U.S. Federal Information on Foreign Countries: Human Rights

Information by country or topic, or search the extensive documents database – which houses more than 50,000 reports, press releases and appeals for action.

Information about the exploitive practices of 4000 businesses worldwide. Users can begin searching by company name, issue, country, or topic. Balanced coverage is provided via news, announcements, and special resources while providing responses from the accused companies.

The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor leads the U.S. efforts to promote democracy, protect human rights and international religious freedom, and advance labor rights globally.

Country Reports regarding the status of internationally recognized human rights practices. The reports cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights. Coverage is from 1999 to present.

The Human Rights Tribune is produced by HRI three times annually; For the Record is an online yearbook of the UN's and European human rights systems; and the Human Rights Think Tank Watch is an e-publication sharing the latest information on human rights.

Reflecting extensive investigative work, the World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide. (1989-present). Reports on particular topics are also available. The World Report is also available in the MU library 1992 to present MU ELLIS JC571 .H785

Describes the status of religious freedom in each foreign country, government policies violating religious belief and practices of groups, religious denominations and individuals, and U.S. policies to promote religious freedom around the world.

The Secretary of State submits this annual report to Congress. It covers "severe forms of trafficking in persons". Coverage is from 2001 to present.

The UDHR was the first international recognition that all human beings have fundamental rights and freedoms and it continues to be a living and relevant document today.

The Commissioners assess and propose U.S. foreign policy action to advance freedom of thought, conscience, and religion and other freedoms. Includes reports on "Countries of Particular Concern," countries on the "Watch list" and the 2008 Annual report.

MU LAW K3238 .B58 2012 Edited by P.R. Ghandhi.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. 3rd ed.

MU ELLIS JC571 .G655 1997 By Robert F. Gorman, Edward S. Mihalkanin. Lanham, Md. : Scarecow Press, 1997.

Online. New York : United Nations, 2005.

MU ELLIS K3238 .I58 1997 Compiled and edited by Irving Sarnoff. New York : United Nations, c1997.

Documents the state of human rights in more than 150 countries and territories. This report also celebrates those who stand up for human rights across the world, often in difficult and dangerous circumstances.