Human Rights

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• Amnesty International
• Charter on human rights
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• European Convention on Human Rights 
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• European Social Charter 
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303.6 Social Processes - Conflict and conflict resolution ; Violence

• 303.62 Civil disorder
• 303.64 Civil war and revolution
• 303.66 War and peace
• 303.69 Conflict resolution

323 Civil and political rights

• 323 Civil and political rights
        323.1 Minority politics
        323.3 The State and social groups
        323.4 The State and the individual
        323.5 Political rights
        323.6 Citizenship

327 International relations

• 327.11 Foreign policy and specific topics in international relations - Specific means of attaining foreign policy goals
         327.117 Use of force and threats of force
• 327.16 International conflict
• 327.17 International cooperation

341 Law of nations (International law)

• 341.48 Human rights law
• 341.485 Rights of specific social groups
         341.4852 Rights of indigenous people
         341.4853 Rights of ethnic groups
         341.4858 Rights of women
• 341.486 Rights of stateless persons and refugees
• 341.65 Law of Armed Conflict - Detention
• 341.67 International humanitarian law
• 341.68 International law and civil war
• 341.69 War crimes

342 Constitutional and administrative law

• 342.08 Jurisdiction over persons
         342.082 Entrance to and exit from national domain
         342.083 Citizenship and nationality
         342.084 Abortion
         342.085 Civil rights

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Key

1. MT (MicroThesaurus): subset of a thesaurus, usually containing terms from a subject area narrower than the scope of the whole thesaurus;
2. NT (Narrower Term): used to indicate the relationship of the generic concept to a more specific one, together with an indication of the number of hierarchical steps between the broader term and each narrower term;
3. RT (Related Term): preferred label for a concept that has an associative relationship with the one in question.

12 Law

MT 1236 rights and freedoms

• social rights
• political rights
• economic rights
• anti-discriminatory measure
• fundamental rights
• human rights
        RT Amnesty International [7626]
        RT dissidence [0431]
        RT EU Charter of Fundamental Rights [1016]
        RT European Court of Human Rights [7611]
        RT European Social Charter [2826]
        RT human rights movement [0431]
        RT Inter-American Court of Human Rights [7616]
        RT international humanitarian law [0816]
        RT international instrument [0806]
        RT law of war [0816]
        RT torture [0431]
        RT transitional justice [1221]
        RT UN High Commissioner for Human Rights [7606]
        RT UN Human Rights Council [7606]
  NT1 protection of freedoms
  NT1 charter on human rights
        RT European Convention on Human Rights [0806]
  NT1 international human rights law
        RT war victim [0816]
  NT2 war crime
        RT war [0816]
  NT2 crime against humanity
        RT concentration camp [0431]
  NT2 persecution

eBook collections

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Brill Online Books and Journals

• Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Cambridge Core Books

• Human rights (keyword)

Oxford Scholarship Online

• Human Rights and Immigration

Perlego

• Human Rights

SpringerLink eBooks

• Human Rights

Taylor & Francis eBooks

• Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties

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320 Political science

• 323 Civil and political rights

341 Law of nations (International law)

• 341.48 Human rights law
• 341.67 International humanitarian law
   

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• Human rights law
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eJournal collections

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Among the largest collections:

Cambridge Core Journals

• Business and Human Rights Journal

Elsevier ScienceDirect

• Law (browse by subject)

JSTOR: Business and Economics

• Law Journals
  • Human Rights
  • Human Rights Quarterly
  • Journal of Civil and Human Rights

Oxford Academic Journals: HSS Collection

• Human rights and Immigration (search by subject)
• Human Rights Law Review
• Journal of Human Rights Practice

SAGE Journals 

• Law (browse by subject)

SpringerLink

• Human Rights

Wiley Online Library

• Civil Liberties & Human Rights Law

Free resources

• Amnesty International
• Climate and Human Rights Litigation Database
• HUDOC - European Court of Human Rights
  • HUDOC
  • ECHR-KS
  • Statistical reports
• Human Rights - United Nations Western Europe
• ILO - International Labour Organization
  • ILO Publications
    • Books and Reports
    • Journals
  • ILO Topics
• UN Digital Library
• UN OHCHR - United Nations, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • OHCHR Databases
    • Civic space & democracy
    • Development & living in dignity
    • Equality & non-discrimination
    • Justice & the rule of law
    • Peace & security
  • OHCHR Human Rights in the World
• World Bank - Countries and Regions

Subscribed resources

• Foreign Law Guide (Brill)
• HeinOnline
  • Civil Rights and Social Justice Database
    • Statement of Essential Human Rights
  • Foreign & International Law Resources Database
  • International Law Association Reports
  • International & Non-U.S. Law Journals
• Les Recueil des Cours de l’Académie de droit international de La Haye (Brill)
• Max Planck Encyclopedias of Public International Law
• Nexis Uni (LexisNexis)
• Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law (OSAIL)
• Statista
  • Human rights worldwide - Statistics and Facts
• Westlaw International (Thomson Reuters)

On Westlaw International are also available the Restatements of the Law, a set of treatises on specific legal subjects published by the American Law Institute (ALI), that harmonize and consolidate American Common Law (to view the Restatements list you have to open first a session on the database by clicking on the link https://tinyurl.com/y6x5lmvw).