University of Minnesota Human Rights Library

Much research on human rights is done by government-funded agencies and non-governmental organizations. While material published in academic journals, news/magazine outlets like Foreign Affairs, governments and large international organizations such as the United Nations is findable through academic and public databases, there are hundreds more organizations dedicated to stopping human rights abuses that actively conduct, publish and disseminate research as grey literature. The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library has created a wonderful resource for finding this literature as well as provided a core library of over several hundred human rights treaties and other primary documents. The Library also offers a metasearch engine that allows users to search across multiple large human rights websites, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, at the same time.

The Links to Other Sites section contains a comprehensive listing of over 4,000 links to other human rights organizations around the world. Documents are available in nine different languages, and a mobile/PDA version of the site is available.