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Human Rights Law - Case Reports: Introduction

Guide to locating international and national cases on human rights topics.

Subject Guide

Introduction

Treaties (and other sources of international law) are applied by international courts, national courts, and  arbitral panels.  The decisions of these bodies are themselves important sources of law. 

Many important human rights decisions are reprinted in International Human Rights Reports, a quarterly periodical issued since 1994.  It includes judgments of a variety of judicial and quasi-judicial bodies, including the UN Human Rights Committee, the UN Committee against Torture, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Inter American Court of Human Rights, the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, the former Yugoslav and Rwandan War Crimes Tribunals and the Bosnian Human Rights Chamber.

Background information

For background information on the history, procedure, and role of international courts, use the subject heading “international courts”in IUCAT.

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