Amnesty International Country Reports (http://www.amnesty.org/ailib).
Asylumlaw.org (http://www.asylumlaw.org).
Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (http://www.uchastings.edu/cgrs/).
Human Rights Watch
World
Report 2000
(http://www.hrw.org/wr2k).
Country
reports are also available via a Clickable World Map
(http://www.hrw.org/research/CuteMap2.html).
ICRC Country Reports (http://www.icrc.org/eng/operations_country).
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (http://www.irb.gc.ca/cgi-bin/foliocgi.exe/query/query=?evaluate).
International
Women's Rights Action Watch, IWRAW Country Reports
(http://www.igc.org/iwraw/publications/countries/).
Lawyers
Committee for Human Rights Critique: Review of the Department of State's
Country
Reports on Human Rights (gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org:5000/11/int/lchr). See
also the LCHR Web Site (http://www.lchr.org/lchr/home.htm).
Organization of American States,
Inter-American Commission
on Human Rights
Country Reports (http://www.cidh.oas.org/publications.htm).
ReliefWeb
Background Information
(http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vBkC).
REFWORLD
Country Reports (UNHCR)
(http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/refworld/country/country.htm).
REFWORLD CD-ROM contains over 17,000
analyses and in-depth reports
on country situations produced by IGOs, NGOs, and governmental bodies.
UN Commission on Human Rights
Resolutions
and Documents
(http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/2/chr.htm).
Thematic
and country reports
(http://hrlibrary.law.umn.edu/commission/commission.htm).
Thematic
and country reports through UNHCR
(http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/xtraconv.htm).
UNDP Human Development Reports (http://www.undp.org/hdro/).
UNHCR Public Information Section
Country Profiles
(http://www.unhcr.ch/world/world.htm).
UNHCR Background
Papers on Refugee and Asylum Seekers
(http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/refworld/country/cdr/menu.htm).
UNICEF State of the World's Children (http://www.unicef.org/apublic).
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency,
The World
Factbook
(http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html).
U.S. Dept
of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
(http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/hrp_reports_mainhp.html).
U.S. Dept of State Annual Report
to Congress on International Religious
Freedom
(http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/irf/irf_rpt/ ).
U.S. Dept of State, Patterns of
Global
Terrorism
(http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/annual_reports.html).
U.S. Immigration
and Naturalization Service, Alert Series, Profile Series, and Perspective
Series
(http://hrlibrary.law.umn.edu/ins/inservie.htm).
U.S. Library of Congress, Country Studies
(http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/).
U.S. National Technical Information Service (NTIS), Foreign
Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports
(translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals and
government statements from
nations around the globe)(CD-ROM and by subscriptionnly). (http://wnc.fedworld.gov/).
WRITENET
Country Papers
(http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/refworld/country/writenet/menu.htm).
Foreign Governments Country
Background
(http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/forcoun.html).
Newspapers are also an excellent
source for human rights conditions in various
countries.
Search tool for many of these resources from one location: (http://hrlibrary.law.umn.edu/lawform.html).
Search tools for locating other
relevant material on the Internet
(very time consuming and leads to lots of false positives)
Excite (http://www.excite.com/).
Lycos (http://www.lycos.com/srch/).
Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/).
Etc.
Refugee Documentation Services
Amnesty International's National Refugee Office will research cases on receiving a written request 500 Sansome Street, #615, San Francisco, CA 94111; 415/291-0601 (ph) / 415/291-8722 (fax). (http://www.amnesty-usa.org/refugee/)
The Refugee Office of AIUSA provides research to help document political asylum claims. Occasionally the office is also able to provide letters of support for particularly compelling cases. They also develop membership activities, such as letter writing actions and do policy work to ensure that a fair and adequate system is maintained.
The Human
Rights Documentation Exchange, P.O. Box 2327 Austin, TX (512) 476-9841
(http://www.hrde.org/).
The Refugee Legal Support Service (RLSS) of the Human Rights Documentation Exchange corroborates immigration cases by providing documentation on country conditions to attorneys representing refugees and immigrants.
Related is the Human Rights Documentation
Exchange Refugee Legal Support Service
Women's Asylum & Battered
Immigrant Women's Documentation Project
Country List (http://www.hrde.org/women_country.pdf)
Other Refugee/Asylum Law Research
Refugee
Convention, Protocol, other relevant instruments and ratification information
(http://hrlibrary.law.umn.edu/instree/auov.htm).
REFWORLD
(http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/welcome.htm).
Refugee
and Asylum Links on the World Wide Web
(http://hrlibrary.law.umn.edu/links/aidlinks.html).
University of Michigan Refugee
Caselaw Site
(http://www.law.umich.edu/refugee/frontpage.html).
Bibliographies
ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law, A. Country Reports (2000) (http://www.asil.org/resource/humrts1.htm#SectionAA).
Penny Parker, UN Human Rights Documentation, A Guide to Country-Specific Research (1996). (http://hrlibrary.law.umn.edu/bibliog/guide.htm).
Marci Hoffman and David Moeller, Country Documentation Resources (1966).
David Weissbrodt and Marci Hoffman,
Bibliography
for International Human Rights Law (1996)
(http://hrlibrary.law.umn.edu/bibliog/BIBLIO.htm).
University of Minnesota Human Rights
Library, Bibliographies
and Guides
(http://hrlibrary.law.umn.edu/bibliog/biblios.htm).