attorney, Staff Attorney and Paralegal who recruit, train and mentor pro bono attorneys who represent unaccompanied children.
The National Immigration Forum advocates and builds support for public policies that welcome immigrants and refugees and are fair and supportive to newcomers in the United States.
The major activity within the field of assisted voluntary return is carried out under the programme Return and Emigration of Aliens from the Netherlands (REAN). Under REAN, IOM assists migrants in the Netherlands who wish to return to their country of origin. The assistance of IOM consists of counselling; pre-departure assistance; an airline ticket to the airport nearest their end destination; remuneration of the costs for travel documents; and a financial contribution to help during the initial period after leaving the Netherlands. Persons who have not applied for residence in the Netherlands are not eligible for a financial contribution.
Within REAN special attention is given to the facilitated return of victims of trafficking (by offering assistance and by organizing awareness-raising activities amongst judiciary of countries of origin and transit) and unaccompanied minors. Furthermore, IOM the Netherlands has broad experience in assisting migrants with medical problems.
An improved outreach of its assisted voluntary return activities has been established with the appointment of ‘native counsellors' under the Randstad Return Initiative. Under this project the potential target group is being actively approached by native counselors of IOM as far as they reside in the difficult accessible networks of irregular migrants in the major cities of the Netherlands.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and coordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country.
The Vera Institute of Justice works closely with leaders in government and civil society to improve the services people rely on for safety and justice. The Vera Institute's Unaccompanied Children Project is working to build organizational capacity to provide pro bono legal services in eight sites around the country.
The Women's Commission is an expert resource and advocacy organization that monitors the care and protection of refugee women and children. It speaks out on issues of concern to refugee and displaced women, children and adolescents, who have a critical perspective in bringing about change but often do not have access to governments and policy makers.